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kay29000:
We sold 8 chickens the last 2 months, plus the ones we lost to rats. But the 5 hens and one Rooster we currently have are already working hard to repopulate our small poultry fast.

How you dey bro..still raising them chickens? I need to buy some from you. Get in touch let's talk.

[quote author=internetpo post=138740071]How you dey bro..still raising them chickens? I need to buy some from you. Get in touch let's talk.[/quote

How are you doing. Okay. But the ones available right now (about 6 of them) are still at a stage where I an't tell male from female. But I will be able to tell male from female in 2 weeks time.

kay29000:
How are you doing. Okay. But the ones available right now (about 6 of them) are still at a stage where I an't tell male from female. But I will be able to tell male from female in 2 weeks time.

How are you doing?

It's been quite a while.
I hope your chickens are thriving.

truthhurts2:
These hens can't stop surprising...smiles

They've have finally shared these eggs, can I even say shared? No! They've divided them into two, but none is permanently sitting/brooding on one, they're doing it interchangeably (i.e if the white hen sit on eggs A now and the brown hen sit on B, after like 3 hour you will see the white one sitting on B while the brown sitting on A).

In my mind I was like...why are you using the lives of these chicks to gamble? If they sha born you well make you no hatch them, na inside pot both of Una go end.

How is your local chicken rearing going so far?

Mariangeles:
How are you doing?

It's been quite a while.
I hope your chickens are thriving.

I'm fine. Thanks. They are fine, although there was a time rats almost wiped them out. And then my neighbor put rat poison at various places outside his gate. The poison killed lots of rats, but also killed 3 of our adult chickens. But they are reproducing fast.

Mariangeles:
How is your local chicken rearing going so far?

I've updated the main thread, I think 4 days ago or so

[quote author=kay29000 post=138743786][/quote]. Hmm. So we are looking at 2 weeks from today?

So you don't have ones nearing maturity? Please I sent you an email. Pls respond or better yet drop your number. Let's talk on WhatsApp.

internetpo:
. Hmm. So we are looking at 2 weeks from today?

So you don't have ones nearing maturity? Please I sent you an email. Pls respond or better yet drop your number. Let's talk on WhatsApp.

I'll respond to your email, but let me also respond here. No, I don't have any nearing maturity. The ones we had ate rat poison and died. I thought you needed 4-6 weeks old chicks.

truthhurts2:
I've updated the main thread, I think 4 days ago or so

Oh really? Let me see...

truthhurts2:
I started with just five (4 hens and 1 roster) like 7 months ago, now, I have more than 60 of them apart from the 7 of them that died.

@mariangelese

Wow! Your chickens are thriving.


How are you able to keep them from predators?

By the way, I didn't see your mention earlier because you added an extra "e".

kay29000:
I'm fine. Thanks. They are fine, although there was a time rats almost wiped them out. And then my neighbor put rat poison at various places outside his gate. The poison killed lots of rats, but also killed 3 of our adult chickens. But they are reproducing fast.

Chai!

So much predators they have to deal with.

Mariangeles:
Oh really? Let me see...



Wow! Your chickens are thriving.


How are you able to keep them from predators?

By the way, I didn't see your mention earlier because you added an extra "e".

The extra "e" was a mistake and I actually didn't notice.

I really don't have problems with either hawks or any other predators of birds,
or snakes. The one and only predator I'm facing now is CAT. It's really tormenting them, and I even lost one turkey yesterday/today to that devil. Looking for a proper way to terminate his/her life without causing harm to the birds.

Mariangeles:
Chai!

So much predators they have to deal with.

yeah

truthhurts2:
The extra "e" was a mistake and I actually didn't notice.

I really don't have problems with either hawks or any other predators of birds,
or snakes. The one and only predator I'm facing now is CAT. It's really tormenting them, and I even lost one turkey yesterday/today to that devil. Looking for a proper way to terminate his/her life without causing harm to the birds.

Those damn cats!

How about you sell off some of those chickens, so that you don't suffer loss?
Reducing them will make things easier to control.

What do you think?

Mariangeles:
Those damn cats!

How about you sell off some of those chickens, so that you don't suffer loss?
Reducing them will make things easier to control.

What do you think?

You're actually right though, but don't you think controlling their numbers without tackling the REAL danger will still come with losses?


And I can't use poison nor do I have any traps...

truthhurts2:
You're actually right though, but don't you think controlling their numbers without tackling the REAL danger will still come with losses?


And I can't use poison nor do I have any traps...

Selling some off is for your profit. Or are you attached to the chickens?
That will not prevent you from tackling the danger.

Bro you have local hens for sale by the way? Where you located?

Lukuluku69:
Good one Op.

I actually have a Five Year experience in raising Local Chickens. In fact this February makes it the Fifth year and counting.

Started with 2 hens and a Rooster. Named the Two hens Black Gold (because of the colors of her plumage and the rate at which she lays) and the other Yomeye for her Stealthy ways. The Rooster we named Long John.

It has been a ride!

I rear them majorly for their meat and have had occasions where I gifted them to neighbors just for the goodwill.

In between those 5 years, they have produced over 800+ Chicks. While some reach maturity others died at infancy with Cats, Hawks and motorcycles being the Culprits.

I can write a Thesis on them but

internetpo:
Bro you have local hens for sale by the way? Where you located?

Just saw this.

I don't have any presently

Lukuluku69:
Just saw this.

I don't have any presently

Good day, I saw your thread and its quite interesting weldone. i am into mixed local chicken rearing and I can share my experience with your audience if you dont mind, using your platform.
I believe it will also help you in multiplying your farming fast.
Thanks

obamat:
Good day, I saw your thread and its quite interesting weldone. i am into mixed local chicken rearing and I can share my experience with your audience if you dont mind, using your platform.
I believe it will also help you in multiplying your farming fast.
Thanks

Good day, it is actually not my thread but someone's else, I only shared my experience on the thread and I think you can too.

Feel free to share your experience/experiences.

Lukuluku69:
Good day, it is actually not my thread but someone's else, I only shared my experience on the thread and I think you can too.

Feel free to share your experience/experiences.

Mine is a semi free range system for my chicken with a model of mixed breed of local and noiler in other to get more value for the effort put in place to raise the chicken. This style made my chicks to come out bigger than normal local chicken and they still have the nature of the local chickens.
I started with one female and 2 male chicks that I picked from my mums garden and they started multiplying.
I have raised multiple chicken and sold many.
I dont buy chicken nor egg in my house for years now

My chicken behind my house

Good evening house. Thank you so much for this thread. I have been following it gradually and learning also from it. So I started mine too from Kaduna then moved to Abuja.

I bought 2 local hens and mixed it with our family's noilers and brahma. When they had eggs, i took it to incubator for hatching. After hatching, I relocated to Abuja with them.

Unfortunately I have no male rooster. I've told someone in Kaduna to help me find a noiler or brahma rooster so i can start brooding. Although they lay eggs but it can't be hatched because no male presence.

I constructed a cage for them before I fenced the space I actually want them to only roam in. They were 11 in total, 7 thet were hatched from machine, then 3 from natural hatch. Although 3 died as a result of them staying in the cage and got pecked by the local hen.

I've attached pictures too.

Pic 1 is the little fence I did so they won't cross and litter my compound all the time.

Pic 2 is the space I want them to use anytime I open them from there cage.

Please someone should create a WhatsApp platform for us to share experiences.

I will update as time goes on too.

Kay29000, lukukuku. Thank you for what you have shared with us.

Hidaya24:
Good evening house. Thank you so much for this thread. I have been following it gradually and learning also from it. So I started mine too from Kaduna then moved to Abuja.

I bought 2 local hens and mixed it with our family's noilers and brahma. When they had eggs, i took it to incubator for hatching. After hatching, I relocated to Abuja with them.

Unfortunately I have no male rooster. I've told someone in Kaduna to help me find a noiler or brahma rooster so i can start brooding. Although they lay eggs but it can't be hatched because no male presence.

I constructed a cage for them before I fenced the space I actually want them to only roam in. They were 11 in total, 7 thet were hatched from machine, then 3 from natural hatch. Although 3 died as a result of them staying in the cage and got pecked by the local hen.

I've attached pictures too.

Pic 1 is the little fence I did so they won't cross and litter my compound all the time.

Pic 2 is the space I want them to use anytime I open them from there cage.

Please someone should create a WhatsApp platform for us to share experiences.

I will update as time goes on too.

Kay29000, lukukuku. Thank you for what you have shared with us.

Wow! This is nice. Yoi have nice space for them. Try and get a rooster asap.

Good day to you all. I have 10 mature local chickens for sell in Lagos (Egneda-Idimu area).

They are just 4-6 weeks away from full maturity. 3 female, 7 male.

The male are going for 6k each, and the female going for 8k.

You can respond below if interested, or reach me via the phone number in my profile.

My First Successful Hatch — 18 Chicks! 🐣🐔
Thank you once again to Poster Kay9000 for this wonderful and very educative thread. I've been following the experiences shared here and learning a lot from everyone's successes, mistakes and, of course, the many battles with cats, rats and other predators. 😂
So, I thought I'd share my own little update.
I currently have a small flock that I'm gradually building, and one of my hens has just hatched 18 chicks — my first successful natural hatch! 🥳🐣
The funny thing is that this hen practically conducted the entire operation behind my back. 😂
She had been laying eggs without me knowing exactly where she was putting them. Meanwhile, I was happily picking the other eggs I could find, completely unaware that Madam had her own private breeding programme going on somewhere.
Then one day, she disappeared.
I searched around but couldn't find her and honestly thought a cat had gotten to her. Considering the stories I've read about cats and poultry, I wasn't surprised.
Fortunately, I later discovered that she had simply gone into hiding to brood.
A labourer I hired to clear some of the surroundings helped me locate her hiding place. From that point, I started keeping a close watch over her and making sure nothing disturbed her.
And then... Voila! 18 chicks! 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣
I honestly wasn't expecting that many.
This is the first hatch from all the birds I'm currently rearing, so seeing that little army of chicks following their mother around has been a very satisfying moment.
It hasn't been completely smooth sailing, though.
On the very day she hatched the chicks, a cat decided to pay us a visit. 😡
The cat apparently saw an opportunity and made a move towards the chicks, but luckily I noticed it in time and intervened before it could do any damage.
After reading all the stories here about people losing entire broods to cats and rats overnight, I'm now taking the security of these little ones very seriously. 😂
At the moment, one other hen is still sitting on 5 eggs, so hopefully I'll have another batch soon.
I've also put about 22 eggs into an incubator, so if everything goes well, there should be many more little feet running around here in the coming weeks.
From one hen secretly laying eggs somewhere I didn't know about, disappearing and making me think she'd been taken by a predator, to suddenly presenting me with 18 chicks...
I'd say she deserves the award for "Best Kept Secret" in my poultry project. 😂🐔🐣
Thank you again, Kay9000, and everyone contributing to this thread. Reading about other people's experiences has genuinely helped me understand what I'm getting myself into.
The journey continues. 🐔🐣🌱

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Hi hidaya24 what does the incubating period entails..is it stressful,can I do it myself?

I want to experiment it with eggs from my noellas

Hidaya24:
My First Successful Hatch — 18 Chicks! 🐣🐔
Thank you once again to Poster Kay9000 for this wonderful and very educative thread. I've been following the experiences shared here and learning a lot from everyone's successes, mistakes and, of course, the many battles with cats, rats and other predators. 😂
So, I thought I'd share my own little update.
I currently have a small flock that I'm gradually building, and one of my hens has just hatched 18 chicks — my first successful natural hatch! 🥳🐣
The funny thing is that this hen practically conducted the entire operation behind my back. 😂
She had been laying eggs without me knowing exactly where she was putting them. Meanwhile, I was happily picking the other eggs I could find, completely unaware that Madam had her own private breeding programme going on somewhere.
Then one day, she disappeared.
I searched around but couldn't find her and honestly thought a cat had gotten to her. Considering the stories I've read about cats and poultry, I wasn't surprised.
Fortunately, I later discovered that she had simply gone into hiding to brood.
A labourer I hired to clear some of the surroundings helped me locate her hiding place. From that point, I started keeping a close watch over her and making sure nothing disturbed her.
And then... Voila! 18 chicks! 🐣🐣🐣🐣🐣
I honestly wasn't expecting that many.
This is the first hatch from all the birds I'm currently rearing, so seeing that little army of chicks following their mother around has been a very satisfying moment.
It hasn't been completely smooth sailing, though.
On the very day she hatched the chicks, a cat decided to pay us a visit. 😡
The cat apparently saw an opportunity and made a move towards the chicks, but luckily I noticed it in time and intervened before it could do any damage.
After reading all the stories here about people losing entire broods to cats and rats overnight, I'm now taking the security of these little ones very seriously. 😂
At the moment, one other hen is still sitting on 5 eggs, so hopefully I'll have another batch soon.
I've also put about 22 eggs into an incubator, so if everything goes well, there should be many more little feet running around here in the coming weeks.
From one hen secretly laying eggs somewhere I didn't know about, disappearing and making me think she'd been taken by a predator, to suddenly presenting me with 18 chicks...
I'd say she deserves the award for "Best Kept Secret" in my poultry project. 😂🐔🐣
Thank you again, Kay9000, and everyone contributing to this thread. Reading about other people's experiences has genuinely helped me understand what I'm getting myself into.
The journey continues. 🐔🐣🌱

Congratulations!! @ Op PLEASE keep this thread alive.

Caaz:
Hi hidaya24 what does the incubating period entails..is it stressful,can I do it myself?

I want to experiment it with eggs from my noellas

Good morning. Well, when i started in Kaduna Last year with two hens, one hatched 4 chicks and the other laid 15 eggs, i took the 15 of them to indubator and only 11 hatched. When they were 2 months old, i transported them to Abuja together with the hens and her 3 surviving kids. Along the line, 7 died as a result my mistake, i mixed them up in one cage and the mature hens were pecking the juveniles until they had head injury and did not survive. So i seperated them and started opening the cage for them every morning, by evening, they will all troop back in. The mature ones go up while the young ones stay down. When they started laying again, the one that laid 15 eggs in kaduna chose a secret spot and laid a whooping 20, she hatched 18 between 27, 28 and 29 August, 2026. One chick is dead currently.

As for the other eggs i was picking up, i have taken 27 total eggs to incubator the incubator. 12 first on the 14 Aug, then 10 later for hens while i bought 5 turkey eggs and decided to experiment. So this Friday i should be expecting the incubator farmer to call me with some good news.

So that is what i can say for now regarding incubator.

Hidaya24:
Good morning. Well, when i started in Kaduna Last year with two hens, one hatched 4 chicks and the other laid 15 eggs, i took the 15 of them to indubator and only 11 hatched. When they were 2 months old, i transported them to Abuja together with the hens and her 3 surviving kids. Along the line, 7 died as a result my mistake, i mixed them up in one cage and the mature hens were pecking the juveniles until they had head injury and did not survive. So i seperated them and started opening the cage for them every morning, by evening, they will all troop back in. The mature ones go up while the young ones stay down. When they started laying again, the one that laid 15 eggs in kaduna chose a secret spot and laid a whooping 20, she hatched 18 between 27, 28 and 29 August, 2026. One chick is dead currently.

As for the other eggs i was picking up, i have taken 27 total eggs to incubator the incubator. 12 first on the 14 Aug, then 10 later for hens while i bought 5 turkey eggs and decided to experiment. So this Friday i should be expecting the incubator farmer to call me with some good news.

So that is what i can say for now regarding incubator.

Where is the incubator farmer in Abuja? I do raise local chicken too but I dont have much space so I allow them to roam. But the rate of stealing them is getting too much now. If I have 6 cocks from from a brood, I might end up eating only 3 or 4. At least, 2 must be lost to theives. I even tie uniform pieces of cloth on their wings, still the thif keep stealing my chichen. I would release them in the morning, they would come home like 4 times during the day for lunch but before we put them in the cage in the evening, some would not come home again and it's more of the big cock. Sometimes even hens too.
I cannot keep cock for long now, once they start crowing, i have to slaughter them no matter how small the are and even at that, it is still a competition who gets it first.

Ameboperoo:
Where is the incubator farmer in Abuja? I do raise local chicken too but I dont have much space so I allow them to roam. But the rate of stealing them is getting too much now. If I have 6 cocks from from a brood, I might end up eating only 3 or 4. At least, 2 must be lost to theives. I even tie uniform pieces of cloth on their wings, still the thif keep stealing my chichen. I would release them in the morning, they would come home like 4 times during the day for lunch but before we put them in the cage in the evening, some would not come home again and it's more of the big cock. Sometimes even hens too.
I cannot keep cock for long now, once they start crowing, i have to slaughter them no matter how small the are and even at that, it is still a competition who gets it first.

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