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Cleaning and Disinfection of Open Sided Houses and Humid Season Broiler Production
OVERVIEW
Hello poultry farmer, the rainy season is upon us!
In Zimbabwe and most Sub-Saharan countries with similar climate seasons, most small-scale poultry farmers struggle during the rainy season, with challenges of effectively managing a broiler production batch when humidity levels are high, and this promotes bacterial infections. Slow growth rate and stunted growth is seemingly the order of the season for most small-scale poultry farmers and some large-scale farmers. Around this season, I am often faced with one question in particular from many farmers,
“Why are my birds not growing”?
In the case of the Zimbabwean poultry community, this trend has brought about a widespread belief amongst small scale farmers that chick and feed suppliers do not value quality as they aim to push volumes for the Christmas market rush.
However, there is also one common factor that is always often overlooked, which affects farmers around this time, Humidity!
Towards the festive season, placement of broiler batches almost always clashes with the beginning of the rainy season. Bear in mind, this is also the season almost every farmer is trying to maximize returns from batches and produce a broiler batch that will be just ready in time for the Christmas market by doing multiple batches at a time.
The result is often linked with taking short cuts on critical activities such as cleaning and disinfection and cutting down the fowl run/site downtime resting period, then production problems arise, these factors are often overlooked.
This trend has resulted in some poultry farmers in Zimbabwe resorting to taking production breaks during the rainy season, with the fear of the challenges they encounter yearly around this time, such as high mortalities, slow growth rate and stunted growth.
However, this is not efficient, and it reduces the farmer’s annual returns.
It is therefore important to look at the main factor that is often overlooked to achieving success through this season. Understanding the major root of the problem for broiler farmers during the rainy season is an essential step towards achieving a solution that enables farmers to produce all year round, without seasonal breaks and with limited challenges.
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