Climate and resilience: heat, rain, breakdowns, power cuts, planning to last
A farm almost never dies on an ordinary day. It dies on a day at 36 °C with a six-hour power cut, from a rain that cuts the road on feed delivery day, from a pump that fails on a Sunday. Resilience is the ability to take those days without losing the flock. It is prepared when all is well: calculated reserves, tested back-ups, written actions. This lesson teaches you to size the reserves of water, feed, energy and litter, to choose and maintain the back-ups, and to run the flock on the day everything piles up.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 14 — Environment, regulation and sustainability. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 13 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Define a farm's resilience and identify the four shocks of the Ivorian climate
- ✓Size the reserves of water, feed, energy and litter with a worked calculation
- ✓Choose, install and maintain the back-ups: generator, pump, tank, spare brooder
- ✓Run the flock on the day of the shock with written actions in the right order