{"id":6481,"date":"2021-07-30T15:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/?p=6481"},"modified":"2021-07-30T15:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T15:05:42","slug":"preparing-for-new-birds-in-your-brooder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/preparing-for-new-birds-in-your-brooder\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing for new birds in your brooder."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week before arrival:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The brooder and all equipment must have been cleaned, disinfected and rested for 10 days prior to preparation. You will have to chose Viruchoc disinfectant, the wide spectrum and highly effective disinfectant.<br \/>\n\u2022 There must not be any residual matter from previous flocks. Feed sacks, litter, feathers, etc must have been all removed.<br \/>\n\u2022 Prepare adequate heaters, drinkers, feeders, thermometers and lighting with intensity of 20 lux.<br \/>\n\u2022 Put up the side curtains at minimum ventilation (double curtains in winter) and false ceiling. You can use tarplins or black polyethene.<br \/>\n\u2022 Put litter\/bedding evenly to a depth of 10cm and remove foreign objects e.g. wires, papers, nails etc.<br \/>\n\u2022 Apply disinfect on the litter.\u00a0Viruchoc disinfectant is the best<\/p>\n<p>A day before chick arrival:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Partition the brooder to place at an initial stocking density of 33 chicks per square metre.<br \/>\n\u2022 Preheat brooding area to 33 degrees Celsius for at least 24 hours.<br \/>\n\u2022 Feed and water (with LIPTOVIT MULTIADVIT) to be placed at least 6 hours before placement.<\/p>\n<p>During the first 7-days:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 On day 3, drop side curtains by 10cm from the top to create air vents, But not permanently just for 2 hours and close back.<br \/>\n\u2022 Maintain a temperature of 32-33 degrees Celsius during the day and during the night.<br \/>\n\u2022 Mortality to be below 1%.<br \/>\n\u2022 Target an average weight of 177g on day 7 for broiler, and 120g for later chicks<br \/>\n\u2022 Encourage the chicks to move around and must be evenly spread out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week before arrival: \u2022 The brooder and all equipment must have been cleaned, disinfected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chicken"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jaguzafarm.com\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}