13 Hacks On How To Promote Your Poultry Business Starting a business is very okay but how to run, maintain, scale through and achieve success/profit is the main work. As a poultry farmer, once you start your business, rearing of your birds is more tasking but, in other to yields your profit especially if you are doing your business…
Poultry is a very lucrative and profitable business, it seems tasking and difficult but, if you put your mind into it, you can achieve and succeed greatly in it. Despite being a poultry farmer, there is a great fear which poultry farmers do have and that’s the fear of running at a loss in their business. In this article, we…
1.Choose the right chickens To have a good result in achieving clean and healthy broiler birds that will be acceptable in the market, you must go for the right breed of chicks. Hygienic surroundings Chicken manure can be composted for use in vegetable or flower gardens, but can be a source of disease if it is allowed to build up.Flies…
The Central Bank of Nigeria Tuesday announced a non-interest credit facility for Nigerian youth with the objective of engaging a minimum of 370,000 youths in agricultural production across the country over the next three years. According the CBN, the Participating Finance Institutions (PFIs) will act as its agents in disbursing the financing to the beneficiaries, which shall be in kind.…
Successful hatchery management depends on the right tools to monitor the needs of the egg and chick, and properly trained staff to measure and react to those requirements. Despite advances in modern technology, the best tools available to hatchery workers remain their own sense of sight, hearing and smell. Initial identification of a problem is down to individuals recognizing the…
Every farmer must endeavour to adjust to every temperature change because the temperature of birds generally requires attention to avoid losing birds as a result of heat stress. Farmers are adviced to have good thermometer to enable them know when temperature changes. Animals that live in captivity do not fully develop their instinct to cope with heat, which is why…
The word ‘suck’ is a term used for referring to something that is bad. That is, something done without the commensurate or expected result… According to urbandictionary.com, the term originated from jazz musicians. The early Jazz musicians would say that someone could really "Blow" if he had a good sound when playing thehorn... If he couldn't play very well, then they would say…
There are very important ingredients that must be present in layers’feed and they include; SaltCalciumVitaminsProteinProteinWater Salt: Every animal needs salt. If you subtract salt from the food list it will reduce the egg production rate. Most of the animal’s food contains salt in the form of sodium chloride. It doesn’t contain any iodine. Sodium is an important nutrient which plays…
Many poultry farmers still do not know that there are better and standard poultry equipment that can give better productivity and also ease stress in the poultry activities while some who are new in the field may not know what and what to put in place as they go into the business. So it is imperative we know our poultry…
Worm infestation is a very delicate issue in poultry but unfortunately many poultry farmers neglect it at times. ROUTINE poultry worming is important to producers of commercial flocks and keepers of back-yard poultry. With the number of free-range flocks increasing, parasitic worms have potentially become more of a threat in commercial flocks in recent times. some small-scale farmers may not know…
