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Production Problem And Prospect Of Rearing Poultry
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Poultry
generally is referred to all domestic birds raised by man for the
production of eggs, meat and other benefits for human consumption. The
domestic birds include fowl ducks, turkey, guinea fowl and geese.,
poultry products have been found to have the highest protein concentrate
of about 20.5% relative to others success of protein (animals) and has
the shortest production cycle of all animals.
Production cycle
involves all the activities in the rearing of livestock from day old to
maturity. For example, to achieve a ten-fold increase in the body weight
in relation to weight at bird, Williamson and Payne (1978) outlined
that it takes 25 days in broiler, 48 days in piglets, 250 days in caves
and 170 days in sheep.
The rearing of pigs, cattle’s and goats
however requires extensive kind more than poultry where more units of
production can be achieved from a given space compared to the farmer.
These advantages are perhaps the cause of a higher turnover in poultry
production at reasonably short period of time in this work more emphasis
shall be made specifically to the domestic fowl, which are the major
birds for commercial and nutritional importance in Ikpoba Okha Local
Government of Edo State. Poultry rearing have been in practice in
Ikpoba Okha for a long time. The traditional motive varies from hobby to
the use of fowl and eggs as food. Apart from the important roles that
the fowl play in the traditional workshop of duties in many parts of the
states, some communities use it as gift to their neighbours in
appreciation of a good deed and as a mark of solidarity.
The
traditional poultry keeping is generally subsistence in outlook without
the use of modern scientific methods. Hence the birds under this system
are poorly cared for and they are characterized by slow growth rate,
poor feed utilization and low productivity. The birds are also exposed
to high mortality rate as a result of diseases, pest and bad weather
conditions.
However, inspite of the popularity of commercial poultry
keeping, the subsistence and the small-scale units are still prevalent
all over the place especially in the villages. Although the commercially
oriented poultry units are abundant all over the state with varying
modern scientific approach to production poultry output continues to be
inadequate with prices above the reach of the common man.
This paper
will therefore focus attention on the problems and prospect of poultry
production in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of Edo state.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
In
Nigeria, the business of poultry farming is concentrated in the hands
of few individual partly because of the complex problems such as finance
and climatic condition while others are problem of poultry processing
and storage facility.
In Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, there had
been retrogression in poultry production due to illiteracy in the
maintenance of records. Hence maintenance of record helps the farmer to
determine the process of retrogressing nature of the farm. Besides, it
helps in making future project, planning and programming in poultry
industry. Most farmers either as a result of illiteracy, training or
otherwise are unable to keep records. The result is that most extension
officers are unable to help them out of their problems due to lack of
information.
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]Poultry production has in no small way helped to develop- the community and people of Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area, mostly in Idogbo the local government headquarters. This study however, examined the prospects and equally analysed the problems and finally came to a conclusion that with the various findings which include the outbreak of various diseases, inadequate capital and finance, and the increasing nature of the cost of poultry feed jointly hinder the progress of poultry production in ... Continue reading---
