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What Aspect of Poultry Farming Will You Love to Start? - Pretty Bird - 11-18-2017
What Aspect of Poultry Farming Will You Love to Start?
Poultry farming has very broad branches. Below you have them:
1. Broilers breeding.
This is for meat production. You'll grow your broilers and sell them out to the consumers. Broilers grow so fast. Within 42-45 days, most broiler are grown and ready to be sold
For a potential poultry farmer in Nigeria (or elsewhere), this may be a way for you to get started as you could have quick returns on your investment
.2. Layers breeding.
Here you are breeding your layer chickens with the major aim of having them laying eggs, though you`ll eventually sell them off after they are becoming weak and are no longer laying much eggs as expected (this is usually after 54-70 weeks, about 2 year and 4 months )
3. Poultry feed production.
People in this branch of poultry farming business are producing poultry`s food and selling them to the poultry farmers
4. The Hatcheries. Here you have people who hatch chicken and other birds. This aspect of poultry farming business is very important (though not common) because the health of a bird is determined by the effectiveness of the hatchery process.
5. Poultry equipment manufacturing.
You guess it. These guys manufacture various equipment needed on the poultry farm.
6. Poultry consultant.
You will need experience in aforementioned niches before you can succeed as a consultant.
Yes, a giant company may be doing all of the above together, but if you're just starting out, you definitely cannot, because of these two or three reasons;
i.Taking all of the above together will require so much capital, but not just that.
ii.Starting all the above together will not work because poultry farming in Nigeria (or anywhere else), like any other business has a learning curve. For example, when you see a company doing all the above together, their story may look something like: Starting with layers birds for some months, going in to broilers production, expanding to poultry feed production, later hatchery and since they might have spent many years by now, they can now venture into poultry farming consultancy. I`m sure you got that. Start somewhere. Learn and grow.
iii.Crisis management. Did you hear someone said poultry farming business is very risky? That's not true. Every business is risky, not just poultry. However, starting all the above together (even if you have enough capital) is not advisable because you are putting too many food in your mouth at a time.
Now that you have some ideas of various branches of the multi-billion poultry farming industry, I want to assume further that most people reading this will love to go into either broilers or layer's breeding.
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