Baskin4Me and HindSight, thank you for your selfless acts of sharing on this thread, you are both examples and great ambassadors of entrepreneurship.

I am in the middle of planning an aquaculture farming Ibadan and hopefully one day will be able to share my experiences also.

omotititi:

basking4me

I am bit confused here,are u suggesting that with a budget of 500k (land and housing exclusive) one should stock 100-150 layers or what ? That makes it a bit scary cos I intend starting with a minimum of 500-700 layers exclusive of land , as I need to build the house myself, what budget will be enuf for my proposed investment.

thank u for all d openness and support

For 500 layers, you will need almost 1million naira before you can start retrieving your investment. You will need to do the following (Vaccination, feeding, lighting, security, labour, wood shaving) for 4-5 months before they start laying egg.

A LITTLE BREAKDOWN IS AS FOLLOWS, THIS IS A GUIDE.
My broilers ate an average of 8kg to 13weeks maturity, ordinarily layers might not eat that much, so let’s assume the layers eats 14kg to 20weeks maturity (it is better to plan with 20wks instead of 16wks)

(1) Feeding
Let's assume a bag of grower mash/layers mash is N2, 000
That means a bird will consume N80 x 14kg = N1, 120
For 500 birds = 500 x N1, 120 = N560, 000

(2) Vaccination for 5 months = N50,000
(3) Labour for 5 months at 20k per month = N100,000
(4) Lighting, security, wood shaving = N75,000
(5) Miscellaneous = N100,000
(6) Price Variation or unaccounted details = N100,000


NB: This is based on my experience from broiler farming; someone that is into laying birds might give you a more detailed info.

TOPA17
Thank you so much.You have added so much value to my planning.Thank you .I am impress.

great work guys.

Can Hindsight feed us with current happenings in her farm, you seems to be on the quiet side these days.

Your contribution to this thread has thus far been great. I say a bid well done

Topa17,

Very nice post there and quite explicit. That answers questions for broilers.

The anticipated 500pullets came in last Thursday at about 10pm in the night and they immediately were given IO.

The brooding house had ling been prepared for the landing of the eagles. Pl have a view of some of their pictures.

more photos

am more!

then we moved them to their Brooder House

Not to mention that we added 10nos broiler as test!

I intend bringing like 200pcs for december sale but that wont be like its 14weeks before xmas!.

The white chicks are the broilers.

The eagle has truly landed. This blog has been very informative. I wish you the best. I am rearing broilers now though its for my consumption and to use as gift, I will be going into layers next year. I hope you will be there to continue sharing your experience.

I am planning on Turkey farming in Abuja. Can anybody offer any help ?

@ AIYE 111
SHE IS INTO TURKEY FARMING & PROCUREMENT. SHE IS ALSO BASED IN IBADAN.

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Naipay,

Very nice work there, I am interested in the 100Broiler type, can you send me the details. These Chicken houses are beautiful and will make everyone be able to manage a sizable farm at home no matter the size of their yards.

Gentlemen and ladies, I am now posting new pictures of our layers at 6weeks and their aburos (2nd set) at 1week!

Enjoy the photos as they come

send email at sales@primatronics.eu with detail of how may you need also note that we have model for 1512 capacity broiler house and 10,000 broiler house capacity model also, all come with LPG brooder

Ok will do that and get back to you!.

Here we go, those day old chicks of 6 weeks ago are now 6weeks old (1 and a half month old) .

MOre

This guys are actually 6weeks TODAY!

more Photos of the birthday girls

And the 1 weeks olds

I hope you can see the broilers I mentioned earlier there, we have so far lost about 1dozen and still trying very hard to curb their losses. We have about 490 left as we got extras.

The broilers are already having more weight than the layers, cos those guys eat like gluttons!

Anyway we will be buying Oba-Marshal Broilers for December sales. Will keep you posted on that.

Good job basking. I would like to visit your farm when I start my annual leave (sometime in October).

Tx Niapay. Pls send me specific mails on the Turkey products on Feecorpltd@aol.co.uk. I am interested in speaking with a Turkey Farmer in Nigeria

i am also a farmer operating in ibeju-lekki axis of lagos state. we also establish farm for beginners which also include getting of farmland in lagos state. have a look into my farm. the birds you are about to see will be 12wks old on the 9th of this month

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we also get genuine land for either commercial or private use for nairalanders.

hy N'land Farmers,
pls. what is the current market price of 2kg broiler.
also, how much was the price last year december.
i want to raise broiler for this december, but am scared about the market price.
thx all.

SP, what type of chicks are these at 12wks, cos they look like broilers to me. And at that age they should be ready to serve on d table.

Pl reply.

9th of which month actually?
if this broilers are close to 10wks, then, they need to be fed well.
the broiler i raised last, at 12wks, they're more than 2KG

broiler are raised to from 28 days to 42 days if the target weight is 1.1kg-2.8kg, for manual operation like the one in this tread, its not advisable to raise the broiler for higher than 42 days which is a target weight of 2.4kg-2.9kg, if you can not achieve this target weight in that duration then there is something wrong with your management style and you need to consult your broiler breed management guide. simple its not advisable for none automated climate control house to grow broiler for higher than 42 days

Hi basking4me,
I salute your courage and appreciate your effort on those birds, keep up the good work. I also run a mini poultry farm of 150layers, presently i have 120 left due to some mistakes made by me. I found been a poultry farmer very interesting.
Just keep up the good work.

pls. share your challenges and mistakes so we can learn from it.

find a profitable business doing,
thou the project is not finnally launched, you can track it and check when