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And the 1 weeks olds

more Photos of the birthday girls

This guys are actually 6weeks TODAY!

MOre

Ok will do that and get back to you!.

Here we go, those day old chicks of 6 weeks ago are now 6weeks old (1 and a half month old) .

Naipay,

Very nice work there, I am interested in the 100Broiler type, can you send me the details. These Chicken houses are beautiful and will make everyone be able to manage a sizable farm at home no matter the size of their yards.

Gentlemen and ladies, I am now posting new pictures of our layers at 6weeks and their aburos (2nd set) at 1week!

Enjoy the photos as they come

Not to mention that we added 10nos broiler as test!

I intend bringing like 200pcs for december sale but that wont be like its 14weeks before xmas!.

The white chicks are the broilers.

then we moved them to their Brooder House

am more!

more photos

Topa17,

Very nice post there and quite explicit. That answers questions for broilers.

The anticipated 500pullets came in last Thursday at about 10pm in the night and they immediately were given IO.

The brooding house had ling been prepared for the landing of the eagles. Pl have a view of some of their pictures.

Hello everyone,

Sorry for responding late to your questions. So straight to your questions now:

@ ify4King, it is very good for young and vibrant guys to enter in the industry early because over time you become the industry leaders. A very important part of this project will be to determine 1st, what type of poultry business you want to run, layers, broilers, cockerel or turkey, even ducks.

Also research your market and be sure of who you will be selling your end products to (very vital), because overtime it has been discovered that just selling your poultry products is not really Herculean compared to selling them at a good profit.

People will always come forward to buy your products but getting the right market that will give you your profit is also very important.

There are many good hatcheries around where you can pick you day olds from, the ones i know are: Zartech in Ibadan, Chi farms and Obasanjo hatcheries. There are loads of other hatcheries not very popular that give very good stock of chicks too.

2. Day old chicks prices vary on the type of chicks you need and the period of ordering them. Broilers prices will peak towards festive periods mainly because a lot of orders are requested. Today's price of Broiler will defer from an October price.

Non the less, you can start with 100-150 if u are doing layers chicks on a budget of 500k


@Londonchic, I bought the day old layers at N210 per one!

The next 500 birds are on their way, hopefully we will get them this Thursday, it is already delayed.

Blink,

The losses occurred due to improper handling on delivery to us, the chicks were already very tired when they came and we didn't take them to the brooder house immediately. The delay must have tired them. They died mostly within the 1st 1Week,  but since that time there hasn't been any mortality.

The next set of 500birds should be landing tomorrow, I will keep you guys posted on updates.

Hello omotititi,

Thank you for your post. poultry business is good and you can invest in it. You can start small and grow big with time.

To your questions:

1. Depending on your budget, you can decide to buy a plot of land for the project or lease a piece of land through friends and family. Where I currently use is a personal and cost is in excess of 4m per plot there now. If you are want to do full scale, I will suggest you move to the hinder-lands i.e outside of Lagos like Ogun or Oyo etc,

2. Yes you can employ very experienced staff, build yourself up in the skill-sets needed to run the poultry business ( through study and live learning at the farm on whenever you are a available) and then ensure proper management through proper monitoring even if its only on weekends; A proper system must be on ground to ensure accountability and good farm magt processes.

3. Since no2 is a YES , then no answer for question 3.

Thank you Dis guy,

I already have a strategy for selling the eggs, eggs are wanted all year round, bakeries, hotels, even market women. The one I want to run is just to get 3-4 major buyers,  thats all.

Laying of eggs will start anything from 5months up. A new nursery has been built just beside the existing brooding point to further ensure the heats dont get out so that the chicks receives better heating than was provide earlier.

Definitely, we are working strongly to ensure mortality reduces this time around. Infact I am hoping non will die. I hate seeing them die at such tender ages.

More updates will be coming soon.

Oba Goriola,

Thanks for the observation. The shinapp bottles was used to prevent the bird from flying up the troughs.

The birds are able to fly about now and most times we noticed they fly up and perch on the water trough and shit in it.

So to prevent them from that, we put the bottles.

We are currently expecting the next set of day old 500birds for brooding. When they come I will again post the photos.

Yes as regards the spacing, this will be done this Thursday when they clock 1 month. We are moving them to a bigger facility.

Indeed dis Guy, thanks for your post. If one is able to give good care to them at the early stage, their chances are high.

Ensure there are loads of water, enough heat and provide them food and the vaccinations should come very early.

We have so far given them, IO vaccine, Lasota, liva cox and gumboro,

Others will come with time, as they are growing nw, we are already planning on debeaking, so they don't get used to biting themselves too early, you know the way they say it, old habits die hard and prevention is better than cure.

more,

More photos of the chicken girls!

Now for the current look of my chickens: Like I mentioned earlier there are currently 470 of them making mortality at 6%, which is okay.

At the moment they are 3weeks and 2 days old. by next Thursday when they clock 1month, we will move them to a new facility to better accommodate them.

They have received all the medications they require as given by my vet.

Here we go:

More photos at 1week old.

More photos at less than a week old.

I will also continue to update you as my farm chicken develop.

Like I mentioned in my earlier post that we are working on 2000layers they will however come in 4 batches of 500 each. The 1st batch are already 3weeks 2days ago. I will be posting pictures of their early stages and also of their current sizes.

Of the 1st batch of 500 we lost 30 the first 3days due to poor handling, so we have 470 left and they have been doing good since then. The brooding process was quite herculean but we made it through. we used combine heating systems including, bulbs, charcoal and lanterns.

i have been running my generator for weeks now to ensure they get enough heat. Let me post some of their old pictures and then get to the farm and take their current state.

These are my chickens at 2days.

I would like to learn about feedmilling too and the cost to build a small scale type to cater for my poult.

[b]Before our businesses choke to death due to lack of proper funding, I on behalf of the teeming Nigerian software developers, implementers and content managers, graphic designers and all IT SME's ask the CBN governor to provide funding to IT SMEs.

I am aware that funds have been provided to other sectors but we are yet to see it come in for the IT SMEs.

We need these monies to grow our businesses and also continue to make headway for IT globally by measuring up with our peers around the world.

Anyone who has Sanusi's contact should let him know that the youths of Nigeria in the IT sector have asked for intervention funding to better develop their ideas.

There are not Venture Capital guys around that are ready to fund Nairaland to become like facebook ( that got VC to grow to where it is today), if Nairaland cannot get intervention funds, where do lesser known sites look for the money from.

It is time that government through the CBN look the way of IT SMEs.

Seun Please put this on front page as I calls for attention![/b]

Genlemen and ladies, make una no try calabar food if u are already married becos like someone said ealier, marriages are made (good one) and broken(my story) by calabar meals. Infact if its a calabar buka u eat the meals from, u may want to marry the mama put. Calabar food and women are just out of this world. I get personal experience of this.

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Hello Tochi,

Do you still have the Probook. I am intrested in picking some.

Pl get back to me on ayocatty@yahoo.com

Regards. its urgent too.

Hello Femmy,

You got mail too. pl check and revert.

Bros, au u doin.

Pl send me a mail for the FX4 and price details.

ayocatty@yahoo.com


Regards.