₦airaland Forum

FarmTech: i totally agree with you. Nigerians shud learn how to freely share information. The problem with many is that they even sell information that shud be free. Thanks so much. The australian lady u visited her farm, please i'll like to know some of the tips she shared with you. If u have pictures of how her pen look like, please share. Thanks.

FarmTech: hi Unbeatable, can u pls tell me which meat goat breed is suitable in the south-east region? I really want to go into goatry.

omotititi: @Farmtech.....what is the size of ur farm? welldone so far and wish u the best in ur farming enterprise.

The Unbeatable: @ bawelat,
Irrespective of your "insincerity" today, I will still respond to your question on "goatry"

Goatry is not a business for starters! The business appreciate over time and you will need to have a source of income. You can't depend on funds from your goatry business to give you your daily food if not you will kill the business yourself!
Now, let's get to business. Answer these questions sharp sharp
1. How much can you aFford to start the business?
2 your location matters. It will influence your choice of breed to buy.
3 availability of "range" ( do you have a fence house? Goats don't grow while tied to a stake. They grow if allowed to walk arround. That's the secret!
4 is there protection against pilferry (thieves/ ole) or poisoning from bad people?
5 have you done market research in your area about the marketting of goats?
You will need a vet doctor, can you afford it? If not befriend one of them o ( laughing)
6 you need shelter against adverse weather conditions. ( Do you know that water don't touch some parts on the head of goats? Dats why they shake their head while running for shelter on a rainny day)
7 can you cope with the menance of their bleep and dungs?
8Can you make pap and milk and spoon feed them if they are sick and can't eat? Especially the young ones!

These are some of the questions I can remember now. Please answer them in your heart and if you are bold and sure enough? Reply my questions here and let's discuss further.
You can still count on me if need be but you need to be straight forward with me. If you don't know, before I make any post, I still go back and read previous posts before replying any question or making any comment.

Evalastingly at it,
The unbeatable.
Mind you, dis is my nairaland name oooo! I am a cool Yoruba man and agric is my PRIDE!!!

Emma Ajayi: I have 40 broilers and 40 cockrels which l bought at day old about 10 weeks back.
Just employing this as a trial run. We started with Starter Vital Feeds for a month plus after which we started with Finisher at 8weeks plus. The broilers consume a lot more than the cockrels. I had to resort to buying local foods for them from experts at Abbatoir which cost lesser. The fact is that they were not rushing the food as they used to rush the Vital Feeds, but now they are getting used to it.
At each stage, we had to mix their drinking water based on specification by the Vet. Practitioner.
Both the broiler and cockrels now attack one another maybe because of not being promptly fed. Some of them have lost their eyes in the attacks which necessitated moving them to seperate cage. I also suspect that viruses attacked them thereby affecting their eyes. This attract the the attention of others who keep on pecking them in the affected parts.
Still need invite expert to inspect them and prescribe what other things we need to do as they are approaching 11 weeks.
We have lost 4 of them to dizziness and probably illness.
After this we intend to build a shed that will house about 2000 birds later.

n0m0705: Please I am very interested in how effective the wire merge you use for the floor is , please share with pictures.

5p1naz: I have zero experience in snail farming practically but vast knowledge when it comes to theory. I have been taught one on one... Read books and attended seminars in Nigeria and Ghana. Truth is I still wasn't convinced about the profitability of snail farming because these guys who teach these snail farming at these events don't even drive a car.

Not that I am here to boast or anything, I already have businesses giving me money, so if I can't. Get first hand facts about. Returns on an investment I immediately loose interest in the business.

Now the major reason why I am talking so much is this, first all I would say Isa and unbeatable, I think you guys are doing something good here that should not go "uncommended", taking time out of your busy schedules to educate us is commendable. Now the reason for my post, like I said earlier I have a lot of Infos on snail farming theoretically but never practically... I've tried and tried to get correct information on income and expenses locally but Nigerians are just not forth coming... All they are interested in selling to you is their book or more seminars.

I visited these guys farm in Lagos and I told him i already had enough seminars.. I just needed clarification on a number of things, he told me point blank he won't disclose anything to me until I paid for his seminar. I was disgusted.

So Late last month i went for a 2weeks holiday in Australia, and I met this Australian lady also into snail farming... Even though our african snails are different from their snail type, the farming practices are so much identical.. I was amazed at how much help and info she was willing to give out. She told me all I wanted to know.. I spent a whole week on her farm and we worked together all day.. She was just amazing. Now I know a lot better. I would try to use some of her skills here in Nigeria and hope I can make it bigger than hers.

Her farm is on a 3 acre and she produces 10000 snails every week.

Moral of the story: Africans would forever remain undeveloped and poor if they do not emulate the attitude of the aussy lady, Isa & unbeatable.

I would start my farm soon on a 1 PLOt and see how it goes. Then I would enlarge it if successful. Whilst clearing the one plot of land, we found several snails (acharchatina marginata) which I kept in an enclosed space, 2 of which have just laid eggs. 1 didn't count the first Set of eggs from the first snail, But the 2nd egg was laid yesterday morning and I counted 50. That's a good start and promising. Anyways, I would order for my first set of breeders once the coco yam start to grow as shades on the land. And I would upload the egg pic as soon as I get on my pc. I'm still a learner and I would appreciate any suggestion.

This is just my experience so far...

Cheers

boluwajokosegun: Good thinking, A friend just started with two goats in two years he has 8 goats all together. There is no established commercial goat farm in the west or east but there is very high demand for goats in those regions, only recently ogun state just establish one, so an opportunity abound for any investor who want to go into goat farming, perticular in those part of the country with year round green vegetation that is why the fulani greeze their cattle to those part & it feed on farmers's crops which in turn result to fight.
If u are interested in setting up a goat farming them please employ expert with good feasibility study.
You can rent rent an acre of land in oyo state close to ibadan at N5k per year or buy for N150k an acre close to farm settlement.
For comprehensive feasibility study , goat rearing manual or free advice please call Gbenga on 08182355047 or eesteeresources@gmail.com.

chukwudi44: Bros I asked you a question above which you did not answer!! Are Abraham,isaac and Jacob which Jesus mentioned in the gospel passage I posted dead or alive? When you answer this question then we can progress

raytony: If I become a billionaire today, I will first go to Aboki stand and buy suya worth of 100,000 naira and after that, I'll start thinking of what to do with the remaining money.

raytony: If I become a billionaire today, I will first go to Aboki stand and buy suya worth of 100,000 naira and after that, I'll start thinking of what to do with the remaining money.

femu: i like the wire mesh concept, pls shed more light on the effectiveness

kufre2010: Pls how will i be able to make my blog mobile friendly