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Basically! Heat stress doesn't happen during the raining season, so it's hard you find broiler birds suffer heat stress. This situation is when the sun has hits a certain degree that's beyond the capacity of that the Broiler birds can resist. In poultry farm, the issue of heat stress usually happen during the harmattan period from the months of November to February.
The mortality that heat stress could cause is one of the most unfortunate thing that could ever happen in any poultry farm. The funniest thing is that, you can put 1,000 Broiler pen in a poultry farm, inside their to be precised. If heat stress happen one can lose all the 1,000 birds. The most annoying part is that you can see them in their sleeping position, with their head facing down but once you notice that their tails are not moving fractionally just know they are death.
How to control heat stress in Poultry farm to maximize profit.
Mucus. Mucus is one of the things that complicate heat stress. When there's much mucus in their throats. You will observe them panting heavily and the best thing to do at that time is to use organic means to get rid of the mucus. Combination of ginger, garlic and tumeric.
Feeding. During heat stress reduce their feed. Make sure they don't feed in sunny afternoon. Wait until night before giving them feed.
Water. Make sure they drink enough water than feeding them during this period. This will help to reduce the heat stress.
Ventilation. Make sure there's enough air or breeze coming in and going out of the pen.
Overcrowding. Don't overcrowd your pen with too much birds such that there won't be enough space for the birds to breath and move about. Note that Broiler birds have no sweat glands.
So, once the heat stress causes mortality, definitely the the target for sales maximization would be reduced and this will leads to huge loss.
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