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Several business opportunities - component parts of the Integrated Developing Scheme described in Africans, Stop Being Poor! are listed in following table.
| a-
SHEA BUTTER (5,
6, 7,
11, 12,
13)
b- BLUE GOLD (14,
15, 16,
17, 18,
19)
c- FREEZE-DRIED PAPAIN (20,
21, 22
and here)
d-
KENAF (23,
24)
e- VEGETABLE OIL (25,
26, 27,
28)
f- CEREALS (30,
31, 32,
33)
g- FRUITS (34,
35, 36,
37, 38,
39, 40,
42, 43,
44, 45,
46)
h- ESSENTIAL OILS (47,
48, 49,
50, 51,
52)
i- ROOTS & TUBERS (54,
55, 56,
57, 58,
59, 60,
61, 62,
63, 64)
j-
FOWL BREEDING (66,
67, 68,
69, 70,
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FOWL BREEDING AS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY: PART
IV - PRODUCTION PLANNING FOR A MEDIUM SCALE POULTRY BREEDING OPERATION
In
spite of the unfair
competition exercised by import from Europe, there are opportunities throughout
the continent to establish chicken breeding companies to cater for national demands
provided that operators take necessary managerial and production decisions to
control costs of production.
To establish the breeding stock, one needs
to purchase "one" day old Baby chicks, which are fragile animals. You
may acquire Robert Plamondon's book titled: Success
with baby chick that provides all information for a successful breeding operation.
This website also provide
information and sell baby chicks. And this one gives an
idea of the cost of purchasing "one" day or baby chicks. French
speaking people may found useful information on an
existing operation right here.
In a previous delivery, briefs were
outlined about chicken
breeds suitable for tropical areas
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ORGANIZATION OF THE PRODUCTION FOR A MEDIUM SCALE OPERATION
An
efficient chicken breeding operation in any African country cannot be specialized
in a unique production like in developed countries where operations use to breed
either only broilers or layers. An operation that intends to supply an African
community should cover the whole demand of the population that is to provide broilers
and eggs, which means that the operation should breed a mixture of broilers and
layers.
The operation here exposed will then produce: 1- Broilers
weighting in average 2 kg ; 2- Reformed Layers that weight in average 2,5
kg and 3- Big and small caliber Eggs. Here
you can read more about the breeding period from Baby Chick to Fat chicken
ready for slaughterhouse.
The breeding operation should be organized
to have a regular output of eggs. Therefore, due
to the egg laying period of 12 months, it is compulsory to introduce a
batch of Layer Baby Chicks every six months into the breeding operation.
Therefore, an efficient breeding process could be organized as follows:
a) The introduction of a batch of 10,000 Baby Broilers chicks every 3 months.
b) The initial introduction of a batch of 10,240 Baby Layers chicks. c) The introduction
- every 6 months - of a batch of 5,120 Baby Layers chicks. Table
below is more explicit:
| Months | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | | Baby
Broiler Chicks | 10,000 | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | | Broilers
for sale | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | - | - | 10,000 | | Baby
Layers Chicks | 10,240 | - | - | - | - | 5,120 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,120 | - | - | - | - | - | 5,120 | | Laying
Birds | - | - | - | - | - | - | 10,240 | 10,240 | 10,240 | 10,240 | 10,240 | 15,360 | 15,360 | 15,360 | 15,360 | 15,360 | 15,360 | 20,480 | | Eggs
x 1,000 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 230.4 | 230.4 | 230.4 | 230.4 | 230.4 | 345.6 | 345.6 | 345.6 | 345.6 | 345.6 | 345.6 | 460.8 |
The
production level standing at 60,000 broilers (from Baby Broilers chicks) over
18 months of operation, in addition to [10,240 X 270 days (assuming 75% yield)]
= 3, 686,400 eggs or 12,901 metric tons of eggs - assuming that each egg weights
in average 3.5 gr.
Please remark that at the beginning of the 19th
month, the number of laying birds will dwindle to 10,240 units as Layers had
performed the
12 months' laying cycle and should be reformed as Broilers.
In next delivery we shall consider investment
needed to set up a medium scale chicken breeding operation that produce broilers
and eggs and deliver up to 50,000 birds per year.
| MORE
ON FOWL BREEDING | 1-
Poultry
Breeding and Genetics
by R.D. Crawford
2- The
Dollar Hen: The Classic Guide to American Free-Range Farming
by Milo M.
Hastingd, Robert Plamondon
3- Small-Scale
Poultry-Keeping: A Guide To Free-Range Poultry Production
by Ray Feltwell
4- The
Encyclopedia of Farm Animal Nutrition
by M.F. Fuller, et al
5-
The
Mating and Breeding of Poultry
by Harry M. Lamon, Rob R. Slocum
6-
Modern
Livestock and Poultry Production
by James R. Gillespie
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7- Success
With Baby Chicks: A Complete Guide to Hatchery Selection
by Robert Plamondon
8- The
Classic Guide To Poultry Nutrition:
Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks, Geese, Gamebirds,
and Pigeons
by Gustave F. Hauser
9- The
Strange History of The Ostrich
In Fashion, Food and Fortune
by Rob
Nixon
10- Ostrich's
Avian Incubation: Behaviour, Environment and Evolution
by D. Charles Deeming |
Adobe
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