Agriskwela 17 Best Farm Practices for Raising Free-Ranged Backyard Chicken Healthy chicks will grow to become healthy chicken.

The biggest challenge in raising chicks is intestinal problems, especially Salmonella and Coccidiosis.

Here are some tips provided by chicken breeder Doyet Lapido who raises about 15,000 chicks every year.

. Make sure that drinking vessels or water dispensers are cleaned using detergent soap mixed with Zonrox every afternoon.

. Trouble shooting for intestinal problem droppings “white-slimy”(Salmonella,e-coli, and other bacteria) First day mix 1 tablespoon of Zonrox with 1 gallon of water. 2nd day mix Tepox48 one sachet (5g) with 1 gallon of water for 3 days straight. For chicks 3 months up, use TMPS powder.

. Trouble shooting for sipon, pisik, halak – First day mix Zonrox one table spoon with one gallon plain water. 2nd day give Ambroxityl one sachet (5g) 3 days straight to 5 days. For chicks 3 months up use L-spec powder.

. For stress problem use Excelyte for 3 days straight. One sachet Excelyte with 5 table spoon of brown sugar mix one gallon plain water.

. For Malaria, mix one sachet of Ornistat per gallon of plain water for 3 days.

. Start deworming at 30 days old and repeat every 21 days.

Common problems occur if chicks are stressed and also during windy and rainy seasons.

Bio security is a must. Facilities are very important to prevent such problem.

To ensure a Coccidosis-Free Farm, mix 1-ml of Baycox per litre of plain water and give to chicks at age 11 to 12 days.

For Anti-bacterial cleansing, use Ambroxityl, Vetracin gold, Tepox48, L-spec powder.

Use L-spec for severe case only if other medicines won’t work.

• Vitamins water soluble.

• Day 1-3 Electrolytes

• Day 4-6 Ambroxitel

• Day 7-10 Vitilral

• Day 11-12 baycox

• Day 13-15Electrolytes

• Day 16-18 Promine vitamins

• Day 19-21 Hydrochac vitamins

• Day 22-24 Labedrosol B

• Day 25-27 multivitamins B-complex

• Day 28-30 ADE+C

• Day 30 deworm bastonero

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• VACCINES

• day1 B1-B1+IB

• day1 gumburo

• day14 fowlpox

• day21 lasota +IB

• day35 coryza

(Photos show Manok Pinoy upgraded native free-ranged meat and egg chicken in the Braveheart Farms in North Cotabato.)