Made using canva

Hello hivers,i've been unable to post due to a few accomodation issues (which i will post later),thank God it's all sorted now.

In this part of the world, education is mostly composed of the theoretical part than it is of the practical class,the private universities actually do a better job than the federal universities.

In fact, polytechnic and colleges undergo more practical when compared to federal universities.

There are 49 federal universities in Nigeria and when it comes to agricultural practicals...funaab must be top 10(at least they try)

Being at different enterprises is fun, exciting and is a learning process if you look at the bright side,the only perks are the stress and work we go through.

Okay,so we got to the hatchery where we were shown the incubator and then the lecturer took time to explain how it works along side common terms associated with the hatchery,asked us if we had questions and told us to move to the layer pen.

At the pen,we saw different types of the genetically modified Funaab Alpha chicken,local chickens were also present with different colour and sizes.

The layer pens were in battery cage system which conserved a large area of land in contrast to the deep litter system,there was also a large slopy hole underneath the battery cages so that issue of waste management and cleaning is coming done by merely flooding the whole.

The cages were oriented in such a way that they were not directly positioned on each other but are arranged in steps so that the droppings from one cage would not fall on another cage but will instead fall into the slopy hole.

All around the cage were pipes carrying water through different channels just in case they want to administer antibiotics in the drinking water of the layers and nipples were installed for the layers to peck whenever they needed water.

They eggs layed in the pens are set in the incubator and candling is done on the 4th day in order to diffetentiate the fertile eggs from the infertile ones/table eggs,another candling is done on the 18th day to confirm.

Fertile eggs are then set into the incubator and turned regularly in order to avoid the embryo sticking to one side of the shell.

We saw the whole process,cleaned the pens,fed them and also learnt how to get the semen of a cock to be used for A.I(Artificial insemination)

In my own opinion,this experience; although it's quite alright but i believe it would not be enough to learn most of the things that we need to know,we would need to get into other programmes,attend seminars,become interns at different farms etc

Thank you for reading my thoughts...I hope you enjoyed it as much as i did

Love

Here are some of the pictures we took,some of ourselves and others of the birds,cages and farm managers

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