A veterinarian is
a person who is concerned with the healthcare of all living
beings including the humanbeing, though the main area of focus
for a vet-erinarian is the well being of the domesticated
ani-mals. which serve the mankind one way or the other.
Pakistan is an agricultural country and livestock has a major
contribution in the agriculture sector. In our rurual areas,
most of the people make their both ends meet by keeping 2-5
buffaloes or cattle. Rearely herds of sheep and goats are also
seen.But this large animal sector has not yet taken the shape
of an industry in Pakistan Poultry sector ,though in its
evolutionary phase, is developing into an organized industry
and is a great challenging sector for a veterinarian.
Most of the poultry companies in our country appoint the fresh
graduates from the veterinary in-stitution as a farm manager
or assistant farm manager. But most of the time it is observed
that a fresh veterinarian fails to comply with the
requirements of his designatipn. What are the causes of this
failure? Pakistan Veterinary Medical Association and Pakistan
Poultry Association should take up the matter and serious
efforts should be made to address the situation.
Ironically. the syllabus of the veterinary degree is not
revised and adjusted according to the requirement of the field
for the last many years. A feasible
solution of the problem is that after the completion of three
quarter of the duration of the degree session, student should
opt for the field in which he is
most interested for example poultry sector, large animal
sector, pharmacy sector, field of research etc.And then the
courses should be adjusted according to the requirements of
that particular field. Following courses should be included in
the poultry major to produce a good poultry specialist.
Construction of poultry Farm
This course should include the
complete knowledge regarding the construction of a poultry
farm. A veterinarian Should know how to construct a poultry
farm. What are its dimensions, What is meant by
environmentally controlled house, what are the requirements
for a proper ventilation of a poultry house, what is meant by
insulation etc. Frequent visits to the various poultry farms
can prove beneficial in the understanding of this subject.
Poultry
Healthcare
Intensive Poultry farming is going on in our
country. A Scientific monitoring of the poultry health is must
for the survival of this industry. A good Veterinarian should
know how to maintain the flock in a good condition, what are
the various diseases of poultry, how to diagnose the various
diseases, knowledge of the avian nutrition. It should be kept
in mind that only a person who has a complete command on his
subject can prove a good manager.
Flock Evaluation
A farm manager needs to evaluate the efficiency
of this flock. For this purpose he should know how to measure
the different zoo-technical parameters e.g. daily feed
consumption, daily weight. FCR, Daily water consumption.
Record keeping is an art and a good manager in one who keeps
the record of each and every thing pertaining to his flock.
Laboratory Management
This course should cover the various aspects of
a diagnostic laboratory management. A poultry specialist
should know how and where to construct a laboratory and what
are the different equipment used in the various serological
(ELISA, serum neutralization test, HA test, HI test) and
bacteriological (culture and sensitivity test, isolation and
identification of different bacteria) tests for the diagnosis
of the poultry diseases as well as in the proximate analysis
of the feed and detection of the mycotoxins in the feed.
Knowledge of poultry Equipment
This course should include the complete study
of equipment used in the poultry industry e.g. feeding
equipment, watering equipment, ventilation equipment, brooding
equipment etc. A good farm manager should have a complete
knowledge of the use. maintenance and repair of all the
mechanica
equipment.
Knowledge of Electricity
The complete information of electricity is
pre-requisite for good management, because many electrical
equipment are used in the poultry farming e.g. electrical
fans. lighting system, auto-systems for feeding and watering
etc. As in modem poultry farming, the trend has changed from
open houses to the environmentally controlled houses and any
type of electrical fault can lead to disaster. So a farm
manager can only man age the situation if he is at home in the
rectification of these faults
Our Management
The most important and critical thing in the
farm management is how to control the labour. The inclusion of
a subject covering labour management (psychology) is need of
the hour. Any type of loose management concrete problems. To
kick out a lazy and misfit worker is not a good management
rather a manager should know how to get him into work.This
subject can also cover the aspect of pubic dealing because
many veterinarians select to join the marketing sector and the
knowledge of public
Hatchery Management
In most of the companies the hatchery manager
is a non-technical (non veterinarian) person.On enduring the
reason format he Production manager of a renowned poultry
company by the author.he told that a veterinarian does not
know even the ABC of the incubating machines. So a subject
covering the maintenance and repair of the hatchery equipment
as well as the optimum hatchery environment for producing the
good quality chicks should be included in the degree course.
In short a poultry specialist should have the
knowledge of every aspect of poultry. He should be strong
theoretically as well as practically. Application of the
knowledge is the basic thing and a person master in this art
is the master of the day.
Poultry Farming Suffers from neglect
Poultry farming has spread across Pakistan,
creatlinked network. These farms can be seen in and around the
big cities, in small towns and in the remotest villages of the
country.
Writer
Dr. Mojsan Saeed (Gold
Medalist)
Assistant Farm Manager
Be Be Jan Protein Farms Ltd
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