Your ideas to control chicken newcastle disease and Swine fever
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We initiated and supported poultry and piggery projects for our villages. They started off very well and poor households were picking up so well. But were terribly disappointed when newcastle disease and swine fever swept all our efforts down within no time. We knew that we needed to regularly vaccinate this birds and pigs but could not access vaccines because the facilities are not there in whole district.
The main problem is lack of refrigeration and cold chain technology in the communities. This technology would require solar or parafin powered fridges. This technology would serve over 100,000 people. The vaccines are there in the ministry.
We request help with ideas to own refrigeration and cold chain technology in the communities.
Hi Stanley, i have attached some info about the control of Newcastle disease. However, i also believe no matter how much you vaccinate,the initial plan must involve better housing and hygine. Hence i will forward to your email an ebook on improved rural management of poultry farming as it just cant get attached on here. Do you think the cooling boxes used in the fishing industry will help in the transportation of the vaccines? Got to research more about how to make those solar fridges.
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JIS Birungi
Poultry on a large scale requires complete infrastructure at the poultry farm as well as support infrastructure in the region. Even well-managed poultry farms have cases of the entire stock (comprising of thousands of birds) being wiped out due to infections, due to lapses in immunization, or due to different strains of infection. This implies that the poultry farmers operating on these large scales possess the necessary financial resources to bear such losses and start a brood again.
In cases of inadequate financial resources, it is advisable to indulge in poultry only as a backyard activity on a small scale in households, and with a clear understanding among all that the few birds can be wiped out at any time due to infections. Once the households have this understanding, they will be able to bear the loss, and will also not depend entirely on these few birds for their earnings and survival.
Vijai
Hi Vijai,
Are you implying that scientifically these losses are inevitable and unavoidable? Is there no hope for this small scale farmer as far as poultry keeping is concerned as a means of livelihood?
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Stanley Okurut
Yes, Stanley. You have correctly understood my message. Poultry on a small scale, as the only means of livelihood, is not something that people should ever try to survive on.
Vijai
I have critically read through your idea of poultry and pig farm business at nabuur.com. I have a very strong feeling and belief that regular vaccination is only a supplementary intervention to better management practices in the prevention and control of diseases.
Our community has engage in small scale piggery and now poultry is coming up with exotics. My experience has shown that animals of farmers applying relative better management are really attacked and or survive the epidemics you quote.A better point is to start small and expand as the experience of those involved develop.
On the other end, even when vaccination facilities are in place, will there be expertise to administer them? We are planing local poultry improvement project in our community and hope to incorporate a training of few local farmers on animal drug procedures with emphasis on vaccination of poultry. I hope this will be a powerful weapon to better use vaccination facilities like one you propose.
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For and on behalf of Luhwahwa Youth Development Foundation (LUYODEFO)
Hi Stanley, thinking this could be good for transportation of vaccine.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1108343/Amazing-solar-pow...
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Yours in Service
JIS Birungi
Stanley, attached is the info about the solar refridgeration project i told you about. If it fits what we may consider, where do we go from here?
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Yours in Service
JIS Birungi
Hi all,
Thank you for beautiful ideas you have given. I must say that you are all right. In our community farmers practice free range and poultry stay in what i will call an open area where problems of overcrowding are eliminated. The basic elements of hygiene are met. Only vaccination is missing. Susanne what we need to do now is to see how we can get this technology to the village and mass immunisation of poultry is started. Thank- you for these resources.
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Stanley Okurut
Hi guys
Emily Cummins (the woman in the Daily Mail article) has a website http://www.emilycummins.co.uk/ so you could try contacting her to see if she can provide you with more details of the design and info on whether anyone in Uganda is already doing this.
Others have also used a similar principle including a teacher in Nigeria who has created a design using two clay pots, known as the Zeer pot which is now being used in Nigeria and Sudan. It is designed for keeping food cool e.g. keeps tomatoes fresh for up to 20 days. It can be made with local materials. One site suggests they can be made for about US$2.
http://practicalaction.org/?id=zeerpots includes instructions on how to make one.
I don't think it keeps cold enough for vaccines, and may not be practical for that because of its size, but might be a good option for people needing to keep food fresh who don't have access to electricity. So I thought I would mention it :)
Mary
http://www.classicalswinefever.org/
http://www.peteducation.com/article.cfm?c=15+1829&aid=2264
I think you will find that vaccination is not the answer. Read the two urls I have added in another response above.
Muscovy ducks are the first choice for family poulty raising. Many people raise chickens for market but everything has a risk. Prevention is the solution to the two diseases.
Hi all,
Thanks again for the information and resources. Ken local chicken here are a little bit resistant. I agree with you the vaccination is not a complete solution but together with other measures in place will help reduce these losses. I will follow the links you have given for more information. Yes we have some local ducks but as you said they are not marketable as the local chicken.
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Stanley Okurut
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justine
modern medicine today has not done much in this area my advice to you is to try and use local medicine most especially from the paravet or you can contact us at crima_uganda@yahoo.com or come to church of uganda medical center soroti we do offer trainings on the use of local medicine to vaccinate chicken and it has worked well
thanx
justine
Hi Justine,
It is good to hear you are using local herbs to vaccinate poultry. How effective is it? Whst villages are you working in? As you may be aware i am just near you, i could come there and learn from your beneficiaries.
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Stanley Okurut
Muscovies are really not ducks. They are in every country but you will have to find someone who has them. They are good eating, do not need a house, roost in trees, come home every night, lay 50 eggs a year. Need little purchased feed if other food is available to them.
My opinion is that it is the best poultry for a family farm. Market would have o be developed??? In Honduras I had to asked six people before I learned who had them. He said yes there is a ranch over there that has them.