Biochar can be used to improve soil condition. It loosens the soil, improving aeration, water retention, and making it conducive for beneficial soil micro organisms. Has anyone seen where bio-char have been used? Has anyone tried using it? If so what results did you get?

I like organic stuffs so I’m wondering if vinegar will have less bad effects than conventional herbicides.

Do you know that you can plant without having to spend money or energy tilling the soil? I was like “awww!” when I read about it. Is this really true? Have you ever seen where it was done and was the harvest ok?

Fish, bees and crickets all hate pesticides and insecticides. If I want to raise any of these but my neighbor spray chemicals in his farm, how can I prevent his chemicals from reaching my farm?

Due to the abuse of antibiotics in farm animal industry, farmers in US now need a vet prescription before they can use antibiotics on their animals. For years, many farmers have abuse antibiotics by using them mainly as growth promoter rather than for treating diseases. In fact, most of antibiotic use was for growth promotion. The danger here was that if you use antibiotics as growth promoter, some bacteria in the animal will gradually develop resistance against that antibiotic and they can transfer this resistance of other strains of bacteria. When a bacteria that can cause disease in man and animal become resistant to antibiotics, then when a person fall sick as a result of that bacteria, that disease will be very expensive to treat or worst still it will be incurable.
In Nigeria we don’t care much about antibiotic misuse, we don’t observe withdrawal period too. It is high time we mind the way we use antibiotics.

Many rivers have problems with water hyacinths. If you live in such area and you have pigs or chickens, you can scoop out water hyacinths, wash them and feed to the animals. You can also add it to your compost.

Prolapse of the oviduct, also called "blowout" or "pickout" is a condition where the lower part of the hen's oviduct turns inside out and protrudes through the vent.
Causes:

Let’s make a huge list of things chickens should not eat and reasons why they shouldn’t eat them. Below are my own lists:

Here is an important discovery I made:

Quote:Chicks are unable to regulate their body temperature for the first 72-96 hours (3-4 days) after hatching. If they become chilled either through the floor/litter or other means, they become stressed. This can cause them to become immunocompromised (unable to resist diseases). Growth rate will be higher if you maintain the recommended floor temperature (weight gain will be lower if litter temperature is cooler by as little as 5oF). For birds that were chilled during transportation, you can make them perform as well as un-chilled chicks by using slightly higher brooding temperature than normal (1).

It’s not entirely true that plants don’t utilize organic constituents as new research suggests. Plants can also digest larger molecules and even entire bacteria. This knowledge is absolutely groundbreaking. Read for yourself.
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Ado...ne.0011915

Location: Oraukwu, Idemili North Anambra State.

Planing to buy rabbits housing cage from china but if there is an alternative manufacturer in Nigeria for commercial rabbits cage, it will be more advantageous.

Hi House
Want to use this medium to empower youths the necessary info needed to flourish in doing palm oil businesses and other related points majorly on oil palm plantation.

hello house i want to know if antibiotic can be used for 22wks old layers. they have taken all their vaccine but 3 days ago i noticed 1 or 2 birds sleeping and inactive which i quarantined and treated but eventually thek died .can i treat d rest with antibiotics

Hello all, I was into layers farming for 8 years but now a pig and fish farmer. Mechanical engineer from university of ilorin, farmer from heaven. Currently running a 700+ capacity farrow to finish piggery, and our fish farm has a capacity for 41000+ fishes not stocked to capacity yet but growing steadily. We sell top quality weaner pigs, about to cross gilts, fertile boars, fingerlings/juveniles production will commence in a few weeks.
Lots of valuable poultry experience to share!
Looking forward to learn a lot too.

Pls ALL, do we need toxic binder anytime we are self miling our own feed. Somebody told that he only includes toxic binder only when he adds groundnut cake, dat with maize, u dont ve to, pls house what is our individual take on dis?

Hello Greatest Farmers,
I am into poultry farming I hope to learn a lot here.

My vet doctor said I should buy & give EDS (Egg Droping Syndrome) Vaccine to my bird at week 17 & he warn that I must give this vaccine because of its importance if I don't want to have problems when my bird will start laying. But to my surprise when I got to the pet shop they said its not compulsory that the virus that they normally use the vaccine for is no more. The question is, Is EDS (Egg Droping Syndrome) compulsory or not? because the vaccine is the most expensive vaccine. the price is #15,000 for 1000 dose. So, whom will I believe? my vet doctor or pet drug seller & remember that pet drug sellers also are expert in that field.

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How many crate of eggs can one be expecting from 500 layers bird at their peak period