Knowledge of housing, brooding, and handling chicks safety makes raising poultry a rewarding experience. Before deciding to raise poultry, or any livestock, it is important to investigate local codes ...

To thrive, broilers need dry litter, good ventilation, spacious accommodation and natural lights. Broiler chickens are mainly raised in intensive deep litter system. Here, they are kept indoors and ...

The cage system has helped Vincent Ssenoga take up more birds than would have been possible under the deep litter system. Photo by Desire Mbabaali The deep litter system of rearing birds is one of the ...

Poultry hatchery business is a highly specialised job and, therefore, the industry is characterised by a few accredited firms mainly concentrated in some parts of the country. Usually, poultry farmers ...

In my years of working and handling chicks from incubators to the farm, placement of birds at the farms, growing and harvesting of either meat or eggs, brooding is still the most critical time in a ...