Growth 💹📈

[Md kayum]

Temperature & humidity

[Muhammad Ahmad]

Focus on temperature humidity and feed and water consumption

[Kishor Kumar]

To optimize chick growth in the first week, <mark>focus on providing a warm, clean, and well-fed environment</mark>. Ensure a consistent temperature of around 95°F, offer fresh water and a high-quality starter feed, and maintain a clean brooder with appropriate bedding.

[Olayiwola Danso]

1. Temperature and Environment:

Brooder Setup:

A brooder provides a safe, warm space for chicks. Use a heat lamp to maintain a temperature of about 95°F (35°C) in the first week.

Bedding:

Use absorbent bedding like paper towels, changing them frequently to keep the brooder clean and dry.

Space:

Provide enough space for the chicks to move around comfortably, and ensure proper ventilation to avoid stuffiness.

2. Nutrition:

High-Protein Starter Feed:

Offer a commercial chick starter feed with at least 18-20% protein, including essential amino acids, prebiotics, probiotics, and vitamins and minerals.

Scattering Feed:

Initially, scatter feed on clean surfaces like paper towels or egg cartons to make it easy for chicks to find.

Feeders:

Gradually introduce proper chick feeders and remove the initial scattering method once they are familiar with the feeders.

Continuous Nourishment:

Consider a continuous nourishment approach, ensuring a steady supply of balanced feed throughout the day.

3. Water and Hydration:

Fresh Water:

Provide fresh, clean water at all times. Chicks can be hesitant to drink at first, so guide them to the waterer, especially in the beginning.

Waterers:

Use appropriate waterers that are easy for chicks to access and keep clean.

Magic Water:

Consider using “Magic Water” (water with honey, apple cider vinegar, and garlic) for the first two weeks to provide extra nutrients and potential antiviral/antibiotic properties.

4. Other Important Factors:

Cleaning and Disinfection:

Regularly clean and disinfect the brooder to prevent disease and maintain a healthy environment, according to a poultry information site.

Observation:

Monitor the chicks closely for any signs of illness or stress. Check for diarrhea, lethargy, or unusual behavior.

Light:

Provide 18-22 hours of light for the first week, gradually reducing it as they grow.

Probiotics:

Consider using probiotics to boost chick health and growth, says a video about natural chick growth.

[Jeffery Escobar]

In addition to previous suggestions, verify proper crop fill to ensure birds are consuming both feed and water, make sure that the feed formulation is adequate in all nutrients (particularly available phosphorus), ingredients are of high quality and free of contaminants (e.g., mycotoxins), and the diet is properly balanced for nutrient content according to the expected feed intake of the birds.

[Md Ahidul Islam]

Thanks

[Onyinye Victoria Mbamalu]

Minimise the transportation stress

Prepare the brooding room before chicks arrival

Ensure adequate feed and water

Ensure the room is well luminated to keep them warm

[Nurudeen Kareem]

Minimize transportation stress when conveying chicks from hatchery to farm.

Adequate preheating of the shed before chicks arrival.

Adequate floor, feeding and watering space should be provided.

Water should be served first and feeds after 2hours of placement or settling the chicks.

The use of glucose and vitamins as antistess in chicks drinking water on arrival to the farm against transportation stress.

Provide 24 hrs light for the chicks the first two days and 23hrs light for the next 5days.

Brooding temperature management should be on top notch.

Feeding should be adlibitum during the first week.

Close monitoring of chicks to detect any diseases which used to occur during their first week in farm for proper control or prevention. Those diseases include: Aspergillosis, Omphalitis,fowl Typhoid,etc.