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Now check if your answer included the following preventive measures.
Good poultry management requires you to do the following:
Stop poultry from getting into contact with disease causing organisms;
Stop the spread of disease in a given flock;
Stop the spread of disease between human beings and poultry;
Recognize disease conditions at an early stage;
Ensure that all food and drink containers are kept clean;
Keep poultry house clean and regularly refresh litter;
Clean and disinfect any material or equipment being introduced into the poultry house.
You should always institute preventives measures that stop chicken from getting diseases by:
Disinfect before you bring in new birds;
Keep your poultry sheds clean at all times;
Observing foot dipping and hand washing at the point of entry into the poultry house;
Giving regular vaccination as required;
Disposing used litter away from the poultry house;
Avoiding any the build-up of droppings at all cost otherwise this greatly increase the risk of disease causing organisms;
Controlling rodents by use of chemicals;
Putting in place a quarantine system in the farm by doing the following:
Avoiding the introduction of mature birds to the farm
Isolating any sick birds from the rest of the flock
Treating all birds as soon as a disease is detected.
Not keeping different species of poultry together in one farm/house.
Activity: 5.2
Poultry Diseases (Time: 20 mins)
What steps would you take to prevent poultry diseases in your flock? Write them down in the space provided below.
Poultry Keeping & Management
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To detect early signs of disease in a flock, you should put in place a monitoring program, and check if the birds are healthy. When conducting a quick check on healthy birds you should look out for the following:
Active and Alert
No lameness
No injuries or deformities
No discharge from nostrils or eyes
No stained feathers around the vent
Have good plumage.
Isolate any bird immediately if it has any of these signs from the others for quick attention and treatment.
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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