morning all its 4.30 am and im up and at it again. oooo my aken back lol. now ware was i on my life on a chicken farm hhhmmm ok now i remember. we were talking about cockcidia and chickens. its a natural deasese that is found in the litter of factory farmin and can be found right in your owne chicken coop. your birds will develope the direa dehydrate and die, if you atopsy a bird you can tell by looking at the inside of the intestens expusaly the upper part . you will se white spots on the inside. the way to prevent this is to keep fresh litter for them to walk on and remove and damp spots. we had to put down fresh litter in the housess many times because the housess would sometimes sweet expusaly in the winter time and just before they hit day 32. the way to treet it is to give them electrolights usualy for about 4 days untill the direa stops and the birds stop dieing. a big part of factory farming is to make shure you get out all the dead birds this keeps down the deasess in the housess and darn if it ant a hard job! expusaly if your birds are sick. the nombers can go up into the houndreds and a cast iron stomic is a must s well as a good pare of gloves. beleave it or not but chickens are canabilistic and will eat the daed ones as well as walk on them this can get searious as dermatitus can come into play. i do beleave in all honesty that this is the worst poultry deasese i have ever seen. the birds would actuly poo blood. and the mortality rate is rilly high. you can tell if your birds have this if you look at the lower intestens you will see a distent pockett of blood pooled up on the inside of them. if you slice the pocket open you can see it rilly good. the way to treet it is to keep out all the dead birds. and they will need poultry antibiots followed by pwt witch is poultry water treetment. you will also need to cull any sick birds you may find i always hated this part but its a nessassary thing to do in order to keep deasess from spreding. good ventalation is a must to raise helthy birds. in factory housess you have 8 tunnell fans and 2 exost fans. these are eather controled by hand in older housess ro computer controled. the producer watchess the wether and programs it to work howe ever is best at the time. the object is to give them the best ventelation you can without putting to much air on them in the winter and using too much gass for heating. and in the summer they half to be kept cool. if it is too cold your birds can get airsack and if its too hot the heat will kill them. in addition to the fans and heaters there is whats called side wall air vents and tunnell curtons. the vents are loketed next to eachother on the top of the walls thes are used to ventelate the amonia from the air and work according to the exost fans. these are opened and closed on a timer sistem. wen the fans come on it triggers an air senser to run a cable sistem witch opens and closess acording to the pressure of the housess. the more fans you are running the wider the vents open. there is also a tunnell curton sistem at the front of the housess that opens and closess to help get fresh air to the birds. this works along with a mistre sistem called evaperated cooling. water drips down cool pads in front of the tunnell curtons it is just like having airconditing. so please keep your birds warm wen its cold and cool in hot wether. if you see your birds huddling together they are too cold and if they are too hot you will see them panting. home raised or free range birds usually will adaped to these conditions rilly well but you rilly need to keep your henhousess as cool as possable in the summer and warm in the winter. i used to loe working with the baby chicks. they are brought in semi trucks and taken into the housess by using a toe moter and carried in plastic crates stacked on the top of eachother. a team of 4 takes the crated and drops the chicks on the ground in a rowe near the feed and water. we would drop 23 thousand chicks in 30 minets its fast hard work. the company wanted you to have them all droped in 30 minets per house to save money and time. but my personal opinion was to take the extra 15 this was much easier on the chicks and you dident run the risk of hurting there legs. its a hot job working with the chicks they are droped in the housess with a temperature of 92 degrees and it stayes this way for 3 days then you start droping the temp a degree or 2 every day untill you hit 82 and you hold it there untill day 15 by then or before you need to start turning the chicks to the back of the barns.wen they are small you only use 1/2 of the barn to consurve heat and feed. you can apply this to your home chicks if you hatch them yourself or order them from a hatchury. i made a small brooder from an old cooler with a lot of air holes drilled in the sides and on the top. i keep a thamomater in there with them and watch the temp and for swetting and i move the lid open a bit to allow for the proper ventalation. i even have a big brooder on my front porch with a heat lamp that i use untill the birds get old enough to go to the big pen. factory farm birds are vactionated at the hatchury against mercks desease. if you order your owne you have the optin not to have them vacenated, howevr they do have a mechene that you can bye to do it your self i prefer not to do this at all. i have never had a proublem with my home raised birds. at 9 days old though you rilly need to start giving them vitmen d this helps them have stronger bones so they can suppore there weight you can purchass this from a poultry supply company or just give them vitmen d that you can get from the vitmen section of your lokel store. and they love plane milk. to help your birds drink more you can give them electrolights in there water or just add some suger with a little cherry coolaid thats what i do. im gona stop right here for now its time to get my work done and i have a drs app early today have a great day Peace&Love
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 11:05:46 +0000
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