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Farm production and records
Roles, a final-year layer trial reported with its null result intact, and the flock-cycle plan and daily record sheet with the KPI maths worked.
Agriculture and field research
Farm production and records, to the same accuracy standard
- Bachelor of Agriculture (B.Agric), Animal Production, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Yewa Campus, Ayetoro, Ogun State, 2021 to 2026; final year completed, certificate pending.
- Agricultural Intern, Olabisi Onabanjo University, 2024 to 2025: feeding, health and welfare of a flock of over 200 birds with feed budgeting and formulation; feeders and drinkers kept clean and functioning; daily feed intake tracked; abnormalities reported to the supervisor early.
- Crop production across several hectares (maize, cassava, watermelon, pepper, citrus, sugar cane and ornamentals): land preparation, planting, pest and disease control, harvesting, cassava processing, farm records and cost planning.
- Farm Worker, Greenbles Agtech, 2023: crop production on a 5-hectare cashew plot, including staking and transplanting seedlings.
- Daily farm records (mortality, feed, eggs); member, ASAN (Agricultural Students' Club). NYSC: awaiting mobilisation.
Final-year research programme, July 2026
One experiment, three reports, one supervisor: Dr (Mrs) S. A. Olanloye, Department of Animal Production, Olabisi Onabanjo University, Yewa Campus. Each student took a different parameter set from the same flock.
My report
Influence of Dietary Ginger and Clove Supplementation on Blood Lipid Profile in Layer Chickens. Serum total cholesterol, triglycerides, HDL, LDL and VLDL at eight weeks, analysed by two-way ANOVA in SPSS with Duncan's separation where significant.
What the trial found
No significant treatment or strain effect on the five lipid parameters (P > 0.05). Numerically, clove gave the lowest triglycerides and VLDL, the ginger and clove combination gave the highest total cholesterol and HDL, and Nera Black trended higher throughout (HDL, P = 0.07). Crucially, no phytogenic treatment differed from the oxytetracycline control, so at this sample size there was no evidence that ginger or clove harm lipid status compared with the antibiotic; whether they can match it needs a larger trial sampled into lay.
Why the null result is a strength
The report states plainly why the effect was not detectable: blood was sampled before the onset of lay, when hepatic lipid handling is not yet engaged, and three replicates per combination give limited statistical power. It then recommends sampling into point of lay, more replicates, and higher clove inclusion. Declaring the limits of your own study is the habit that makes every other number in it trustworthy.
My writing behind the programme
One flock produced three reports. I wrote mine, and I helped draft and write the other two: the growth performance report and the blood minerals and serum metabolites report. Their files are theirs to share, so they are not linked here; in a live task or an interview I can walk through exactly what I contributed, section by section.
Original field research
Designed, ran and wrote up a layer trial on phytogenic feed additives: 180 birds (ISA Brown and Nera Black) in a 2 × 5 factorial, completely randomised design, ten strain and diet combinations with three replicates of six birds each, brooded on deep litter from day-old and kept through the laying phase; the blood trial itself sampled at eight weeks, in the chick and grower phase, and egg production recorded once the flock came into lay. Open the full report.
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Flock-cycle plan and daily record sheet
The management side of poultry that most small farms never write down.
7.Agriculturea flock-cycle plan and a daily record sheet with the KPI maths worked
The management side of poultry that most small farms never write down: a cycle plan with every target declared as a target, a record sheet whose columns are actually reviewed, and break-even maths a farm manager can re-run with live prices. Figures marked declared are planning assumptions, not guarantees; sourced figures carry their source.
Cycle plan: 500 day-old pullets, week 0 to week 76
Weeks 0 to 4, brooding. Brooder held at 32 to 35 °C and lowered gradually (declared standard, and the range I ran in my own brooding); starter feed ad libitum; 23 hours of light for the first three days, then stepped down; Newcastle and Gumboro vaccinations on a calendar confirmed by a veterinary officer per batch (sample plan only; no calendar here replaces a vet).
Weeks 5 to 18, rearing. Grower then developer ration; weekly body-weight sampling of 10 percent of birds against the breed guide curve (declared planning targets); lighting step-up from week 18; cull decisions logged with reasons.
Weeks 19 to 76, lay. Layer mash at 110 to 130 g per bird per day (declared band); first eggs expected weeks 19 to 21; peak production expected around weeks 26 to 30 (declared, strain-dependent); monthly review of hen-day trend against feed intake; any single-day mortality above 0.5 percent of the flock triggers same-week investigation (declared threshold).
Daily record sheet: columns and why each earns its place
Date · age in weeks · birds alive · mortality · culls · feed bags opened · feed kg · eggs by grade · crates (30 per crate) · water · medication or vaccine given · observations · initialled by the recorder. Weekly roll-up computes four numbers: hen-day percent, feed per dozen, cumulative mortality, and feed cost per crate. A column that feeds no weekly number and no health decision does not go on the sheet; that is what keeps it filled in.
KPI maths, one worked week (all inputs declared)
- Birds alive 460; eggs on the day 380 → hen-day production 380 ÷ 460 = 82.6 percent.
- Week's eggs 2,660 = 88.7 crates; week's feed 16 bags = 400 kg → feed per dozen 400 kg ÷ 221.7 dozen = 1.80 kg; feed per bird per day 400,000 g ÷ 460 ÷ 7 = 124 g, inside the declared band.
- Money: feed at ₦16,000 per bag (sourced retail, USDA FAS March 2026) = ₦256,000 for the week; crate price ₦4,800 (declared assumption, not a sourced figure) → revenue ₦425,600; gross margin before labour and overhead ₦169,600.
The point of the sheet is the last line: when the crate price moves, one input changes and every conclusion re-prices itself. That is a records habit, not a spreadsheet trick, and it is what I would bring to a farm office, an agribusiness back desk, or a data team cleaning what the farm office produces.