HOW TO START CHICKEN FARMING 🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓
Chicken farming is one of the most suitable business for those who are passionate about animal rearing and comfortable with farm life. It's a higly profitable business if you run it in the most appropriate manner, which provides a conducive environment to the birds.
Before you start this business, you need to do the following;
1. Learn more about the business
This is the most important. You need to learn about keeping chicken. The best way to learn is to follow my day to day posts and also try to investigate why other farmers are making a lot of profits while others are recording tremendous loses.
2. Get to know that it entails hard work and patience.
Like any other business, chicken farming is not a lazy man's business. You need to be ready to do things at their right time and perfectly. This include vaccination, giving food, water and removing their waste from their coop.
3. Determine the breed, type of production and the number of birds you wanna start with.
It's good to know the kind of breed you want, how long they take to mature, the quantity of feeds they take daily and whether you want to keep for meat or eggs. For complete beginners, start with a minimum number. 5, 10, 50 or 100 is enough for proper management and to avoid loses and also to avoid a lot of expenses.
4. Construct a house or a structure
This will provide the chickens with the required shelter and also offer security to them. A good structure should have enough space to avoid congestion. 4 squire feet space per bird is the best. This means that if you wanna keep 100 chickens, the house should have a space of 400 square feet (100 × 4 ).
5. Purchase required tools and equipments.
This will help you to run the business peacefully and successfully. The tools will help in general cleaning of the house while the equipments ( feeders, drinkers, lighting instruments and egg trays) will help in feeding, drinking and collecting eggs.
7. Purchase the chickens. 🐓🐓🐓🐓
