Poultry As a Farming Business

By definition;

Poultry farming is the raising of birds for the purpose of producing food and generating additional income to the farmers.

Poultry farming is a good business to invest in whether you are a beginner or an experienced farmer since caring and raising birds is very easy. Currently the popularity of poultry farming is on the rise due to its profitability as a business. Someone can run either a small or large-scale poultry farm easily using less labor compared to other business ventures.

As the world’s total population is rapidly increasing, the demand for poultry products like; eggs, chicken, and waste products is also increasing to help boost other farming activities. Given the high food demand on the world market today visive the drought like climatic conditions around the equatorial region, it remains poultry farming to play a very important role in fulfilling these demands.

Here comes the Sustainability Question, how sustainable is Poultry farming?

• The type of feeds play an important role in sustainability. The urgent fight against climate change and biodiversity loss is at the heart of farmer’s productive future and Poultry production can support Uganda’s Sustainable Development goals of ending hunger, increasing economic prosperity, and improving peoples’ livelihood standards. However, sustainability issues must be addressed with the use of trusted animal feeds that provide maximum meat and egg production in the very shortest time possible.
• Intraco-Conversion feeds has proved to be the most trusted poultry, dairy and piggery feeds concentrate providers in Uganda. The concentrate gives Animals and Poultry the right nutrients needed to boost production, energy levels and optimal feed consumption thereby enhancing farmers prosperity.

How much to invest and the return on investment?

• We can’t be specific on the exact amount of capital needed to start investing in poultry business for it depends on various factors such as; writing a business plan, raising capital, building shelters for your Birds, hiring staff, choosing the breed of poultry and many others. But you can start with a minimum number of birds as for the start and gradually expand the farm.
• Rewards farmers expect to get from poultry investments are not arbitrary, but rather are dependent on proper farm management, essential knowledge and skills required to run a successful poultry business venture. By choosing Intraco-Conversion feeds, expert advice and responsible solutions will be at the top of all decisions made at your farm and this goes a long way into choosing the right breed of chicken, quality feed and advice from our team of vets that exist to help you prosper in your business. However, the return from the business for a matter of fact is dependent on the number of chickens you are raising and their productivity.

What is poultry farm management?

Poultry farm management just like any other entity management practice entails providing the poultry birds with sufficient feed, water, good shelter, health care and other facilities for keeping them healthy and productive. And all these activities should be taken care of right from brooding of the chicks and raising them for both home consumption and commercial purposes.

How much and where to get good poultry feeds?

Intraco-conversion feeds limited has got the best animal and poultry feed concentrate in Uganda, with branches country wide, you are sure that you will get unlimited access anywhere to be able to mix complete feeds for your chicken at affordable prices.

How to start poultry farming business?

Starting a poultry farming business is relatively easy. Beginners can also start and operate it successfully. You can follow the steps mentioned below for starting up.

• First of all, get practical knowledge about poultry farming from someone with the experience.
• Then, select a very good location for your poultry farm. Selecting an area far from the residential area or town will be very good to avoid noise.
• Build a good chicken coop in your selected land with all required facilities.
• Purchase all required poultry equipment after making the chicken coop.
• Determine your production purpose. You can actually raise poultry birds for the purpose of meat and eggs.
• Choose a good breed after determining your production purpose. There are numerous poultry breeds available for each production purpose.
• Purchase birds from reliable and reputable suppliers like Nutrinova.
• Always try to feed your birds with very high-quality feeds. Commercial or ready-made poultry feeds are very good for this purpose.
• Always try to provide your birds with fresh and clean water as per their demand.
• Keep good contact with a veterinary doctor in your area.
• Try to determine the demand of poultry products in your area, and try to produce those products which has good demand in your local market. however, both meat and eggs have good demand in the market.
• Keep record of total costs and income from your business because keeping records is very important for running a successful poultry farm.