LAYERS VS BROILERS WHICH IS SUILTABLE FOR ME FOR MY AREA AND ALSO WILL BE MORE PROFITABLE FOR ME?
So in this writeup am not going to support layers over broilers or broilers over layers each have their own advantages and short comings.
This article is based on my personal experiences and you will be able to know which is which and which you should go for.
Let's start with broilers
Broilers as we all know is raised only for meat ok, it's a meat producing poultry bird. Broilers don't take much time before they reach maturity or slaughter age. At week 4,5 or 6 broilers can be sold out to the market and you make your gain off immediately. The thing with broilers is that you must have ready market for your birds because when they reach the weeks you desire to raise them to, and you don't have market that can buy them immediately from you, broilers are going to continue eating your feed which may not turn out to be profitable to you at the end. So you must have a ready market for your birds.
Lower capital is required from farmers going for broilers unlike layers, R10,000 can easily start off a broiler farm and more can then be added if farmers wish to extend their business.
Layers takes atleast 20weeks before they start laying eggs and even at this week only few will have started laying, it will take a while before a higher percentage of them start laying eggs. Layers gives daily profits to poultry farmers and this profit is gotten after their eggs is sold off.
Layers don't necessarily need to have a ready market because your eggs can be stored in your farm until your buyers are ready to buy them.
Layers requires a lot of capital to start with and this is because the area of expenditures needed to be covered is much. Money will be spent to buy point of lay birds, money will be spent on their continuous medication, money will be spent on their feeding until they start laying to an extent by which they can also start feeding themselves, money will be spent to purchase their Battery cage system. But layers are way profitable than broilers in long term process because as soon as they start laying they bring in daily profits for farmers and this will continue for years because layers lays egg for as long as 1and half to 2years. Apart from the money gotten from their eggs, money can also be generated from their droppings because their are people that buy their waste products, and also apart from this after laying birds have finally stopped laying, money will also be made from the old laying birds sold off. During the whole process of raising laying birds monthly vaccination and medication is still needed by them.
OK WHICH SHOULD I GO FOR?
For those that have huge capital they can invest with and don't need the profit poultry farming will generate for them quickly because they have other sources of income, i could advice they go for laying birds.
But for those who don't have other sources of income to keep the farm running and also can't wait for long before they get returns back from their poultry investment I suggest they go for broilers.
For those that don't have passion to market birds and also don't have those that can help them with marketing I suggest they go for laying birds.
because buyers often look and search for eggs.
But for those who have passion to market and also have those that can help them buy their birds fast I suggest they go for broilers.
For those that have alot of lands that they can use I suggest they go for laying birds because layers often consume space a lot.
And for those that don't have much land I suggest they go for broilers. Because they don't really require much space.
For those living in congested areas or environment where people may complain of the odours of their birds I suggest they go for short term birds like broilers.
And for those who have lands in less civilized and occupied areas I suggest they go for laying birds.
So in this writeup am not going to support layers over broilers or broilers over layers each have their own advantages and short comings.
This article is based on my personal experiences and you will be able to know which is which and which you should go for.
Let's start with broilers
Broilers as we all know is raised only for meat ok, it's a meat producing poultry bird. Broilers don't take much time before they reach maturity or slaughter age. At week 4,5 or 6 broilers can be sold out to the market and you make your gain off immediately. The thing with broilers is that you must have ready market for your birds because when they reach the weeks you desire to raise them to, and you don't have market that can buy them immediately from you, broilers are going to continue eating your feed which may not turn out to be profitable to you at the end. So you must have a ready market for your birds.
Lower capital is required from farmers going for broilers unlike layers, R10,000 can easily start off a broiler farm and more can then be added if farmers wish to extend their business.
Layers takes atleast 20weeks before they start laying eggs and even at this week only few will have started laying, it will take a while before a higher percentage of them start laying eggs. Layers gives daily profits to poultry farmers and this profit is gotten after their eggs is sold off.
Layers don't necessarily need to have a ready market because your eggs can be stored in your farm until your buyers are ready to buy them.
Layers requires a lot of capital to start with and this is because the area of expenditures needed to be covered is much. Money will be spent to buy point of lay birds, money will be spent on their continuous medication, money will be spent on their feeding until they start laying to an extent by which they can also start feeding themselves, money will be spent to purchase their Battery cage system. But layers are way profitable than broilers in long term process because as soon as they start laying they bring in daily profits for farmers and this will continue for years because layers lays egg for as long as 1and half to 2years. Apart from the money gotten from their eggs, money can also be generated from their droppings because their are people that buy their waste products, and also apart from this after laying birds have finally stopped laying, money will also be made from the old laying birds sold off. During the whole process of raising laying birds monthly vaccination and medication is still needed by them.
OK WHICH SHOULD I GO FOR?
For those that have huge capital they can invest with and don't need the profit poultry farming will generate for them quickly because they have other sources of income, i could advice they go for laying birds.
But for those who don't have other sources of income to keep the farm running and also can't wait for long before they get returns back from their poultry investment I suggest they go for broilers.
For those that don't have passion to market birds and also don't have those that can help them with marketing I suggest they go for laying birds.
because buyers often look and search for eggs.
But for those who have passion to market and also have those that can help them buy their birds fast I suggest they go for broilers.
For those that have alot of lands that they can use I suggest they go for laying birds because layers often consume space a lot.
And for those that don't have much land I suggest they go for broilers. Because they don't really require much space.
For those living in congested areas or environment where people may complain of the odours of their birds I suggest they go for short term birds like broilers.
And for those who have lands in less civilized and occupied areas I suggest they go for laying birds.
Money will be spent to buy point of lay birds, money will be spent on their continuous medication, money will be spent on their feeding until they start laying to an extent by which they can also start feeding themselves, money will be spent to purchase their Battery cage system. But layers are way profitable thaFor those living in area where there is stable electricity and also wants to maximize profits I suggest they go for frozen foods business, all they have to do is just to raise broilers still 6,7weeks of ate, they should kill, process and store in their freezer, market their frozen chicken and start selling off to consumers. This in the long time will generate more profits.
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