Grasscutter Farming In Nigeria

How can we become grasscutter farmers?  Please educate us, my brother, so we can make money!

Hi friends in nairaland,

Grasscutter farming is real as i said because am a big time committed farmer having my large scale farm in badagry, lagos state. Grasscutter farming is quite capital intensive in terms of housing. However, for one 2 start rearing grasscutter,

1st, one has to undergo a training programme either of a one-day or a one week depending on deciding start-up.
A one-day will cost a prospective entreprenuer the sum of 6000 naira and a one week, 15,000/20000.

After the training programme, the entrepreneur is expected 2 put up the housing system for the animals

Thereafter, the intending beeder gets the breeding stocks per families. A family of Grasscutter consist of 4 females and 1 male which cost  the sum of 20000. So an intending breeder can decide to buy as many families as possible for startup.

The animals at 1st year circle litters/reproduce once but from the second year circle, they can litter 2ce a year and can litter up 1 to 10 litters with average of 4.

In marketting, you can sell to other intending breeders when the young ones are 3months old at prevailing cost price. Also, u can sell the matured ones to individuals, hoteliers, etc

Further enquiries can be forwarded to me on this post in nairaland , i will be pleased to reply.

Thanks

What animal is that?can u please tell me d yoruba name.

They call it nchii in ibo language. But the cost of learning and rearing it as given by that guy is very expensive.

Thanks i know.

  You mean people actually eat Rats
That animal in the picture looks like my pet, Bobby, When I was 8

This Your Price is too expensive,
How can expect to make a profit when the retaile value of 1 "bush rat" is 1000 =N= or there about, ?

Why do people on Nairaland always make ethnically racist innuendos? Why beat around the bush, ? Like you don't know that all Nigerians EAT bush meat ! tchei!

@ Christino
i don't eat that thing and i never knew people eat them. And if you want to know i am Nigerian.

I eat bushmeat (Grasscutter or Oya) but I don't eat "Pets" like Rabbits or Cats, or dogs but Some Nigerians do!

If you eat what I consider to be a "Pet" I could see you as a cannibal. Some people keep fishes as pet - I eat them. Some keep Cows as Pets - I eat them. I keep dogs as pet - You eat them, so you see? Pet in quotes.

So what's disgusting to you, is food to the next man. No discrimination.

Hey, nigerians eat both domestic and wild animals(if you like call them pets). goat, cow, ram, dog, chicken, snake, rabbit, cat, monkey, baboon, gorilla, lion, elephant etc, name them, the list is very wrong. Is there anything wrong in eating animals?? Afterall God said to peter in the Bible; take, kill and eat; all the animals were there o remember. So my people what you consider as meat of food to you could be poison to me or another mian and vice versa. And cannibalism should be directed to humans who feed on human flesh and not those who eat animals you consider to be pets.

Funny enough, I don't think I've met anyone who eats these grasscutters!

Necessity is really the mother of inventions. Bushmeat for profit. Wow now that is some idea.

Goshen360 you started the thread and you are not responding to questions, You said you would respond I have waited patiently for 48 hours 

can you tell me why your prices you mentioned are so expensive
fine the training sounds reasonable, but the price for the actual animal is too much,

people have to learn the trade before stepping into the business for real, that's for d training. As for the price, u are the one that feels its high in price, and that's even the least u can get a family/colony of 4females + 1male. what u stand to get from their reproduction tends to pay u off their cost price. moreso, we are going by the current market price as at today in nigeria.

thanks