WHY DID I START USING TIME MANAGEMENT IN MY POULTRY FARMING BUSINESS?
Not quite long I realized that rearing and raising broiler birds need to be consciously done based on time management. Before you ask me how, I already got an answer for it. If you are someone who's majorly rearing Broiler birds for business and using the business as your main source of income. Time management has to be the first thing to bear in mind in order to make quick profit and to be successful in the business.
What's time management?
Time management is the zeal and ability to judiciously make use of the available period at your disposal to achieve already tabled schedule. But then, before I go further, how does time management related to raising broiler birds, most especially for business? Rearing Broiler birds is about scheduling with the hope to keep to time. This is what I have experienced where at a latter time I had to weigh my options and choose one that is best for me.
These are some of the experiences I had, at first six weeks of any of my birds which most farmers feel they are sellable. I usually sell a part, then leave the remaining ones for another couple of days or weeks before selling them off. That alone has covered almost 2 months of the normal 12 months. How many birds will I be able to rear going by the calculation of 2 months for each batch of birds? That means with that time management, I can only rear 6 times in a whole year.
That was the former pattern of operating my poultry farm which I found out I didn't seemed to manage my time adequately. Until recently, I switched to laying my birds for sales in between 5 weeks to 6 weeks. At most, before they are 6 weeks, they should be all gone. When this is done, I guess I should be able able to achieve so many things like;
The number of batch to rear within a year would increase at least from 6 times to 8 times which is the most thing to achieve with managing my time very well.
Feeding would stop automatically unlike when when I sell a part when they are at 6 weeks and sell others after some couple of days.
Note that in this year alone, I have reared birds twice and in the next couple of days I am going to bring in new day old birds.
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You know, I was interested in the topic of broiler poultry, I studied this question, so far, I come to the conclusion that this makes it possible to obtain an environmentally friendly product without antibiotics, minimized, but in the absence of profit as such due to the high cost of feed and the increased consumption of these fodder. The only option is to have your own hatching eggs, you need broiler hens, then maybe you can see some kind of marginality. :)
Thanks for your take on and I am deeply sorry for the late response. I wouldn't mind the last part you suggested but considering the marginality, are you sure if I do the hatching myself, it would worth it?You know I have not done it before, so you know one has to weigh the cost of production to hatch and compare its marginality with just ordering from hatchery farm? Bear in mind that I only order 150 birds in every 6 weeks......
It is necessary to count everything, electricity, feed, medicines, the death of a bird, because, sometimes, after all, sometimes they trample each other to death, or injure them? I do not argue if the feed you have is free.
If I want to go by the little understanding of your last statement, I have to buy the feed also, quality one at that to say. The issue of trampling and mortality, I only have the issues when the pen is being overcrowded by pen and at times when there's heat.
They suffocate both from the heat and from the cold when they press against each other and climb on top of each other. I think you start with a chick starter feed and work your way up to a finisher feed. I heard that breeders of large breeds of turkeys use pig food as a fattening feed, it is cheaper than chicken feed, but no less nutritious, have you tried this option? I tried to study this topic closely, read a lot and watched videos on fattening broilers, as a rule, they all agreed that it was only beneficial for raising birds for their own consumption, and not for sale. The only plus was that you know what exactly you fed the bird and how you treated it, meaning antibiotics.
Most of them have already abandoned this business, switched to either egg-laying breeds of chickens or large breeds of turkeys, the margin is greater. But, of course, I don’t know your production and market specifics, therefore, perhaps, if the competition is not very big, then this is a profitable undertaking :)
Also, I see that your broilers roam freely around the paddock, but they gain weight faster if they are restricted in movement and kept in cramped cages.
Yes,I usually start with chick starter feed and that's what I use fir commercial purposes. You know this is business, I am selling "weight". So there's no need using chick finisher feed, I haven't used it before because it's less nutritious to the starter feed.
On the part of using pig food for Broiler birds, I don't think I ever come across that here. I may have but maybe didn't notice.
Yeah, my birds roam a lot when they are still babies but when they are grown, they will much more space do that reduces their roaming about.
So you have everything under control, that's cool! :)
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