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Originalsly:
I'm not at all into poultry rearing,... but must commend you for venturing into this business. I verrrrry strongly advise that you check out the thread below posted in this very Agriculture Section of NL in 2026. Nowhere else period you can find a better or more realistic or economical guide to raise healthy broilers with a lower death rate. I highly recommend this thread.

Now on your Christmas experience ...you raised 25 birds ...and have 12 unsold? ...at Christmas time? Why? Do you live in a vegetarian community? ... big producers around that flood the market? ..your price is not competitive? ... you're not pushing the product? ...your packaging not too hygienic? .... people too broke? Figure out what went wrong or the next batch will not do well. I would suggest you consider selling the meat yourself and not through a third party. Try to supply restaurants ...Mama Put etc. With the twelve you have unsold...I suggest you add value to them before selling. Cut them up into parts ... not too big ... wash with lime/vinegar ...add spices... a little salt ..pepper ...herbs etc If available ... add molasses ...if not ....lots of sugar and allow to marinate ...package in small portions and sell ...ready to cook. You can start with your neighbours ...price slightly above the normal price for raw chicken..... make it worth the risk for the customer to take. At the same time ..you need to introduce the product to market. If done well ...good luck in keeping up with demand.

Thank you such. Well said 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

Hallams:
Well I am not an expert in the field but let me drop my 2 cent. The broilers you raised for Christmas are essentially the same type of birds processed and sold in frozen food stores. The main difference is that farm businesses involved in frozen food production usually raise their birds for a shorter period, most often about six weeks, to achieve a target live weight of around 2 kilograms. After processing, this normally gives a dressed weight of approximately 1.3 to 1.4 kilograms. Since your birds were raised specifically for the festive period, you may have kept them beyond six weeks, and they could have exceeded this standard weight. Birds raised for too long often grow larger with reduced fat cover, and this can affect the quality of the meat after dressing, which may make them less desirable to hotels, eateries, and similar food businesses. You can still proceed to process them nonetheless, and they remain suitable for personal consumption or direct sales.

Thank you my friend. I appreciate

good evening nairalanders, HAPPY NEW YEAR.

please I need you guys advice, especially those that deal livestock & frozen foods. I'm new broiler farmer. I raised 25 birds for christmas/new year but unfortunately I was unable to sell all my chickens. have about12 pcs remaining.

as the festive period is over I suggest to continue feeding the chicken but cost of feed is much. I intend to sell them in frozen as full chicken or processed them as sell to frozen food stores.

my questions is.
1. what is the different between the so called OROBO chicken, soft chicken and other chicken because at frozen foods they have different rate per kilo

are broilers called orobo.

2. all those chickens we buy at frozen only broilers, or they consist of old layers, broilers and cockerel.

thank you in advance for your replies. it will help me in making my decision about the remaining chicken.

Thank you boss,
But you why do said I can’t plant maize now @

Sp33i:
It is either you plant maize by September or you plant cassava now. You can not plant maize now

@this is about 2 years ago when I harvested maize on my 1 acre land but looks like my own maize are small. They didn’t come out big. I plant maize and cassava then. Right now there is cassava on the land and it will harvest this month. I mother do the work. I was serving (Nysc). Now I’m done and if she harvest the cassava this month can I still plant maize on the same land. Will I get a good result or I should the soil to recover. I’m in Ogun state. This is the picture for the two years ago maize.

Sp33i:
I find this strange. Focus on shorter duration seeds to be extra sure. Please keep me updated on the weather issue. Because if he rain starts June, does this mean there wont be August break ? I would really like to know

betabread:
Its late to farm maize now, ur crop will meet August break

Pls interplant with cassava to ensure u don't loose too much

Good evening, you mean it’s not advisable to plant corn this period. I’m in Ogun state we are just having steady rain toward ending of May till now.

Op. You doing a great work. Please I want to ask question. I have 2 plots I planted cassava since last year and I want to harvest this month June or next monthly July.

Can I plant corn after I harvest. Or it is late to plan corn cos I can I see in the comment when some said it is late to plant corn now.

thank you all. I appreciate all your responds.

thank you

frozen70:
Its just unfortunate that there is little or nothing you can do

I have such experience in my cage though the birds were for family consumption

In the cage, the first layer was for Agric bird,

the second layer was for native fowl that had her new chicks, they are smarter and can fight any threat to their chicks

and the third layer was for turkeys

So why i added local fowl is because they are smart and can escalate any danger by making noise to alert you

So when those ants came and was biting them, it was the noise of the local fowl that attracted us and it's always at mid night

Even when snake entered the cage, it was the local fowl that drew our attention

The Agric was just there doing nothing as they are not smart by nature

The turkey was also making noise as it was responding to the noise from the native fowl noise

But I discovered that, the bush next to me was where they came from, so for me to survive, I have to clear that bush which I was not ready for

Here to read comments

thank you

Bobodee09:
By making sure your environment is free from anything that will attract solider ants.

thank you

good afternoon my people,

I started a backyard poultry last christmas. I made some money not even to the breakeven point cos I lost some birds to hot temperature. early this year I purchased 10 chicks. I raised them in cage. unfortunately I lost 4 to ants. the cage was mounted by soldier ant (yoruba's call them Erun)

after waking up that morning I quickly went to check them because it rained over night. those ant move in squad. I have to kill them with petrol.

please how can i avoid this in future. because I'm planning to start in large quantity. we moving to our farm land soon and its surrounded with bushes