Post by Trade Coach on Jul 18, 2021 14:42:27 GMT 1
How To Start A Profitable Poultry Farm Business In Nigeria – Beginners’ Guide
With this article, we are starting a series on poultry farm business in Nigeria. We will start from the very beginning so that those who have never practiced the business at before partake and gain from it.
It is really going to be a long guide spanning several articles, but it is going to be worth it. You will enjoy every bit of the epic guide.
If you follow our articles on this poultry farming business, it will surely help you a lot because it will be based on beginners; so it will surely help you in setting up your own poultry farm business.
This business has proven to be lucrative in Nigeria today, as you may be aware; the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is solidly behind using agriculture to diversify the economy.
He has severally intervened in the provision of maize to force the price of poultry feeds down for the interest of poultry farmers in the country.
The major reason is that almost all religions in the country eat poultry and poultry products.
No matter where you live, as far as you are willing and interested in going into the business of poultry farming, you can start, and it will surely become a new source of income for you and your family.
For the purpose of our guide, poultry farming means raising different types of domestic birds commercially for the purpose of getting meat, eggs and other products like feather.
Though we will eventually deal with all the aspects of poultry in the guide, we are going to start with chicken.
Chicken meat and eggs are not new in most families in Nigeria, in our rural settings all over the country; you hardly enter into any family compound without finding one type of poultry farm or another of varying sizes.
Chicken are already an integral part of our lives, chicken’s products are among the major sources of animal protein. Many families I know today get all their protein needs from their small scale poultry farms started at their backyards.
Poultry farms you see everywhere is evidence that big commercial poultry farms make a lot of money from the business. The government is always intervening in making maize available for the poultry feed producers to force down the cost of poultry feeds.
Poultry farming is one of the fastest growing and most profitable agricultural businesses in Nigeria today. The government pays great attention to it; it is the greatest provider of protein for the average Nigerian family.
This is an interesting business, but a lot of people fail because of lack of proper knowledge which you can get from being well trained.
Our company specializes in training people who are interested in making success of their agricultural and export businesses. You only need to contact the admin of this forum and you will get all the details you need to do the training.
How Can You Start poultry Farm as a Beginner?
Let’s face it; in the current world of high-level internet penetration, a lot of people watch YouTube videos and use what they see there to take actions on their farms.
There is nothing bad in it, but sometimes it backfires when you view and come out with the wrong knowledge or ideas.
For you to take the advice of anybody on poultry farming, you must be sure that the person is really experienced in the business. Many people talk about the business from what they read from books and watched on videos.
You can start your poultry farming with either chicken or turkey. There are various types of chicken you can start with, they come in the form of:
Egg producers
Meat birds, and
Dual-purpose birds
Let us look at them now.
Types of Chicken You can start with:
Practically, poultry farmers in Nigeria concentrate on these types of chicken for convenience:
Broilers
Cockerel
Noilers
In our next article in the series, we are going to break them down to explain in details what each means and how you can key into the project profitably.
We are assuming that our members and others that are going to use this guide are really interested in going into this business to become efficient poultry farmers and producers.
If you stay with us you will benefit from the guide.
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