Farm and Disease Management by Commercial Poultry Farmers

Muhammad Shoaib (), Ijaz Ashraf, Khalid Mahmood Chaudhary, Umair Talib, Muhammad Usman and Awais Ali Khan

Current Research in Agricultural Sciences, 2018, vol. 5, issue 2, 42-47

Abstract: Commercial poultry farming is one of the key sector around the world especially in Pakistan due to its adaptability in different factors such as, low investment per unit, high growth rate, and agro-climatic conditions and also due to short generation interval. Unfortunately its progress is not enough to meet the demanding level due to the rate of high population. Therefore, the study was proposed to assess the farm and diseases management by commercial poultry farmers. Tehsil Faisalabad was selected purposively and the data were collected from randomly selected 120 commercial poultry farmers. The findings of the study revealed that majority of poultry farmers showed high level of knowledge on poultry housing management about spacing and watering equipment’s (70.0%). However their awareness of bedding or litter management (52.5%) and its changing was low. They also had low level of knowledge about quality of feed and water (52.5%), identification of affected birds (54.2%) but they were well known about the vaccination of birds (60.8%) with the help of their traditional experiences. They were also well known about common diseases like bird flu (68.3%) and gumboro (65.0%) however they had lower level of knowledge about Vent gleet (53.3%) and Coccidiosis (41.7%). Therefore, it is recommended that the private extension agents should be encouraged to focus their extension activities on the poultry farmers who are not getting proper and relevant information about the management of housing, disease and their control.

Keywords: Poultry farmers; Farm management; Disease management; Commercial poultry farming; Poultry Farming in Pakistan; Poultry Farming in Developing World. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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