Poultry Signals
Poultry Signals - A Practical Guide for Bird Focused Poultry Farming
Author(s): Monique Bestmanm Marko Ruis, Jos Heijmans, Koos van MiddelkoopProper management starts with recognising signals in practice. For poultry-keepers, this means being alert when in the hen house, watching and listening to the animals, and paying attention to their behaviour as a group as well as their individual behaviour. This usually provides much information about animals’ health, well-being and production for poultry-keepers to use for improving economic results and the well-being of the animals, as well as their own. Poultry farming is currently investing in various new housing systems that require another type of management.
The book Poultry Signals includes points of departure allowing for more animal-oriented procedures and is vital for poultry-keepers and anyone involved in poultry on a regular basis.
This book is also available in the following languages:
- Nederlands
- Deutsch
- Italiano
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Availability: In Print
Publication date: 2011
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 204 x 265 x 13 mm (W x H x D)
Weight: Unknown
Extent: 112
ISBN: 978-90-8749-079-8
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Introduction
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- Pick up the signals
- Using the signals
- Know yourself
- What she wants
- Bird Behaviour
- Anatomy
- Senses
- Chicken sounds
- Checking individual birds
- Ideal Home
- Choosing a system that works for you
- Moving in
- Perches
- Litter
- Climate under control
- Skin temperature
- Air
- Light
- Dust
- Home of the range
- The facts
- How do you get them outdoors
- Gimme shelter
- Bad behaviour and problem pests
- Covered range or winter garden
- The early days
- Quality of day old chicks
- Assessment at 16 weeks
- Light
- Teaching good behaviour in aviaries
- Vaccinations
- The right way to vaccinate
- From small to big in 18 weeks
- Feather pecking during rearing
- Beak trimming
- Smooth transition
- Schedules are not written in stone
- The ideal curves
- Feed and feed management
- Feed and light
- Feeding in hot weather
- Deficiency signal: eating feathers
- What to look out for in feeding systems
- Water
- External egg quality
- Internal egg quality
- What makes a nest attractive
- Avoid floor eggs
- Gear management towards nesting peak
- A second laying period?
- Pecking, feather pecking and cannibalism
- Difficult to reverse
- Feather pecking
- Cannibalism
- Checking the chicks on arrival
- Ventilation
- Distribution of the chicks in the house
- Assessing your birds
- Signals from manure
- Poor litter
- Feed signals
- Drinking
- Weak chicks
- Identify causes of death
- Broiler parent birds
- Disease signals
- Biosecurity outside the house
- Biosecurity inside the house
- What seems to be the trouble
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Respiratory Diseases
- Egg production problems
- Locomotion organs disorders
- Sudden increase in mortality
- Summary of the main diseases
- Viruses
- Bacteria
- Gut parasites
- Worms
- Red mites
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