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Growing Chicken For Meat Production

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Skip to content Poultry Information Agroallied Kickstart Home   Blog AUTHOR:  NJOKU ONYEKACHI Instant Food – Rearing Your Own Broiler Chicken F ast  growing commercial ‘broiler’ type chickens are becoming more popular with the smallholder and poultry keeper, with more and more people buying chicks to rear at home, specifically for the table. In this article, we look at how we can raise these fast growing ‘meat’ breeds in the ‘kindest’ way before they are dispatched for the table. We will assume that you are not a complete novice in rearing chickens but this sort of project is not for the faint hearted. We will focus more on the differences between raising fast growing broilers to the slower growing pure breeds we are used to rather than the basics of rearing. Fast growing breeds of course put on weight (too) quickly. That is, you can expect to get a weight of around 2Kg in as little as 6 weeks in a commercial set-up. The...
Backpage CEO Pleads Guilty To Laundering Millions In Crypto news Listings site Backpage CEO Carl Ferrer pleaded guilty to conspiracy and three counts of money-laundering, in part via cryptocurrencies, in a plea agreement unsealed in federal court in Arizona on April 12. Ferrer admitted he was aware that the “great majority” of the site’s ads were for prostitution services, and had conspired to conceal their true nature. He further admitted to laundering the site’s allegedly $500 mln revenue through “seemingly unconnected” bank accounts and “crypto-currency [sic] processing companies, including CoinBase, GoCoin, Paxful, Kraken, and Crypto Capital,” among others. The deal comes three days after Backpage was seized and a 93-count federal indictment was obtained against seven of the site’s operators, but in which Ferrer’s name was not included. In combined state-level deals, the company also pleaded guilty to human trafficking in Texas, with Ferrer pleading guilty to money laundering, a...
 social media platforms were agog on Thursday with comments from millions of Nigerian youths, condemning President Muhammadu Buhari’s derogatory statement against them. Many of the youths who took to the platforms asked President Buhari to visit Oshodi, Alaba and Ariara Market in the west and the eastern part of Nigeria to see hardworking youths despite government’s ineptitude. The youths posted different pictures of young Nigerians sweating in the sun to make ends meet despite the failure of successive governments to provide basic facilities to help their talents. President Buhari had said at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Westminster, UK that a lot of Nigerian youths are lazy and prefer to sit and get everything free. The president’s words attracted loads of criticisms, which of course arose the anger of many Nigerian youths. However, the Special Adviser to the president on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina had said that the president was misinterpreted, adding that ...
Reps mandate Nigerian Police to arrest perpetrators of Offa bank robbery Remandates  Nigerian Police to arrest perpetrators of Offa bank robbery ON APRIL 12, 2018 http://tridentcryptofund.com?ref=Sagem&nfeed=web ABUJA-House of Representatives on Thursday mandated the Nigerian Police to investigate the Offa, Kwara State robbery attacks on banks and bring the perpetrators to justice. Offa robbery It also mandated its Committee on Police to unravel the circumstances of the robbery. The resolution came on the heels of a motion titled “Motion on the lost of about 30 lives and 50 persons injured in Bank Robbery in Offa, Kwara State on Thursday 5th April, 2015. Need for Urgent Intervention “, sponsored by Hon. Olayonu Tope from Kwara State. Moving the motion, Tope recalled the gruesome murder of several police personnel, bankers and many other Nigerians in the attacks, saying it was against their constitutional rights to life. He said: “The House notes there was a deadly armed rob...