Poultry Concerns

Any guesses?

Guess the Breed..❗

Here I am 4 days old chick🐥🐓
Yes i can sense temperature.... 🌡️

Yup i'm 03 days old broiler ....🐥🐓
🛑 My primary white feathers erupt
🛑 The thermoregulatory system in upgrading , i can feel the temperature and react 😉🐥
🛑 Crop filling, feed intake and drinking thrust increases with time
🛑 Sleep time is important for me .
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📣 how can we check the crop and define the percentage.
💫 If chicks have only feed in crop, its hard on palpating the crop.
💫 If chicks have only water inside crop, it feels watery cushion like .
💫 If chicks having both water and feed inside crop, it feels like a dough.

Yes I'm day 01 old chick
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Perform crop fill test to check either whats the ratio of chicks feeding drinking which define to ambient conditions and uniformity of the flock
🛑After 8 hours 85% flock should have feed and water inside crop
🛑 After 12 hours the percentage would 90%
🛑After 24 hours 95 % flock should have crop filled woth feed and water .

Lets start with Doc... # chick day 0
❗Bright shinny furr🐥
❗Dark ful black eyes
❗No primary white feather
❗Slight shinny claws
❗Highly reactive to sound
❗Dry navel (umblicus)

Interesting facts of chicken egg fertility that you may not know.

🪶 It is possible to have a rooster and a hen that are active but a hen can still lay eggs that are not fertile:

I know you may be wondering how, and here is the explanation.
Unlike other birds where you find partners, in chickens there is no courtship or romance. A rooster just forces himself on the hen. So what happens is when a rooster mates a hen, his injected semen is stored in numerous s***m storage tubules (SSTs) located in the area where the hen’s uterus joins the va**na. But this only happens provided the hen likes the rooster. If she doesn’t, she can sq**rt out the semen to avoid hatching his offspring. Therefore a hen may still proceed to lay eggs that are not fertile despite even mating with a rooster every day.

🪶 Even if the hen approves the rooster, some eggs may still not be fertile:

Since the s***m is released shortly after an egg is laid, and each egg takes approximately 25 hours to develop, an egg produced on the day of mating will not be fertile.

An egg laid the next day may or may not be fertile, depending on the timing. An egg laid on the third day definitely should be fertile.

So as you can see your hen can still have the first two or three eggs that are not fertile despite the hen and a rooster having mated.

🪶 You don't need a rooster everyday for the hen to continue laying fertile eggs:

The amount of time during which the hen will continue to lay fertile eggs depends on how much s***m fills the SSTs, which are capable of storing semen from multiple matings and multiple roosters.

Highly productive hens generally remain fertile longer than hens that lay at a slower rate. The average duration of fertility from a single mating is 10 to 14 days.
So it is possible that once your hen has mated with a rooster you can even take the rooster away and you can still have fertile eggs for the next 14 days.

🪶 For first time layers if a rooster has mated with a hen, all her eggs are not always fertile:

Generally speaking, a hen who has mated will be fertile between 7 and 10 days after. It takes that long for the s***m to reach the oviduct where eggs are made.

What's the Basics to keep your birds healthy...
❗One word
Evaluate
FLAWSS⛔
concerns
health
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Flock Receiving of 80 thousand broiler Day old chicks🐥🐥....
What point should be kept in mind while Receiving Flock
❗The environment of the house is ambient for the chicks i.e.
💡Specific Temperature
💡Proper light (Intensity)
💡Specific Humidity
💡 Comfort bedding
💡Easy approach to Feed and water source
💡No external Stressers and threats
💡 Fresh Air , gases control
💡Proper space for chicks

📣🛑The environment inside the truck which transfer chicks should be specific📟🚚