₦airaland Forum

I am a poultry farmer. I see excelsiorfaem farm give the best advise here. If i were you, I will steer clear off meat production. On paper, meat production makes a lot of profit, but in reality it doesn't. Smuggling of poultry meat via land borders has killed off the potential. Marketing your final product is a major headache. Even with the so called renewed strict stance of Nigerian costums. Smuggled chicken still make their way to main markets
Egg production makes more sense if you get it right. For a starter of this business, point of lay is good if you can guarrantee your source. If you get birds from wrong source. You will regret venturing into this business. Point of lay will guarrantee you start making money pretty early in the day unlike spending on the venture for between 18-21 weeks without any income. Raising your birds from day old chicks is more cost effective but delicate for an inexperienced farmer. It should be noted that raising livestock is very scientific than just meet the eye. If chicks get bad foundation, they never do well in life. Vaccination should be strickly adhered to in rearing period and first 3 weeks of their lives needs extra level of care.
For good production birds (85% and above) there is a rough calculation of making N6 profit per total birds per day. This profit is just based on running cost. But excludes the initial cost of building and cages. Initial startup cost is very expensive. But very profitable venture on the long run.