As a poultry farmer whose source of livelihood is dependent solely on proceed from egg and meat type chicken.How do such stay on top of business especially at a a period of locokdwn withou bussiness nosedivingt b
You can try to establish an improved lines of grandparents for eggs and / or meat in conditions of illness and thermal stress (or any specific conditions). You can cross the grandparent’s lines in order to obtain the parents; the parents are also crossing in order to obtain fertile eggs for hatching (market).
Depending of business restriction you can try to sell the hatching eggs of hybrids for meat broilers and eggs hybrids to the small / specific market. The eggs can be easily decontaminates and transported (no shake, in temperature controlled and humidity conditions).
I am not sure, what the major problem would be during the lockdown. It probably depends on your specific situation.
So it might be: getting enough quality feed (on time)., distribution and selling of the saleable products, health care, getting replacement flock etc etc.
Each challenge will require a different approach and solution. I can not envisage one general remedy for all problems and situations.
So split the problems in small parts and tackle them one at the time as they appear.
It depends on how severe is the lock-down in your area. If it is to the extent of ban on both production and consumption, it would be severe. Lock-down vary from country to country depending on the severity of the pandemic. Especially, in my own country situation, the poultry industry picked up instead of dwindling. Producers are encouraged to enhance domestic production since the import was banned. Producers are given loan on low interest rates to boost production.
Your issues need more information to get specific suggestions.
I appreciate everyone who has taken time out to contribute to this discussion however I agree with Kees(Kan) that each challenge will need a specific action. I raised that question because in my country when the lockdown started farmers whose means of livelihood recorded a lot of loss in form of egg glut loss of birds to death due to no feed.As there was total lockdown in some areas so attendants who will attend to the poultry were not allowed to move.Until the Association of poultry producers wrote special appeal to the govern ment,The situationhas actually made some farmers to now have livein workers even when they were not prepared for it. Contrary to Dawa's country in my country although there was ban but producers could not really access loan for production,even market was equally aproblem .
Human also animal. Why we are getting blame to the poultry? Killing is not the real solution. Prevention is the first and last.
I mean in agreement with Ashraful human being are higher animals the more reason why we need to take care of animals poultry inclusive
Poultry is very common all over the world so they are blamed anyhow.
During this Lockdown being online and developing network of a large number of people through various applications that are readily available, maintaining social distance and supplying to the networked people through delivery abiding the govt norms imposed is helpful. Those with large production have to develop such network in clusters, make route charts to be readily available at cheaper prices and use conveyance according to size of delivery.
Availability of feeds and lack of market are the characteristics of poultry farming in rural Kenya. During lock down, all open air markets were closed so if you want to sell your chicken to buy feeds it was challenging and with no feeds the production wa low.
covid affects badly the poultry industry in early 2020 but it is struggling to overcome now. peoples understood the importance of protein during pandemics.
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