Africa-Press – Senegal. In Senegal, less than 30% of poultry business buildings comply with the required standards, which leads to a significant share of failures in the poultry sub-sector, revealed Michel Gbaguidi, the head of the departmental livestock service of Saint-Louis (north).
« Less than 30 percent of the buildings are up to the stated standards, » Gbaguidi said, saying that the lack of adequate facilities for poultry farming is a major failure factor.
According to him, the inadequacy of the spaces dedicated to poultry farming with the required standards is all the more worrying as some breeders even allow themselves to maintain henhouses inside the fence walls of the houses, in the middle of the city.
The good quality of the buildings used as shelter for the poultry is the first factor of success of a poultry enterprise, he specified in an interview with the APS.
Michel Gbaguidi, author of a manual entitled « Bril and laying hen breeding in hot climates », claims to have contributed for thirty-three years to the training of poultry farmers.
Buildings that do not comply with the indicated standards cause significant damage, he said.
Poultry die big time when in contact with the slightest heatstroke caused by poor facilities, according to Mr. Gbaguidi, who has held important positions in this sub-sector, those of deputy director of the Mbao poultry center (west), for example.
Many poultry farmers misunderstand this economic activity because they are unaware of the conditions in which the poultry must live, he pointed out.
The poultry specialist also deplores the lack of adequate infrastructure for the slaughter of subjects, the insufficiencies of the regulation of poultry farming and its non-application in several areas where this form of breeding is widely practiced.
There were years when it was necessary to have an approval before embarking on a poultry initiative, recalled Michel Gbaguidi, deploring that this provision is now non-existent or not applied.
In Senegal, only one poultry company has a machine dedicated to hatching, he said, estimating that this machine does not cover 30% of the country’s needs.
According to the poultry specialist, this is one of the reasons why Senegal is dependent on foreign sources for hatching eggs and chicks.
Under-equipment and insufficient funding are among the causes of the low added value of Senegalese poultry farming, noted Mr. Gbaguidi.
The training of poultry farmers also needs to be improved, according to him.
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