Livestock Care

Chicken dipping eradicates 90% of external parasites

A Nakuru County hatchery entrepreneur has resorted to dipping her chickens in pesticide suspension, a method which she says kills more than 90 percent of external parasites. Mary Njeri, the owner of Poultry Farm Hatchery, said chicken shake off powder pesticides, making them less effective in controlling the blood sucking external parasites. The agripreneur uses …

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Egg Candling: A Cost-Effective Method to Ensure 100% Natural Hatching

Small-scale poultry farmers can predict with certainty the percentage of chicks to be hatched by testing fertility for eggs against light in a cheap and simple process. The procedure, which is better known as candling, together with other practices, can lead to 100 per cent natural hatching just like in artificial incubation. A farmer does …

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