Do you know poultry keeping is the 21st lucrative business in Nigeria? In fact, more people are moving to poultry farming than they do for consumable businesses.

Talking about lucrative business in Nigeria, poultry keeping is one. It’s competitive though but that doesn’t stop you from having edge over others.

Yes, I mean you can make fortune with your poultry farm in Nigeria.

The number of chicken being consumed in a day in Nigeria daily is enough to convince you that “poultry farming in Nigeria “ is indeed a lucrative business an average Nigeria should engage in.

The benefits of poultry keeping can be best illustrated using a virtual example. As in, let take a random sample of a certain area in Nigeria.

What do you want to do with this, you asked right?

See…

It’s often good to ask what you don’t know but, supposing you are targeting a specific location or Local Government in Nigeria, how much can you make from your farm?

This is what is likely to happen depending on your capital or your goal per say.

Without much ado, let take a look at this illustration about keeping poultry in Nigeria. And see the chance you have to be successful with your farm.

As it were, Nigeria is the country with highest population in Africa with over 150 million citizens. You cannot actually cover and capture the whole Nigeria terrain, but you can achieve your goals in your chosen area during your feasibility study.

Your quick fortune in poultry keeping depends on various factors. Which mostly has to do with your area of specialization, capital, marketing strategy and so forth.

But the following can also contribute to your success in poultry farming

Is your poultry farm about egg production?
Or are you only interested in broiler?
Are you interested in selling day old chicken?
What do you think about raising cockerel?
Perhaps, you are planning to go into egg production, rearing of broiler, day old chicken, cockerel etc.
These are broad way to success. All you just need to define your way.

Choose what you think will be right for you. But in most cases, it is advisable to stick to one first and become an expert at it before moving to other, such as watching over one category of birds in your farm rather than doing everything together.

Anyway, that is just a digression, so let go back to the example we talking about…

Suppose you are into egg production and you were able to raise quite a reasonable number of birds that give 24 crates per day (30 x 20 = 600 eggs equivalence).

With 700 birds, this is achievable, so no panicking.

A crate of egg cost around 600-700 even more, depending on the size of the eggs. That means, you will be making (24 x 600 = 14400 or 24 x 700 = 16800) per day. Multiply this amount by 30 (a month) give (432000 or 504000) equivalent per month.

After removing all your expenses, their will definitely be a reasonable take home for you at the end of the month.

That is huge right for a starter?

But do you know what….

You can do it and this is achievable.

But don’t forget that, this has to do with your goal if you actually work on your plans because I expect you to have one.

If you don’t have one, don’t worry…

We will talk about that in this guide. A quick reminder, this is a step-by-step guide on how to keep a successful poultry farm.

So, you should expect a long essay… You can take a break, take coffee or shower and continue after a short while.

But you can be rest assure that, after this post… You will have the full potential you ever need to keep a good poultry up and doing.

But before the real deal…

Do you know that what am about to say happens?

As you may have seen that most people that keep poultry farm are not really taking it so serious. They engaged with it in small scale.

Instead of gathering momentum and push it the right way.

It’s not bad if for test run sake… but no gather enough energy to push it well can be bad you know?

Most people go into poultry farming without knowing the benefits associated with it. Some are into poultry keeping to only safe cost of buying eggs.

Some do keep poultry all because of specific event, such as Christmas and New Year. The chicken is what they actually interested in and not the benefits (financial status).

But in your case, I don’t expect you to reason like those set of people. You should be seeing yourself as someone that has poultry farm already.

The number one benefit of poultry farm in Nigeria is that, it makes you a boss. You no more working for money… But you let your money do the work for you.

So, are you ready?

Please let go any form of distraction and give me your full attention. What you are about to learn took me more than 11 hours to compile outside the number of days I spent to research on best way to keep a poultry farm in Nigeria and be successful.

It’s an assurance that you will end up knowing that, you have not wasted even a moment of your time reading what we have here.

Poultry Farm in Nigeria: All you need to Know Before you start

You may be wondering whether there is any advantage in keeping a poultry farm. Or you are not convinced enough about the number of benefits in keeping a farm.

Every business has advantages and disadvantages. So poultry as it were is not an exception. No miracle is going to happen except you made it.

Like my teacher used to say back then in secondary school, “No mana from heaven” and same thing happens here.

You can always expect positive result as well as negative result. So, you will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of poultry in this section first.

Reasons why keeping poultry farm can never be underrated.

Advantage of Keeping a Poultry Farm

Below are poultry farming advantages you can always relate to, to always boost your moral about you endeavor. The advantages will show you what you stand to benefits from your farm.

*Keeping poultry farm is less expensive compared to other livestock, e.g dog, cat etc. It is very much easy to keep your poultry farm heal and healthy in terms of maintenance compared to raising dog or cat as a livestock.

*Poultry farm is highly profitable if properly managed. Keeping poultry gives value to your investment. Within a specific period of time, you will begin to make some sales either from your chicken or for selling your eggs.

*Broiler takes less feeds compared to others. And it is relatively low, yet it produce max returns.

*Poultry farming can serve as a successive source of income.

*Its production is not seasonal. When you exhausted your chicken from laying, you can choose to dispose them for a certain price.

*Poultry drops are valuable fertilizers agent. Chicken drops are very rich in Nitrogen and organic material and it can be used as a fertilizer.

*Pillow production. Chicken feathers are also use in making pillow and curios

*Poultry keeping provide job opportunities

*Poultry products are highly nutritious with less fat content, proteinious with essential amino acids

[b]Disadvantages of Keeping a Poultry Farm[\b]

Everything that has advantages also have disadvantages. But be rest assured that most poultry keeping disadvantages comes from poor management.

Nevertheless, you should learn how to manage them if you truly want to keep your poultry farm alive.

*When you keep your chicken in a cramped cages, you stand the chance to expose your chicken to pollution and emanation of various diseases.

*Poultry drops are very stench, contaminating and can affect your poultry well-being

*Killing of birds by various animal welfare is a bad omen. In poultry industry, you can hardly escape this but can be properly managed.

*Theft is another disadvantage of keeping a poultry farm. You need to ensure adequate security to be free from this ill-luck

*Environmental fact can affect your chicken production. In most cases, when strangers entered your poultry, you stand a chance to have drop in production that period.

*Diseases among birds are often communicable. To combat this, you must be very fast in discovering any form of diseases before it spreads. Once detected, you will either have to treat the bird quickly or separate the bird from others

*Inability to control weather condition is another poultry keeping disadvantage

How to Start a Successful Poultry Farm[\b]

We have dived into the nitty-gritty of poultry farming, such as what you stand to benefits, the disadvantages and disadvantages.

Now...

Let go in details to what to do to be successful in keeping your poultry alive.

There is possibility that this is not your first of reading on how to keep poultry farm, but keep in your mind that, we have you covered in all your poultry farming endeavor as long as you may know.

[b][b]How Inclined are you About Poultry Keeping?

This is actually a question that needs sincere responds.

Your knowledge about poultry keeping has a lot to do with keeping a successful poultry farm. This is a business, and it must be seen and treated like one.

According to Robert T. Kiyosaki, he said and I quote…

YOU DON’T NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT ONE THING BUT KNOW LITTLE ABOUT EVERYTHING…

In fact, that is what business mind entails and you should be able to covet that if you want to keep a successful poultry farm.

See, the fact is that you don’t necessarily need to enroll in poultry farm school.

Covet the habits of reading, read books online that talk about "how to keep poultry farm", watch YouTube videos on poultry, seek expert opinion, take your poultry mind to online if you can't see expert to chat with one on one and you will see countless expert advises to learn from.

Once you know that you are no longer a novice, you can then proceed on how to plant your poultry successful.

Classification of Poultry Farm Birds

Which aspect of poultry farming do you want to specialized?

This is a question you must be able to answer.

Conventionally there are various types of chicken you can choose to breed.

Basically, they are classified into three major parts

Broiler

Cockerels

Layers

These entire basics category can be further divided into sub-categories but we are not going to talk about that in this article.

We are mainly concern on how you can start your own poultry farm as a beginner.

For a start and as earlier said, it is high recommended to start with one first. Nothing bad in going with the entire basics option though but as a beginner, that can be very hard for you to monitor.

Everything is about learning.

Once you become an average in one area, you can decide to move into another one.

The three basics classification of chicken takes different period before production.

Like broilers, it takes roughly 8 weeks to grow to a sizable one while cockerels spend around 6 months and layers is about 19 weeks before production.

Draw Your Poultry Business Plan

Every business need a plan, otherwise such business will only survive for a while. Don’t forget that, almost every business is survival for the fittest, even keeping a successful poultry.

While drawing your poultry farm plan, it is important to put it into writing to keep your memory afresh whenever you sees it.

In drawing your plan, everything you intend to do pertaining to your poultry must be written down. The number of chickens you intend start with, category of chicken you have in mind to raise, amount you intend to spend on erecting your poultry house, amount your need to buy poultry appliance and equipment, number of labor force you need to hire, where to dispose your poultry drop because they are very stench, and lot more.

What you can draw in your plan is actually limitless, but its all depends on the standard of your poultry, meanwhile don’t forget that it can be capital intensive but it worth writing down.

One more thing about drawing your poultry plan include putting into writing medical care of your birds.

Decide Where to Situate Your Poultry

The space you prepare for your chicken is proportional to the number of birds you plan to rear.

And this should follow your business plan discussed above.

In choosing a conducive environment for your farm, you need a piece of land.

In most cases, people hire lands but it is advisable to be a prime owner of your poultry farm land.

Not that you can’t hire a piece of land where you can plant your farm but…

It’s just a matter of necessity for you to own a place of your own to avoid distraction over time.

Now,

Let assume you have a land to plant your farm. The length and width of your poultry farm depends on your farm plan and, the number of birds you plan to raise. After, fencing it will help to reduce few of poultry keeping disadvantages that has to do with theft.

Meanwhile, while doing this… the place must be cross ventilated

We know that cross ventilation has to do with the success of your birds in future

Since you don’t have the power to control weather condition in your poultry settings, you must ensure that the place is well ventilated. Temperatures do have significant effect on your poultry success.

During cold or hot weather you are likely to experience shortage in some area of production and you will also noticed that your birds eating mode will drop and hike depending on the weather condition.

In a simple language, everything must be conducive for your birds at all time to meet your target.

Another thing you must take note once you are done with erecting your poultry farm house is to prepare the environs from any form of disinfectants before you import your birds to their house.

Also, take care of any form of strange animate such as rodents, lizards for the following reasons.

*Tampering with your feeds

*Perforate your eggs and killing of chicks

*Rodent, rat etc can contaminate feeds, water and coops

* They carry various form of parasites such as fleas, mites etc

*They stand the chance of transmitting diseases which you wouldn’t want to encourage in your poultry

*They can even damage your poultry yard if not properly managed by burrowing and chewing your poultry wire

* Rats mainly are capable of biting your babe chicken’s legs or toes

*Your chickens stand the chance to have competitor in their cage.

Poultry Equipment and Appliance

The numbers of poultry appliance you need to keep a poultry farm go as long as what you can afford and the standard you want to set for your poultry farm. This should be done before importing your birds into your farm.

Like earlier said, avoid distraction from your birds attention…

So, endeavor to put all these in place before you start in full.

Get prepared once and get things done.

Below are few of poultry equipment and appliance you need to get ready in your poultry for max result.

Feeders
Drinkers
Perches
Nests
Crates
Lighting system
Waste disposal system
Incubator
Heaters or brooders
Egg tray
Cages and coops
How much do I Need to start my Own Poultry?

If you are asking this question from yourself, let me tell that…

… You are the best and wisest man on earth

And that shows you value what you have and don’t ready to be at lost.

From my own point of view, the amount you need to set up poultry varies and it all depends on what you can afford.

But for an average and sizable poultry, $1000 is still not bad but if you target a reasonable number of birds, you may have to invest as much as $5000 and above.

Meanwhile, if you are starting your farm for the very first time, it is advisable to start your farm on average platform.

With time, you can now decide to double your investment just to be at the safer side

Security is Another Area That needs Attention

You need to maintain maximum security in your farm. Permit me to quote Rober Kiyosaki again, he said and I quote…

"Don’t try to be an expert in all area, hire expert where necessary, learn how to put your money into work and stop working for money…"

Hire an expert to help protect your poultry from buglers except you are keeping a very small poultry farm within your compound and that will amount to small poultry keeping.

Dispose your poultry Drop Properly

There is no gain saying about this. Birds drop stench and irritate.

This aspect of poultry keeping must be managed properly otherwise, the nearby community people will be at your neck, and your birds will also suffer disease infection. Disposing your birds drop in the right place is what you should think enough about.

As it were, it serves as organic manure to plans but irritate to human.

If there is no way to dispose your birds drop properly, you can just dig a hole (like well). Once they are packed, just drop them into the hole and add the necessary chemical to remove the odour and you are good to go.

Pen’s up

You are now familiar with the necessary thing you need to know to keep a successful poultry farm.

What are you still waiting for?

Start today, you can do it, pull the trigger yourself, no one will help you to do it until you decide to.

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