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After over 10 years of abandoning this business, my mum has decided to pick it up again (yes, she is the one brooding not me).

Ive decided to post this here for possible future reference. I didn't pay much attention when i was younger

On this thread, i will share what is cost to start this business from scratch, and i will also share daily updates to enable anyone to use this as a practical guide to start their own business.

Follow this thread if you're interested

Items bought to start the busines

1 four cartons of agrited broilers - 74,000
2 charcoal pit - 1500
3 feed - 11500
4 Feeder(6) & drinker(5) - 6600
5 1 bag of charcoal - 6000
6 1 and half divider board - 4500
7 kerosene lamps(2) - 6000
8 drugs (glucose, vitamin, antibiotics) - 3100
9 iron net for covering pit (2) - 1000
10 old newspapers - 500

Pics of their home

Edit:
I never imagined this thread will get to front page.
I really appreciate the input of everyone so far, i have learnt a great deal.

However, It is worthy to note that we are based in Rivers state and the weather here is usually rainy and cold.

Most people have quoted me saying the birds cost a lot. The best explanation for that is... Cement in okpella, benin, is 4,010 while it is 5000 in my vicinity.

Pro tip:
-Dont use kerosene lamps
-Change feeders as they grow
-Ventilate their house properly
- 2 months is an okay time frame for them to mature

The following monickers gave me useful corrections which i have considered and will implement subsequently. So you can look out for their comments on the thread:
Olujobasamuel, papilo90, boldbrainz (the harsh one )




Im sorry if i didn't reply your mention, i was overwhelmed my comments.

Day 1

When the birds arrived, we put the newspapers on the floor and gave them glucose water -for strength- to drink.

After about 10 minutes, we threw some feed on the floor for them to snack on.

10 minutes later, we put food in their feeder and gave them to eat.


In the night we heated their house with charcoal and lighted it up with the kerosene lamps...till day break. (Their house hasn't been wired yet).

Note: the charcoal pit in the pic below is not the one that was bought for 1500

Day 2
One of the birds died

We heated up their house this morning because it rained.

We changed thier drinking water and gave them vitamins + antibiotics. One spoon each in two full drinkers.

Following

They are much ooo over 50 birds

Blitzking:
They are much ooo over 50 birds

Yeah. 200 to be precise. As time goes on, we would remove the partition to create more room.

coldzobo:

Yeah. 200 to be precise. As time goes on, we would remove the partition to create more room.

That's great..200birds for 74k that good

Following

Day 3
Another bird died

We gave them food and refilled their drinkers with water...same muxture of Medicine.
We also made sure thier home was heated up with charcoal whenever it was cold

Day 4 August 21
sadly, another birth died

Gave them food and water with the usual drug mixture.

Day 5
No bird died today yay!
They are feeding fine and growing rapidly.

But...

They are sick with cough. I dont know if its because of the cold weather, but we are taking care of it.

We bought anthoval (cough medicine for birds) and added it to their normal mixture of antibiotics and vitamins

We also bought 1 and half bag of charcoal(the first one got finished) - 8,750

They've almost finished the first bag of food we bought for them so we are planning on getting two more bags.

Following

Day 6
We changed the newspapers on the floor today.

Gave them food and water. (Same mixture of drugs)

Day 7
Another bird died, but by accident.
Dead bird count = 4

Always make sure to wash your drinkers when you want to give them fresh water.

We've given them food and water for today. Mixture of drug remains:
Multivitamin + antibiotics+ anthoval(not tylodox)

Well done!

What's the name of the brand of feed you are feeding them?

Btw, CRD could be because of cold or they chicks could inherit them from their parents

Hallams:
Well done!

What's the name of the brand of feed you are feeding them?

Btw, CRD could be because of cold or the chicks could inherit them from their parents

We give them ultima feed
Yeah. My mum thinks its the bolded

coldzobo:

We give them ultima feed
Yeah. My mum thinks its the bolded

Ultima is a nice brand. I haven't tried Ross 308 before but I hope to try my hands on them soon. Keep updating us sha. God bless you!

Hallams:
Ultima is a nice brand. I haven't tried Ross 308 before but I hope to try my hands on them soon. Keep updating us sha. God bless you!

Okay thanks

Very impressive!

Akposkiz:
Very impressive!

Thanks

Day 8
Today makes it a week since the birds arrived so we got them vaccinated.

The name of the vaccine we gave them is called Gomboro. It costs #1,100

Giving your birds vaccine can be very, very dangerous if you're not careful. Like, it can actually kill them.

Here are some tips to your birds vaccine the right way:
1. Open the bottle of vaccine inside the bucket of water. (See pic below)

2. deprive your chicks of water the night before. This makes them so thirsty that they drink the vaccine in a short period of time.

3. Its advisable to give your birds vaccine in the morning before the sun makes their house hot.

4. Keep heat away from their house during vaccination. If you can, open their doors for proper ventilation.

5. Their vaccine should be istered in a Maximum of 2 hrs. Wether they finish or not, one its two hours, remove it. (This is why you need to starve them)

6. Dont pour the vaccine on the ground when istering. This could lead to overdose and then kill your birds.

7. Dispose left over water outside your house. including the one you used to wash the drinkers after giving the the vaccine

8. After giving them the vaccine, wait for like an hour before giving them ordinary water (no drugs inside)

Pic 1 Gomboro vaccine

How we gave them vaccine today.

We put one and half big eva of water inside a bucket and mixed a sachet of cowbell milk and the vaccine inside.

They finished it in less than 20 mins.

We waited for about an hour before we gave them ordinary water and food

Pic 1 Open the vaccine inside the milk water
Pic 2 when they were waiting for the vaccine
Pic 3 when they were drinking the vaccine

Day 9/day 10 update

After the day of their vaccination, we continued giving them water with their normal mixture of drugs.

They are eating a lot now.
We feed them morning, afternoon and night.

Can you imagine that they've finished two bags of feed, going to three in less than two weeks ?

Day 11 update.

We are about to stop putting charcoal for them.

We gave them food and water with their normal mixture of drugs.

Day 12
Their cough is almost gone...praise the lord somebody

This is a big deal because people don't like buying birds that have cough.

In addition to thier anthoval medicine, we bought super tylosin 20/20 and it worked wonders (see pic below)

Yesterday i said we are about to stop buying charcoal for them, well, we went ahead to buy another half bag for them ....they still need heat.

We gave them food and mixed only super tylosin in their water (dont ask me why)

How to differentiate between the male chicken and the female chicken

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Well this is quite easy. You can tell by looking at their very obvious aesthetics.

The male:

They usually have a protruded behind
Their tail is usually short

The female:
Their behind is not as protruded as the male They have longer tails

Pic 1 and 2 = males
Pic 2 and 3 = females

Day 13
Do you know what happens when you starve your broilers of food for too long ?

They begin to eat themselves... Literally.

They pick a target chick and pick its skin till breaks and blood starts oozing out, then they guzzle it down like vampires

We had an incident today so we had to quickly apply Gv on the affected bird.

Later, we found out that they picked on the same bird again and feasted on it.

we had to apply Gv on quite a number of them so they wouldn't be able to identify that particular one.

Broilers !!!

We gave them food and mixed multi vitamins, and super tylosin in their water

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Good

Well-done.