Post by Trade Coach on Nov 10, 2021 15:29:52 GMT 1
These Are Critical Things You Must Be Aware Of Before Engaging In Poultry Farming. Don’t Neglect Them If You Want To Succeed In The Business
Some mistakes cannot be unmade in poultry farming. It is like a broken bone that never heals completely. The pain tends to resurface when the season comes again.
It is tough to go through such difficult times in poultry farming, especially beginners coming into the business newly. It is very painful seeing them making the same mistakes that cost other people so much in the past.
Please take time and follow us painstakingly in this post to avoid making the same mistakes. So, follow us right away:
Listen to us and listen very carefully to number 1 point: nothing can substitute for knowledge or training when it comes to poultry farming. There is no amount of capital you can put into the business or anything else that can take the place of training in poultry farming.
Please go and register yourself in a reputable farming institute to get all the training you can get; it can never be too much.
In poultry business, lack of knowledge and training can be as disastrous as any bad event that can happen to any farmer. I still see newbies going into the business without obtaining any training.
Look at this scenario, if you cannot detect a sick bird in time, before you know what is happening the situation has become critical; and your whole flock can be wiped off.
Send your workers to attend on-the-job training often, so that they can get first class training, if you are not an expert, do not handle the training yourself, hand them over to experts. Whatever you spend on their training will come back to you four-folds.
Number 2: Please know it today! Production of birds is not more important than marketing. In my early days in poultry farming, I used to think that procuring and producing birds is more important than marketing them.
No. Production is not more important than marketing, you must be sure that you have your sure market and buyers before the maturity of your birds; this way you will not get stranded with birds you cannot sell.
You should be very careful when dealing with broilers, broilers are birds raised for meat production, and it can reach market size in about 6 weeks. If you fail to get buyers before the maturity date of your broilers, you will be stuck and may be forced to sell your birds below normal price.
If you continue keeping the birds after maturity, you will continue to incur more expenses feeding them. These are extra expenses and can balloon the cost of the broiler chicken.
This is the reason why you should look for buyers before the maturity of your birds. I will advise that you should invest more in advertising and marketing than production.
To back my argument that you should concentrate more on marketing than production is that, if you do marketing and get excess buyers you can always help market that of someone else while waiting for yours to be ready for the market.
Number 3: Biosecurity is one of the most important things you can do in poultry farming. Medication cannot take the place of sanitation or cleanliness. Bio-security is extremely very importation because it can cause entire flock to be wiped off instantly.
Medication has very limited effect if your farm is dirty; sanitation should take the first place in your farm. Prevention is better than cure, they say. Don’t believe that medicines can solve all problems, sanitation and bio-security can help you solve many problems without applying drugs.
You must also effectively vaccinate your birds; not just anyhow and haphazardly, there are times and periods to administer vaccines and other medications. Adhere to the rules and your problems will be limited.
You must vaccinate against Newcastle disease, Gumboro, fowl typhoid, and fowl pox. Please endeavour to regularly contact your veterinarian to treat your birds before situations get out of hand.
You should know that broilers and layers have different schedules of vaccination, do not mix everything up, and if you do you will ruin your farm. This is the reason why we advocated that you should get proper training; don’t take anything for granted.
Please digest the training in this article as it is very important. Do not joke with issues concerning your poultry farm, there is nothing concerning spirits or religion, everything in agriculture is science in modern times. There are vaccines, multi-vitamins and other drugs that you must follow carefully in order to obtain the best results.
Don’t forget my dear farmers, bio-security breach is as much dangerous as any diseases in poultry farming; be careful at all times and don’t compromise standards.
Poultry farming is very lucrative and can make you a lot of money in no distant time, but you must put in the work before reaping the profit.
We are going to continue the next article on the remaining points out of the eight immediately.
One of the beauties of poultry farming, especially broiler farming is that you can enter into the business anytime you want. The market is there for you at any time you are ready.
Some mistakes cannot be unmade in poultry farming. It is like a broken bone that never heals completely. The pain tends to resurface when the season comes again.
It is tough to go through such difficult times in poultry farming, especially beginners coming into the business newly. It is very painful seeing them making the same mistakes that cost other people so much in the past.
Please take time and follow us painstakingly in this post to avoid making the same mistakes. So, follow us right away:
Listen to us and listen very carefully to number 1 point: nothing can substitute for knowledge or training when it comes to poultry farming. There is no amount of capital you can put into the business or anything else that can take the place of training in poultry farming.
Please go and register yourself in a reputable farming institute to get all the training you can get; it can never be too much.
In poultry business, lack of knowledge and training can be as disastrous as any bad event that can happen to any farmer. I still see newbies going into the business without obtaining any training.
Look at this scenario, if you cannot detect a sick bird in time, before you know what is happening the situation has become critical; and your whole flock can be wiped off.
Send your workers to attend on-the-job training often, so that they can get first class training, if you are not an expert, do not handle the training yourself, hand them over to experts. Whatever you spend on their training will come back to you four-folds.
Number 2: Please know it today! Production of birds is not more important than marketing. In my early days in poultry farming, I used to think that procuring and producing birds is more important than marketing them.
No. Production is not more important than marketing, you must be sure that you have your sure market and buyers before the maturity of your birds; this way you will not get stranded with birds you cannot sell.
You should be very careful when dealing with broilers, broilers are birds raised for meat production, and it can reach market size in about 6 weeks. If you fail to get buyers before the maturity date of your broilers, you will be stuck and may be forced to sell your birds below normal price.
If you continue keeping the birds after maturity, you will continue to incur more expenses feeding them. These are extra expenses and can balloon the cost of the broiler chicken.
This is the reason why you should look for buyers before the maturity of your birds. I will advise that you should invest more in advertising and marketing than production.
To back my argument that you should concentrate more on marketing than production is that, if you do marketing and get excess buyers you can always help market that of someone else while waiting for yours to be ready for the market.
Number 3: Biosecurity is one of the most important things you can do in poultry farming. Medication cannot take the place of sanitation or cleanliness. Bio-security is extremely very importation because it can cause entire flock to be wiped off instantly.
Medication has very limited effect if your farm is dirty; sanitation should take the first place in your farm. Prevention is better than cure, they say. Don’t believe that medicines can solve all problems, sanitation and bio-security can help you solve many problems without applying drugs.
You must also effectively vaccinate your birds; not just anyhow and haphazardly, there are times and periods to administer vaccines and other medications. Adhere to the rules and your problems will be limited.
You must vaccinate against Newcastle disease, Gumboro, fowl typhoid, and fowl pox. Please endeavour to regularly contact your veterinarian to treat your birds before situations get out of hand.
You should know that broilers and layers have different schedules of vaccination, do not mix everything up, and if you do you will ruin your farm. This is the reason why we advocated that you should get proper training; don’t take anything for granted.
Please digest the training in this article as it is very important. Do not joke with issues concerning your poultry farm, there is nothing concerning spirits or religion, everything in agriculture is science in modern times. There are vaccines, multi-vitamins and other drugs that you must follow carefully in order to obtain the best results.
Don’t forget my dear farmers, bio-security breach is as much dangerous as any diseases in poultry farming; be careful at all times and don’t compromise standards.
Poultry farming is very lucrative and can make you a lot of money in no distant time, but you must put in the work before reaping the profit.
We are going to continue the next article on the remaining points out of the eight immediately.
One of the beauties of poultry farming, especially broiler farming is that you can enter into the business anytime you want. The market is there for you at any time you are ready.