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What's Pen rest?
Experience they say is a teacher and this is because when we have spent longer time or longer years in doing or practicing a certain activity, we find out that we tend to gather more information and details that particular activity. Let's assume someone who has been playing football for years, we will see that this person will play football with a great and better understanding of playing football. So anything one is doing it's important that do it in a possible best way.
So, because of my years rearing Broiler birds, I have noticed that whenever I give my Pen a break before moving on to rearing the next batch of Broiler birds, they tend to do great and better than when there's short space in between the outgoing Broiler birds and the incoming ones. But then, what's Pen rest? In relation to what I have explained above, In Poultry farm, Pen rest is when you allow the housing for rearing your broiler birds takes absence or break from accommodation of birds for a while or short period of time.
While the closure of the Pen is taking place, there are activities that would be taking place in between for one reason or other; like the disinfection of the Poultry Pen of diseases dropped by the previous birds and cleaning of the farm tools. All these depend on the Farmer's preference ( the period of time he or she wants the poultry pen to rest). Mine has been resting for almost a week now.
Advantages of Poultry farm Pen rest.
There are lot of advantages attached to indulging in resting your Poultry Pen for a while. Advantages like;
It gives for proper renovation of the Pen, during the process the Pen is on break or vacation, it gives the Farmer the room to see places that are damage that need renovation. Most especially the Pen floor surface.
It helps to get rid of unnecessary transmission of diseases or virus in the pen from previous birds to the next birds. There by, helps to improve the pen biosecurity.
During the Pen rest, this will as well give the Farmer the opportunity to re strategize on to work out the next batch g birds.
Another advantage attached to allowing your Pen to take a break is that, it will help to curb unnecessary mortality rate of your Broiler birds because you have taken your time to get rid of diseases an viruses that could be transmitted from the previous birds to the next batch of birds.
After all that being done, the outcome harvest seems to high because the Farmer has done the needful to experience this kind of positive harvest since the birds are free of diseases and viruses which tend to reduce mortality rate.
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