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.
Feeding & NutritionA practitioner's guide to the main poultry feed additives - probiotics, prebiotics, acidifiers, toxin binders and coccidiostats - and how to use each one sensibly under Ghanaian conditions.
Health & VaccinationMost poultry medicines go in through the water - and that's where many treatments quietly fail. Here's how to dose by body weight, mix stock solutions, and avoid the mistakes that waste medicine.
Health & VaccinationLameness is a symptom, not one disease. This guide sorts the causes into three families - infectious, nutritional and mechanical - and shows how to tell them apart under Ghanaian conditions.
Health & VaccinationTapeworms quietly rob growth and eggs, and piperazine won't touch them. Here's how to spot them, the snails, beetles and flies that carry them, and how to actually control them in Ghana.
Health & VaccinationE. coli already lives in every bird - colibacillosis is what happens when poor air, wet litter or dirty water lets it invade. Close the doors instead of chasing the bug.
Health & VaccinationSwollen head syndrome isn't one germ but a partnership - a virus opens the door and E. coli walks through. Here's how to recognise it, treat it and design it out.
Health & VaccinationGumboro attacks the one organ a young chick can't spare - the immune-training bursa. Here's how to spot it, why it makes other vaccines fail, and how to keep it out.
Business & ProfitGhana imports far more chicken than it produces, but most beginners still lose money on the first flock. Here is how to start in the right order and last.
Business & ProfitRaw droppings are too hot and too risky to use, but composted properly they become a rich, phosphorus-heavy fertiliser you can use or sell. Here is the method.
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