HOW YOU CAN GROW A FLOCK OF 300 INDIGENOUS CHICKENS/KIENYEJI CHICKEN/VILLAGE CHICKEN A YEAR FROM 10 HENS AND 1 COCK THROUGH SYNCHRONIZED BROODING.
How do you go about it?You can start with 10 indigenous chicken/pure kienyeji/village chickens and 1 cock.You need to programme or synchronize these hens to hatch chicks at the same time.
* Provide each hen with its nest.Use a plastic basin with grass,wood shavings or old clothes.
*Place one unfertilized egg in each basin or even boiled egg. This is to trick them so that they can start being broody. Be sure to dust the nest with an insecticide powder to keep out parasites.
*Mark the eggs placed there with a pencil. Be sure to remove eggs that are laid but leave the marked eggs in the nest. The collected eggs should be stored in a cool,dry place not in the kitchen or cupboard. Be sure to write the date of laying on the eggs with a pencil.
*Normally one bird will start sitting on the marked egg(boiled egg/unfertilized egg) overnight.Leave it for 10 days while it's waiting for others to start incubating or sitting on eggs.
*After 10 days give all hens that would have started sitting on eggs 12 eggs each to incubate.The eggs must have been laid recently.
*Leave the hens which may not have started incubating alone.You can eat the old eggs or sell them.When choosing the eggs for incubation make sure they are not too small,too big,cracked,dirty,too pointed,round or old eggs that are more than 10 days old.
*When done this way the birds will all hatch at the same time after 21 days or 22 days latest.
Farmers with incubators can also use them to hatch the eggs instead of using hens.
Chicks that hatch on the same day fit in well with feeding and vaccination programmes. The time between the 1st hen that goes broody and the last should not be more than one week inorder to get better results.
DOS AND DONT'S
*Eggs for hatching should not exceed 2 weeks of age. Hatching rate reduces after two weeks.It's before
HOW YOU CAN GROW A FLOCK OF 300 INDIGENOUS CHICKENS/KIENYEJI CHICKEN/VILLAGE CHICKEN A YEAR FROM 10 HENS AND 1 COCK THROUGH SYNCHRONIZED BROODING.
How do you go about it?You can start with 10 indigenous chicken/pure kienyeji/village chickens and 1 cock.You need to programme or synchronize these hens to hatch chicks at the same time.
* Provide each hen with its nest.Use a plastic basin with grass,wood shavings or old clothes.
*Place one unfertilized egg in each basin or even boiled egg. This is to trick them so that they can start being broody. Be sure to dust the nest with an insecticide powder to keep out parasites.
*Mark the eggs placed there with a pencil. Be sure to remove eggs that are laid but leave the marked eggs in the nest. The collected eggs should be stored in a cool,dry place not in the kitchen or cupboard. Be sure to write the date of laying on the eggs with a pencil.
*Normally one bird will start sitting on the marked egg(boiled egg/unfertilized egg) overnight.Leave it for 10 days while it's waiting for others to start incubating or sitting on eggs.
*After 10 days give all hens that would have started sitting on eggs 12 eggs each to incubate.The eggs must have been laid recently.
*Leave the hens which may not have started incubating alone.You can eat the old eggs or sell them.When choosing the eggs for incubation make sure they are not too small,too big,cracked,dirty,too pointed,round or old eggs that are more than 10 days old.
*When done this way the birds will all hatch at the same time after 21 days or 22 days latest.
Farmers with incubators can also use them to hatch the eggs instead of using hens.
Chicks that hatch on the same day fit in well with feeding and vaccination programmes. The time between the 1st hen that goes broody and the last should not be more than one week inorder to get better results.
DOS AND DONT'S
*Eggs for hatching should not exceed 2 weeks of age. Hatching rate reduces after two weeks.It's before
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