(a) Activities that could be Carried out in the Brooding of Chicks:
- Disinfect brooder house
- Remove chicks from transportation box.
- Inspect the chicks for fitness.
- Introduce heat source
- Observe the behaviour of birds in relation to heat and make adjustments.
- Change litter appropriately
- Provide feed adlibitum.
- Provide water adlibitum.
- Clean and wash drinkers and feeders
- Gradually increase the space available to chicks as they grow older.
- Administer appropriately vaccination and drugs.
- Provide adequate ventilation in the brooder house.
- Provide adequate illumination
- Inspect chicks regularly to remove dead ones.
- Separate/cull weak birds.
- Gradually decrease the temperature as birds grow older.
- Culling of chicks.
- Provide wood shavings/ spread wood shavings.
(b) of management practices in poultry production:
(i) Deworming:
- Use of drugs to eliminate endoparasite.
- lt is done at six weeks of age and repeated every three months.
- lt can be done through injection or oral administration.
(ii) Culling:
- Removal of unproductive unwanted birds from the flock either sale o disposal.
- Culled birds are never returned.
(iii) Debeaking:
- This is the partial cutting/trimming of the upper beak when the bird is 8-10 weeks old.
- lt is done with a debeaker /knife scalpel/blade.
- lt is done to prevent cannibalism and egg pecking
- lt is mostly useful in cocks and lavers.
(iv) Delousing:
- lt is the removal of lice from the body of birds.
- lt is dene b dusting or careful dipping of birds in insecticide or by oral administration or injection.
c) Signs of ill health in poultry:
- Reduced appetite/ feed intake.
- Emaciation loss of weight.
- Dul appearance of wattle and comb.
- Reduced egg production/productivity.
- Huddling of chicks
- Diarrhoea.
- Ruffled feathers.
- Occular discharge eye discharge.
- Difieult breathing.
- Drooping o wings.
- High temperature/fever.
- Discolouration of droppings.
- Swollen body e.g leg. head Excessive salivation.
-Isolation
- Coma.
- Constipation.
- Anaemia.
- Twisted neck.
- Coughing.
- Restlessness.
(d) Organs in the circulatory system of farm animals:
- Heart Arteries blood vessels-Veins blood vessels.
- Capillaries blood vessels.