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Management practices employed at Queentown Ostrich breeder farm in Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite / by Ronaldo T. Pangga.

By:

Pangga, Ronaldo T [author]

Contributor(s):

Alcantara, Magdalena N [adviser]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Indang, Cavite : 2005. Cavite State University- Main Campus,Description: xvi, 54 pages : illustrations ; 28 cmContent type:

text

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unmediated

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DDC classification:

636.51 P19 2005

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College of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Natural Resources (CAFENR)

Abstract: PANGGA, RONALDO T. “Management Practices Employed at Queentown Ostrich Breeder Farm In Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite”. Special Problem Report. Bachelor of Science In Agriculture major in Animal Science. Cavite State University. April 2005. Adviser: Dr. Magdalena N. Alcantara. A study was conducted to determine the management practices employed in the Queentown Ostrich Breeder Farm in Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite to acquire technical knowledge with regards to ostrich husbandry; identify the problems associated with ostrich husbandry; formulate possible solutions to the identified problems and provide other students who wish to take up ostrich husbandry a substantial research material to work with. Data were collected using questionnaire coupled with interview with the people concerned from January to March 2005. The farm is situated in an 8,000 Square meter land and consists of five breeder pens. The breeder pens are made up of cyclone wire fencing, wooden posts and shed-type galvanized iron roofing. The breeder pens have sufficient ranging areas with six inches of deep clean sand for the birds to roll in. Ostrich chicks are brooded up to eight weeks of age. Ranging is done when the chicks reached eight weeks of age. Ostriches are fed ad libitum during the brooding period up until the ostriches are 16 months old. Forced feeding is done if the ostrich chicks do not feed within 24 hours after hatching. From growing to laying period, the ostriches are fed twice a day, early morning and late afternoon, to prevent too much fat deposition, which may affect the ostriches’ laying performance. Feeds and water are placed in fabricated semi-cylindrical galvanized iron troughs. Vitamin and mineral supplementation is done during the brooding, growing, breeding, and laying periods to prevent diseases that can be caused by nutritional imbalance in the ostrich diets. Antibiotics are immediately given if an ostrich is suspected of having symptoms of a disease. Natural mating is practiced in the farm, which starts when the female ostriches are 18 months old, and the males are at least 24 months old with a 1:3 male to female ratio. The ostriches selected for breeding are free from deformities and diseases. Likewise, sound breeding management practices are employed to prevent inbreeding among the breeder ostriches. Egg collection is done every time there is a need for it, to prevent the eggs from exposure to unfavorable conditions and excessive dirt accumulation, which may affect hatchability. Records pertaining to age at brooding period, age at laying period, egg production, morbidity and mortality, fertility and hatchability, and incubation temperature and relative humidity monitoring are kept.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Materials specified	URL	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Theses / Manuscripts	Ladislao N. Diwa Memorial Library Theses Section	Non-fiction	636.51 P19 2005 (Browse shelf(Opens below))		Link to resource	Room use only	SP-3173		00006731

Special problem (B.S.A.--Animal Science) Cavite State University

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College of Agriculture, Food, Environment and Natural Resources (CAFENR)

PANGGA, RONALDO T. “Management Practices Employed at Queentown Ostrich Breeder Farm In Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite”. Special Problem Report. Bachelor of Science In Agriculture major in Animal Science. Cavite State University. April 2005. Adviser: Dr. Magdalena N. Alcantara.

A study was conducted to determine the management practices employed in the Queentown Ostrich Breeder Farm in Tambo Malaki, Indang, Cavite to acquire technical knowledge with regards to ostrich husbandry; identify the problems associated with ostrich husbandry; formulate possible solutions to the identified problems and provide other students who wish to take up ostrich husbandry a substantial research material to work with. Data were collected using questionnaire coupled with interview with the people concerned from
January to March 2005.

The farm is situated in an 8,000 Square meter land and consists of five breeder pens. The breeder pens are made up of cyclone wire fencing, wooden posts and shed-type galvanized iron roofing. The breeder pens have sufficient ranging areas with six inches of deep clean sand for the birds to roll in. Ostrich chicks are brooded up to eight weeks of age. Ranging is done when the chicks reached eight weeks of age.

Ostriches are fed ad libitum during the brooding period up until the ostriches are 16 months old. Forced feeding is done if the ostrich chicks do not feed within 24 hours after hatching. From growing to laying period, the ostriches are fed twice a day, early morning and late afternoon, to prevent too much fat deposition, which may affect the ostriches’ laying performance. Feeds and water are placed in fabricated semi-cylindrical galvanized iron troughs.

Vitamin and mineral supplementation is done during the brooding, growing, breeding, and laying periods to prevent diseases that can be caused by nutritional imbalance in the ostrich diets. Antibiotics are immediately given if an ostrich is suspected of having symptoms of a disease.

Natural mating is practiced in the farm, which starts when the female ostriches are 18 months old, and the males are at least 24 months old with a 1:3 male to female ratio.

The ostriches selected for breeding are free from deformities and diseases. Likewise, sound breeding management practices are employed to prevent inbreeding among the breeder ostriches.

Egg collection is done every time there is a need for it, to prevent the eggs from exposure to unfavorable conditions and excessive dirt accumulation, which may affect hatchability.

Records pertaining to age at brooding period, age at laying period, egg production, morbidity and mortality, fertility and hatchability, and incubation temperature and relative humidity monitoring are kept.

Submitted to the University Library 07/18/2007 SP-3173