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We're a Klerksdorp based hatchery that incubate broilers and layers eggs. We also design 🐣incubators

11/07/2025

No feather 🪶 questions regarding this matter 😀😀

09/07/2025

Your broilers are sneezing.
Again and again.
Some even shake their heads or make weird sounds when breathing.
What’s wrong?

Sneezing is not normal in poultry.
It’s not a small issue.
It’s a sign that something is seriously wrong with your flock.

Cause number one… cold air or poor ventilation.
If your poultry house is too dusty, cold, or stuffy — your birds will develop respiratory stress.
They’ll start sneezing, coughing, and gasping for air.

Cause number two… ammonia buildup.
If your litter is wet and dirty, it releases ammonia gas.
This gas burns the chicks' nostrils and lungs silently.
Sneezing follows.

Cause number three… sudden weather changes.
Cold nights, hot days, and no temperature control?
Your chicks get shocked — and their lungs suffer.

Cause number four… infections like CRD or Newcastle.
These diseases attack the lungs and airways.
Sneezing is one of the first signs.
If not treated, it spreads fast and kills.

Cause number five… poor hygiene and overcrowding.
Dirty drinkers, old litter, and too many birds in one space lead to fast disease spread.

So, what’s the solution?

First — clean your poultry house.
Remove wet litter.
Disinfect properly.
Ensure enough air flow without direct cold winds.
Next — boost their immunity.
Add multivitamins and respiratory boosters.
Treat early with antibiotics like Tylodox or Tylosin if signs persist.
Control your house temperature.
Don’t let cold nights destroy your flock.

Sneezing is not a joke.
It’s a silent killer in disguise.

Follow Hemel Poultry Hub for more poultry tips that protect your profits.
Comment “SNEEZING BIRDS” if you’ve ever heard that sound in your brooder.

07/07/2025

Boots of Corn for chicken feed.

07/07/2025

Day 17, 300 broiler chicks. 1 mortality recorded

01/07/2025

Let us begin July with some chicken game, I'm Serama 🤔, what are you?

26/06/2025

Dear Gardeners,

This is the transformation of chicken 🐔 egg shells before, during and after being crushed into smaller pieces easy to apply on the garden for plant nourishment.

The eggshells are rich in variety of nutrients but the main one is Calcium!

In animals and human beings, the role of Calcium is to strengthen the bones and teeth to mention a few. In layer production the feed has to be rich in Calcium for production of high quality eggs with strong and firm eggshells.

Now, coming to crop farming where our expertise lies, the nutrient Calcium helps in strengthening the plant cell walls and fruits thereby preventing the abiotic plant stress, Blossom-end rot for high quality fruits.

So, crushing eggshells makes it easy for application on soils and increases the surface area for the microbes to mineralize the complex nutrients.

Like Bone meal and Blood meal, crushed eggshells are also organic fertilizer. This is Recycling.

26/06/2025

[ON AIR] Matome Maponya Investments (MMI), the former majority shareholder of Daybreak Farms, has broken its silence to directly challenge the Public Investment Corporation (PIC)’s role in what it claims was the deliberate collapse of one of South Africa’s most promising Black-owned agro-processing businesses. Kholofelo Maponya:Matome MaponyaInvestments (MMI) Chairman and former DayBreakFarm Shareholder on with Thulasizwe Simelane

26/06/2025

My chickens are hilarious. Gave them all these crates to lay in and look where they decide to lay. Lmao. (Yes there is straw in the boxes. This is an older pic)

13/06/2025

Discover how to create a simple home incubator for chicken eggs! 🐣

Necessary materials:
• A sturdy cardboard box
• A light bulb with socket and electrical cord
• A thermometer and hygrometer
• Sawdust or shredded paper for bedding
• A water container for humidity
• Fertilized eggs

Manufacturing steps:
1. Prepare the box
Take a cardboard box large enough to hold the eggs. Add a layer of sawdust or paper for good thermal retention.

2. Install the heat source
Attach an incandescent bulb to the center of the lid or on one side of the box. It will help maintain a constant temperature.

3. Monitor temperature and humidity
Place a thermometer and hygrometer inside. The ideal temperature is about 99.5°F, and humidity should be between 50 and 60%. Add a water container to maintain humidity.

4. Place the eggs
Put the fertilized eggs in the box, spaced apart for good air circulation.

5. Turn the eggs regularly
Gently turn the eggs 2 to 3 times a day to prevent the embryo from sticking to the shell.

6. Monitor and adjust
Check the temperature and humidity daily. Adjust the height of the bulb if necessary.

7. Hatching after 21 days
Around day 18, stop turning the eggs and slightly increase humidity (65-70%) to facilitate hatching. After 21 days, the chicks should start to hatch!

This simple method allows you to incubate eggs economically at home!

13/06/2025

Here 🥚

12/06/2025

how the final product looks like...after 6 weeks 😋

11/06/2025

UNDERSTANDING THE BROODING STAGE OF CHICKS – PART 6

In today's episode, I'd like to stress the importance of feed and water management.

You can't be too hygienic in caring for your pullets; they are to be carefully tended to.

Make sure they don't have much dirt in their feed trays or in their water troughs.

To achieve the best results, you need to adopt the "feed a little at a time" technique.

Don't say you don't have time or that you need to be somewhere else, so you just feed them a lot at once.

That will always work against you. From the pullets messing up the feed with their poo to having the feeding trays covered with bedding material, the issues are endless.

What that would cost you is:

1. Poor hygiene for the birds, as they'll be eating feed mixed with their poo

2. Feed wastage, which implies more cost and less result

3. More money spent on treating coccidiosis, leading to excessive use of antibiotics, which could later result in resistance to their effectiveness

4. Loss of appetite; when chicks are given too much food at once, they tend to lose interest in it

Brooding is more than just providing your chicks with a preferable temperature and condition—it's also the bedrock of what their future performance will look like.

For pullets, to achieve a more uniform weight in your flock, in my experience, you need to find a way to have them caged at about 6–8 weeks—the earlier, the better.

This helps reduce feed wastage by the growing champs. The grower stage, which begins from about the 8th week, ushers in behavior similar to that of teenagers in humans.

They tend to waste a lot of resources given to them by swirling most of the feed to the ground.

For this reason, some farmers choose to debeak their birds at an early age of about 2–3 weeks.

Debeaking in poultry is the process of gently trimming a bird’s beak to prevent them from hurting each other by pecking.

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