Nalmy Poultry School

THIS IS HOW TO DETERMINE WHICH HEAT SOURCE IS BEST FOR YOUR POULTRY FARM?

If you are brooding birds in this wet season, you cannot afford to play with heat. If this alone is not gotten right, your birds will end up stunted through out life.

In determining which heat source is best for your farm, you should consider the cost of buying the tools needed to set up the heating system, the cost of running the system and the labour requirement for operating each source.

Sources of heat for the farm can come from the following;

1. Electricity
2. Gas
3. Kerosene
4. Charcoal

The cleanest of them all is electricity.
The one requiring the most labour is charcoal

To use electricity, you will need those 200-watt orange coloured incandescent electric bulbs or a commercially available electric brooder. The main running cost is electricity bill.

Gas brooders are available in the market. Most of them use cooking gas to produce the required heat. The major cost after buying the brooder is the cost of refilling gas.

Kerosene lanterns and charcoal pots are not particularly clean sources of heat but they can be used if managed properly. Their cost is majorly the kerosene and charcoal burnt to produce heat.

It is always important to do a cost and labour analysis before deciding which option to go for.

Which option do you consider the best for you?

Tell us your reasons in the comments.

I am the Poultry Prof.

I write to you because I care

Nalmy Poultry School

*HOW TO PREPARE BITTER LEAF (Vernonia amygdalina) EXTRACT FOR TREATING COCCIDIOSIS*

Coccidiosis is the disease that causes poultry birds to pass out blood in their poo.

Bitter leaf has proven very effective in preventing and treating Coccidiosis

Here is how to prepare bitter leaf extract for use on your farm.

i. Gather some bitter leaves. The quantity depends on the volume of juice you are hoping to get and the number of chickens you want to treat.

ii. Remove the leaves from the stem and rinse them in a bowl to remove sand and
dirt.

iii. Put the leaves in a mortar or kitchen blender and add just a little water. Just enough water to pound or blend the leaves easily.

iv. Use a Filter cloth to sieve the juice into a container.

If you have followed the process carefully, the bitter leaf extract should be as thick as extracted orange juice

If this is what you have, then use the dosage below for your birds

Prevention: 20ml per liter of drinking water three mornings in a week

Treatment: 40ml per liter of drinking water for 5 consecutive days

This will work in preventing and stopping bloody stools in your birds.

I wish you the best on your farms

Nalmy Poultry School

Dear Poultry Farmer, 80% of the health problems on your farm will go away if you handle the litter on the floor of your Poultry house properly.

The litter is the most important part of the poultry house as far as your birds are concerned.

It is;
The bed for your birds to sleep on
The cushion for them to relax on
The dinning table for them to feed on
The toilet for them to defecate on
The maternity bed for Layers
It is also the floor you step on while attending to them

With the different functions of the litter, it is only right that you pay proper attention to it.

There are only 3 principles for proper litter maintenance.

i. It should be dry at all times. Not damp or wet

ii. The particles should always be loose. It shouldn’t be sticky, be allowed to form lumps or cake.

iii. It should be as fresh as possible without offensive smell from the litter material itself or the buildup of p**p

Many of the diseases you battle with are simply related to the toilet nature of the litter.

If you can eliminate the p**p buildup effect and keep the place fresh and dry by changing the litter as often as necessary, your birds will grow bigger and healthier.

Don’t allow laziness put your invstmnt at risk

The cost of buying drugs is more than the cost of buying more fresh litter material. Choose your cost wisely.

*Tell me in the comments which Litter Material you prefer to use and why you prefer it*

I wish you happy Chickvestment

I am Ngusha Almighty the Poultry Prof.

I write to you because I care

Do have a great day

Nalmy Poultry School

𝙇𝙖𝙮𝙚𝙧 𝙀𝙜𝙜 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙧𝙤𝙞𝙡𝙚𝙧 𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙘𝙠𝙚𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜?

Which farming is the best?
Which should you choose?

I will be doing justice to this subject matter in the Poultry Foundation Class.

The class is free to join and will commence tomorrow Friday.

Click the link to join the Poultry Foundation Class

https://poultryclass.com.ng/get-trained

Wishing you happy Chickvestment

Dear Poultry Farmer,

Here is how to chase the mosquitoes disturbing your birds away.

The first rains have begun to fall in some places and with the return of rain comes more mosquitoes🦟

These tiny flying creatures carry a range of disease-causing organisms that affect poultry birds.

Mosquitoes bite/ feed on infected free range animals, pick diseases from them and subsequently transmit them to healthy birds as they bite and feed on them.

Fowl Pox is the most common poultry disease transmitted by mosquitoes. After ingesting the pox from a sick bird, mosquitoes can retain it in their body for more than a month and eventually transfer it to other healthy birds they come in contact with

Broilers affected by fowl pox are stunted in growth while laying birds experience a drop in egg production. This is aside the physical painful growth on their skin.

It is therefore Important to depopulate mosquitoes as much as possible.

𝙋𝙍𝙀𝙑𝙀𝙉𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝘼𝙉𝘿 𝘾𝙊𝙉𝙏𝙍𝙊𝙇

Prevention should start with the clearing of grasses around the farm and the disposal of old tins, tyres, and other forms of garbage that can hold water as stagnant water is a breeding site for mosquitoes.

You can keep mosquitoes out of the chicken house 𝗯𝘆 𝗮𝗱𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗺𝗲𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗻𝘀 (𝗺𝗼𝘀𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘁𝗼 𝗻𝗲𝘁) to the windows and doors.

𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐞𝐧 𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐬𝐞 𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐥𝐲 𝐞𝐧𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡 in the evening before the mosquitoes fill up the poultry pen

There are chemical 𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙞𝙙𝙚𝙨 available for controlling mosquitoes but some of them are not safe for your birds so I will not be talking about them.

I will rather give you a few common organic ways of controlling mosquitoes.

1. 𝐋𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐧 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬: These are two of the most well known and easily grown plants that repel mosquitoes. Plant these around your poultry house to keep mosquitoes away.

2. 𝐁𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐨𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐭 has been shown to chase mosquito away. Doing this every few days will chase the mosquitoes away

3. Smoking your Poultry space with 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐛𝐬 such as the boiling of mango leaves, bitter bush, e.t.c can also keep mosquitoes away. This should be done before you bring your birds in for brooding

Do not wait until your poultry birds begin to show symptoms of infection before you act. Be proactive in controlling mosquitoes

I write to you because I care

𝙋𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙚 𝙨𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙥𝙤𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙩𝙤 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙩𝙤𝙤

Ps: The Poultry Foundation Class will start this friday. If you would love to learn how to start and run a poultry farm, this is the class for you to join.

Click the link to join the Poultry Foundation Class

https://poultryclass.com.ng/get-trained

Congratulations!

Wishing you happy Chickvestment

THIS TRAINING IS FOR THOSE WHO WANT TO START THEIR POULTRY FARM THIS YEAR

The mistake most newcomers to poultry make is to underrate the business and what is required to be successful in it.

A lot of these new farmers end up failing and leaving the business disappointed.

The problem is not with the business. The problem is with the farmer who did not seek knowledge and training before starting. There is no business you will succeed at without adequate knowledge or training.

Now, I know and understand poultry like the back of my hand. I have raised several thousands of birds over the last many years. I have also trained thousands of farmers and helped dozens of others to set up and manage highly efficient poultry farms.

This 2023, I want to help you acquire the knowledge you need before starting your farm.

This weekend 15th to the 17th of March 2024, I shall be teaching in the POULTRY FOUNDATION CLASS. The class will teach the basics of poultry farming to all interested persons.

Those who will benefit from the teaching are those who are interested in starting Broilers, Layers, Turkey or Noiler farms on a small scale. By small scale, I refer to a farm size below 1,000 birds per Production batch.

Also, those who recently started but do not have much experience will benefit too.
Farm hands and new staff in poultry farms will also benefit a lot.

The training will cover the following areas:

1. Types of birds that can be kept for commercial purpose, their differences and their profitability

2. How to construct a proper cage or house for your birds

3. Basic tools and materials you need on your farm

4. How to calculate the financial amount you need to start your farm

5. How and where to buy Day old Chicks

6. Types of feed and how to feed your birds

7. How to prevent diseases in a poultry farm

8. How and where to sell your birds or eggs

For the 3 days this class will last, all participants will have the opportunity to ask all questions on their mind. I will be there to answer each and every question bothering you.

I am charging nothing for this service. IT IS ENTIRELY FREE

If this sounds like what you need at the moment, please use the link in the comment to join the WhatsApp teaching group immediately.

If you know someone who needs this, tag them immediately so they can take advantage of this opportunity.

The fight is against poverty not against a fellow human.

Click the link to join the Poultry Foundation Class

https://poultryclass.com.ng/get-trained

Wishing you happy Chickvestment

See you on the inside.

From the 15th to 17th of March, I shall be teaching in the POULTRY FOUNDATION CLASS.

The class is Free and will hold on WhatsApp.

Those who will benefit from the teaching are those who are interested in starting a poultry farm of Broilers, Layers or other birds on a small or medium scale.

Also, those who recently started but do not have much experience will benefit too. Farm hands and new staff in poultry farms will also benefit a lot.

Some of the areas I intend to treat in the class are listed below:

1. Overview of the poultry industry and evaluation of Profitable areas to go into as a business person.

2. Types of birds that can be kept for commercial purpose, their differences and their profitability

3. Comparison between Broilers and layers farming

4. Poultry housing types and design of poultry pen

5. How to calculate the size of pen to build or the number of birds to stock inside a pen.

6. Basic poultry farm tools and materials

7. How and where to buy Day old Chicks

8. Types of feed and when to give starter, grower and finisher.

9. How to prevent diseases in a poultry farm

10. How and where to sell your birds or eggs

The WhatsApp class will have a teaching session and a question and answer session everyday. All members of the class will have the opportunity to ask me all the questions in their mind for the three days of the training.

If this sounds like what you want, then join the group immediately.

I will drop the link to the group in the comments.

Wishing you happy Chickvestment.

See you in class

Dear Poultry farmer,

Your village people are after your downfall.

They are the ones responsible for the mortalities on your farm. They don’t want you to make any profit. Their aim is to drive you out of business.

But I will expose them today.

Do you remember 𝐁𝐢𝐠 𝐚𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐌𝐨𝐬𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐨 all when you were still kids in the village? She is one of those who does not like you. Every night, she sneaks into your pen and injects fowl pox into your birds.

She is not alone.

Even the lanky, dark and tall uncle from your mothers side. Hope you remember him? 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐋𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐫𝐝. He comes in the afternoon when nobody is around and distributes coccidiosis around your pen. He wants your birds to poo blood and die.

Granny from your mother’s side is also involved. 𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐚 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐁𝐚𝐛𝐚 𝐑𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐮𝐬 at night. They usually come with hands filled with parasites and bacteria. They go round your feeders and drop them inside, steal some of your feed and run away before day break.

I didn’t want to mention 𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐂𝐨𝐜𝐤𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 your in-law. But it is time to expose her. She is a big pretender. She is the one secretly distributing virus from one place to the others. She will enter the toilet, pick virus and come and mix in the feed and water of your birds.

I know all of them and my work today is to expose these your village people since they have refused to repent.

Now that you know the real cause of your problems, go and send the real village people packing from your farm.

I write to you because I care
Wishing you happy Chickvestment

Nalmy Poultry School

Buy a thermometer.
Learn to use it properly.

It will save you alot of wasted efforts and maybe cost too.

Your birds will grow o. But if you want maximum growth, you should endeavor to keep temperature within the correct range.

For chicks, the air temperature requirement for the brooding room at a RH of 40-60% is as stated below

Day 1-3: 33-35°C

Day 4-7: 32-33 °C

Day 8-14: 29-31°C

Day 15-21: 26-29°C

After brooding, monitor the distribution of your birds in their house to know how to adjust the temperature to their comfort.

If they are too cold, they will huddle together.
If the temperature is too hot, they will pant with their mouth and keep their feathers away from their body. If they are comfortable, they will be evenly spread round the house and be happily moving around.

May our birds do well.

The Poultry Foundation Class is coming up soon for those who want to set up their farms or learn how to care for their birds.

Check the comments section for the link to join the class.

Wishing you happy Chickvestment

𝑷𝑺: 𝑩𝒆 𝒂 𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒖𝒍 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒓. 𝑺𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏 𝒕𝒐𝒐

Almyty Ngusha

Nalmy Poultry School

𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝗱𝘀 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝟯 𝗱𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗶𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀

Things like what is shown in the picture is common during the heat season.

Those chicks were lost during transportation from hatchery to farm.

That is the major reason why chicks are transported in the night or very early in the morning before the sun comes up.

Even at that, your chicks may still arrive to you stressed from heat and the bouncing of the rough road especially if they had to travel over a long distance.

If nothing is done to relieve them of the built up stress, they will begin to drop one by one within the first 3 days. You will be losing them without any explanation as to why they can't survive.

𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝟳 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴𝘀 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗱𝗼 𝘁𝗼 𝗲𝗻𝘀𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗸𝘀 𝘀𝘂𝗿𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀

1. Examine the chicks on arrival to see their state of stress. Stressed chicks will feel weak and have a higher body temperature than normal.

The more stressed they are, the more attention you need to give them.

2. Add glucose to the drinking water of the birds. One heaped tablespoon full per litre of water is sufficient.

The normal human glucose can be used.

3. Teach your birds to drink by dipping their beak into the water. Do this to a few of them and others will gradually learn from them.

4. Give individual attention to weak chicks. Hold them and help them take a few gulps of the glucose water. Do this to the weak chicks one after the other.

5. Ensure all the chicks have found food and begin to eat within the first hour of getting water. Ensure you implement the 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗼𝗱 rule for your chicks especially this heat period

6. Monitor their reaction to your heat source. If there is no need for the extra heating due to the weather, please remove the heat source.

7. Check on your chicks every 1-2 hours and assist those needing help to eat and drink.

The greatest risk exists within the first 3 days. Any chick that survives into the 4th day has a high chance of surviving till maturity if you take care of it well.

Remember that brooding is a full time job. You can't complain that the work is too much. That's what we signed up for as Poultry farmers.

May our farms be good.

𝑹𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒃𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝒋𝒐𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑷𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝑭𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒅𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒍𝒂𝒔𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂 𝒏𝒆𝒘 𝒐𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓. 𝑾𝒆 𝒘𝒊𝒍𝒍 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝒕𝒐 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒓𝒖𝒏 𝒂 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒇𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒃𝒍𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒎.

Join the Poultry Foundation Class to learn how to set up and run a profitable poultry farm

https://poultryclass.com.ng/get-trained

Wishing you happy Chickvestment

𝑷𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒔𝒆 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒔 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒆𝒕 𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒇𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒔 𝒍𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒏


Almyty Ngusha
Nalmy Poultry School

HOW TO START A PROFITABLE POULTRY FARM IN 2024

If you have been considering another stream of income in this harsh economy we find ourselves, I'll suggest investing in Poultry farming.

Poultry farming is an evergreen agricultural business. As long as people continue to need food everyday, there will always be a daily demand for chicken and eggs.

If you know what you are doing, you can easily make a lot of money doing basic production and marketing of poultry products.

I have put together the Poultry Foundation Class to show you how to start and run a profitable poultry farm.

By the end of the class, you will know the following:

1. Materials and tools you need to start a Poultry farm.

2. The amount of money you need to start the farm

3. What you need to know to produce big chickens and eggs

4. Mistakes to avoid in starting and running a profitable farm

The link to the class is in the comments. Check the comments, click the link and join the class where I will give you all the guidance you need.

Wishing you happy Chickvestment
Nalmy Poultry School