- Chicken Cage
- Layer Cage
- Broiler Cage
- Baby Chicken Cage
- Drinking System
- Feed Trough
- Free-range Chicken System
- Cage Related Accessories
- Manure Removal Machine System
- Automatic Feeding Machine System
- Automatic Egg Collect Machine
- Pigeon Cage
- pigeon cage
- Pigeon Cage Accessories
- Rabbit Cage
- Rabbit Cage
- Rabbit Cage Accessories
- Quail Cage
- Quail Cage
- Chicken Wire Mesh
- Chicken Wire Mesh
- Poultry equipment
- Horizontal feed mixing crushed machine
- Vertical feed mixing crushed machine
- Feed Tower
- Incubator machine
- feather removal machine
- chicken farm cooling fan
- Cooling pads
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How to start a poultry farm/chicken farm
If you are interested in starting a poultry farm, there are some basic facts that you
must know before you can start. When you want to produce foodstuffs, especially
meat, poultry is the only type of animal production that can provide an income in
the short as well as the long term. When you farm with chickens, you produce meat
and eggs, but there are also valuable by-products such as manure and feathers.
You can also farm with chickens while farming with something else, and you can farm with
them anywhere in the country. You can even farm with chickens in the backyard of a city
house. You do not need a big farm to farm with chickens.
When you think of keeping poultry for household purpose or as a business, the first question
you ask is “How do I start?” The answer to this question is not a simple one, because there
are many different poultry production systems. There are also many different breeds used
for different products and a variety of housing and equipment systems.
What are the different production systems available?
There are basically three systems from which the farmer can choose:
• Extensive – This system of keeping chickens is the oldest form of keeping chickens.
According to this system, you keep chickens but you do not provide them with any
housing, feed and medicine. These chickens can walk all over the property feeding
themselves, laying their eggs anywhere, hatching and rearing chickens without your
knowledge. With this system you do not have any control over the number of eggs that
you can collect, or the number of chickens that are hatched, and grow up.
• Semi-intensive – When you keep chickens in this way, you provide them with housing,
nests, feed and medicine. Although you provide them with housing, you also have a camp
attached to the house where these chickens can walk freely. By providing them with
housing and nests, you have control over the number of eggs that you collect as well as
the number of chickens that are hatched and grow up. With this system you can increase
your flock and sell some eggs.
• Intensive – This system is a system where you keep the chicken inside a chicken house
and provide them with housing, feed and medicine. Normally this system will be for
commercial use only.
The system that you choose will depend on:
• The reason why you want to keep the chickens. Is it to provide eggs and meat for your
home, or is it as a business, or a bit of both?
• Do you have enough land available for a semi-intensive or intensive system?
• How much money do you have available to build a house and buy equipment.
• Your knowledge of chicken farming.
What breeds are available?
The most common breeds that are available in Africa can be divided into two groups. There
are the breeds that can be kept under the extensive and semi-intensive systems – indigenous
breeds such as the Venda, Ovambo, Potchefstroom Koekoek, Naked Neck and Natal Game,
as well as standard breeds such as the New Hampshire, Rode Island Red and Black Australorp.
These breeds are normally used for more than one purpose. Then there are the breeds that
are used in an intensive system such as the Ross or Cobb for meat production and Hi-line or
Lohmann for egg production.
Fowls for Africa presents courses on poultry farming. The next courses will take place on
28 February and 2 March 2006. The subjects that will be covered include:
• Farming systems
• Record keeping
• Quality of eggs
• Health management
• Poultry housing
• Care and rearing of chicks
• Immunisation and vaccination.
The above information came from:Anping County Innaer Wire Mesh Manufacturing Co., Ltd--- Innaer poultry equipment factory.