Some operations are need to be carried out in Poultry for the best production of the birds, these operation are explain here

The simple definition of poultry operations is any activities carried out on the poultry birds for certain reasons or the others for the benefit  and development of the birds and the farm as a whole.

Every operation carried out in the poultry have some advantages that are attached to it and are of good benefits to the birds at the end. 

These poultry operations are of various kind, they are as well carried out at various stages in the lives of the birds in the poultry and they are carried out for different purposes. Among the operations are

1.       Debeaking

2.       Detoe

Now let take this operations one after the others and explain in details while they must be carried out in poultry farms.

1. Debeaking

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Debeaking is the process of removing some part of the beak from the upper and lower jaw of the birds. Debeaking is a delicate operation which requires the cutting of the beaks manually or with use of machines. 

You must be careful in carry out this operation, if not it might lead to the loose of some birds in the process. The age at which this operation is carrying out will determine the level of success one will achieved from it.

For me I carried out this operation when my birds are between 35-days and 40 days old, this is the period I do carried out the first cutting, and the time of the day is between 8pm and 10pm. 

You might be wonder while this time of the day, the answer is to prevent too much of blood from coming out of the cut, while too much blood might result to the death of the birds.

This operation is carrying out two to three time before they are fully matured and must be diligently carry out. The second operation is between the age of eight and ten weeks while the last operation is when they are at the age of seventeen and eighteen weeks.

The first operation is cutting the upper jaw; the second operation is also the cutting of upper jaw while the third operation is the cutting of the lower jaw. Once again, you must be carefully in carrying out this delicate operation.

You will be wonder while are we doing these to our birds, the reasons behind is to prevent them hurting one another while fighting with the use of their beaks.

If they are not debeak, they ma injured themselves and these may cause serious injuries. Aside this, they use beak to brake their eggs in most cases, therefore there is need to prevent this as it may result to shortage in the farm.

So, in other not to allow this to come up, we need to remove part of their beak (debeaking).

2. Detoe

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This is another operation one need to carries out in the poultry, just like debeaking, detoe is also important operation in the poultry.

What is detoe?  Detoe is the process of removing part of the nails from the legs of the poultry birds. It also required some skills in carrying out the process, because if their nails are not properly removed from them, it might lead to loose of much blood from their body and may result to the death of the birds. 

This operation might be carries out using machine, but some many farmers carry out this operation manually. Mechanical method is faster and it is on the saver side while manual operation is not fast, and as well slow in operation. It is also risk, as it might lead to much blood coming from the animals.