Helloo house , am counting down to the arrival of my chicks.

Please how many drinkers and feeders do I need to buy for 1000 DOC

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jamp: Helloo house , am counting down to the arrival of my chicks.

Please how many drinkers and feeders do I need to buy for 1000 DOC

If you are counting down on your DOC, you should have already gotten everything you need to get going, well go back and quickly go through this tread, someone must have given that info here. Anyways, from my analysis, you will need about 40 drinkers for 1000 birds. Others may have a different number.

Good luck, let us know how it goes.

Please am interested in poultry, but will like to have a pratical knowledge of it before I make further attempt. Am within Lagos,and will appreciate a Mentor to guide me.I don't mind if I work for the mentor in his or her farm for free.what I need is the practical and raw understanding of poultry Layers in particular.tnx

Pls also, how many birds will a normal one bedroom side pen contain for layers ?

akonucheinfo: Please am interested in poultry, but will like to have a pratical knowledge of it before I make further attempt. Am within Lagos,and will appreciate a Mentor to guide me.I don't mind if I work for the mentor in his or her farm for free.what I need is the practical and raw understanding of poultry Layers in particular.tnx

Pls also, how many birds will a normal one bedroom side pen contain for layers ?

Read the thread well, the spacing has been discussed extensively

Please am interested in turkey farming. Is it true that there is no market for turkey as there is for layers/broilers? Thanks

fnk:

@jites thank you for your encouraging words. This is something I have always wanted to do. My company represent American companies that want to expand their product distribution into Africa, I have brought in 4companies but amist all this, I feel having a business that is locally produced and locally consumed will be much better than so much worries about importation. So for me poultry business opportunity falls into that bracket. So I am glad to be starting something.

To answer your question, want to focuse on broilers to start, and I want to build a pen that cab hold 8,000 birds at different stages, the pen will have demarcations inside (removable). I want to create a moving system where in each demarcation, we will have about 1,000 birds at different stage, I.e day old, a week old, 2 weeks old and so on. The deal is to create a system where we would have 1,000 birds ready for sale to our customers weekly. And as we grow, we can reduce it to daily.

I am starting with 2 plots, but I have about 9 plots all fenced in, so their is space to expand into when needed. About the Sq/bird, I will double check, but to tell you the truth, I am following this tread religiously and learning from everyone, and I think above on this page, there is info on sq/bird that I am cross checking with other info I have. I just hired a supervisor, that will start work tomorrow, even though the poultry is not even build yet, his initial job will be to start from page one of this tread read every thing and take notes, thinking about it, I hope he doesn't run off to go start his owner after going through the tread. LOL!!!

I want to do this thing right, this is an opportunity. Yes I will post pix to show how my V-mix is working. It will be fun.

I'll be following you keenly. I have my eyes on going on a large scale poultry farming but i have zero knowlege of the operations but willing to learn. Please keep us posted as you move along..Thanks

ayoope: Please am interested in turkey farming. Is it true that there is no market for turkey as there is for layers/broilers? Thanks

Its not true. There is market for turkey. Do your market research and u will see for urself

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I'll be following you keenly. I have my eyes on going on a large scale poultry farming but i have zero knowlege of the operations but willing to learn. Please keep us posted as you move along..Thanks

Will do.

Sorry friends ,I have been busy with a project .Thank God am almost done with it.As I have said earlier,I promise to share my little experience with you.

On the 28th of february 2013 1071 Day Old Chicks arrived into my farm.I lost 2 chicks on transit because of the distance up to two hours journey from Hatchery to my farm.All other chicks were doing just fine and my mortality was very low up to the 10th weeks(3.83%).

At the 11th week i lost 34 chicks in that week 11 due to an outbreak of fowl cholera.
cause of the fowl cholera is due to my next neighbour who channel his drainage system into my pen because a fence demarcated the two of us and i didnt notice on time ,after the administration of fowl pox vaccine which has been due for that week i observed that most chicks were not so active and on that very day i lost four chicks .immediately i took the carcass to the laboratory for test.It was confirmed fowl cholera infection and after making necessary precaution my farm mortality decline to zero.
In total I have 7.00% mortality.and livealiability of 93%.
The total expensive per bird is #632.12 ,
Total bags of feed up to 18th weeks =8,450 kg
Total vacccine administered =#50,680
Total cost of feed both chick starter and grower=#626,320
Total liters of water consumed up to 18th week 22,400liters

By the special grace of God I am caging 996 out of 1071 that i booked for on the 28th of february .I Hope I have good report and Good result.
By next week i should start smiling to the bank,The storm is over.


cheers

When she was 5 day old

Hello Poultry farmers, I hv missed the forum for a while now...I am back.I am happy to inform us all that I hv taken delivery of my cages -six in number that can house 720 layers.I shall send the pix as soon as am able to do so. I am patiently expecting my 500 POLs at 16weeks in August from Animal Care.Let's keep the fire burning as we are all meant for the top.

I am happy the forum has been most active and it shall remain so even when we have all become billionaires and exporters of poultry products.(Amen).

See attached the cage as promised.We are all going to get to the top.

The side wall will reduce your daily production because it will reduce free flow of air in the pen.There may likely be ammonia build up in the pen too.

free flow of air in the pen reduces heat stress in the pen ,also it reduces rate of ammonia build up in the pen.It dry out moisture content present in litters /droppings thereby reducing the rate at which odour emanate from the pen.

Also i will build a bio reactor to convert all the farm waste into useful products.

Obnelly,

Congrats, glad to know you are doing good with your birds. I wish you the very best.

Omotititi, congrats on your taking delivery of the automated housing system for your POL.

We are all going to get there.

About an hour ago, we took delivery of 1000Cockrel DOCs. We are planning them for December Sales. Our DOC for Layers should Arrive in a couple of weeks soon. We are looking at increasing our capacity now.

All the best everyone.

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omotititi: Hello Poultry farmers, I hv missed the forum for a while now...I am back.I am happy to inform us all that I hv taken delivery of my cages -six in number that can house 720 layers.I shall send the pix as soon as am able to do so. I am patiently expecting my 500 POLs at 16weeks in August from Animal Care.Let's keep the fire burning as we are all meant for the top.

I am happy the forum has been most active and it shall remain so even when we have all become billionaires and exporters of poultry products.(Amen).

omotititi weldone. am proud of you. have much did you buy the cage that can contain 720 layers?

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omotititi: Hello Poultry farmers, I hv missed the forum for a while now...I am back.I am happy to inform us all that I hv taken delivery of my cages -six in number that can house 720 layers.I shall send the pix as soon as am able to do so. I am patiently expecting my 500 POLs at 16weeks in August from Animal Care.Let's keep the fire burning as we are all meant for the top.

I am happy the forum has been most active and it shall remain so even when we have all become billionaires and exporters of poultry products.(Amen).

Hello Omotititi. Thanks for your contribution.

please how much did the POLs cost u?

jamp:

omotititi weldone. am proud of you. have much did you buy the cage that can contain 720 layers?

Sirgee1:

Hello Omotititi. Thanks for your contribution.

please how much did the POLs cost u?

Omotitit we are waiting for you oooooo

Hello friends,i bought d cages for 64k per one .though heavily subsidized cos the guy is a friend.I paid 1k for each POL at 16wks old.

omotititi: Hello friends,i bought d cages for 64k per one .though heavily subsidized cos the guy is a friend.I paid 1k for each POL at 16wks old.

Thanks man. We will follow ur progress

@ fnk I commend Your effort on here and the effort of others, av really learn a lot. Please kindly forward ur analysis to my email.
tosade2003k@yahoo.com

Thanks

Tosade01: @ fnk I commend U̶̲̥̅̊r effort on here and the effort of others, av really learn a lot. Please kindly forward ur analysis to my email.
tosade2003k@yahoo.com

Thanks

Done, Please note that this analysis was done in 2011, so some prices have changed, but this should help as a guide.

Got my first egg today.I am so happy.I purposely delay their production because i didnt want it to lay on the floor.I have all in cages now and i got my first egg today.
Good to labour and in the end you see the result.

obnelly: Got my first egg today.I am so happy.I purposely delay their production because i didnt want it to lay on the floor.I have all in cages now and i got my first egg today.
Good to labour and in the end you see the result.

Congrat bro! I'm happy 4 u.

fnk:

Done, Please note that this analysis was done in 2011, so some prices have changed, but this should help as a guide.

Thanks fnk, but unfortunately, I could not open those files. Kindly help me to resend.

Tosade01:

Thanks fnk, but unfortunately, I could not open those files. Kindly help me to resend.

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