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Week 2 Identification: Identify the farm tools and equipment according to its uses. Choose the correct answer inside the box below. Egg packaging Vaccines Equipment Feed Medicines Litter materials Ingredients Breeding stock Breeding stock Feed 1. It used to promote immunity thus preventing many poultry diseases. 2. It is an addition to the main feed ingredients, such as grains (wheat, maize, sorghum, barley) and protein sources (meat meal, soybean meal, canola meal), feed must also include vitamins and minerals as well as sufficient medicines if available including antibiotics in the feed). 3. Farmers could use distinct egg packaging to create a brand identity 4. If illness cannot be kept out of birds by isolation, hygiene and other preventive measures, birds may need to be given medicines. A number of chemicals and antibiotics are used to treat certain diseases, and to prevent them 5. It is used by any specialist companies supply electronic climate controls, special feeders, drinkers, foggers (for cooling chickens with a fine spray into the air and also increasing the shed humidity), space heaters, incubators for eggs, litter mixing machines etc. 6. It is the main input the farmer, it normally accounts for around 70 to 80 per cent of the overall ongoing cost of production 7. Picking high performing birds using the principles of genetics 8. It is composed of products based on cellulose. Some companies specialize in supplying chicken shed flooring materials.​