Topical Stories

Good management practices pave way for enhanced livelihood

Indu Bai carefully followed and applied the lessons taught to her during the training and began providing clean water to her chickens. She also added potassium permanganate or Turmeric to the water for the poultry which helped in reducing  incidence of Salmonellosis - the root cause of White diarrhea in poultry birds. Read More...

Appropriate management practices and delivery of animal health services key to successful Backyard Poultry rearing

However the real change came when the the New castle disease struck the village poultry. While the birds vaccinated by Sangeeta survived the catastrophe, all the other birds in the area succumbed. The villagers realized what Sangeeta although young was well informed and trained to take care of their poultry birds. They began inviting her to immunize their flocks too. Read More...

Latifa’s Nice Home, but Bird Flu is Creating Havoc

Latifa again tries to dream. She plans to start rearing poultry by using the savings and compensation. Her only dream is to get her children admitted to school once again so that they have a bright future ahead. Read more...

Molina: The Harbinger of Development

Bird flu is a panic to the people of Bangladesh. Molina is aware of that and she is taking preventive measures with the villagers to save her locality. The means used by them are poultry vaccination, bio-security and effective management. Read more...

Culling not acceptable to woman poultry keeper

Alifa Bibi and her family do not understand what bird flu is and why her healthy flock has to be culled. She and her sisters did not want any of their birds to be culled but had to give in when they were threatened of police action on households that did not cooperate. Read more...

Failure of Culling as a containment method

Kader only offered few hens for culling and not the young stock.  The same logic was applied by rest of the villagers resulting in each household keeping back 30% to 40% of the flock. When we visited the village, culling was already over and the left over flocks appeared to be healthy. Read more...