KOTACK FISH & AGRO VENTURES

Weaners Weaning is the most stressful period in a pig’s life, so alter the diet as gradually as possible because any sudden changes will reduce performance. Intake in first few days after weaning is key. Offer the same diet as fed pre-weaning for approximately a week or until the animal is about 9kg, as this will keep growth checks to a minimum. “There are already lots of changes going on for the pig, so using the same creep immediately post-weaning will provide some constancy and the ingredients will help mimic the nutrition the piglet gained at suckling,” Dr Baynes says. He advises that the ration is revised up to three times over the course of the weaner phase, he says. “Most producers use two if not three rations from 40kg to 115kg liveweight, tweaking these as the pig’s need for the more expensive components in the ration – the ingredients providing energy and protein – reduces.” From weaning to 15kg liveweight, the digestible energy (DE) requirement is typically about 16 megajoul...

Chickens      Mass production of Chicken meat and eggs began in the early 20th century, but by the middle of that century meat production had outstripped egg production as a specialized industry. The market for chicken meat has grown dramatically since then, with worldwide exports reaching nearly 12.5 million metric tons (about 13.8 million tons) by the early 21st century. The breeds of chickens are generally classified as American, Mediterranean, English, and Asiatic. While there are hundreds of breeds in existence, commercial facilities rely on only a select few that meet the rigorous demands of industrial production. The single-comb White leghorn a Mediterranean breed widely used throughout the global egg industry, is a prolific layer that quickly reaches sexual maturity. The Cornish Cross, a hybrid of Cornish and White rock is one of the most-common breeds for industrial meat production and is esteemed for its compact size and rapid, efficient growth. Small ...

  A carefully controlled that avoids crowding, chilling, overheating, or frightening is almost universal in poultry farming. Cannibalism, which expresses itself as toe picking, feather picking, and tail picking, is controlled by debeaking at one day of age and by other management practices. The feeding, watering, egg gathering, and cleaning operations are highly mechanized. Birds are usually housed in wire cages with two or three animals per cage, depending on the species and breed, and three or four tiers of cages superposed to save space. Cages for egg-laying birds have been found to increase production, lower mortality, reduce cannibalism, lower feeding requirements, reduce diseases and Parasites, improve culling, and reduce both space and labour requirements. Poultry breeding is an outstanding example of the application of basic genetic principles of inbreeding and Crossbreeding as well as of intensive mass selection to effect faster and cheaper gains i...

Chickens ,(Gallus gallus), any of more than 60 breeds of medium-sized Poultry that are primarily descended from the wild red jungle Fowl  (Gallus gallus, family phasianidae, Order Galliformes of India. The chicken is perhaps the most widely domesticated fowl, raised worldwide for its meat and Eggs. Despite the chicken’s close relationship with the red jungle fowl, there is evidence that the gray jungle fowl (G. sonneratii) of southern India and other jungle fowl species, also members of Gallus, may have contributed to the bird's ancestry. There is some debate about what the chicken’s scientific name should be. Although many taxonomists and ornithologists consider it as a domesticated form of the wild red jungle fowl, some classify it as a subspecies of the red jungle fowl (i.e., G. gallus domesticus), whereas others, including the US Department of Agriculture , classify the bird as G. domesticus. Natural history  Chickens have a squat and rounded ...

  PreSlaughter handling  When the birds have reached “harvest” time, they are generally taken off of feed and water. This allows their digestive tracts to empty and reduces the potential for contamination during processing. At night the birds are caught by specially trained crews and placed into plastic or wooden transport cages. The birds are then transported to the slaughterhouse, where the trucks are often kept between sets of fans to ventilate the cages. In the next step the birds are removed from the cages and transferred to continuously moving shackles where they are suspended by both legs. The transfer is often done in a dark room illuminated by a red light; the birds are not sensitive to the red light and this helps to keep them calm. The handling and transfer of birds both on the farm and at the slaughterhouse can be stressful. Stress can have negative effects on the quality of the final meat product, and therefore efforts are constantly being made to improve the pres...

Poultry is a term used to refer to all domesticated birds, Difference Birds ,Chickens, Pigeons, Ducks,Turkeys are found to be Widely Spread Across the country Except for Guinea Fowl.Poultry is a major source of consumable animal protein.                                                                                                                         Ch aracteristics Of Poultry Poultry is derived from the skeletal muscles of various birds and is a good Source of protein,Fat, Vitamins and minerals in the diet.                                                  ...

Fingerlings are essential part of every fish production. Growing fish in earthen ponds is an ancient practice, and ponds continue to be the most common fish culture system used worldwide. Over 95 percent of the catfish produced in the United States are grown in ponds. Nevertheless, pond culture of channel catfish is profitable only when the proper combination of resources is available. Water temperature cannot be controlled in ponds, and commercial pond culture is feasible only in regions that provide a growing season long enough to produce a 1-pound fish from egg in less than 18 months. Pond culture also requires large tracts of relatively inexpensive land. The land must be of the correct topography and soil type for economical construction and operation of ponds. Pond culture is water-intensive, and large volumes of high-quality water must also be readily available. Even when these resources are available, production of fish in ponds will be uneconomical if there is no market for th...