Poultry

Designing duck house plans and building a duck house are important activities prior to duck rearing. Certain conditions must be fulfilled in the plan before constructing the house; provision for shelter, adequate space, and other factors to make the duck comfortable in their new home. These would be duly discussed in this guide.

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Poultry farming is one of the fast-growing agribusinesses across the globe. Like any other business, poultry farming in the rainy or cold season could be very tormenting; it is characterized by a reduction in daylight which will greatly affect the feeding pattern of the chickens, high humidity, to mention few effects.  I know farmers that gave up on poultry farming all because they could not cope with the effect of the rainy season on their production. It was obviously not encouraging.

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Simple management mistakes make poultry farms fail. Most occur because of negligence and overconfidence of the farmer or manager; this is why I assume they are mistakes and not ignorance. It is not as if poultry farmers do not know certain practices are detrimental to their poultry birds’ welfare; they just need the experience (failure) to imprint or make obvious the danger in that practice.

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