Poultry Signals
Monique Bestman, Marko Ruis, Jos Heijmans & Koos van Middelkoop
Information about animal health, well-being & production for poultry-keepers to use to improve economic results & well-being of animals, as well as their own.
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Proper 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 aswell 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 a successful total concept for you to use in associate management.
Poultry Signals was written in collaboration with advisers, poultry veterinary surgeons, poultry researchers and of course poultry-keepers from practice. The authors are Monique Bestman (Louis Bolk Institute), Marko Ruis (ASG), Jos Heijmans (GD) and Koos van Middelkoop.
The initiative is supported by NOP (Dutch organisation of poultry-keepers) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature Management and Fisheries).
As a result of these close contacts, a reference book was created that optimally anticipates the specific requirements of poultry-keepers.
This book is part of the Poultry Signals series. You can find all of the books here: https://www.contextbookshop.com/poultry/poultry-signals-series
Published: 2012
ISBN: 9789087400798
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Type: Paperback
Pages: 184
Language: English
Format: Paperback
Availability: Available
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CONTENTS:
Introduction
SECTION ONE: Seeing more by looking more closely
- Pick up the signals
- Using the signals
- Know yourself
- What she wants
- Bird behaviour
- Anatomy
- Senses
- Chicken sounds
- Checking individual birds
SECTION TWO: The chicken and her environment
- Ideal home
- Choosing a systgem that works for you
- Moving in
- Perches
- Litter
- Climate under control
- Effective temperature
- Air
- Light
- Dust
- Home on the range
- The facts
- How do you get them outdoors
- Gimme shelter
- Bad behaviour and problematic pests
- Covered range or winter garden
SECTION THREE: Rearing hens
- 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
SECTION FOUR: Laying hens
- Schedules aren't 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
- Preventing feather pecking
- Cannibalism
SECTION FIVE: Broilers
- Checking chicks on arrival
- Ventilation
- Distributio of the chicks in the house
- Assessing your birds
- Signals from manure
- Poor litter
- Feed signals
- Drinking
- Weak chicks
- Identifying causes of death
- Broiler parent birds
SECTION SIX: Health
- Disease signals
- Biosecurity outside the house
- Biosecurity in the house
- What seems to be the trouble?
- Gastrointestinal problems
- Respiratory diseases
- Egg production problems
- Locomotion organs disorders
- Sudden increase in mortality
- Summary of main diseases
- Viruses
- Bacteria
- Gut Parasites
- Worms
- Red Mites
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