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Sexing of chicks ; Determining gender of chicks :

 Intro: sexing chicken is a method of differentiating the sex of chickens .This process is mostly used in commercial hatching industry's to separate pullets & cockerels.In poultry industry they are various reasons for sexing   chicks,they are like ,males are not required in the egg production industry & in breeders separate male and female chicks are required.

         Sexing chicks is done by a trained person called a "chicken sexer".

Methods in sexing chicks :

1.VENT sexing Method :

   

                  In this method by squeezing of anal vent of chick there appear  a '.Generally the chick with bump is recognised as male & chick without bump is said to be female.But here some females also have bump but comparing to male chicks they are small .so,the chicks with larger bumps can be recognised as males and chicks with small bump or no bump can be recognised as females.

            In this method ,sexing of chicks is little bit difficult but with regular practice ,it becomes easy to recognised by chicken sexer.

2 .FEATHER 🪶 Sexing method :

                  In this method by seeing the wing tip feathers of day old chicks, we can recognise the gender. Generally chicks have two layers of feathers .The   top feather is called as "COVERT" where as lower feather is called as 'PRIMARY' (feathers to be checked at the tip of wing ).

                 In female chicks the primary wing feathers are longer than covert feathers.

                  In male chicks the covert feathers are larger or same to primary wing feathers.

*Feather sexing is one of the easy method in differentiating males & female chicks.

      There are also some other methods in sexing of chicks but they are not accurate.In crown method ,the cockerels(male) have big & darker crowns compared to pullets(female) .But the crowns sizes are differed breed to breed.so it is not a accurate method to sexing chicks.

              The other methods are like by seeing color of chicks & gesture of chicks.In Some chicks we can observe fighting or pecking other chicks ,flying directly on other chick chests .This signs shows the chick Is male  .The female chick has a shy behaviour like keeping down the head and remaining calm.But this is not 100% accurate.The behaviour of chicks can be changed according to conditions.

            Sexing of chicks helps you in decreasing the cost of production in any segment of poultry industry.

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Deworming Shedule of Cattle (Sheep & Goat)

 Dewormers ;

                    Dewormers  are the drugs given to human or cattle ,for getting rid of parasites which are harmful to them. This process of giving dewormers to human or cattle is called as Deworming.  Deworming plays a keyrole in cattle management .Deworming reduces the mortality rate in sheep and goat.

                In small cattle(sheep& goat) Deworming shedule is as follows

1.Summer Season(April/may):

               In this season mostly cattle are attacked by Tapeworms.

                 In Summer season  "Fentas plus" dewormer should be given to cattle.This drug is called as "Broadspectrum dewormer".It is the combination drug of Fenbendazole & Prazaquintol.In this Ferbendazol kills the Adult tape worms and the praziquintol kills eggs & larvae tape worms.

Precautions:

a. Livertonic should be given after two or three days .

2.Rainy Season:(After may)

        In rainy season lung worms are activated in the cattle.

           In Rainy season Ivermectin oral solution Bp(vet) 0.08% w/v should be given to cattle for getting rid of lungworms.

3.After Rainy season :(In oct)

            In this time  Trichlabendazole 5% &  Ivermectin 0.1% are given to cattle. This drug kills Luke worms and Lung worms.

4.November/december:

                    Closantel 15% oral solution is given to avoid fluke(water observed at chin part) in cattle. 

Note: This drug shouldnot be given to kids(sheep or goat).

 5.January/February:

                NILZAN (Varbac Company)  dewormer is used on JAN/FEB month.This works effectively on all parasites like  tape worms,luke worms& fluke.It is a broad spectrum anthelmintic.

Precautions:

1.This drugs are used under guidens of vets.

2. Dewormers should be given when cattle are with empty stomach.

3.Feed & water is not given after deworming of  cattle, for two to three hours.

4.Deworming is not done to pregnant cattle.

5.Its recommended  to test the feces of cattle to know severity of worms.

6.Some medications are may be required for same cattle after deworming.(as deworming causes motions & cattle may lose some energy)

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SAMBHA MASOORI_BPT 5204

BPT 5204 :

                  BPT 5204 is one of the good variety of paddy .It is one of the Mega variety in paddy.This variety generally called as "SAMBHA MASOORI". 

ORGIN:

             This variety is introduce in the year 1986.It is introduced under  DR.YEMIREDDY (Genetic & plant breeding) at Bapatla Agriculture college .This variety is orginated by crossing three paddy varieties.

       GEB 24       VS           TN 1       -------->   F2     VS      MASOORI ----->  BPT5204

GEB 24 is a good grain variety but crop falls & TN1  is bad quality grain but the crop doesn't falls & High yield variety..In the first stage GEB 24 and TN1 varieties are crossed and produced F2 variety.In  F2 good characters seed  is collected and crossed with MASOORI.In the sixth generation BPT 5204 variety is produced.

Charcterstics of BPT 5204 ;

                               *It is Aromatic medium quality grain

                               *Good cooking & Keeping quality

                               * Less height (90cm to 110cm)

                               * Resistant to leaf blight.

                                * Crop doesn't falls

                                 

Duration :

               During 1980's this is the one of the high yielding variety in low duration.  BPT 5204 is duration is 140 to 150 days.(depens on condition).

Pest & Diseases:

                        It is prone to Brown plant hopper(DHOMA) Pest & Blast disease.

Precautions:

                   By using less amount of nitrogen fertilizers pest & diseases are controlled in this variety

Area of cultivation;

                        BPT 5204 is cultivated largely in Andhra ,Telangana , Karnataka.In allover india this variety is cultivated in  nearly 40 lakhs hectares & in Andhra & Telangana nearly 12lakh hectares.

Yield:

           This variety has average yield  of 6T/HEC.

Seed Quality maintainence;

                      To maintain the seed quality ,For every three years the seed to be replaced by foundation seed .

conclusion:

                 Due to its good quality ,this variety is still grown in large areas.In  1980's most of the  high yielding paddy varieties are of longer duration .Due to this longer durations  the crops are effected to floods. The only variety in 1980's made huge difference in paddy cultivation.