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Hello viewers, welcome once more to the YouTube channel Otosperms
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Today in this video we will be weighing our chicks which have arrived 12 weeks of age
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So please stay tuned and watch
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Welcome back viewers. It is a pleasure to always know that you are watching our videos, liking, commenting and subscribing
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our videos. So viewers as we earlier said at the beginning of this video that we will be weighing our
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chicks which are already 12 weeks of age. This weighing is very important because it's going to tell us if we are meeting with the
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required weight which our layers need
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So viewers it is important to note that when weighing layers, we have to keep in mind that
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wiggling measurements are not recommended in actively laying birds because they can
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cause stress. So it is important that before you weigh your chicks, you have to administer them some
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anti-stress before and after because during the process, they get stressed up especially
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on extremely hot days but they can be done if there is an inexplicable drop in production
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So it is also important that when weighing your chicks, a sample of roughly 5% to 10
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of the flock randomly selected from different places of the pen will suffice
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That is to say, it is necessary to select different chicks at different angles of the
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poultry housing in order to determine their weight if it is homogeneous
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That is to say, to know if the weight is equal at different angles of the poultry housing
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Remember that the ideal weight range for layer egg production is 1.6 kg to 2.0 kg
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So viewers, don't anticipate birds under 1.5 kg to lay. And those over 2.2 kg are at risk of obesity which can lead to problems like prolapse
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A bird can lose roughly 50 grams to 100 grams per week due to disease, stress, changes in
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the quality and quantity of nutrition, and other factors leading to weight loss that
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prevents it from laying eggs. So it is very important to follow up the quality of your feed and also the quality of the water
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which your chicks are drinking in order to maintain the pace of the growth of your chicks
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This has been the case for numerous businesses that have seen significant production declines
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Because when you're doing poultry business, if you don't follow up the records of your
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chicks, you do have some impact in your production costs because if your chicks are not followed
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up properly, you will have losses during the production period. So it is very important to do your record properly and always make sure that your chicks
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are doing pretty well. So viewers, as you can see our chicks are weighing between 800 grams to 1.50 to 100
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grams at 12 weeks. So this weight is a good weight for our chicks at this age
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And as you can see viewers, what we do is that whenever we want to record our chicks
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we take about 60 and then we try to determine the average weight from the number of chicks weight
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