SHARON AGRO LINK::::....Supply of day old chicks ,turkey,feed,supply of vet drugs,supply of farm equipments,breeding and veterinary services. All @ a cheaper prize,.....@ sharon agrolink we promise you the best services ever.........Try Us today and a trial will convince you........IF you are interested contact me here and promise U a quick response.....Agents from all part of nigeria are needed............Contact me on :08182900720,07031022827......FB: Sharon bolanle oni..BBM:332CC762......Kindly help rebroadcast.......THANKS

Muhammad Damakka Abubakar is the
Managing Director and Chief Executive
officer of L & Z Integrated Farms Nigeria
Limited based in Kano which is involved in
the value chains of poultry and dairy
production. In this interview, he explains
how the company is helping Fulani girl-
child attain education. Excerpts:
How do you get the milk you are using
for your production?
We source our milk through three
sources-we have our own cows that we
cross breed and they are giving us an
average of 15 litres per day, per head. We
also source milk from the people we call
peril urban dairy farmers that have
started some commercial dairy farming
and the Fulani herdsmen that we made
them form cooperative group. We have
about three cooperatives so far that we
go to their settlements early in the
morning with our truck and evacuate
their milk and bring to the farm. So, milk
from these three sources is processed by
our 20,000-litre capacity ultra-modern
processing plants into various flavours of
Yoghurt, ice cream and fresh milk. We
now sell the dairy products all over the
country, using our refrigerated trucks. We
are in Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt,
Sokoto, Kaduna, Abuja and Kano. So, we
have covered the entire nation. We are
the major suppliers of dairy products to
Shoprite chain of retail outlets in the
country. We have just been signed on by
Games which is another major retail
outlet in the country. So, the coming of
the structured retail outlets into this
country has done a good job for us,
farmers. We have taken advantage of that
by transforming ourselves from being
farmers to agric-business-people.
What type of cattle are you using for
your dairy?
We cross breed our animals over ten
years of hard work. We started with the
local Bokolo that we cross breed with a
100 Friesian bulls. We had the first ‘F1’
that is 50 percent local cow and 50
percent of the exotic breed of the
Friesian. The advantage here is that the
offspring can give you higher yield of milk,
though not as high as what Friesian will
give you but higher than what the local
cow will give you. It is also has a gene for
resistance of some diseases. This F1 we
further cross breed to F2 and then it goes
on and on until we arrived at the present
stage where we are able to have cows
that can average over 10 litres for us per
day. We have now started artificial
insemination. We no longer use bull, we
only use bull when artificial insemination
fails or as a teaser to detect feed for the
cows for us to inseminate artificially. We
have good partners abroad. In Africa, we
have good relationship with some Kenyan
companies that have developed dairy to
an enviable position. We have contacted
Holland and Denmark. We have benefited
a lot from such contacts and we are still
on it.
Is there anything the Fulani herders
are enjoying from you in addition to
being paid for the milk they sell to
you?
We have a mutually beneficial
relationship. We get milk from them and
we make sure that they are in the
business of producing milk because the
more volume they give us, the more
profitable for us. So, whatever it takes for
us to ensure that they continue to give us
high milk yield or high volume of milk, we
would do that. We are a business entity.
We do not have free money to throw
around. It is from our profit that we
plough something back into the
community to ensure that this business of
milk production continues. Of course, we
need to encourage them to give us more
milk and not to hawk the milk. So, what
we did was to tell them that if we are
buying a litre of milk from you at a certain
amount, and you agree to send a female
child to school, we will add N20 on each
litre of milk we buy from you. This
strategy, we found very interesting,
because the response was encouraging to
the extent that almost all the households
have now sent their daughters to school.
So, we have made the price uniform
because everybody has sent the child to
school. Another benefit we share with
them is the artificial insemination
programme which they have been
benefiting through us.
How do cattle rustling affect your
business?
Mercifully, Kano State has not
experienced any case of rustling so far.
So, it has not been an issue for us as at
now but we see it as a potential security
threat. We are aware that the state
government is conscious of that fact and I
am sure they are taking necessary steps
to avert it.
Are you thinking of expanding this
business to cattle fattening, abattoir
operation and the rest?
As a business people that are out to make
money, we are ready for anything that
will give us money. But for now, we are
more interested in expanding our existing
business and to that extent I am happy to
report that the Funds for Agric Finance in
Nigeria (FUFIN) had just invested in our
business. They have taken 25 percent of
our share. We have signed the agreement
and they will soon come on board. We
hope that the strategic growth plan that
we have in place will be pursued to its
logical conclusion with the coming of
people that are technically sound in our
business and in financial advisory
services.
What about having more processing
factories outside Kano?
A decision to site a factory is normally
informed by two reasons which are
closeness to raw materials and or market.
We have decided to base our factory on
closeness to raw material. You will agree
with me that going to South-south or
South-east can only take us close to the
markets but very far away from our
source of raw materials. It is easier to
transport the finished products than to
transport the raw materials. You can
imagine taking raw milk from Kano to
Lagos to process it. Fresh milk can only
stay outside the cow for not more than
one hour at a very good temperature. You
can see how delicate it is. But with the
improvement of cold chain infrastructure,
we may be looking at it into the future.
But you know how our electricity supply
has been and that is supposed to be the
bedrock of cold room infrastructure.
Can you give us a rundown of the
various stages of milk/yoghurt
processing?
We have a standard laboratory with
technical people that have to ascertain
the quality of the milk by carrying out
physical and chemical analysis. When the
milk is certified okay for processing, we
get to the next level. We have a tank that
we collect all the milk in. It is from the
tank that we decide what to do with the
milk. If the milk is going for fresh milk, it
is much easier. We just pass it through
the pasteurising unit. We have what we
call the ‘Continues Flow Pasteurisation
Process. As the milk is flowing through
the system, it is pasteurised. After that it
goes to the homogenisation unit and
comes back to the collection tank. If it is
skimmed milk, after pasteurisation and
homogenization, it has to be separated.
We have an inbuilt separator that will
separate for you then you now have your
skimmed milk. If it is full cream, then, it
does not have to pass through a
separator because the cream is going
with the milk. If it is going for yoghurt,
then you go to the next stage of taking
the milk into fermentation tanks. At a
certain temperature you inoculate and
allow it to stay for some hours, depending
on the ambient temperature around.
After which it forms your yoghurt. That is
if it is the drink yoghurt. But if it is the
eat yoghurt, you package it into cups and
put into an incubator and leave it
overnight. Flavour and colours are added
in the fermentation process. It is not as
simple as I told you, but you now have an
idea of how it is done.

felixzo1:
\ all the pictures posted here are foreign breeds, the first picture is a crossbreed between a fresian cattle and a white fulani , the second picture is a brahman cattle, an indian breed it can grow to a weight of 1400 kg, the third picture is friesian bull,it can grow to a weight of 1200 kg, it is a diary breed, the fourth picture is a jersey breed, a dairy cow too, the are cattle belonging to sebore farm in adamawa state. each of the cattle above cost more than 400,000 naira .the advantage of foriegn breed over local breed is, they can produce large quantities of meat and milk , for example, a freisan cow averages about 25 liters of milk a day, and has the gentic potentail to produce 45 liters of milk, i have personally seen a cow producing 45 liters of milk a day. while our local funali cow averages 1 liter of milk a day, a brahman cattle averages a daily weight gain of 1.5 kg while a fulani cattle is 1.0 kg maximum per day, the disadvantages of foriegn breeds are,1, they are very expensive to buy and maintain,and are disease prone.they also find it find it difficult to survive in our hot weather.

Good work op, I see reAson why the exotic breed should be cross breed with our local breeds, because of the inability to withstand out hot weather.

Maple:
@Felix, I have experience in cattle farming, and I have to admit that your post is truly inspiring to those of us that have passion for the business. However, my contribution to this post would be to advice those interested in venturing into cattle farming business to make security of their livestock a #1 priority with an unwavering diligence

I ventured into cattle farming (starting with 6 cows) about two years ago in Abuja using a well gated and fenced 2 plots of land. Unfortunately, when I was close to reaping the fruits of my labor, one night some armed cattle rustlers (thieves) broke into my farm stole all my cattles, along with several others in the neighborhood. Search parties were sent out the following morning, but to no avail. And the police, were useless.

Cattle rustling is now very rampant in Nigeria and even more rampant than highway robbery. It is a major dream killer for many prospective livestock farmers. Cattle rustlers are often well armed, and carry out their nefarious acts with utmost sophistication. using sophisticated weapons and so on. I was not unaware of the menace posed by cattle ruslers before I started, which was why I chose to locate my fenced farm in abuja. Sadly, what I was not aware of, was how daring they can be; to even break into a gated and well fenced farm located around Abuja and in a thriving neighbourhood, says alot. It means no location is safe from these people. However, you can secure your farm in a manner that would make their nefarious task very very difficult and expensive for them to carry-out.

Despite my unfortunate experience, my passion for cattle farming business remains unshaken, because it is a very lucrative business when successfully run. I have learned some important lessons with my experience and which I like to share:

1) Construct a very strong iron boulder fencing for your livestocks inside your farm, do so, even if your farm is already fenced. Double fencing means double risk for would-be thieves. Construct the iron fencing in a manner such that once you placed your livestock inside, it would be very hard for them to be taken out of it. Also, repair any lapses you may find in your fence or gate. Put metal caps on your fence & gates interlocks, so it makes it harder to break the locks. Any extra break-in time , is bad omen for would-be thieves.

2) Be wary of strangers around your farm location , Any new face loitering around your farm should be a warning sign. If they dont have their insider/spy who already knows your farm, livestock/Cattle rustlers spend a great amount of time (days & weeks) surveying/spying a farm, before they strike.

3) Be wary of who you invite into your farm, from the common farm help to the professional veterinarian. Some croocks among veterinarians (not to even mention farm help/workers) are known to profit by passing their client's farm herd infos, routines & security details to livestock/cattle rustlers, so beware.

4) It is very important that you have dogs in your farms. The commotion dogs create from their barking at intruders would significantly deter cattle rustlers from striking. The night cattle rustlers strucked my farm, they attempted to steal cows from another neighbourhood not far from my farm location, fortunately, that farm had dogs. Their constant barkings woke the people in the area, and the thieves fled.

5) keep your farm routines to yourself and to those who you can trust, and try not to create a consistent farm visitation time for yourself. Thus, be less predictable even to your farm workers, should u decide to hire any.

6) Finally, if you can afford it, hire a security guard, or build a dwelling place in your farm, and have someone live their. The presence of a person or people living inside your farm can dissuade would-be thieves.

Excellent , thank you for sharing.

felixzo1:

Muhammad Damakka Abubakar is the
Managing Director and Chief Executive
officer of L & Z Integrated Farms Nigeria
Limited based in Kano which is involved in
the value chains of poultry and dairy
production. In this interview, he explains
how the company is helping Fulani girl-
child attain education. Excerpts:
How do you get the milk you are using
for your production?
We source our milk through three
sources-we have our own cows that we
cross breed and they are giving us an
average of 15 litres per day, per head. We
also source milk from the people we call
peril urban dairy farmers that have
started some commercial dairy farming
and the Fulani herdsmen that we made
them form cooperative group. We have
about three cooperatives so far that we
go to their settlements early in the
morning with our truck and evacuate
their milk and bring to the farm. So, milk
from these three sources is processed by
our 20,000-litre capacity ultra-modern
processing plants into various flavours of
Yoghurt, ice cream and fresh milk. We
now sell the dairy products all over the
country, using our refrigerated trucks. We
are in Enugu, Lagos, Port Harcourt,
Sokoto, Kaduna, Abuja and Kano. So, we
have covered the entire nation. We are
the major suppliers of dairy products to
Shoprite chain of retail outlets in the
country. We have just been signed on by
Games which is another major retail
outlet in the country. So, the coming of
the structured retail outlets into this
country has done a good job for us,
farmers. We have taken advantage of that
by transforming ourselves from being
farmers to agric-business-people.
What type of cattle are you using for
your dairy?
We cross breed our animals over ten
years of hard work. We started with the
local Bokolo that we cross breed with a
100 Friesian bulls. We had the first ‘F1’
that is 50 percent local cow and 50
percent of the exotic breed of the
Friesian. The advantage here is that the
offspring can give you higher yield of milk,
though not as high as what Friesian will
give you but higher than what the local
cow will give you. It is also has a gene for
resistance of some diseases. This F1 we
further cross breed to F2 and then it goes
on and on until we arrived at the present
stage where we are able to have cows
that can average over 10 litres for us per
day. We have now started artificial
insemination. We no longer use bull, we
only use bull when artificial insemination
fails or as a teaser to detect feed for the
cows for us to inseminate artificially. We
have good partners abroad. In Africa, we
have good relationship with some Kenyan
companies that have developed dairy to
an enviable position. We have contacted
Holland and Denmark. We have benefited
a lot from such contacts and we are still
on it.
Is there anything the Fulani herders
are enjoying from you in addition to
being paid for the milk they sell to
you?
We have a mutually beneficial
relationship. We get milk from them and
we make sure that they are in the
business of producing milk because the
more volume they give us, the more
profitable for us. So, whatever it takes for
us to ensure that they continue to give us
high milk yield or high volume of milk, we
would do that. We are a business entity.
We do not have free money to throw
around. It is from our profit that we
plough something back into the
community to ensure that this business of
milk production continues. Of course, we
need to encourage them to give us more
milk and not to hawk the milk. So, what
we did was to tell them that if we are
buying a litre of milk from you at a certain
amount, and you agree to send a female
child to school, we will add N20 on each
litre of milk we buy from you. This
strategy, we found very interesting,
because the response was encouraging to
the extent that almost all the households
have now sent their daughters to school.
So, we have made the price uniform
because everybody has sent the child to
school. Another benefit we share with
them is the artificial insemination
programme which they have been
benefiting through us.
How do cattle rustling affect your
business?
Mercifully, Kano State has not
experienced any case of rustling so far.
So, it has not been an issue for us as at
now but we see it as a potential security
threat. We are aware that the state
government is conscious of that fact and I
am sure they are taking necessary steps
to avert it.
Are you thinking of expanding this
business to cattle fattening, abattoir
operation and the rest?
As a business people that are out to make
money, we are ready for anything that
will give us money. But for now, we are
more interested in expanding our existing
business and to that extent I am happy to
report that the Funds for Agric Finance in
Nigeria (FUFIN) had just invested in our
business. They have taken 25 percent of
our share. We have signed the agreement
and they will soon come on board. We
hope that the strategic growth plan that
we have in place will be pursued to its
logical conclusion with the coming of
people that are technically sound in our
business and in financial advisory
services.
What about having more processing
factories outside Kano?
A decision to site a factory is normally
informed by two reasons which are
closeness to raw materials and or market.
We have decided to base our factory on
closeness to raw material. You will agree
with me that going to South-south or
South-east can only take us close to the
markets but very far away from our
source of raw materials. It is easier to
transport the finished products than to
transport the raw materials. You can
imagine taking raw milk from Kano to
Lagos to process it. Fresh milk can only
stay outside the cow for not more than
one hour at a very good temperature. You
can see how delicate it is. But with the
improvement of cold chain infrastructure,
we may be looking at it into the future.
But you know how our electricity supply
has been and that is supposed to be the
bedrock of cold room infrastructure.
Can you give us a rundown of the
various stages of milk/yoghurt
processing?
We have a standard laboratory with
technical people that have to ascertain
the quality of the milk by carrying out
physical and chemical analysis. When the
milk is certified okay for processing, we
get to the next level. We have a tank that
we collect all the milk in. It is from the
tank that we decide what to do with the
milk. If the milk is going for fresh milk, it
is much easier. We just pass it through
the pasteurising unit. We have what we
call the ‘Continues Flow Pasteurisation
Process. As the milk is flowing through
the system, it is pasteurised. After that it
goes to the homogenisation unit and
comes back to the collection tank. If it is
skimmed milk, after pasteurisation and
homogenization, it has to be separated.
We have an inbuilt separator that will
separate for you then you now have your
skimmed milk. If it is full cream, then, it
does not have to pass through a
separator because the cream is going
with the milk. If it is going for yoghurt,
then you go to the next stage of taking
the milk into fermentation tanks. At a
certain temperature you inoculate and
allow it to stay for some hours, depending
on the ambient temperature around.
After which it forms your yoghurt. That is
if it is the drink yoghurt. But if it is the
eat yoghurt, you package it into cups and
put into an incubator and leave it
overnight. Flavour and colours are added
in the fermentation process. It is not as
simple as I told you, but you now have an
idea of how it is done.

Thanks for all the information you shared, you are amazing

I will like 2 venture into dis business both cattle nd goats(hausa goats)

Plz I will like 2 venture into dis business cattle nd goat(hausa goat)

EZEUDENE:
Plz I will like 2 venture into dis business cattle nd goat(hausa goat)

sent me a mail talk2fanen@gmail.com

felixzo1:
‘DAIRY BUSINESS CAN GET NIGERIAN FARMERS OUT OF POVERTY’



A farmer that gets large quantity of milk, how would he manage it?

It is true, a farmer would get large quantity of milk if he feeds his animal very well and give them enough water. These animals have to be zero-grazed, that is, they have to be confined in a house without taking them out for grazing at all. But a farmer can take them out occasionally to exercise their muscles, because they are like human beings that require exercise from time to time. A farmer can get the required milk when he gives his animals adequate feed, medication and water. In fact, water should be there continuously. Once a farmer does that he would get his required milk. In some cases, milk production by cows is genetic. Some animals take the gene of their mother or father. We have recently lost a cow,
Mahaukachia, due to snake bite. This animal was giving us 35 litres of milk per day. So, the animal was such a good milk producer with special qualities. We have now started to trace the offspring and see whether they have taken some of her genes. We are working closely on that and one of the female offspring is pregnant now. We want to see whether she would give us what the mother was giving us. In that line, we would expand our production.


http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/daily/agriculture/38730-dairy-business-can-get-nigerian-farmers-out-of-poverty

Hi Felixzo1, What can be done to prevent snake bite/attack to cows ?

how much is d breed from niger cost and d red fulani high breed

e365:


Hi Felixzo1, What can be done to prevent snake bite/attack to cows ?

There are many options if the cows are within a closed space. Some of which are

Option 1: Raise ducks in your farm. They have very sharp eyesight. They go after small snakes and kill/eat them. 2-3 ducks would be sufficient.

Option 2: You could raise geese too. They have very sharp eyesight. They see snakes or intruders they make noise so deafening that it could be heard mile away. Geese do not attack snakes, but they raise alarm loud enough to get the attention of who ever is in the farm. Geese are used as security in farms, and for these reasons many Cattle farms keep them. 2-3 is also sufficient.

Option 3: You could also keep domestic cat(s) @ your farm to deter snakes and rodents.

Option 4: Maintain a clean farm free of rubbish and weeds. And properly fence the area the cows are sheltered such that it'll be difficult for snake to penetrate.
Hope this helps!

I sent you a mail. @Felixzo.

sharonbolly:
SHARON AGRO LINK::::....Supply of day old chicks ,turkey,feed,supply of vet drugs,supply of farm equipments,breeding and veterinary services. All @ a cheaper prize,.....@ sharon agrolink we promise you the best services ever.........Try Us today and a trial will convince you........IF you are interested contact me here and promise U a quick response.....Agents from all part of nigeria are needed............Contact me on :08182900720,07031022827......FB: Sharon bolanle oni..BBM:332CC762......Kindly help rebroadcast.......THANKS

.

Cool.

Obiagelli:
Op are those cows in the picture you posted local breeds? I don't think so.

you this people are bad o! shai you go to the politics section to shout your voice out and come here to raise money. good for you.
are u into agriculture?

gabriel212:

you this people are bad o! shai you go to the politics section to shout your voice out and come here to raise money. good for you.
are u into agriculture?

@felixzo
i sent you a mail. Pls revert.

My farm's dairy crossbreeds:

Pix 1:Ayshire (F1), Friesian (F1), Simmental (F2) and Brown Swiss(F1) crosses
Pix 2: Australian Friesian Sahiwal (AFS) (F2) crossbreed

i will also be updating soon, i have a lot of pictures to share,

felixzo1:
i will also be updating soon, i have a lot of pictures to share,

That'll be awesome. Its time we put theories to practice.

felixzo1:
i will also be updating soon, i have a lot of pictures to share,

I sent you an email to talk2fanen@gmail.com
Please reply. Thank you.

Maple:


That'll be awesome. Its time we put theories to practice.

Please. I need advice on starting a diary farm. Thank you. I sent you a pm

Please I need advice on starting a diary farm.
Thanks.

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More plsss

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Felixzo1

pix

Nice photos. That Friesian bull looks indeed scary. Only a Fleckvieh bull can beat that looks.

BTW, I did inseminated my Brown swiss and AFS crossbreeds with semen from one of those sacary looking friesian bull, they're about 4 months pregnant now. I used sexed jersey Bull semen to inseminate my Simmental & Ayshire crossbreed heifers to minimize birth complications, besides the Jersey is acute breed. As for my Friesian cross, I chose Fleckvieh semen.

Maple:
Nice photos. That Friesian bull looks indeed scary. Only a Fleckvieh bull can beat that looks.

BTW, I did inseminated my Brown swiss and AFS crossbreeds with semen from one of those sacary looking friesian bull, they're about 4 months pregnant now. I used sexed jersey Bull semen to inseminate my Simmental & Ayshire crossbreed heifers to minimize birth complications, besides the Jersey is acute breed. As for my Friesian cross, I chose Fleckvieh semen.

I replied your email.

^^ I did replied your mail as well.