What is left of your catfish would not even cover the cost of production even after selling your stock for a very high or maximum price. www.animalfarmtreatment.blogspot.com
This situation I just explained or painted is a fact of life for most catfish farmers and even as I write this article, some are yet to figure out the reasons why they lost a substantial proportion of the fish they started out with.
A large amount of catfish farmers that have experienced what I have just explained have tendency to think someone has been stealing their fish why most people even blame it on their staff stealing their fish or even suspect on predators.
Most of these reasons might be true… but there could be other reasons too
Reasons that you as a fish farmer must be conscious off too, especially if you are one of those fish farmer also growing catfish for profit.
If you don’t know what these other reasons are, you might be doing yourself damage or going on making the same mistake most catfish farmers are making and continue to make losing their catfish, money and wrongly accusing people, while a simple prevention like what I am about to share with you in a minute could possibly save thousands of your fingerlings and save you from a lot of heartache in the future plus possibly enabling you to make more money from your catfish farming business.
Most farmers hardly notice loses at the time of occurrence.
You might ask WHY?
Because the losses does not occur normally until after about 3 to 5days after stocking up on the pond and the loss could go on occurring for up to about a week resulting in substantial losses to the fish farmer.
Now because most of the stock that die do not necessarily come up to the surface of the water, many catfish farmers fail to notice that something can be wrong with their catfish stock. It is only they drain the pond, that some farmers notice they have far fewer stocks than they expected.
This is why most farmers tend to think that they had lost their stock of fish to thieves.
That might be right…but what is the thief case of the reason for the death of these fishes then? … I hear you ask Well, one of the major causes of low fatality in grow out ponds is the quality of the fingerlings stocked. Yes! The quality of the fingerlings stocked by the fish farmer.
Fingerlings are the livelihood of the catfish farming business, If you have bad quality catfish fingerlings, you might as well be throwing your money down the drain regardless of how good your other factors of production are, that you possess poor quality catfish fingerlings will only result in disease, poor fish growth, low yield, poor feed conversion and very poor fish production resulting to loss of money to your business.
One of the most stressful times for fish is when you move them from one area to another i.e. transferring the fish from the hatchery or nursery to the grow-out pond. It is also why you are stocking the pond that the stress is most likely to occur.
How then can you prevent this loss and maximize your production output?
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