Poultry Farming, Hatchery and Broiler Production (hand book)

CHOOSING EGGS FOR HATCHING PURPOSES

• Basis for Egg Selection
• Care and Holding of Hatching Eggs
• Incubation Principles
• Proper Temperature
• Proper Humidity and Adequate Ventilation
• Turning of Eggs
• Sanitation
• Temperature of Incubation Room
• Quality of Eggs
• Quality and Condition of the Beeding Stock
• Personal Attention and Interest
• Embryonic Development
• Changes Day by Day (Chick Embryo)
• Incubation of Chick Embryo by Days
• Fetal Membranes
• Malpositions of Embryos
• Hatching Periods

LOCATION & TYPES INCUBATOR BUILDING

• Purchase of Incubator
• Installment Buying
• uniform score card for judging egos
• Instructions for Scoring Eggs
• Number of Eggs to Set
• Testing Thermometer
• Correcting Separations in Mercury in Thermometers
• Candling
• Fertility Determination
• Traying Eggs
• Custom Hatching
• Hatching Pedigreed Stock
• Overheating and Underheating
• Effects of Temperature Levels of Embryo on Rate of Embryo Growth
• Auxiliary Generator
• Removal of Hatch
• Ventilating Chick Boxes
• Storage Brooders
• Business Records

FACTORS FOR SUCCESS IN THE HATCHERY BUSINESS 

BROODER SYSTEMS

• Portable Colony Houses
• Permanent Brooding System
• Brooder Appliances
• Heating Units

PRINCIPLES OF BROODING

• Disease Free Chicks and healthy Breeding Stock
• Maintenance of Proper Temperature
• Fresh Air and Ventilation Control
• Keeping the Chicks Busy
• Safety from Fire
• Dryness
• Sanitary Conditions
• Proper Feed and Management
• Litter
• Proper Housing and Ease  of Attendance
• Protection from Weasels Rats, and Vermin
• Skillfull Operation
• Chick Mortality
• Rearing Expectancy
• Purchaseing Chicks
• Confinement Brooding
• Advantages of Confinement Rearing
• General Practice
• Connecticut 12'x12' Portable Brooder House or
• Colony Laying House
• Bill of Material
• Lumber List
• Fittings
• Cornell 10'x12 Brooder House
• Material required
• Lumber
• Hardware
• List of Material for 12x16' Brooder House

OPERATION OF BATTERY ROOMS

Temperature
Ventilation
Humidity

LAYING CAGES

Management of Laying Hens in Cages
Seven Essentials in Cage Management 
Good Housing 
Good Birds
Good Feeds
Sanitation
Replacements
Disease Prevention
The Personal Factor
Mortality

BROILER PRODUCTION

• Breeds Suitable for Broiler Production
• Management

FEEDING CHICKENS

• Time to Feed
• What to Feed
• How to Feed
• Where to Feed
• Varying  Nutrient Requirements n Floor vs. Battery Floor vs. Battery Brooding
• Hoppers and Hopper Space
• Size of Grain
• Clean Feed and Water
• Grading Pullets According to Feeding Needs
• Feed Consumption and Growth

MANAGEMENT

• Range Rotation
• Location of Range
• Summer Shelter
• Colony Capacity
• Separation of Sexes and Culling
• Tattooing
• Types of Waterers
• Hoppers
• Feed Consumption and Growth
• Shade
• Nesting Provisions
• Mites and Lice
• Transfering Stock to Laying Quarters
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REQUIREMENTS FOR POULTRY FEEDS

• Feeding Broilers
• Methods of feeding ten principal points for consideration of poultry feed formulation

SELECTION OF THE BIRDS

• Time to Select
• Points to Considerin Selection
• Vigor
• Breed Type
• Head
• Body Conformation
• Proportionate Measurements
• Quality
• Pigmentation
• Molt
• Temperament
• Bloodiness
• Condition of Comb, Vent and Abdomen
• Precocity or Early Sexual Maturity
• Physical Maturity
• Trapnest Records in Selection
• Disqualifications and Standard Qualifications

BREEDING

• Principles of Inheritance
• Aim in Breeding
• Types of Matings
• Single male matings
• Multiple male matings
• Artificial insemination
• Collecting Eggs for Hatching
• Methods  of Breeding
• Physical selection
• Pedigree breeding
• Progeny test
• Systems of Breeding
• Crossbreeding
• Inbreeding
• Linebreeding
• Outcrossing

FEED INGREDIENTS

Size of Birds
Fattening Rations
Marketing Fattened Birds 

HOUSING AND APPLIANCES

• Requirements of Housing
• Shelter
• Ventilation and Humidity
• Temperature
• Light
• Space Allotment
• Nutrition
• Types of Houses
• Types According to Roofs
• Types According to use
• Interior Arrangement and Equipment
• Auxillary Buildings
• Feed Room
• Egg Room
• Manure Shed
• Killing Room
• Storage Building
• Construction Room
• Incubator Room
• Trends in Laying House Construction
• Battery Brooding Room
• Building Materials and Cost of Construction
• Plan
• Bill of Material
• Materials
• Cost and Permanency
• Bill of Materials

POULTRY MANAGEMENT

Location and Type of Farm 

DISEASES OF POULTRY

• Infectious Laryngo Tracheitis
• Coryza
• Bronchitis
• Respiratory Form of Cholera
• Newcastte Disease
• Chronic Respiratory Disease
• Avitaminosis A
• Pressure Necrosis of the Mandible
• Coccidiosis
• Crazy Chicks
• Pullorum Disease
• Omphalitis (Navel Disease)
• Slipped Tendon Disease (Perosis)
• Epidemic Tremors
• Rickets
• Blackherad
• Sour Crop
• Fowl Pox
• Botulism
• Worms
• Round Worms
• Capillaria Worms (Macroscopic Round Worms)
• Tapeworms
• Leucosis
• Cholera
• Blue Comb Disease
• Typhoid
• Tuberculosis
• Internal Layers
• Prolapse
• Mites (Common Red Mites)
• Northern Fowl Mite Infestation
• Lice
• Post Mortem Examination and Diagnosis

TURKEY PRODUCTION

• Breeds
• Incubation
• Brooding
• Rearing Management
• New Hampshire Six Point Grow healthy Poult Program
• Clean Brooder Houses
• Clean Litter
• Clean Feed and Water
• Clean Poults
• Clean Ground
• Clean Management
• Selection of Breeding Birds
• Marketing

INVESTMENT PLANNING

• Layer Farm
• Broiler Farm

HOUSING REQUIREMENTS

• Layer Housing
• Broiler Farm

EQUIPMENTS NEEDED

• Floor Brooders
• Battery Brooders
• Feeders
• Waters
• Waterers
• Laying Nest
• Miscellaneous Equipments

FEEDS AND FEEDINGS

• Present Scenario
• Present Practice
• Layers Feeding
• Starter Feeding
• Grower Feeding
• Layer Feeding
• Broiler Feeding
• Starter Feedings
• Finisher Feeding
• Feed Preparation at Farms
• Poultry Feed
• Grains
• Cakes
• Minerals and Vitamins
• Suggestions

DISEASE PREVENTION

• Vaccination of Layer Chicks and Adults
• Preventive Medication for Layers
• Coccidiostat
• Dewormer
• Manage and Mites
• Vaccination for Brolers
• Preventive Medication for Broilers

ECONOMIC RAISING OF POULTRY (BROILER, LAYER, DUCKS, QUAIL AND TURKEY)

• Broiler Farming
• Land and Building
• Equipments
• Fixed Capital Investment
• Working Capital (for 2 months)
• Receipts & Profitability
• Layers Farming
• Fixed Capital
• Land and Building
• Equipments
• Fixed Capital Investment
• Working Capital (For one and half year)
• Total Capital Investment
• Cst of Production (in one and half year)

The book has Choosing Eggs for Hatching  Purposes, Location & Types of Incubator Building, Factors for Success in the Hatchery Business, Brooder Systems, Principles of Brooding, Operation of Battery Rooms, Laying Cages, Broiler Production, Feeding Chickens,  Management, Requirements for Poultry Feeds Selection of the Birds, Breeding, Feed Ingredients, Housing and Appliances, Poultry Management, Diseases of Poultry,  Turkey Production, Investment Planning, Housing Requirements, Equipments Needed, Feeds and Feedings, Disease Prevention,  Economic Raising of Poultry (Broiler, Layer, Ducks, Quail and Turkey).