How to start a poultry farm

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Poultry farming demand a lot of commitment from the farmer. The farmer requires small amount of money and small scale farming is more preferable before venturing to large scale farming. You need to sit down and make calculation of the entire business.

Consider these steps: Formulate a business strategy.

This is one of the most important things to draw up as part of your operation. It tells of what goals you wish to achieve and how you intend to get there. It’s also a plan of how you want to operate your business from not just a producer’s stand point, but the banker’s, lawyer’s, accountant’s and even possibly the employees’ hand’s stand point.

Have land, equipment. capital and

You cannot start up nor maintain a chicken farm or a chicken farming business without these dire necessities. You will need buildings to raise your chickens in, whether they are barns or hutches depending on how you want to raise your chickens: conventional or free-range?

Make a decision how to best run the farm.

There are two main ways to raise them. Conventional systems have chickens confined to barns that are temperature and photo-period controlled areas. Free-range systems allow your chickens to run on the farm to behave as naturally as possible.

Decide what sectors of the poultry industry you wish to pursue.

Ultimately there are two types to choose from: broilers, which are chickens raised for meat, or layers-chickens raised for their eggs. However, there are also the other sectors of the industry that you can pursue. Eggs which are not to be put on the market for human