fnk: sent, check your emails.
@VULCAN, and @fasbio, Really, I don't think it takes rocket science to become a poultry farmer. No matter how you look at it and all the info you will get, you will gain the experience as you go. From your first poultry cycle, to when you become a guru, you will keep learning and keep inventing a better way to do it. So even if the 800,000 people on Nairaland lend in their ideas and solutions, every one of use that want to go into this business will have to learn one thing or the other in the process. One thing I leaned during my first cycle was never to leave what I can do myself to someone else to do. this is what happened, I left home very early on Sunday morning leaving my wife to help turn off the lights/heat in the coop, to check the water, and to raise the tapolline that covered the sides of the coop. My wife got busy with the kids and forgot to do any of these things. The result, by 2:00pm, 13 birds that weighed 1.8kg each have died of heat exhaustion. The light was creating heat, the sun was super high, their water was gone and the tapolline kept the heat in. So imagine if the number was in the hundreds or thousands.

@ fasbio, Don't leave what you can do for someone else, who might not have the same kind of passion for it as you do. IF you do it right in Nigeria, you will make more money that you can ever make in UK. UK and U.S will be a vacation destination for you and not a place to work and hopping to survive. You can have best of both world.

fnk: sent, check your emails.
@VULCAN, and @fasbio, Really, I don't think it takes rocket science to become a poultry farmer. No matter how you look at it and all the info you will get, you will gain the experience as you go. From your first poultry cycle, to when you become a guru, you will keep learning and keep inventing a better way to do it. So even if the 800,000 people on Nairaland lend in their ideas and solutions, every one of use that want to go into this business will have to learn one thing or the other in the process. One thing I leaned during my first cycle was never to leave what I can do myself to someone else to do. this is what happened, I left home very early on Sunday morning leaving my wife to help turn off the lights/heat in the coop, to check the water, and to raise the tapolline that covered the sides of the coop. My wife got busy with the kids and forgot to do any of these things. The result, by 2:00pm, 13 birds that weighed 1.8kg each have died of heat exhaustion. The light was creating heat, the sun was super high, their water was gone and the tapolline kept the heat in. So imagine if the number was in the hundreds or thousands.

@ fasbio, Don't leave what you can do for someone else, who might not have the same kind of passion for it as you do. IF you do it right in Nigeria, you will make more money that you can ever make in UK. UK and U.S will be a vacation destination for you and not a place to work and hopping to survive. You can have best of both world.

fnk: @Patty, I have sent you the I sent to everyone that ask of it. The formular for the V-mix is not available at the moment. I am back in the U.S and hopping to come back home soon.
With your background, I think you have a good head start in this industry than most of us. Give it your attention and you will be successful.
Guys, remember, the hard work is in the beginning, once you established your poultry, i.e; have the right source where you buy your day olds, where you buy the feeds and your sales outlet. Once you have all these set up, it could be by your 3rd, 4th, or 5th cycle, you would have taken care of the hard part of getting into the poultry industry, you would have learned the ropes and paid your due. And of course, you will have some helpers in the farm that will help out with everything and at the same time learning from you, so that they can take care of the farm when you are on vacation.
@fnk,hi pls am I need of doc too.God bless you.my email add-kayboy2002kg@yahoo.co.uk.tnx alot
@Felzzz, The attached file is in excel format, so you can play with the numbers to adjust to the number of birds you are planing to raise and come up with the cost.

VULCAN: @fnk, u r right but the disaster stories are more than the successes methinks. Hindsight who is the OP being one eg. I don't see why those who have gone ahead can't drop tips and tricks here based on their own individual experiences. I wonder how come hindsight who had a consultant still had such a bad experience although I have never believed in "consultants" who don't practice what they preach anyway.

Its strange that you who r not practicing are the one assisting peeps on the forum. If not for you this thread would have died a long time ago

Anyway, From what i gather it appears it is very risky to start a poultry farm unless one lives on site or at the worst 10mins away

Fnk pls resend the report to dondada@mailinator.com. Thanks

fnk: @pattybf, That is the idea. I am glad that you got the doc. Good luck. Let us know here about your progress.