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.
Brooding & CareA chick normally needs 12-24 hours after external pip to free itself, absorbing yolk and blood as it works. How to read the pip and membrane, and why most struggling chicks should never be forced.
Brooding & CareA developing embryo needs up to 100x more air by hatch than on day one. How to set vents, keep airflow even, and balance fresh air against Ghana's heat and harmattan.
Brooding & CareHold hatching eggs cool and humid (15-18C, ~75% RH), pointed end down, and set within 7 days - hatchability falls 0.5-1.5% per day after that. A practical Ghana storage guide.
Brooding & CareA good setting egg is clean, sound-shelled, normally shaped, average-sized (50-65g) and fresh. Learn how ruthless selection before the incubator lifts hatchability and chick quality.
Brooding & CareA good hatch is tight and lands on day 21 - layers over 8-12 hours, broilers over 12-24. Learn what an early or too-wide window tells you about incubation temperature, and when to pull.
Brooding & CareTurning stops the embryo sticking fatally to the shell membrane. Learn how often (4-6x daily, ideally hourly), the 45-degree angle, why you alternate direction, why the first week matters most, and why to stop at day 18.
Brooding & CareHow you load hatching eggs in the first hour shapes your hatch. Covers pre-warming, positioning large end up, the 37.5C and 58-60% humidity targets to day 18, stabilising the machine and marking your set.
Brooding & CareCandling lets you see inside an incubating egg with a bright light and a dark room. Learn what to look for at days 7, 14 and 18, how to read fertile vs infertile eggs and blood rings, and how the air cell tells you your humidity.
Brooding & CareWhat to record set-by-set, how to calculate fertility and hatch of fertile, and how a breakout of unhatched eggs turns a disappointing hatch into a fixable diagnosis.
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