PROFITABLE CHICKEN FARMING

Broilers versus layers, which one is more profitable? Okay, here we go. From the outside, layer farming looks easier to start and run than a broiler farm. But in practice, a broiler farm, starting and running a broiler farm is much easier than a layer farm. How does that happen? You need a low cost of investment to start a broiler farm. For example, you only need feed from day 1 up to week 6, which is day 36. You need a few vaccines and you need a low amount of routine management practices. Unlike a layer farm, which requires a very high initial investment cost to start. You need to feed the birds for 4 months before you see an egg. There are more activities such as these multiple vaccination programs. There is the big killing and there are the other factors like cloning. Anyway, let's concentrate more on the business aspect, which is of major interest actually and which is the major interest of our YouTube channel. If you look at it from a business perspective, actually a broiler farmer or a broiler farm has a shorter payback period compared to a layer farm or a layer farmer. But a layers farm has a better return on investment compared to a broiler farm. Get the two differences. If you want to get a higher return on investment, then try layers. But if you want a shorter payback period for your money, then go for broilers. These two entities are like two banks. All the banks, a layered farmer or a layered farm bank is a bank with a million dollars. But then you will withdraw a hundred dollars plus something small every day for one and a half years, that's 18 months in quote. But for a broiler farm, it's like a bank with a million dollars. But then you withdraw a million dollars after every six weeks plus something small for the cumulative period in the long run compared to a layer farm. But then you need to re-bank or top up your account for the broiler farm every six weeks with another million dollars. So that's the difference between the two. But then if you look at it this way, in terms of risk, a broiler farm has a lower risk compared to a layer farm. However, within a period of six weeks, the number of birds likely to be lost is lower compared to a lay farm which is likely to lose more birds within a period of at least 22 weeks. Actually, by the time a layers farmer's chips will start laying, get to peak laying point, a broiler farmer would have sold his produce to the market at least six times. So a broiler farm looks so juicy, but then if you look at it from an angle, a layer farm is more juicy or juicy than a broiler farm. The moment your birds start laying, that is week 34, 35, 36 up to week 72, the money obtained within that period or rather the return on investment within that period is likely to double, triple or even go four times compared to a broiler farmer who would have sold his chicken or birds at least seven or nine times to that period. For God's sake, I was doing some math before and I just realized that the maximum profit a broiler farmer can make in Africa or sub-Saharan Africa, If at all this farmer does not make his own feed, that is you do not hurt your own chicks, the maximum profit you can make is $0.2 per bird. So keeping a thousand birds looks like you have a very large number of chickens per unit area and you have a huge flock. Most of the broiler farmers operate at decreasing returns. it's as if it wants to start going down but it's flat. Your investment cost is equal to you, is almost equal to or equal to your output, but in a real sense, you're making a loss since you're not factoring in the opportunity cost, the time it takes for you to raise the chickens compared to the time it takes to do other things. But broilers can be equally profitable compared to layers. Why? If you make your own feed, if you hatch your own chicks, believe me, you're good to go. You'll make more money. So, in a nutshell, what determines the profitability of lay farming and broiler farming is strategy. My friend, no one will ever tell you this. This is a fact. I am not here to sell chicks or sell a product, but I am just here to enlighten you, then I can learn something from you in return. I would like to ask the Commissioner whether he is aware that the Commission is not going to be able to take a decision on the matter in the near future. If you're doing cage farming, you have the right measurements of the cages for sales, for hosting the birds, and you give them the optimal conditions. So then this farmer can sell his birds to good outlets that pay well. For example, I can give an example like some chicken eggs and the like. He's likely to make more money than a broiler farmer who just sees someone keeping broilers, you jump into the whole thing, you start keeping broilers because you want to be like someone, you want to be like Antonio, then you just start keeping the birds. By the time you sell your birds, you either have a weak market or you have a market that you really have to persuade the buyer. But it's easier for an impulse farmer. You know, an impulse farmer is someone who will just say, I want to start a layer farm, I want to start a broiler farm. It's easier for an impulse farmer to start a layer farm. Why? You have a whole four months to get a market. Number two, if you look at the shelf life, a broiler product that is a slaughtered and dressed bird has a shorter shelf life compared to a bird, compared to an egg, which can stay for up to four weeks if the farmer is producing the eggs in a cold season. So this is about strategy. If you sit down, do a market survey, then factor in your production costs, make your own feed either for broilers or for layers. For broilers, you can go an extra mile, maybe have something like a food joint whereby like a fast food joint, some fish, chips and chicken, if you have time. But if you don't have the time, you can just go an extra mile and do the contract farming for broilers is good. So basically, both entities are profitable. A broiler farm has a shorter payback period, quote unquote, compared to a layers farm, which has a longer payback period, quote unquote. Basically, both of them are profitable. It's all about the market. Sit down, strategize, go for a better market and you'll win business.