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.