How to Make Money From Local Chicken
Local chickens are Indigenous chickens breeds that are cheap to be raised and provide proteins to rural people. These chickens are characterized by disease resistant and low cost of feeding. They can be raised on free range or semi-intensive system. This article will take a look at how you can make money from the local chickens.
To realize more money from local chicken farming, you should start with a minimum of 20 local chickens and by the end of twelve months you will likely have over 300 local chickens, which is quick great.
How 20 Local Chickens could give 300 Chickens
As we have said above, you should at least buy 20 local chickens. We recommend that all the 20 chickens should be hens that are ready to lay and on top of these 20 hens, you should add 3 mature cocks, totaling 23 local chickens as our start up number.
You should try to maintain the recommended cock to hen ratio of 1: 7–10 for fertilization purposes, so that the laid eggs could be hatched.
Summary on how our 300 chickens will be achieved
During the first month since we bought point of lay hens, they will likely lay eggs during their first month. Thus, month 1, they lay.
During their second month most of the hens will be incubating and hatching. Chickens only take 21 days for incubating eggs to get hatched.
During their third month, most of your hens will be taking care of the chicks they have hatched. They will likely rear the chicks for the period of one month.
After one month, you should separate the chicks from their mothers and rear them yourself by providing brooding and feeds for 2.5 months. The care you will be giving should be slowing down as they get old.
Since in this case you have separated the hens from the chicks, what it means is that, they will start laying eggs again and replicate the process for the period of 12 months. In this case, it also means that the chicks you have separated from their mother will grow and be added to the 23 chickens we started with, increasing the number.
Vaccination Program For Local Chicken
As a poultry farmer who knows what is doing, you should make sure you stick to this vaccination program for your local chickens to be protected from diseases.
Table 1: Showing Vaccination program for local chickens
Local Chicken Feeding Program
For your local chicken agribusiness to be successful, you should homemade the following feeds using the formula we have given below:
Non laying (50 Kilograms of feeds)
For non laying local hens, you should buy and mix the following feed ingredients; 30 Kg of Maize, 4 Kg of Soya full fat, 9.55 Kg of Sunflower, 1 Kg of Stock feed lime, 5 Kg of wheat bran, 0.1 Kg of Standard layer Premix, 0.1 Kg of Iodised Salt, and Toxfin should be 0.05 kg
For laying birds
For local chickens, you should buy and mix the following ingredients; 30 Kg of Maize, 5 Kg of Sunflower, 9.9 kilograms of Soya cake, 3.35 kilograms of Stock feed lime, 1.425 kilograms of Limestone Grit, 0.1 kilograms of Standard layer Premix, 0.15 kg of Iodised Salt, 0.05 kilograms of Toxfin and 0.025 kilograms of Carophyll.