POULTRY FARMING
Poultry farming is the process of raising domesticated birds such as chickens, ducks ,
turkeys and geese for the purpose of farming meat or eggs for food . Poultry are farmed in great numbers with chickens being the most numerous. More than 50 billion chickens are raised annually as a source of food, for both their meat and their eggs. Chickens raised for eggs are usually called layers while chickens raised for meat are often called
broilers .WHAT IS A FARM
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A farm is an area of land where livestock (animals) are raised and crops (plants) are grown for use as food, fiber, and fuel. The people who own and work on the farm are called farmers.
A farm usually has buildings where equipment such as tractors and supplies are stored. Some farms also have buildings where livestock are housed. These buildings usually have different names depending on the type of livestock that lives there. For example, chickens live in poultry houses and pigs live in swine parlors.
Farming has been innovated at multiple different points and places in human history. The transition from hunter-gatherer to settled,
agricultural societies is called the Neolithic Revolution and first began around 12,000 years ago, near the beginning of the geological
epoch of the Holocene around 12,000 years ago. It was the world's first historically verifiable revolution in agriculture. Subsequent step-changes in human farming practices were provoked by the British Agricultural Revolution in the 18th century, and the Green Revolution of the second half of the 20th century. Farming spread from the Middle East to Europe and by 4,000 BC people that lived in the central part of Europe were using oxen to pull plows and wagons. A farm may be owned and operated by a single individual, family, community, corporation or a company, may produce one or many types of produce, and can be a holding of any size from a fraction of a hectare to several thousand hectares.
A farm may operate under a monoculture system or with a variety of cereal or arable crops, which may be separate from or combined with raising livestock . Specialist farms are often denoted as such, thus a dairy farm, fish farm, poultry farm.
Today, we will be discussing more about Poultry farm.
BENEFITS OF GOING INTO POULTRY FARMING
The benefits of poultry farming cannot be over emphasized, this been because it's has numerous values/benefits in our everyday lives. A few of these benefits will be discussed in this context;
(1). Small capital to start
It requires less investment compared to rearing other livestock. It requires only small capital- on fixed capital and rearing of about 100 chickens. This means that small and marginal farmers and even agricultural laborers can start farming on a small scale. While chicken will start laying eggs in 8 to 10 weeks, broilers can be sold after 6 weeks by which time they would have grown to 1.25 kg weight.
(2). It gives rapid return on investment
This point is self explanatory, whatever you invest in setting up a poultry business you start getting them in very short time compare to other investment out.
Imagine starting a business and begins making profit from it in less than three months, dear reader it is amazing business to venture into.
It gives rapid return on investment. Chicken start laying eggs in 8 to 10 weeks and broilers can be sold for meat between 6 and 10 weeks. The interval between generations is very small and hence, production can be phenomenally increased within a short period.
(3). Employment opportunity
This point is wonderful point that will need to put into consideration, weather you have work or not, with little capital you will have your own business.Poultry offers good full time or part-time employment opportunity to farmers.
(4). Income generation
No doubt it, poultry farming is a source of generating income. No amount of money spent in setting up a poultry farm that is waste, you will surely make gain from your investment.
Poultry farming is a continuous source of income. It is not seasonal and can produce income for the entire year. While chickens lay eggs between 6 to 8 months, broilers take only 6 to 10 weeks to bring in income. Meat, eggs, feathers and manure of chicken and broilers are all saleable and income generating. Poultry farming in a small scale requires only minimum space and they can be reared even in the backyards of homes.
(5). Poultry dropping are sources of fertilizer
This is another point I want us to examine very well, don’t you think you can still make money from the dropping of the birds in your farm?
Poultry droppings are rich in nitrogen and organic material and hence, are considered valuable as fertilizers.
(6). Poultry eggs and meat are highly nutritional value
poultry offers what we can consume as we derived protein from the product we get from farm.
Among all edible meat, broiler meat has the least fat content. It can also be cooked in its own fat and does not require any from outside.
Poultry meat contains more protein and essential amino acids than other meats and is low in its cholesterol content in comparison to other meats.
(7). New offsprings
This is another benefit of poultry farming,we all know an egg can be harsed and the emergence of a new offspring arises, that's more profit.
As earlier said, the benefits of poultry farming is so so numerous,but I hope this is an eye opener for what it really entails.
CONCLUSION
Now that we are true with the reading, I am now sure that you are convinced that investing on poultry business worth it and one will never regretted of going so. Just start your farm today and you see the best from it. That's because I personally is planning on investing in the poultry farming business. Thanks all for reading.