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all right, let's see how it goes.

jidestroud:

Meat? Naaaa... C'mon, who eats a pet? .

Did you say they're "pets"?
Will they remain as "pets" or later turn "meats"
Let's see how it goes.
Why not get a pet rabbit or two?

jidestroud:
Just recently I decided to get myself a pet and all that I could think of was either a duckling or a turkey poult. After much deliberation, I decided to adopt the two based on availability of the time on my hands and the environment I intend to keep them as pets.


Meet my newly adopted family.
(5 Turkey poults and Duckling)

They already got their names on arrival by the way;
The turkeys
1. Powa
2. Nengi
3. Asuma
4. Nefi
5. Jaga

The Duckling;
1. Qasa

upsupa:
Zero experience in poultry farming or agriculture. Considering starting a commercial poultry somewhere in the southwest for economic purposes only. I have a bunch of questions.

How much capital would be needed?
is it wise to do hybrid? Layers and broilers for commercial success?
how do you guys find buyers?
Is processing broilers accessible easily and what are the costs of processing?

Any answers or pointers will be much appreciated

You're welcome!
All your questions are valid and I will advise that you do a comprehensive research on each of the questions, one way to do this is to use google and YouTube, to get the best answers to these questions, you will need to put in some effort to watch videos and read other people's experiences.

Let me give you a quick answer to the question on buyers: For egg production, buyers will be looking for you. For broiler production, you are the one that will be looking for buyers, except you have a solid contract with a prospective buyer before you start, if not you'll need to look for buyers.

On the question of capital, poultry is extremely capital intensive. If you don't have enough money, please don't start. Even if you're starting with just 100 birds, you will need over a million naira to buy and feed the birds before they start laying. This is just the cost of buying and feeding the birds. Not building the pen and buying the land.

apexquest:

I am about to start my layer farm. plan is for only 300 birds on deep litter (although i was advised to fabricate cages instead).

My problem now is that i am having challenge with accessing a steady supply to wood shavings. All the saw mills around me only have the smooth saw dust like 99% of the time.

question is, how do you cope with shortage in having wood shaves? how dangerous is it to put saw dust? should i just fabricate the cages and avoid possible wahala?

Congratulations on the decision to start!
Brace up for the challenges and rewards ahead

Battery cage system is better and costlier. Though it has its own disadvantages, but in my opinion the advantages sures the disadvantages.

1. For a good deep litter you don't need any constant supply of wood shavings, just get a good amount of wood shavings to sufficiently cover the whole pen to about 2 inches depth, and add some charcoal.

2. Make sure the pen is proper built-in to prevent rain from entering and avoid water slippage from the drinkers.

3. Once this is properly done, just move in your birds and you don't need to add additional wood shavings throughout the production period.

4. This is what I'm currently using. We moved in the birds at about 11 weeks, they're now about 80 weeks, no odour, and litter is very dry.

5. Note: if you don't have enough wood shavings to sufficiently cover the whole pen to a good depth and you can't control water spillage, you'll struggle with terrible odour, and your birds will get sick from time to time.

Conclusion: Battery cage system will save a lot of stress, but you also need to clean up the droppings regularly.

Pelumi28:


Still available

Still available?

aliadi2:
It's easier to cull birds in cages, I don't think you can cull birds on deep litter because how can you know. That's why farm on cages can achieve 100+ weeks production and still profitable, they cull out the ones not laying easier

Exactly my thought, culling makes achieving great result possible...
Thanks so much for your response.

aliadi2:
Nice thread

1. Have been a poultry farmer for about 4 years now
2. Highest have achieved was 99% and average was 90%
3. Feed am using is hipro
4. They're on battery cage but last year when I expanded I tried semi caged just like deep litter, they run around but inside wooden cage and it was disaster just like deep litter, I kept having lots of cracked eggs despite building nest, mortality was high too during heat period and highest production was 85%. Nothing beats battery cage in layers production.

Thanks for sharing your experience with us.
99% Wow! Even 90% is a very good result.
Battery cage system should definitely gives better results to the farmer than deep litter. 85% is a great result in deep litter system in my opinion, since detecting and culling of poor layers may be difficult, but it's very easy to detect and cull poor layers in Battery cage system.

Please I have a few questions for you.
How did you achieve the 99% to 90% production? Did you cull poor layers?
Also, how did your stock your farm, through POL or DOC?

Bodex2000:
Why are battery cages so expensive? I saw one A-Type on Afrimash and they said 400k. It was 180k when I asked a local fabricator.

They're very expensive, particularly the imported ones. I do deep litter system and it's odourless.

Odewaleadesoye:
Your Majesty, Oba Joel Olaniyi Oyatoye Titiloye,

Congratulations on your coronation as the Oloro of Oro! May your reign be blessed with peace, prosperity, and unity for the entire Oro community. I am confident that under your inclusive and transparent leadership, Oro will reach greater heights and thrive in harmony.

May your vision for growth inspire all sons and daughters of Oro to come together for the advancement of our cherished heritage.

Long may you reign in good health and wisdom!

Greetings from a son of the soil, Odewale Adesoye.

Long live the king. God bless Oro.
Are you from Oro?

Exoticrabbits:


Akure, Ondo state

Hi,
Do you still have rabbits for sale?

JayB007:


Pls where are you at? And can you drop your pls

It's sold.

Dhigherson:

Where exactly in akure and drop ur . Am in need of it

@Dhigherson
@saysoo
The poultry is located at Oke Esi zone B extension. Two road leads there; Irese road after orange FM and Orita Obele Estate road.
Telegram name softheart234 or you can drop your own .

saysoo:
The price?

First time selling, what do you think is a fair price?

saysoo:
The bag picture\size and price? Someone needs it.

About 23kg per bag. We have about 100 bags.
Location is Akure, Ondo State.

Greetings farmers,
I don't know if there's anyone who needs poultry manure here. We have about 100+ bags (approx. 23kg per bag) of deep litter system dry manure available for pickup in Akure.

Jeffrey1k:
Hello guys I’m Jeffrey and I’m looking to go into poultry farming but I want to rent a farm. See as it goes. Dm me with location ‪+61 411 964 663‬

I don't have a pen to lease, but others may have.

I will go first.

1. I've been in the actual practice for just a year. So far so good, all glory be to God.
I look forward to learning from other experienced farmers.

2. So far highest was 90%, the average has been 84%

3. Hybrid layer mash, and we have not changed brand yet, but we're open to a better recommendation.

4. The Pen was built for battery cage, but due to the high cost of the cages and financial constraints, we're using the pen for deep litter system.

I look forward to an impactful discussion.

Thanks.

Greetings all.
So for the past few weeks I've been searching the Agriculture section to see if there is any thread dedicated to Layers Poultry Farmers, but I found none. So I'm opening this thread for the purpose.
Please this thread is strictly for Layers Poultry discussion. Please nobody should derail the thread. Thanks and God bless you.

The main stuff I will like to discuss are:

1. Your personal experience as a poultry farmer. How long have you been into actual practice.

2. Percentage production you're able to achieve and how you are able to achieve it.

3. The brand of feed you're currently using, and if you have changed feed brands before, why did you make the change.

4. What type of housing system are you using, Battery cage, Deep litter or any other.

5. Any other important information.

Thanks again.

jidestroud:


Going beautifully well. Apart from the every minute changes in prices of the feeds, I think every other thing is going according to projections. Hopefully, I will be ing some pictures tomorrow.

Thanks for the inquiry.

Thanks for the update. The price of DOC has gone up too. The inflation in the country affect almost all commodities.

How is the project going?
We're waiting for updates. I'm planning to get some ISA Brown DOC soon.

Please what is the price update for commercial pullets?

Opemidipo
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Start placing your order to get all your healthy Day Old chicks from a very reliable and trustworthy source.
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For price updates please call or text the number above.

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WHAT YOU PAY AND BOOK FROM US, IS WHAT YOU GET FROM US.

More Grace sir. I look forward to the success of this layers project.

jidestroud:
In between Updates


Building Their Poultry House
Today I decided to go further by building a pen for the Birds so i can get their cages .
Walahi, country hard ooooo!!!! Prices of materials don over skyrocket. Nevertheless, God power carry am.

Good. God will see you through in the name of JESUS Christ.

PewpewS32:

Hmmm... the road is long before this would happen. 1-2 years. Doing due diligence. Not my first time in a country such as Nigeria. But thank you, sound advice to visit first. Something I am planning to do.

Pew

Back in the days, after I have studied some particular topics very hard, and the lecturers refuses to set questions from the topics, and I'm unable to answer the required number of questions from the available questions. I will set questions for myself from those topics that I had studied hard and answer the questions. I don't care if the examiner will mark them or not, but it's always satisfying that I didn't not study those topics in vain and I didn't leave empty pages of answer scripts.

Anigreat:
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Please think very deep about this decision you're about to make, don't sell anything yet, probably come for a short visit first. Things are not how they seems to be. Except of course if God has instructed you to relocate to Nigeria, if not, think very deep before you leap.

Stay blessed.

PewpewS32:
Nairaland,

Yes, I'm Canadian looking to semi-permanently move to Nigeria for ministry opportunity.

Reading online tells me I'll be fine, but would love to hear a local perspective.

I'll be selling my home, vehicles, furniture... everything and starting over in Nigeria (Lekki, Lagos area).

Everything sold and done I would be coming with around N450,000,000.00 to N500,000,000.00. I know this is a lot in Nigeria. For real, I know. What I would like to know is let's say I don't make any money whatsoever, how long will that last after paying for a 3 bdrm house, car, furniture etc there? Believe me, here in Canada this isn't that much... it's not below poverty, but also not rich either. (Middle Class).

Where do I stand in Nigeria with this much?

Thanks,
Pewpew

I look forward to learning more about raising ISA Brown chicks from day old on this thread.

Thanks in advance.

JESUS Christ is the son of the Living God and He is my Lord and Saviour.
No argument, no controversy. I will tell them the Truth and let them decide what they choose to believe.

I wish I got married at 25.
Got married at 31, No regret at all, except I wish I had married 6 years earlier when I first met my wife, but who knows it may not turn out well, because those 6 years forged me into a more responsible man and my wife gained more emotional maturity too. I told her several times that I wish I married her earlier, but she always replied that I would have married a "baby" who is not mature emotionally.
In all, God made the difference in our marriage and we're deeply grateful to God.

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Veddywhite:
45 acres of farm land for sell in iju itaogbolu
Call 2348166218007

Any idea of the price?

jidestroud:


Nope. Omawunmi (the goat) as known no man. She purely a virgin.

Present Age (A year & 3months of age)
Parent breed (A SR Father & a Sahel mother)
Price: N35k gaskiya.

(Please Not for consumption Biko)

I will gladly buy this and add to my backyard farm. Can you please send to Akure? I will pay for the transport also.
My only fear is, how will the goat safely reach Akure without any harm.

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