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Lol, OP said level of understanding, not just about speaking and writing but the ability to decode the message being passed

you can try osogbo

Hello professional farmers,
I intend going into irrigation this dry season but i want to ask if i can use the water drained from my fish pond can be used as irrigation.

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I would like to have a backyard tomato farm dis dry season, what form of irrigation are you using?

Plesse how much to clear 1999 toyota avensis?

Hello house, I have a set of battery cage that is vacant and i intend using it to raise broilers. Is it advisable i go ahead cos i see most broiler farmers use deep litter.

i lost the lamb this morning

Mizwisdom:
The females won't give problem it's the Buck which will cause major problem. If I saw this post earlier I would have advised you not to buy a Buck. When you want to breed, you take your goat for breeding then return it to your farm. Male goats are stubborn and they smell offensive, if you've already bought him separate him from the doe

male goats are stubborn but you can't continue taking your goat to anoda farm when you want to breed. Also male goats tend to grow faster and they sell at a higher price than the female

jidestroud:
How's your lamb doing? Any update?

she is still alive o. i use coal pot to provide heat. it is still stooling tho'. i will send pictures soon

jidestroud:
Quite unfortunate. So sorry about the loss. I'm still new in the business, but I know you'll get best replies soonest.

bro, can i get a whatsapp contact?

noblefarm:
Zero tillage is very possible but pls and pls check the land and be sure its not a hard soil, use a stick and press it on the soil if it can go down up to 4" without the use of force then something like maize, beans, soybeans etc can go

my thoughts exactly.

Good morning to everyone. my sheep gave birth to a lamb last thursday and on tuesday i noticed the mother is convulsing and she eventually died. i have been mixing milk and grounded soya beans to feed the lamb but early this morning i noticed the lamb is stooling. i have administered tetracycline. so i would like to ask if anybody has cared for an orphaned lamb before to please give me suggestions on how best to care for the lamb. Thank you

UPDATE .

stefanwolf1:
how many bags of feed can 1000 layer eat per week

they should eat 5 bags per day

Nice one bro, but i feel the cost of land preparation is on the high side. Are there fellow farmers in the area?Maybe you can make enquiries from them so you don't pay too much for labour. Following

What do you feed your snails?

EMMAACHILE:
Meaning two females and a male have produced only three kids for you for about two years now. You only consolation is the cost of raising them.
Imagine another person raising pigs at the same time!

Mr Jidestroud should take note. Goats are best reared free range or where an extensive folder system is used mixed with fast crops like moringa. But our local goats are a real con to commercial production.

pig farming is more profitable from what i have heard but it requires more capital. Also depending on the area you have to look at the market, availability of feed e.t.c. and also goat farmjng does not really require much attention unlike pig farming. My opinion tho'

jidestroud:
@majralph

Wow, I so impressed I started this thread after all. Also, I don't mind fetching from your wealth of experience.
What's your population like since 2016?
Any major tips you would like to share with me?

6 goats o. Should have been 10 (6 kids from my first female goat and a kid from the 2nd one). I lost 3 and i sold 1. You dont have male goat o. Get one on time so it would mature quickly for reproduction or do you intend getting a matured male goat?

EMMAACHILE:
How many do you have now? Can you say you are making profit from the farm?
Goat farming has been likened to grass cutter rearing meaning its not profitable as they take too long to rear with very poor feed convert ratio.

I have not raised them intensively before but have a classmate in Lagos who raised them before. They are also prone to sickness in intensive care.

Veteran farmers will tell you its better to raise a ram to a goat because of the fast weight gain of rams/sheep.

i have six goats now, 5 females and 1 male. i lost 3 kids last year due to poor management. I did not have a place to rear them when i bought them so i kept them with my neighbour. I lost the first two kids in his care and also one of the 2nd set of kids so i made a place for them and brought them to my own place. I also bought one female goat, a ram and a sheep to the farm.Recently i sold the male goat i bought at the start of the farm when i was broke and i got 17500 for it even though i could have gotten more if i had the patience to wait. I can say i am making profit because the only amount i spend on feeding is 400 per month for a bag of dried cassava peels. As i stated earlier i interchange with cassava leaves, grass and also there is a tree called ayiwere tree(i dont know the english name) and they enjoy eating the leaves. They like banana leaves also and palm fronds. And all these are readily available in my area hence there is low cost of feeding which makes it profitable.

Here is a pix of my farm

excanny:
How much does it cost you to get them and how long do they last?

Casting my mind to my late grannies, I remember as a child visiting them in the village and seeing the goats being fed only grass cut from the bushes. So zero cost on feeding cos my grandpa used to carry large grasses on his bicycle home to his goat ranch every 2 days. Seems profitable if he spends so little on their feeding.

Do goats still eat grass?

I got my goat weaners for 6000 each in 2016. Presently they are being sold for about 8000. I started my goat farm when a neighbour informed me of a friend who needs money and wants to sell off his weaners. I will attach pictures soon. Goats still eat grass o. But i do interchange with cassava peels so they don't get addicted to just one type of feed.

Good morning here, i am following your thread @ Jidestroud. I have a small backyard goat pen too. I feed with cassava peels and leaves and palmfronds

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baby came in this afternoon around 2:45

Location?

Good evening house, i know this thread is strictly for catfish farming but i want to know the reason y catfish is more preferred than tilapia in fish farming