 | Better Farming Series 13 - Keeping Chickens (FAO - INADES, 1977, 48 p.) |
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| | Preface |
|  | Small livestock farming in the villages |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Little work but yields little |
| | Chicken farming must be improved |
| | The animal husbandry services help |
| | How to choose poultry |
| | Traditional types of poultry |
| | To improve poultry |
| | Good cocks must be selected |
| | Good hens must be selected |
| | Good chicks must be selected |
| | Improved breeds |
| | How to feed poultry |
| | To feed poultry well is important and difficult |
| | Poultry need good feed |
| | How poultry make use of food and water |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Energy feeds |
| | Body- building feeds: proteins |
| | Mineral salts |
| | Vitamins |
| | Clean water |
| | Special needs of chicks, laying hens, and table poultry |
| | How to protect poultry against disease |
| | Preventing poultry from getting ill |
| | Vaccination |
| | Main diseases of poultry |
| | How to house poultry |
| | (introduction...) |
| | How to build a poultry house |
| | Nests |
| | Feeding troughs |
| | Drinking troughs and fountains |
| | The brooder |
| | (introduction...) |
| | How to choose and look after hens to produce chicks |
| | Here is an example |
| | Suggested question paper |
Nests
81. In the poultry house put wooden boxes or baskets. Put straw into them. These are the nests in which the hens lay eggs.
Collect the eggs three times a day: every morning, at noon, and in the evening.
There should be a sufficient number of nests. You need one nest for every five hens.
On page 43 a laying nest for 50 hens is shown. The perches are hinged so that they can fold up and enclose the nests at night.
82. Poultry rune
These are needed so that the poultry can walk about and find green grass, insects, worms. Put a fence round the run so that the poultry do not run about everywhere, and to protect them against animals.
Leave trees to give shade.
Divide the run into two parts. One part only is used while grass is growing again in the other part.
The runs should be big enough: for 50 hens you need a run about: 25 metres wide, 20 metres long.
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