TheUnbeatable:

@ Op:

I know your location.

Your idea is good but I don't see sustainability in it.

Goat pen? Hmnn, can west African dwarf goat be efficient under pen management?

Whoever did your feasibility or business plan for you should be doubted.

It's not in my nature to attack or condemn people but from experience, I think the plan must be revisited.

God bless your hustle.

One love

blitzman:
Hello Guys,

I am interested in goat farming and its about time i put my desire in to action.

I acquired a 5 acre of land in Odeda, Abeokuta 1 year ago and now I want to start my commercial goat business in earnest. I have done my business plan and its time to get my idea to work.

I intend to start with 150 Does and 10 Bucks. Below are the list of things I need




- Construction of the perfect goat pens that can accommodate a 1000 goats (Looking at the future)
- Construction of farm house
- Farm to supply 160 goats
- Bore hole expert

If you can help with any of the above, kindly drop your number or email address.

Thanks

TheUnbeatable:

In agribusiness, before you venture as an investor, you study the venture well, do we have people doing it? Are they making profit? Or struggling? What is their per unit production cost? Is their methodology sustainable? What of breakeven analysis? What of technicalities?

West African dwarf goat has a reputation for ruggedness and milk yield across the globe and that is why it's demand is insatiable.

As much as people rear goats in pens abroad, can we afford the cost? Do we have the feeding materials and premix they use?

Statistics show that goat production is largely in the hands of small, marginal farmers and agricultural landless labourers even in India and some other countries.

A goat farmer must be ready to identify sick animals, visit goat shed daily and render quick treatment and preventive measures.
He/she must be ready for routine vaccination e.g

Give multi component at February, polyvalent at June, oil adjuvent at July, pox vaccine at September, multi component clostridia at December. So sayeth the "books". This means you keep the vet as close as possible.

I don't see anyone engaging in all these and more if he/she is not in it for "goat milk" which I know is very expensive.

You have to battle pneumonia, pseudo- rinderpest, foot and mouth disease, cpd,, goat pox, blue tongue, anthrax, tetanus... I can keep naming diseases and other challenges but how many do you see in a ranging goat?

That is why I advise pasture or range goat farming. The nature will help you escape majority of all these obstacles.

My mind is burning as I am writing this piece but I can't burst it open here because I don't like debating but it pains me when someone with little or no "field knowledge" utter "good talks" let me put it that way.

I don't mean to be rude or confrontational to anyone but I just want to tell the Op to be careful of "copy copy" there are many things that works abroad and may not work here in nigeria because of many Nigerian factors. There are even very many vet drugs we don't see to buy, may be in my place here in akure but I have made enquiries sometime back when I wanted to buy "AI KIT" and the vet called, ibadan, lagos, kaduna, and we could not get. Exchange rate discourages import and supermarkets keep importing goat meat and the likes at cheap price. Tell me how we can survive in same market producing goat meat intensively?

God bless Nigeria,
God bless Nairaland,
God bless the reader.

Sincerely,

rareman:




Thanks your words are deep, it seams you have been beaten once in this game. Please what possible way can we make profit in goat rearing? Am about to go into it this month in a plot of land. I will appreciate your kind words thank you

JohnNgene:
I think the semi-intensive would be best. I mean, the goats should have a well-ventilated pen safe from sun and rain where they can sleep at night. While they're allowed to roam within a well-fenced land. Of course, you'll provide them food and water twice or thrice daily. That's how I intend to rear my own goats.

I don't think it's wise to start with more than one hundred goats for a first-time goat-rearer. Start with maybe fifty goats in your first year. Then grow to hundred goats in second year. Before expanding to five hundred goats from your third year in the business.

I wish you success.

DeejaywonDJ1:
Since you're building it on 5acres you're good to go with the plan if you already have market for it. Plan for hydroponic folder along as well because it'll reduce the cost of feeding by 70%. There is a guy around Ọ̀yọ́ town who is into livestock and poultry, you can contact him and tour his farm he'll help you.

authocratic:


What's the name of the farm, and his contact Pls?