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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by StriveHard: 1:24pm On Feb 12, 2023 |
How far with your noilers? How many weeks old are they? Did they start laying? 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by PhantomPAIN(m): 9:32am On Mar 23, 2023 |
etrange: Tech guru please sponsor me for poultry business even if na small scale I get experience |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 5:54am On Mar 25, 2023 |
StriveHard: Since they refused to lay, I got discouraged no jare. But they surprised me yesterday with this. They will be six months on Monday. 1 Like
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 6:00am On Mar 25, 2023 |
jidestroud: All the advices I have been getting, I took none. I should have reduced the number long ago, but I thought I will lose massively selling them in bits. In short, I have sold some males and the running cost is a bit reduced. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 6:02am On Mar 25, 2023 |
olab059: I went back to Ultima finisher and within two weeks of that, they layed. We saw three eggs yesterday. We will be buying layers from this point. 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 6:16am On Mar 25, 2023 |
As a beginner, here are some of the things we've learnt. 1. Use quality feeds for a start: if you try to cut corners, you might regret it. You stand a risk of losing everything(deaths, stunted growth, delayed laying) if you are trying to be too clever. 2. Manage it yourself: one of our greatest problems was giving the management to a worker. Very few people will treat your investment like theirs. Moreover, you know better what you'd like to achieve with such investments. Handle it yourself. 3. Don't administer vaccine alone: let an experienced farmer guide you on how to do it. Failed vaccination can lead to the loss of your entire stock. 4. Don't allow visitors get into your pen, unless they're experienced farmers there to help. If they can't help the business, please don't allow them in. 5. Start small: don't start with what you won't be able to manage properly. Do your research. Know what they will need to survive and plan accordingly in making sure that's available. 5 Likes |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 6:19am On Mar 25, 2023 |
We need help with hatching the eggs and getting a structure to house the chicks. If you know where we can hatch in Ilorin and probably a pen for rent, we'd appreciate that. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by Musty112: 8:58am On Mar 25, 2023 |
idrisaleo1:I pray that you make headway with this project. There is a pen not too far from your place. Iyana baba saka the junction beside that item 7. Not far from the junction if you are interested, i can give you the contact of the owner 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 11:38am On Mar 25, 2023 |
Musty112: Aamin. Please, I am interested. Thank you. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by olab059(m): 5:01pm On Mar 25, 2023 |
idrisaleo1: Wow! That's great. 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 1:28am On Mar 26, 2023 |
olab059: Thanks Boss. 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by Musty112: 7:40am On Mar 26, 2023 |
idrisaleo1: Zero Eight One Two One Six Seven Nine Two Nine Eight. He bears alfa lanre |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 3:30pm On Mar 26, 2023 |
Musty112: Thanks |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 6:31pm On Mar 26, 2023 |
Small small 1 Like
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by KingBosco(m): 7:57pm On Mar 26, 2023 |
idrisaleo1:Wow that's good, you have started to reap the fruit of your labor. I will appreciate if you post the picture of your noilers let see their growth |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 9:30pm On Mar 26, 2023 |
KingBosco: Why you want de give me body na? 1 Like
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 4:32am On Mar 27, 2023 |
Some of the males are for sale. 1700 per live kg.
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 4:22pm On Apr 18, 2023 |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 2:33am On Apr 20, 2023 |
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 12:48pm On Apr 23, 2023 |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 7:11am On Apr 28, 2023 |
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 9:14am On May 03, 2023 |
There's something particularly wrong with your formulated feed and when trying out something like this you would have tried it with a few birds first. While wrong formulation could produce poor results, its not so likely to result it weak birds or death esp if you are dealing with noiler or kuroiler. I will suspect the feed constituents. You may have gotten a material that is defective (spoilt). I've been breeding noiler birds in very small quantities for about 2 years now and I have often been quite careless with the quality and quantity of feed I give them because of financial constraints but I get away with it especially when they were indoors. I've raised several small batches that had never tasted any medication and didn't loose any. I currently only give medication on a need basis. I commonly have losses of young ones now that they are on free range and its mostly now that its rainy season. During the dry season they were mostly okay. You are spending too much on your noiler birds especially with the expensive feed. I've been feeding mine with "rubbish" for a long time now and they'd been doing fine except that I've recently not been able to access adequate quantities of the "rubbish". idrisaleo1: |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 9:44am On May 03, 2023 |
Redomi: Did you take care of them like this without heating? |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 10:24am On May 03, 2023 |
Again I'll tell you that you don't need any strict formula for producing feed for kuroiler birds. Noiler and Kuroiler birds are meant to scavenge and forage on free range. They can convert and thrive very well on waste. They'll do better eating enough waste than being hungry. I start my noiler and turkey birds with the cheapest commercial grower feed I can find. After two or 3 weeks I begin to mix the grower with sieved PKC (2 PKC: 1 Grower). After two months they are on semi free range eating mostly spent grain, cassava waste from foofoo processing, wheat offal and whenever I can I also get weeds for them (esp centrocima). The noiler start laying around 6 months or a little later. I don't mind. It's good enough for me. I'm still planning on experimenting on other alternative feed options. The last pic is their feed (Brewery spent grain, cassava waste (foofoo byproduct), and wheat offal. idrisaleo1: 1 Like
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Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by Redomi(m): 2:24pm On May 03, 2023 |
safarifarms:I gave the heat for the first 10 days |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 2:27pm On May 03, 2023 |
safarifarms: Thank you so much for your concerns. I greatly appreciate them. I made a huge mistake formulating the feed. I added excess limestone and that affected the birds hugely. I've always wanted to raise them on a free-range, but things don't work according to plans. I'm trying to move to the village where they can freely forage their feeds. I'll get them waste from restaurants hopefully and most likely supplement that with corn. I so much appreciate your comments. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 2:35pm On May 03, 2023 |
safarifarms: Once I get to where they can forage, they will learn o. Na one month old I will send them out to forage oo. What do you have to say to that? And yes, I have spent quite a bit. Kuroiler farming is just a bit difficult to do in the city. All things being equal, I'll be in the village soon. Please help me boss, how do you incubate? I need something reliable. Not entirely convinced with the kerosene incubator. What degree should I be targeting with the kerosene incubator? |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 3:58pm On May 03, 2023 |
idrisaleo1:I'd tried the keep incubator and failed. The major problem you will have is regulating the temperature as the temperature raises and falls about every hour of the day so it kinda needs you to stay put beside the incubator which I couldn't do. Temp should be 37.8C but I sometimes had 40 to 42C. 1st attempt with 10eggs, non hatched. 2nd attempt with 30 eggs, hatched only 2. I gave up. I've been using local hens to hatch before the incubator attempt and have continued to use that. When I have enough money for solar then I'll build an electric incubator with auto temp regulation 1 Like |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 4:01pm On May 03, 2023 |
safarifarms: That's really nice. Thanks a lot. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 12:09pm On May 05, 2023 |
idrisaleo1:I watched this video last night. Where did you get this design? I'm very skeptical about your incubator design. How is the heat going to circulate? With the partitions completely covered or blocked from air coming from the lower partition, I think it will require excessive heat that would heat up the whole incubator body for the heat to get to the 1st egg tray talk less of the 2nd egg tray. So much heat energy may be lost to the environment adding unnecessary extra kerosene cost. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by idrisaleo1: 12:19pm On May 05, 2023 |
safarifarms: Its just an experiment. Saw that on YouTube, maybe I'm wasting a bit more kerosene but I'm getting 35 to 40 degree Celsius. Fingers crossed. And thank you for watching my nonsense 😹. Please subscribe. Having to check it always is a bit stressful. I need a recommendation for someone that can build an automatic solar/electricity powered incubator, please. |
Re: Starting Kuroiler Farm. Journey With Us. by safarifarms(m): 8:25pm On May 05, 2023 |
idrisaleo1: I didn't expect that you can't have the required temperature but that it will consume more kero than necessary. And the upper tray may not easily receive as much heat for both to be used simultaneously. I wish you can check the temperature on both egg trays at once to see if you can have uniformity for both to be used at once. I'm also curious, does the sides of the incubator heat up too? I suspect the sides may even be warmer than the 2nd egg tray compartment. Can you point me to the youtube video where you found this design? Also I hope you know you should be turning your eggs 3x or at least 2x daily till the 18th day. On automatic/electric powered incubator, you should be able to easily find videos on youtube for that. It's the kero powered incubators that has quite few videos and most are not detailed enough and most are only meant for one tray of eggs. |
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