Agro Prime Blog
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.
Health & VaccinationA basic post-mortem turns unexplained deaths into a diagnosis. How to necropsy a bird safely, read the organs, and know when to send birds to a lab or vet.
Health & VaccinationCannibalism and feather pecking are a management problem, not bad luck. Learn the light, space, feed and enrichment fixes that stop birds pecking each other in Ghanaian flocks.
Health & VaccinationA swollen crop that won't empty by morning means trouble - a hard impaction or a sour Candida infection. How to tell them apart, give first aid safely, and prevent both.
Health & VaccinationBrooder pneumonia is a fungal lung disease chicks inhale from mouldy litter, feed or a dirty hatcher. It can't be cured, so it's all about prevention: how to spot it and keep Aspergillus out of the brooder.
Health & VaccinationAntibiotics are for treating diagnosed bacterial disease, not growth or routine prevention. How to use them responsibly, respect withdrawal periods, and protect flocks with vaccination and biosecurity instead.
Health & VaccinationColibacillosis is what happens when ever-present E. coli is handed an opening by stress, bad air, dirty water or another disease. Learn its many forms, its triggers and how to shut them down.
Health & VaccinationChronic respiratory disease (Mycoplasma) gives poultry an endless cough, cuts egg output and turns deadly once E. coli joins in. Here is how to recognise, confirm and, above all, prevent it.
Health & VaccinationFowl pox is a common, slow-spreading virus with a mild skin form and a deadly throat form. Learn to spot both, understand mosquito spread, and prevent it with a single wing-web vaccination.
Health & VaccinationWet litter burns and ulcerates poultry footpads - painful for birds and costly where chicken paws are sold. It's largely preventable: here's what causes it and how to keep feet clean.
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