Dear Nelson, Just a few tips looking from the outside in.
It seems to me you could be possibly overstocked, However i dont know legislation for weight per square meter in Zimbabwe or however many birds you have or length of the poultry house.
Judging from birds behavior they are suffering heavily from heat stress. The panting is very intense from 95% of the birds in the video. This will ultimately affect your production invarious ways.
Heat stress disrupts the hens' metabolism and reproductive hormones essentially chickens eat less under heat stress to reduce metabolic heat production, which leads to lower nutrient intake and decreased body weight. It is important to maintain a constant progression in body weight.
Heat stress leads to thinner eggshells, reduced egg weight, and poor internal quality due to decreased calcium absorption and changes in protein synthesis.
It also makes the birds lethargic making them to lay more frequently on the floor. This can cause a loss in production due to risk of birds eating the floor eggs & also encourages others to lay creating more floor eggs Sort of a chicken see chicken do kind of thing. They creatures of habit. Once it starts it hard to stop.
What you can do as a little advise from me to you,
It looks like you have tin as roofing. Try change it to asbestos. Again i dont know what legislation says about that. Tin roofs absorb a large amount of heat from the sun and can get extremely hot during the day. Asbestos has better heat resistance compared to tin, so it does not get as hot. Also remember Tin has a faster heat transfer whilst asbestos holds a lower heat transfer. This can be good for the cooler nights.
Try increase you floor space within the house. Not buy extending but simply puttin A frame perches dotted around the house. This will elevate ground space because layers love to perch. It will allow for more airflow instead of it just hitting the floor once it enters & staying stagnant. That will also help with floor eggs and also add slats to the nest boxes. This will give you a bit more ground space.
Now that we got that out the way i might aswell share so other issues i noticed.
Your feeders are far to deep that they overflowing. There should be somewhere to make an adjustment in the center of the feeder. So the red bit narrow the gad with the black bit. This will prevents feed spillage & loss of feed.
Your bell drinkers are kind of low, make them stretch for it. It will help with spillage & keep your litter try. As well as the birds finding it easier to drink.
Some more nest boxes to avoid floor eggs.
Electric strip around the walls of the house to prevent birds laying on the floor. This will teach them a good lesson not to be lazy early on in the flock & go up to the nest boxes. They love the corners especially & remember creatures of habit.
Anyway, hope you make good use of that information as i usually charge for it. Its free so a simple repost & i will be grateful Mr Chamisa. Have a blessed week ahead. I thank you.
In Zimbabwe the internet satellite service @Starlink is banned and the Zimbabwean Government is arresting anyone using it, except itself of course.
But look what they are doing in Zambia, every constituency has been given a @Starlink kit, and the Zambian Finance minister has encouraged parliamentary meetings to be done via @Starlink instead of making pointless journeys costing the taxpayer.
Meanwhile in Zimbabwe rural constituencies without internet access remain dark waters of the world because of a Government not ready to accept that the world is changing and that without internet access, economic growth will not increase at all!
Then they brew traditional beer to ask their an ancestors why things are not working for them!🤣🤣🤣🤣
The stark contrast in approaches to technological advances between Zimbabwe and Zambia will be the difference between the success or failure for the two countries, especially in internet connectivity and its benefits.
It is backward that Starlink is banned in Zimbabwe, and that its use is met with arrest, while in Zambia, they are actively promoting its use for practical and economic purposes.
The irrational fear by the Zimbabwean Government of citizens having access to internet in Zimbabwe will have catastrophic economic consequences!
The world is now dealing with Artificial Intelligence which is internet driven, in Zimbabwe they are arresting anything caught with a @Starlink kit, and you still wonder why they call Zimbabwe’s Government backward?
Qn2. If Kasukuwere is not there how did ZEC know the court outcome
Qn3. If Kasukuwere is not there, how did ZEC know Court outcome as well?
Qn4. Did ZEC comply with the legal timeframes for ballot Printing to avoid further challenges?
Qn5. How did they go about court challenges
“No more job termination on 3 months notice”
@ChronicleZim, 3 June 2023
In a hugely progressive development for workers whose job security was unspeakably compromised by the notorious Zuva Petroleum case, the @ChronicleZim reports that in the debate in the National Assembly on amendments to the Labour Amendment Bill, spearheaded among others by Hon Tendai Biti, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi agreed on behalf of government to remove the three-months no-fault termination notice which employers have been exploiting since the Zuva case:
“EMPLOYERS will no longer be able to terminate contracts of their permanent staff on three months notice after the National Assembly removed a clause in the Labour Act that conferred them powers to fire employees by simply giving them three months’ written notice.
The Supreme Court made a judgment commonly known as the Zuva judgment in 2015 which opened floodgates of termination of employment as employers tried to avoid going through the financial burden that goes with retrenchment, what had been assumed to be the only way of getting rid of staff who had not committed disciplinary offences.
During debate on the Labour Amendment Bill this week, Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi acceded to issues raised by legislators that Clause 8 which sought to amend Section 12 of the Labour Act be amended by removing the requirement of notice.
Minister Ziyambi proposed amendments to remove the word “notice” wherever it appeared in that Clause.
In his submission, Harare East legislator Mr Tendai Biti said the import of the Zuva Petroleum judgment was to create an untenable situation on the labour law in the country.
“When that happened, labour law died because what is the point of having a disciplinary hearing when you can simply give three months’ notice? We need to go back to the status quo. We need to go back to the old position where you cannot terminate on notice. In other words, we need to remove no-fault termination and go back to fault termination to protect workers. You are allowed to employ seasonal workers, but a normal industrial worker should only be terminated on fault. That means that the only no-fault situation is retrenchment,” said Mr Biti”!
https://t.co/80hrnEYxa5 /no-more-job-termination-on-3-months-notice/