I have always had interest of having a medium to large scale poultry farm (5,000 - 10,000 birds) from a friend in the financial sector that is also fascinated in poultry farming .

My poultry farming journey started early January of 2020 no single knowledge of poultry farming. Details of developments might be missing because I don't usually take pictures of developments.

I'm not a good storyteller, so I will summarize as much as I can and share experience

As at August of 2020, Pen house was at the stage of development from the 1st and 2nd image
By September, I was done with the Pen house and was trying to roof the store and management room

At October, the pen was 80% ready. The two rooms opposite each other are the brooding rooms.

I don't know where battery cages can be purchased in Owerri so I was in contact with someone here on Nairaland for that purpose. His office location was in Ibadan. Ordinarily, we would have done business without seeing, but with the rate of fraudulent activities in the country there was a need for me to visit Ibadan for the 1st time since there were no financial service that provided escrow services .
3rd image at the popular Amala Skye where I visited too.

By December, the cages were being installed...

The installation guy finished with the cages on Christmas Day and went back to Ibadan that same day.
Christmas was celebrated at the site. I was happy with the level of work done and where we were.
The target was to finish every physical structure by the end of the year.

...By January, I was scared when the 1st batch of 500 were to come. I was scared that I might fail because of all the experience that I have read here on Nairaland. I get courage from watching YouTube videos on poultry farms.

Every progress of the farm was recorded
I had 4 casualties in the 1st week, the professional that was visiting the farm attributed it to cold. We do have brooding gas in the brooder so I was surprised how cold could have killed anyone because the place is always too hot for me and the farm workers

Weldon Op,

First outbreak was cough at WEEK 8, over 10 birds were largely infected with their eyes blinded. I feared the worst, the affected ones were isolated and fed manually. Luckily or unluckily we only lost one when.

Next casualties were out of carelessness, we lost 9 when trying to vaccinate them. They died of stampede. I thought that will be the worst of it all.

Boom! WEEK 11, we woke up to 10 deaths, 25 deaths, 23 deaths, 16 deaths at 4 consecutive days. I was furious. These things did not die at tender age only for them to be dying off at WEEK 11. My professional came in and noticed that they were sick of coccidial. Anticoccidial was only administered in the WEEK 2 only. Coccifor was given at the day we lost 25 so it was dropping from the progression.

At WEEK 12, we had 3, 2, 3, 1 consecutive deaths. My professional said it must be from the ones badly infected by the coccidial

At WEEK 13, their new home was much ready to receive them. They were put into the cage

Our 1st revenue came from sale of their droppings.
Birds were segmented in the weigh-class.
At WEEK 19, we got our 1st egg and it did not come from the ones that were weighing 1.5kg and over, it came from 1.3-1.4kg segment.

It was consistent for 4 days before another came from the 1.5kg segment

As at today in WEEK 20, bird count is 402 and we are getting 4 eggs/day

Birds are healthy-looking

New batch of 1,000 are in and we are fully ready for the challenge. Schedule are planned ahead from the experience of the 1st batch. We had a few casualties already because the chicks spent a day at the hatchery without food and water while receiving vaccination.

Cost so far from when the 1st batch came is is about 1.5 million.
Witness 1 broken egg sometime in May

Boss pls can you tell us how much you spent on the building proper and cages ?
Did you install cages for .500 birds. Or 1500 or 5000

Greenarrow01:
Boss pls can you tell us how much you spent on the building proper and cages ?
Did you install cages for .500 birds. Or 1500 or 5000

I can't remember the building cost, but I know it is over 4 million with the fencing
As for the cages 1.025 million
Security and water supply
Management and store house
Side view of the pen

sniperwolf:


I can't remember the building cost, but I know it is over 4 million with the fencing
As for the cages 1.025 million
Security and water supply
Management and store house
Side view of the pen

Lol when I saw this
I wanted to tell you that this looks like survival poultry.
I just kept my cool
They are very good
I have them on IG and I go just to view their post on there.
I wish you the best sir.

@survivalpoultry
We go soon run things by God's grace

Good Work, keep it up

Well done OP ... My observation ... You need to prepare ways to fight heat when the climate is very hot .. It would have been good if u had raise ur pen to some certain level ..like doing some high rise building before erecting the pen on it ..

How do u manage ur waste ? Did you dig pit ?

dalexy101037:
How do u manage ur waste ? Did you dig pit ?

Yes, there is a waste disposal pit in the compound

What’s the average food consumption per mature bird in kg

Gozychuks:
What’s the average food consumption per mature bird in kg

I can't do this analysis... Average consuption of the 402 birds is 1½ bags per day and ie. 37.5kg.
1 bird will consume 37.5/402 = 0.0933kg = 93.3g

This is impressive ... Following this post .

dalexy101037:
Well done OP ... My observation ... You need to prepare ways to fight heat when the climate is very hot .. It would have been good if u had raise ur pen to some certain level ..like doing some high rise building before erecting the pen on it ..

I will take note of this in our next expansion, but the pen is quite chilling with ¾ of the pen opened

@sniperwolf why did you end this thread abruptly,we wanted to learn from your experiences to d end,are you still in business or you have put up your farm for sale?

bizzibodi:
@sniperwolf why did you end this thread abruptly,we wanted to learn from your experiences to d end,are you still in business or you have put up your farm for sale?

We are still in business and expanding rapidly with an additional 3,800 capacity battery cage system

2,500 capacity brooder for raising layers and for broilers

sniperwolf:


We are still in business and expanding rapidly with an additional 3,800 capacity battery cage system

Good,you still need to tell us your success story.

Following

Where is your farm located?

Nice system you seem to have there.

No update again?