■Day 1-day 7
– The chicks need to be in a brooder.
What is a Brooder?
– a brooder is a simple construction that is used to raise chicks until a point they are not so vulnerable.
– brooders maybe small rooms, wood construction, brooder boxes etc.
– chicks should stay in a brooder for at least 3 weeks – 4 weeks
■Give Newcastle at day 7_
Day 8- day 14
■Feeds
-Same as previous week
●Drugs
-continue with chick formula
– use coccidiostat (biosol, coccid, vetatrim, biotrim etc) in place of aliseryl. This will help to prevent coccidiocis.
– drop liquid paraffin
so, second week you give a combination of coccid+chick formula
-give gumboro vaccine at day 14
■Day 15- day 21
– feed as previous week
●Drugs
– combination of vitamin and antibiotics ( aliseryl, neoxy vitamin, miramed, agranyl etc)
– repeat Newcastle vaccine
■Day 22- day 28
●Feed .
Start introducing chick mash. (Mixing chick mash with starter )
– incase you started with crumbs, continue giving crumbs until they are 7 weeks old.
●Drugs
– give coccidiostat
– repeat gumboro at day 28.
■Week 5.
Here the chicks are old enough and can survive out of the brooder.
●Feeds
– chick mash/ chick crumbs( or mixture of mash and crumbs)
●Drugs
– vitamins.
■Week 6
Feeds- as in week 5
Drugs, coccidiostat and strexia
●Vaccinate fowl pox._
■Week 7
●Feeds
– gradually introduce growers( mix chick mash and growers)
– drugs – feed suppliments ie molar plus, vigosine or tonophos.
■Week 8
Feeds, growers mash( you can mix with pellets, omena, jenga etc)
10 kgs of growers (mixed rations)
.- 6kgs growers mash
– 1kg jenga
– 1kg omena
-1 kg pellets
– 1/2 kg ngano
-¼kg sunflower
-¼kg cotton
●Drugs
-vitamins and antibiotics
-vaccinate fowl typhoid.
