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Poultry & farming guides written for Ghana
Straight-talking advice from our hatchery team: prices, brooding, vaccines, feed and profit — everything a Ghanaian poultry farmer needs to succeed.
Straight-talking advice from our hatchery team: prices, brooding, vaccines, feed and profit — everything a Ghanaian poultry farmer needs to succeed.
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Health & VaccinationEgg yolk peritonitis is a hidden killer of hard-laying hens: misplaced yolk infected by E. coli, killing your best birds around peak. Here is how to spot it and design it out.
Health & VaccinationBlackhead disease is almost always fatal to turkeys yet chickens carry it silently, and the old treatment drugs are gone. Why turkeys and chickens must never share ground, and how to protect your birds.
Health & VaccinationLymphoid leukosis is a retrovirus cancer that fills a layer's liver and bursa with tumours from about 16 weeks and has no vaccine. How to tell it from Marek's and why the fight is won in the breeder flock.
Health & VaccinationILT is a herpesvirus of the windpipe that can kill healthy adult birds by suffocation and leaves every survivor a lifelong carrier. How to spot it, tell it from Newcastle, and keep it off your farm.
Health & VaccinationCurled, clenched toes and hock-walking in young chicks point to a riboflavin shortage in the feed. Here's how to spot it, correct it early, and prevent it.
Health & VaccinationNavel ill or mushy chick disease is the top cause of first-week chick deaths. Here's how to spot it, why it starts in the hatchery, and how to prevent it.
Health & VaccinationGout is the chalky-white urate coating found in birds that died from kidney failure. Learn the two forms, the water and feed mistakes that cause it, and how to prevent it.
Health & VaccinationEpidemic tremor hits chicks with unsteadiness, head tremors and paralysis in their first weeks — but the outbreak is usually decided in the breeder flock. Here's how to recognise and prevent it.
Health & VaccinationEDS'76 leaves hens looking healthy while stripping egg numbers and shell quality. Here's how to spot it, tell it apart from other egg drops, and vaccinate before lay.
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