Ostrich Information


OSTRICH MEAT

Ostrich reproduces at higher capacity than other farm animals. We can get only one or two youngs from an ostrich. Animals, but we can get 20 or 80 youngs from an ostrich. For this reason. It is very profitable because of its meat and skin.the mojority of an ostrich is meat (2/3). Ostrich meat shows red meat features. It looks like beef as color and taste. It`s a kind of meat that in many countries in the world people, who like red meat, cansume it with pleasure. At the end of researches made by health experts; they had proved that ostrich meat was a very healthy nutriment. It  was suggested to people have heart disease  and cardiac insufficiency because it implies less colestrol. As it is important that it implies less colestrol than other meats. On the other hand, its meat is soft, delicious and tich about protein. For these reasons, it is cosumed very to eat ostrich meat.

OSTRICH  FEATHER

Ostrich feather, which hasn`t  become industrialized  in our country yet, has been using as a matrial cleansing and dust sucking because it implies chemical matrial. At the same time, ostrich feather, which is used in decorating art, is know its resistant.

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OSTRICH SKIN

Ostrich skin, is resistant elastic and valuable, is used for producing bag, schoe,belt and purse. Ostrich skin, is also used at clothing industry, is reproduced for jecket, trouser, leather and weistcoat. We get 1,5 or  2m2 leather from only one ostrich.

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION

1: If the chickens are picking on each other in a closed area, you can give them a toy that  should make them play with it. The little chiks will make funny things with the toys. In closed areas they gett real stressed.

 

 

2:To be succesfull in the farm leading is an important factor. It is very important to have a strict control over the animals by any deseases or dead. So in the end it is very importtant to follow the complete life period of the animals.

3:.Ther are many ways to feed the animals n different ways. These animals do live in very different areas with ofcourse different food. So it is important to feed the animal with the food wich you have after an analyse.

4:If you are new at producing chicks, it is a good way to hold all eggs to the light. Because it provide a very good experience to understand what`s happening into the eggs in a week

5:Developing periods help us find out what is normal or abnormal

 

6:If the birds are ill, they`ll try to behave as if there is no problem. They would like to become together with herd. If you want interfere a bird and it`ll have stress and become thin. In this situation, the best way is that you keep the birds with herd and you must do all things you want for from birds. Contact must bye very little.

 

 

7:The shelter of the birds must be airy, bright and open. If a hothouse has a large gate, it`ll attraet the birds. The light in the hothouse prevent them to feel that they are in a covered place. As a natural, ostriches aren`t murderer take shelter in fromm wild life. They don`t go into the cauas and don`t perch under a free.

 

8:Turna the eggs to back and front under light. If embrio is i`n a good situation, it wil turn very little and come back the same place. If it is destroyed, embrio will swim in the egg and don`t come to its old place. Do an experiment to find out wat`s happening

9:Don`t leave adult birds that we use for production near the chicks and the chick house. They see their chicks as their babies. They use their instinct for raising babies instead of laying. If they don`t reach near babies, they do like this.

 

10:Leave the eggs innocuous if the eggs have normal development in the exit machine. Keep the chicks free that they struggle and kick. This struggle is definitely necessary. Metabolism of the birds becomes actve and gains strength.

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11:Don`t let strong male beat slim male. If a male loses  the fight, it will lose its confidence. This situation is the greatest enemy for mating successful. Put panels between enemy males in the eye level.

 

12:spread on the floor with soil mixed sand. Use straw as bed. Change the bed once a week before changing sprinkle on the floor will become pillow when the eggs strike to the ground

 

13:The chick, which don`t feel themselver well, don`t run to the suitable for fodder to eat their fodder. Appetite loss shows some problems clearly. The sick birds have some abilities that they behave as if they are eating someting.

 

14:try to understand whether the eggs smell while you are holding to the light, transfering to the exit machine and passing in front of you nose. Kepp the smally eggs away and disinfect the place by spray.

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15:Fill in the feed pot ad ¼ ratio. And sprikle probiotic on it. At the biginning, use feeds with protein and amino acid balanced. Give them only the leavesof clover as a rough feed.

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16:We must make sexual lazy males get exited transfering the enemy male(active)to their parts and provide hormones to become active again.

 

17:In winter, feed them at twilight at last. If you predict that the weather will be very bad during the night, close the gates and don`t play chasing.

 

18:Check the birds whilethey are defecating. It`s stomachs.

 

 

19:Get in broody house changing your schoes. This is a necessary practice for physical and microbic cleanliness.

 

 

20:Apply to breeding birds care ratio in November, December and October. In the other months, apply reprodution ratio.

 

21:Use easy –going female, passed 1 year old to be mother for your chicks.

 

 

22:If you want the egg product to go on without being influenced from exessive warmts, you must establish a fountain system on the hedge. So, you can get your birds have a bath and make them cool.

 

23:You must have very large area to be able to separate the groups according to their ages, greatness and aggression. It is not suitable that you have only one area for your whole birds you raised in a year.

 

24:Pick all eggs up without becoming dry and cold. Wait least 15 minutes after laying. It is a necessary period for antibacterial layer become dry.

 

 

25:If you want to determine the eggs from different birds in the groups, you can examine carefully stome number, colour difference and weigth. So, you can try to find out the egg production of the birds and separeting them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

26:Ostriches like being pecket as temper. For this reason, put rough sand into hen house, or they pecket eachother.
27:provide wide places sohat chicks can move. Waken lary chicks cheasing. Exercise is very important for general health. It`s necessary for metabolism and yolk.

28:don`t do any variation on your programme in a season. Don`t do any variation on the body condition of a bird. If you are in a necessity, do it step by step.

 

29:Provide least 20m ×75m area for each 3 ostriches. They need enough area not to stop when they sometimes begin to run. Don`t forget that movement is plenty for ostriches.

30:Ostriches are the creatures that they acquire force of habit. Make sure that you give plenty of assorted diet. So they become familiar with all basic foods.

 

31:Get them examine for internal and external parasites. If it`s necessary, use the worm killing.

 

 

 

32:Cold , wet and polluted air cause respiration illnes. If you get some precautions, you can prevent some casualities that they happen because of this illness.

 

33in the schelters, for chicks, you must use boxes for sleeping and tro be hidden. The floor of the boxes must be plastic and heating. At the beginning 35 c is useful wamth.

34:Feed your birds balanced and sufficiently. The birds which feed insufficent eggs becomes thin or they have no chick.

 

35:Consider important to know the behaviours of the birds. You have to notice every changes, so you must know what is normal or abnormal.

 

36:Clean and dry nests are very important to get healty eggs. Spill the concrete sand to the place where your birds are laying.

 

37:If you notice the eggs with abnormal shape and soft crust, look over your feeding and management programme except the first eggs.

 

38:If you look after ostriches, they won`t become sick. There is a little thing to be done when they become ill.

 

39:It is the best thing to keep the ground clean in winter. If the ground is wet, you ken face with respiration illness.39:It is the best thing to keep the ground clean in winter. If the ground is wet, you ken face with respiration illness.

 

40:We must feed the chicks by grains with dense protein. It raises the body faster than legs. All leg problems can be prevented by suitable diet and exercises.

 

41:Give your birds frech and rough foods enough size (quality grass and clover)to occure rough and fiber material into intestines.

 

42:Notice some problems before becoming bad and destroy utterly. It`s very good idea to help it when it is powerful.

 

43:The stomach of the constipated birds feel asif you cut grass and put them into a sock.

 

44:Raise your chicks in hothouses. Cleanliness, natural sun shine and having plenty of air is very important for chicks.

 

45:Don`t take sick chicks to the chick house unitil yhey become healty. Keep them away from healty chicks.

 

46:The crooked eggs take form because of strss or the reason of bad feeding (especially lack of calsium).

 

47: of the area of the birds is large and they are being fed well, they won`t eat harmful things.

 

 

48:handling is  very important for the chicks. You must feed them by hand as from birth. So, they become domesticated and they don`t  become disquieted.

 

 

49:You can remove the stone need of your birds with grainy and rough sand which is named as concrete sand..

 

 50:chicks become mature getting sun-shine to their back. It is the best way

 

51:After second day, you must provide little stones for your chicks

 

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