Many people would want to venture into poultry farming but have no
idea how. Poultry farming especially chicken farming isn't difficult to start.
You don't even need to start with many chickens.
Most youths leave their fertile lands and other rural areas in
search of employment in Africa only to be disappointed by lack of jobs. Chicken
farming can be your salvation from poverty. Embrace it. It is the simplest
agricultural investment and I will tell you why. I will pass on information
here FREE of charge. Don’t pay me a single coin. My reward is to see you
succeed.
Today I will give lessons on how you as a farmer can be successful
in your chicken project and multiply your flock of chickens. You can rise from
nothing to something. From grass to grace.
How do you go about it? You can start with 10 hens and 2 cocks. You
need to programme these hens to hatch chicks at the same time.
Provide each hen with its nest. Use a plastic basin with grass, wood
shavings or old clothes.
Place one unfertilized egg in each basin or even a boiled egg. This
is to trick them so that they can start being broody. Be sure to dust the nest
with an insecticide powder (carba dust) to keep out parasites.
Mark the eggs placed there with a pencil. Be sure to remove eggs
that are laid but leave the marked eggs in the nest. The collected eggs should
be stored in a cool, dry place not in the kitchen or cupboard. Be sure to write
the date of laying on the eggs with a pencil.
Normally one bird will start sitting on the marked egg (boiled
egg/unfertilized egg) overnight. Leave it for 10 days while it's waiting for
others to start incubating or sitting on eggs.
After 10 days give all hens that would have started sitting on eggs
12 eggs each to incubate. The eggs must have been laid recently.
Leave the hens which may not have started incubating alone. You can
eat the old eggs or sell them. When choosing the eggs for incubation make sure
they are not too small, too big, cracked, dirty, too pointed, round or old eggs
that are more than 10 days old.
Now let's do the maths (economics of production). In this case 80%
of hens can be programmed to lay at the same time. If we have 10 hens then 8
hens can come into brooding at the same time. If each of the 8 hens are given
12 eggs each then that is 96 eggs. Hatchability can be between 80 to 90%. If
90% of the eggs hatch then we get 77 day old chicks.
In a year one bird can hatch 3 or 4 times under normal circumstances
(if it has to raise the chicks) or 7 times in a year if you take away the
chicks after hatching.
Therefore with 10 hens and four hatchings in a year a farmer can get
308 chicks in a year (if mother hen raises chicks) or 539 chicks per year if
mother hen doesn't raise the chicks.
Now tell me my dear brothers and sisters what excuse do you have? Don't you think getting money from chickens is possible? There should be no excuse. If in doubt let me know. I have done my part. May success be your portion. Farm wisely farmers.
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