POULTRY
POULTRY
HOW TO START A
CHICKEN FARM BUSINESS
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POULTRY
Poultry is a category of domesticated birds kept by humans for the
purpose of collecting their eggs, or killing for their meat and/or
feathers.
These most typically are members of the superorder Galloanserae (fowl),
especially the order Galliformes (which includes chickens, quails and
turkeys) and the family Anatidae (in order Anseriformes), commonly
known as "waterfowl" (e.g. domestic ducks and domestic geese).
Poultry also includes other birds which are killed for their meat,
such as pigeons or doves or birds considered to be game, like
pheasants. Poultry comes from the French/Norman word, poule, itself
derived from the Latin word Pullus, which means small animal.
Poultry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry
Fowl
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fowl
Poultry
farming
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poultry_farming
Free
range
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_range
Poultry
https://www.britannica.com/animal/poultry-agriculture
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HOW TO
START A
CHICKEN
FARM
BUSINESS
It's one thing to start a chicken farm, but to start an actual business
out of it is something else entirely. You are not only going to become
a chicken farmer, but a businessperson as well, depending on what markets
you want to target and what part of the chicken industry you want to tap
into. In the chicken industry there are two main sectors: Layers, which
are chickens bred and raised to produce eggs, or broilers, chickens raised
and bred to be slaughtered. Whatever sector you choose, you have to make
responsible managerial and financial decisions to make your chicken farm
business a profitable one.
Steps
1. Formulate a business plan. This is one of the most important things
to draw up as part of your operation. It tells of what goals you wish
to achieve and how you intend to get there. It's also a plan of how you
want to operate your business from not just a producer's standpoint, but
the banker's, lawyer's, accountant's and even possibly the hired hand's
stand point.
2. Have land, capital and equipment. You cannot start up nor maintain a
chicken farm or a chicken farming business without these dire necessities.
You will need buildings to raise your chickens in, whether they be barns
or hutches depending on how you are wanting to raise your chickens:
conventional or free-range? Land is to have the buildings on and to grow
crops on to feed your chickens. Equipment and machinery are needed to
clean barns, dispose of deadstock, work crops, etc.
3. Make a decision how to best raise your chickens. There are two main ways
to raise them. Conventional systems have chickens confined to barns that are
temperature and photo-period controlled areas. Free-range systems allow your
chickens to just about have the run of the farm to behave as naturally as
possible.
4. Decide what sectors of the poultry industry you wish to pursue. Ultimately
there are two types to choose from: broilers, which are chickens raised for
meat, or layers--chickens raised for their eggs. However, there are also the
other sectors of the industry that you can pursue. Eggs which are not to be
put on the market for human consumption (these can be from both broilers and
layers) are incubated and the chicks hatched and raised until they are at the
right age to be sold to farms to be raised as layers or broilers. Often the
business of incubating eggs and raising chicks is separate from that of raising
the chickens themselves. There is also the part of slaughtering chickens for
meat that is a separate sector in itself you may wish to pursue. •Many chicken
farms (primarily those that are not conventional) have more than one sector of
the chicken farming business to operate. Whether you wish to operate all sectors
or just one or two is your choice.
5.Find a niche market, if possible. If the area you are in is popular for raising
chickens a certain way (more conventional than free-range), you may wish to pursue
a niche market that targets the consumer's interest in free-range chickens rather
than the conventionally-raised ones.
6. Make yourself known to potential customers and consumers. Advertise yourself
by simply letting other people know you have eggs or meat you want to sell. Often
selling by word-of-mouth is a lot cheaper and still the most popular means of
advertising than paying for an advertisement in the local newspaper that may get
read by only a few people. However, there is no harm in doing that either, nor is
there any harm in setting up a website promoting your product.
7. Keep up with records and accounting of your business and operation. This is so
that you can always tell if you are making money or not.
8. Raise your animals in accordance with local, state/provincial and federal law.
How to Start a
Chicken Farm Business
http://www.wikihow.com/Start-a-Chicken-Farm-Business
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BACKYARD
POULTRY
Keeping backyard poultry (chickens, ducks, geese, guinea fowl, and turkeys)
is becoming more popular. People enjoy raising baby poultry including chicks,
ducklings, goslings, and poults. Many people keep chickens to have fresh eggs.
Although keeping backyard poultry can be fun and educational, owners should be
aware that poultry can sometimes carry harmful germs that make people sick.
These germs can cause a variety of illnesses in people, ranging from minor skin
infections to serious illnesses that could cause death. One of the best ways to
protect yourself from getting sick is to wash your hands thoroughly right after
touching poultry or anything in the area where they live and roam.
Backyard Poultry
https://www.cdc.gov/healthypets/pets/farm-animals/backyard-poultry.html
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POULTRY
INDEX
Backyard Poultry
https://backyardpoultry.iamcountryside.com/
Backyard Poultry Magazine
http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/
Consider These 6
Types Of Poultry
For Your Farm
https://www.hobbyfarms.com/poultry-types-consider-farm/
Glossary:Poultry
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php?title=Glossary:Poultry
How to Start a
Poultry Farm
http://www.startupbizhub.com/how-to-start-a-poultry-farm.htm
How to Start a
Poultry Farm
http://www.mytopbusinessideas.com/starting-a-poultry-farm-business-plan/
Perfect Poultry
http://www.perfectpoultry.co.uk/
Pocket Flocks
http://www.angelfire.com/de/pocketflocks/
Poultry Cast podcast
http://www.poultrycast.com/
Poultry Farming
http://www.roysfarm.com/poultry-farming/
Poultry Farming
http://www.answers.com/topic/poultry-farming
POULTRY FARMING
http://samiragz.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/83/
Poultry One
http://poultryone.com/
Raising Poultry
and Other Animals
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/small-scale-farming-raising-poultry-zmaz74sozraw.aspx#axzz30hbpCRah
Small scale
poultry production
http://www.poultryhub.org/production/backyard-village-poultry/raising-backyard-poultry/general-tips-for-small-scale-poultry-production/
The socio-economic
Importance of Family Poultry
http://www.fao.org/docrep/008/y5169e/y5169e02.htm
Urban and Small
Poultry Production
http://extension.psu.edu/animals/poultry/topics/urban-and-small-poultry-production
U.S. Poultry &
Egg Association
http://uspoultry.org/
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Handbook on
Poultry
Diseases
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/55/handbook-on-poultry-diseases
Animals:
Common and Scientific Names
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/swetc/azso/back.1_div.3.html
American Society
Of
Animal Science
ASAS
https://www.animalimagegallery.org/
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Feedipedia
http://www.feedipedia.org/
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