My friend, farmers are doing okay. I keep 600 birds on free range and about 50 pure kienyeji kukus for brooding…nilichoka kuhawk chicks.
Anyway, short story i gather 400 eggs daily and sell each at 15 and simetimes 20. That is 5-6k daily using lower scale arithmetic. Add approximately 50 roosters that are market ready every month @700, again free range and you’ll start seeing dirty money is good money.
On the side add kales from the farm, 2k daily though its erratic. If you know what you are doing farming pays well. One advice, phone farming doesn’t work. Fika site as many times as you can.
Cost of running the farm, approximately 40k with main costs going to feeding chicks…not the mature lots.
Thanks bro; Compound alone stretches to about an acre or near that. From experience they can use less than that, they have a favorite spot.
Yes i supplement them with commercial feeds, from week 1-8. I specifically use fugo. From that point i introduce them to there age mates and treat them as “adults”. A bird consumes 130 grams under confinement. I give them half that is 0.065kg to a factor of 600 birds. That is roughly 40kgs. 20 kgs for morning treat, 20kgs in the afternoon.
The difference is compensated by parspulum grass (sp), its hardy even during dry seasons, and bugs in soil and strategically placed compost pits. If sina doo…it happens, they fast, longest fast theyve taken, about a week.
Kales ni an acre; purely organic, poultry fertilizer and dairy units provide the necessary nutrients, no foliar spray maybe pest control tu. The same kales still feed the birds when necessary.
This is great. Thanks bro. Am thinking of doing the same. Currently, I have a quarter am acre on kales. Planning to upscale to an acre and add poultry.
Please do, if free range agrees with you’ll be way happier. Before i went free range i confined some 300 birds (improved kienyeji) to deep litter; while on fugo. It wasn’t economical at all esp when hens get moody.
I likewise formulate feeds to cut on costs a lot further. When farmers cry about prices, i join them but essentially my production costs are at a bare minimum. Welcome to farming; its an equal employer if not superior employer. No nonsense report; market ikikataa uza na hasara at 10 bob (extremely rare) and your cashflows are still greater than inputs.
As for kales, it greatly depends on location, if local population have no alternative expand even further. If market is a challenge just keep enough to sustain the poultry unit.
I like your approach. My local market has no choice. Especially in the dry season. And since i have water for irrigation, i was planning to use that period “kufuta machoizi” ya rainy days. Combined with indegenios vegetables.
One question, does the improved kienyejis chicken like the rainbow rooster become broody? I don’t want to buy chicks again after the first flock. I’d rather be buying a cock to avoid inbreeding but zenyewe zizaane.
Keep kales if the market is there. As for broody hens get about 20 kienyeji birds to handle the brooding. Before the broody trait goes away youll have several chicks that inherit the broody tendencies. Kenbro/Rainbow roosters and Kuroiler hardly brood. Kari broods but after a very long time ni hasara if you want chicks in rapid succession. I bought F1 kalro, i agreed to inbreed for one year
You can get the best natural/organic fertilizer by rearing a certain animal called “redworm” from Italy @ 4k per kilo .
Redworms: you feed me waste/organic stuff with the content of minerals you want e.g you want N(nitrogen) you give em Watermellon waste ; they consume that watermellon like nonesense ,hiyo mkojo yake is pure N.
With that formula you can create your own DAP, NPK etc etc …
NA bado hatujaenda kwa ile inaitwa Black Soilder Fly (mambo badd)
Hydroponic/ aquaponic can cut water expenses by 90% . Research about soiless/lateral farming .
With the right stuff ,on a lateral space 4m*4m you can feed yourself for 1year.
Mara sukuma wiki on an acre of land is churning out millionaires
Next kuku kienyeji on one acre is just the most ideal bizna with almost zero chances of going on a loss.
Punde si punde you can start your own fertilizer factory by buying some caterpillars from italy and feeding them water melons! WTF man!!! Really???
Mara hydroponic ndio ultimate technology for farming (atleast huyu ame research mtandaoni where such bad facts are peddled)
Great discussion here love the pointers , just take everything you read with a fistful of salt… Wapi mayai inauzwa na farmer @15 or 20 bob labda ni ya bata hiyo
These internet farmers ni hyperbole tupu. There’s a reason farming is a geriatric stronghold… Requires experience with growing various crops and rearing animals also keep an eye on the market ujue what sells. You also need serious capital in the millions ndio uanzishe a Kas mall farm. Alafu bei it’s dictated by brokers. Hii ktu si rahisi.
Kuja kiminini, gate price 450 for fertilised eggs, if i source clients online which is a combined effort of myself and sometimes my farm hand, (win-win) 600 bob a tray.
NOTE: repeat clients are so many that i rarely advertise. Emphasis is on doing it right the first time, having the best quality feeds/cleanliness/ratio of 1 rooster to five hens is all I attribute to the repeat sales.
Inaitwa social network seeing is believing…sijaona hapo losses ie diseases, vaccinations,fertilisers na herbicides hapa ni hekaya tupu from google farmers.