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Webinar: Chickens: Advanced Brooding
Sam Noble with Heifer Ranch for Heifer USA will discuss the finer details of brooding to perfect the environment when chicks/poults/ducklings are first placed and how to transition them into pasture poultry. She will be discussing brooder design, ventilation, drafts, bedding, feed, brooding with brooder guard or whole house brooding, supplemental feeders and waters and feeder and waterer types. Basic health issues and behaviors to watch out for such as delivery stress, grouping/piling, panting, early starve-outs (3-5 days of age), late starve outs (10+ days of age) and how to correct or prevent it with management or supplements. Sam stresses the importance of observing the chick’s behavior to make a difference in livability and weight gain.
This segment has been funded under a Conservation Collaboration Cooperative Agreement NR226740XXXXC008 between the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and South Dakota Specialty Producers Association (SDSPA), to promote sustainable agriculture practices and environmental stewardship. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the USDA or NRCS.