I moved from a city to a farm setting and always wanted chickens. The initial cost to build a proper coop and the time to do it was important to me so that I knew the birds would be safe. Of course when I was done building it, a local farmer kept telling me that I would give up on it because of the routine care required or that I'd have snakes or foxes or anything getting in or going wrong. I ignored the negative comments and my birds are doing great.
The experience of predators is inevitable. They were warning you and they were correct. Usually it takes years before something goes terribly wrong and ignoring his advice is just plain stupid. You should be prepared for a full flock loss as once it starts it will happen regularly, it just depends on when the predators find them and when they do they will know there is "free food" there and will be back. Just be prepared and take measures to regulate losses.
Hi Dr. Daniel. I am a 32 year old Kenyan from Nairobi. My family especially my dad was very discouraging when I pitched ideas on starting a farm. Diseases and lack of agricultural background was the reason. Around February 2020 I made this bold step and started with 200 DOC. The first time I was naive and I had a good share of mortalities as a result of diseases and attacks from predators, never the less I managed to see through some of the chicken until point of laying. Same year on September I made some radical changes and it included replacing my farm boy, improving the structure, use of technology in order to making process of brooding perfect. This time I would do things differently and I started to incubate my own eggs. Out of 8 trays of eggs I got 185 chicks. The chicks are currently 4 weeks old and I have just lost 2 chicks so far (chicks were lame after hatching them using incubators) I currently incubate more eggs since I have received overwhelming demand of DOC, MOC from farmers, I sell breeding corckrels and I also sell improved kienyeji eggs to my family for consumption. Yes! it is very ironical mentioning I am selling the eggs to the people who doubted my aspirations at the first, but it is not cheap. It cost them 4.5$ per tray.
Some of my siblings have now grown interest in poultry farming as a result. I try as much as I can to educate other farmers interested in poultry start up. Part of my inspiration to start my CZcams channel was derived from your videos and need to tell my story in the near future. My channel is Roostera Poultry Kenya czcams.com/channels/_qJz5VuhZCzd06p33MHwFg.html Thank you Dr. for being resourceful. Your contents are aspiring many youth who would want to turn their life around.
Wow. This is very inspirational Ali. I love the boldness to take the step and start. And yes, with resilience you can't fail. Big congratulations my brother. Shine on. Will check out your channel..
I got you at the RIGHT TIME I was about to start. You advice has really helped me to redesign my plan. Soon I will be in action with the project now that am rich with information
Thank you sir. Yes oooh, I wanted to start keeping indigenous chickens and a very close relative said it's not possible to keep them like the broilers/layers so I paused but the inspiration came up again and thank God I met you. This time around though I want to use them as a source for income to start, I want to base on broilers.
Thanks Danny. Mr. Daniel great business man. You are enjoying your your business that way you made it through the chicken or the process of getting your business going that is pulse.
Hi Dr Daniel I have been following you for over 2 Months now and I must recommend I love your videos and you advices about the poultry business. I have a persion for Agriculture as well. My problem now is having the chicks. In my country Sierraleone there is no chicks at present. I will start layers when I have the chicks. Thanks for ur videos
@@FarmUp hello bro Danielle . I am fresh graduate veterinary medicine student . . And I wanna to start poultry farm with some little money. I need from to help me how to formulate local available feed
Thanks so much for your time and effort, I'm planning to start a poultry farming, I'm from Sierra Leone,West Africa Please give me an outline of things to put in place
Hi Daniel! Thank you very much for making this information available to us. I have set up my poultry structure and I am waiting for the birds (layers) in 10 days time. I find your videos very important and useful. God bless you.
I wanted to start a farm a few years ago and someone with experience killed my dream by stating how difficult it will be and what not. But I guess that was partially my fault. I shouldn't have listened. Anyway, I'm here again pursuing my dream. This time, I still didn't have the helpful info I needed but I'm starting anyway. I Knew I would learn along the way. Willing to take the risks involved. God led me to this channel and I thank you for all your lessons and hard work.. Keep up the good work my brother
Thank you brother for all this initiative of making videos to inform people on poultry farming.i am from india and i also passionate to set up poultry farm any time soon but the climatic conditions at my areas are not constant,its hot during summer,cold during winter and varies according to weather,so my first ideal choice would be layer farming.so brother share me with your experience n expertise how to start up from one step at a time as well as what will be the most ideal choice of poultry.i keep watching all of your videos,loved it and had learnt alot from it,so please guide me with your ideas and keep uploading your videos.hoping to hear from you anytime soon.
Hey I started with a hundred broiler chicks and I had only 18 chicks dying and all my concern for me was make sure that I maintain the mortality rate low after ensuring that chickens don't die I am stuck with overgrown chicks and no market
Thank you soo much for your videos Dan im receiving my 100 birds on the 8th of Sep i will send you the videos on your email and i will also need some guide lines on how to take care of broiler chicks in summer now that its hott
"..there is information on the internet. You need to develop the culture of reading. Go and read yah. Go and read. Don't be lazy. DONT BE LAZY!" thanks for saying that - true gold
😅😅yes mr dainial i am from pakistan My hole family and even my friend is a veterinary doctor, he recommended me to not starting the poultry farm but Alhamdulillah I started last year and it’s quite good and best But without proper planning it will be very low income. Dr banial plz give me the best advise
Hi doctor Daniel my name is sofi and I am planning to start this business in kenya with my family but what I am afraid is I think my family they are not careful like you what can I do? I live in Italy🇰🇪am your big fun
Weldone and I really Lear all from you... But I'm still afriad because people kee saying birds I not a good project for someone that doesn't have experince ... I need you to.give me guide Line and about it and I really have passion for it by people keep getting me afraid
I have been following you for sometime now and want to start and follow your guidelines Can u do estimations for me for 200 birds That is the cost involved ( feed, vaccines etc) Thank u very much
Hii , my name is ubaid inamdar from Maharashtra, India. There is a indigenous breed named Kadaknath or ayam cemani. It is a very good breed but it has black flesh and it's protein content is 25 % .my friends tell me not to rear them because it's expensive breed .I have 25hens and 6 rooster
Hey Doc I am a fan of yours a Nigerian living in America please I am rounding up to move back to Africa after 5years and I want to start poultry business in my country I need ur help and I wish to meet with you don't mind coming to ur country and please Doc which country are you from .thanks looking forward to ur reply you can call me iyke a nurse Assistant in Denver Colorado USA
Daniel how effective is the local made feed, I want to start this business so I was thinking of buying soya beans since som1 advised me to use local made feed since the 1 from shops is quit expensive, what would you say about this, are u using the commercial feed or you make your own feed
Farm Up I see you in Uganda countryside so I was curious . I dated a beautiful girl from Uganda years ago, but she got deported before I could marry her .The women are amazing . Very respectful and honorable
I love poultry farming, but in my country we don't have feed, so I want to know how much does it cost for a bag of feed, feeders and drinkers in your country? Cause I'm living in Liberia, and another thing how much will it also cost me to transport a bag of feed from your place to my? the best
It's not cost effective to transport feed from one country to another, unless you're buying in very big quantities. A better option would be to mix your own feeds
I'm only asking for one bag, cause if you know the cost of one bag then you know how to buy in high quantity, may be a twenty foot container including transportation,(shipment) cost from Kenya to Liberia
@@corneliusmtarr1984 feed wise it depends on the type u want .. chick starter or adult feed. And transportation in nt sure it could be by air or land or if uno any cargo driver trabelling to ghana. Contact boris b farms . Check them on google u can find alot frm them
@@jeremiahidris5230 thanks, and I heard changing of water source make the the cough (I mean like rain water to well water or underground water)how much is it true.. Thnks in advance🙏
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I moved from a city to a farm setting and always wanted chickens. The initial cost to build a proper coop and the time to do it was important to me so that I knew the birds would be safe. Of course when I was done building it, a local farmer kept telling me that I would give up on it because of the routine care required or that I'd have snakes or foxes or anything getting in or going wrong. I ignored the negative comments and my birds are doing great.
The experience of predators is inevitable. They were warning you and they were correct. Usually it takes years before something goes terribly wrong and ignoring his advice is just plain stupid. You should be prepared for a full flock loss as once it starts it will happen regularly, it just depends on when the predators find them and when they do they will know there is "free food" there and will be back. Just be prepared and take measures to regulate losses.
"Don't be lazy" is VERY good advice for all areas of life, not just poultry farming!! Great job on spreading that word!
Hi Dr. Daniel.
I am a 32 year old Kenyan from Nairobi.
My family especially my dad was very discouraging when I pitched ideas on starting a farm. Diseases and lack of agricultural background was the reason.
Around February 2020 I made this bold step and started with 200 DOC. The first time I was naive and I had a good share of mortalities as a result of diseases and attacks from predators, never the less I managed to see through some of the chicken until point of laying.
Same year on September I made some radical changes and it included replacing my farm boy, improving the structure, use of technology in order to making process of brooding perfect. This time I would do things differently and I started to incubate my own eggs. Out of 8 trays of eggs I got 185 chicks. The chicks are currently 4 weeks old and I have just lost 2 chicks so far (chicks were lame after hatching them using incubators)
I currently incubate more eggs since I have received overwhelming demand of DOC, MOC from farmers, I sell breeding corckrels and I also sell improved kienyeji eggs to my family for consumption. Yes! it is very ironical mentioning I am selling the eggs to the people who doubted my aspirations at the first, but it is not cheap. It cost them 4.5$ per tray.
Some of my siblings have now grown interest in poultry farming as a result. I try as much as I can to educate other farmers interested in poultry start up. Part of my inspiration to start my CZcams channel was derived from your videos and need to tell my story in the near future.
My channel is Roostera Poultry Kenya
czcams.com/channels/_qJz5VuhZCzd06p33MHwFg.html
Thank you Dr. for being resourceful. Your contents are aspiring many youth who would want to turn their life around.
Wow. This is very inspirational Ali. I love the boldness to take the step and start. And yes, with resilience you can't fail. Big congratulations my brother. Shine on. Will check out your channel..
I got you at the RIGHT TIME I was about to start. You advice has really helped me to redesign my plan. Soon I will be in action with the project now that am rich with information
Thank you sir. Yes oooh, I wanted to start keeping indigenous chickens and a very close relative said it's not possible to keep them like the broilers/layers so I paused but the inspiration came up again and thank God I met you. This time around though I want to use them as a source for income to start, I want to base on broilers.
I'm planning to start poultry farming soon and I will be following your advice. Thanks Daniel . ( mandera kenya )
Ur teaching Daniel is awesome
I started out in 2015 and made lots of mistakes, I wish I had someone like you for guidance but God willing am planning on restarting
Thanks Danny. Mr. Daniel great business man. You are enjoying your your business that way you made it through the chicken or the process of getting your business going that is pulse.
Thanks alot Daniel , this is so helpful
Please consider taking us on that journey of expansion, how you do everything as the chickens grow, giving us updates
Oh yes, you'll get to see it all
I am a big follower and this video has just come at the right time. I am a broiler farmer but planing to do layers as well.
Nice
Very useful videos. Very practical.
Thanks so much for your information am trying to set up a farm and your helping me to do that thanks so much
Thanks Dr. Daniel, I am inspired. Will join you shortly.
Surely waiting for you
Hi Dr Daniel I have been following you for over 2 Months now and I must recommend I love your videos and you advices about the poultry business. I have a persion for Agriculture as well. My problem now is having the chicks. In my country Sierraleone there is no chicks at present. I will start layers when I have the chicks. Thanks for ur videos
I really appreciate your information
Thanks brother man this I'm starting my own chicken meat farming
Thanks for sharing your experience bro
Hi Dr daniel. I will be receiving my 500 layer day old chicks on 20th dec. Thanks for all the info you have availed to us I hope it will be a success.
How did it go?
Thank you Daniel
Daniel, in three weeks i will receive 200 birds, after following u, then i will be following your guide lines.
Awesome
Hi James where is your new farm located ?
@@FarmUp hello bro Danielle . I am fresh graduate veterinary medicine student . . And I wanna to start poultry farm with some little money. I need from to help me how to formulate local available feed
Courage bro
For me l already received 3days back and l will continue following u
Always helpful Dr Daniel
My brother you inspire me from south African
So informative video❣️!!!
Thanks so much I'm starting to do like u have said
Inspiring ; thanks
You have a Golden heart be blessed
Thanks so much for your time and effort, I'm planning to start a poultry farming, I'm from Sierra Leone,West Africa
Please give me an outline of things to put in place
Hi Daniel!
Thank you very much for making this information available to us. I have set up my poultry structure and I am waiting for the birds (layers) in 10 days time.
I find your videos very important and useful.
God bless you.
Good job bro
I wanted to start a farm a few years ago and someone with experience killed my dream by stating how difficult it will be and what not. But I guess that was partially my fault. I shouldn't have listened. Anyway, I'm here again pursuing my dream. This time, I still didn't have the helpful info I needed but I'm starting anyway. I Knew I would learn along the way. Willing to take the risks involved. God led me to this channel and I thank you for all your lessons and hard work.. Keep up the good work my brother
Thank you. Let's run the dream
Thanks so much br
Thanks Dr
I was told it requires a lot of money, I need time for the farm. I can succeed in a way if I involve a vet
following already started poultry, main challenges on feeds and disease, advice am down almost giving up
Thank you brother for all this initiative of making videos to inform people on poultry farming.i am from india and i also passionate to set up poultry farm any time soon but the climatic conditions at my areas are not constant,its hot during summer,cold during winter and varies according to weather,so my first ideal choice would be layer farming.so brother share me with your experience n expertise how to start up from one step at a time as well as what will be the most ideal choice of poultry.i keep watching all of your videos,loved it and had learnt alot from it,so please guide me with your ideas and keep uploading your videos.hoping to hear from you anytime soon.
Thank you. I'll sure do that. Expect more videos answering all these questions
yes bro i agree. "take the game serious" a Ghanaian in italy
Hey from a Grenadian in Austria. Where in Italy are you? Where in Ghana are you from? I'm moving to Ghana soon
@@Blaquekaktus Verona in Italy, Tamale in Ghana🇬🇭. Safe journey✈️.
Thx doctor
Hey I started with a hundred broiler chicks and I had only 18 chicks dying and all my concern for me was make sure that I maintain the mortality rate low after ensuring that chickens don't die I am stuck with overgrown chicks and no market
Thanks Mr.daniel, my question is sunflower is also roasted and processed like soya bean? Thanks
I like your commitment and I will soon invite you on my farm for more guidance
I'll be glad to pass by.
Nice thanks for the info.Do u do the video editing yourself?i love the videos.
Yes
Please Daniel make a video of how to take care of broiler chicks in summer please🙏🙏
Absolutely people have said poultry is not a secure business
Thank you soo much for your videos Dan im receiving my 100 birds on the 8th of Sep i will send you the videos on your email and i will also need some guide lines on how to take care of broiler chicks in summer now that its hott
Good
I like the way u speak🤗🤗😍😍
You are right, simple, clear and to the point
Please my layers are dying even with medication😪please what should i do🤒🤒
"..there is information on the internet. You need to develop the culture of reading. Go and read yah. Go and read. Don't be lazy. DONT BE LAZY!"
thanks for saying that - true gold
Good day sir pls I want to start poultry farming so I want u to put me through…step by step
ya
Doc for sure someone told me it's not easy. Kindly encourage me
Do u ve some lessons on rearing broilers
Which is that particular food you found is good for you
Hi Daniel, I am a starting poultry farmer, very passionate! Which feeds do you recommend me to use
What kind of book will be of help for my poultry farm ?
Good Guy
😍
😅😅yes mr dainial i am from pakistan
My hole family and even my friend is a veterinary doctor, he recommended me to not starting the poultry farm but Alhamdulillah I started last year and it’s quite good and best
But without proper planning it will be very low income. Dr banial plz give me the best advise
Thanks alot @farmup my qn is hw much did it cost you for the construction
Over $3000 but thinking about it now, it could have cost me way less. I'll be making a video about it soon.
Hi doctor Daniel my name is sofi and I am planning to start this business in kenya with my family but what I am afraid is I think my family they are not careful like you what can I do? I live in Italy🇰🇪am your big fun
Hi Dan. Thanks for invaluable information. Am in busia kenya, where can l reliably get fertilized eggs or 1 day old Issa brown. Need 1000
I see the house which you build I very highly and big do I need to same I I'm new in business of poultry farming
Hello!my chicks have flue which medicine can I use
Weldone and I really Lear all from you...
But I'm still afriad because people kee saying birds I not a good project for someone that doesn't have experince ...
I need you to.give me guide Line and about it and I really have passion for it by people keep getting me afraid
Thanks bro...which is the best farm location between city and the village.
Hello....i made a video about choosing a location for the farm particularly. czcams.com/video/j_X-soZqTcg/video.html
At one point I started poultry but I stopped near December when the diseases hit my chicks
So sorry
I have no experience but I want to start it, how can you help me my brother
How many eggs can u collect in a week
Kindly link some good reading materials.
I can't find the link bro
I have been following you for sometime now and want to start and follow your guidelines
Can u do estimations for me for 200 birds
That is the cost involved ( feed, vaccines etc)
Thank u very much
Please where do you live I need more talks
Hello farming
I am currently constructing my pen so i want to know how many birds can i stock in a 10ft by 21ft space for layers in deep liter
6 birds per sq metre
Am starting a poetry farm with bloiler
What do you mean by vaccines? Do you have to give each of them vaccine shots?
Hii , my name is ubaid inamdar from Maharashtra, India. There is a indigenous breed named Kadaknath or ayam cemani. It is a very good breed but it has black flesh and it's protein content is 25 % .my friends tell me not to rear them because it's expensive breed .I have 25hens and 6 rooster
Halooo broooo😍👍👍👍
Please if I start with 100 layers, please will I make profit
Kindly help me l am about to start one
Hey Doc I am a fan of yours a Nigerian living in America please I am rounding up to move back to Africa after 5years and I want to start poultry business in my country I need ur help and I wish to meet with you don't mind coming to ur country and please Doc which country are you from .thanks looking forward to ur reply you can call me iyke a nurse Assistant in Denver Colorado USA
Someone told me the most task is on feeds, vaccines en more
I am starting a broiler farm bt my biggest worry is market Am not sure where to sell!
Move around and ask
I want start but people are scaring me that the chicken will die,is true you may lose half of your birds before they mature.
Daniel how effective is the local made feed, I want to start this business so I was thinking of buying soya beans since som1 advised me to use local made feed since the 1 from shops is quit expensive, what would you say about this, are u using the commercial feed or you make your own feed
I use a mixture of the two. I made a video about it, check it out. You want to make a balance of quality and cost
@@FarmUp ok thanks a lot
What about regulations? I’m sure in Uganda it’s a little more lax than say NYC .
Oh yes. Regulations not so hard here
Farm Up do inspectors come to visit ? how far is your marketplace from the farm? Or customers buy at the farm?
Not much profit on raising chickens in the first place
Mubutuufu otukoze obulungi bungi nyo MUKAMA akuwe omukisa nobuwangaazi.
Please I want to start poultry but I don't know where to get the chicks.
Where are you?
Please Sir how can I reach you.. I just finished building my pen and I met your guidance
Farmupafrica@gmail.com
How do I start a poultry farm with my catfish
What are you using for internet access? Satellite? Broadband?
Greetings from New York
Have no idea😅. It's my phone. Cellular
Farm Up I see you in Uganda countryside so I was curious . I dated a beautiful girl from Uganda years ago, but she got deported before I could marry her .The women are amazing . Very respectful and honorable
😍😍
I will get 2 or 3 chicks in a few days😊😊😄
👍
I started this year but people are telling diseases and thieves
I love poultry farming, but in my country we don't have feed, so I want to know how much does it cost for a bag of feed, feeders and drinkers in your country? Cause I'm living in Liberia, and another thing how much will it also cost me to transport a bag of feed from your place to my? the best
It's not cost effective to transport feed from one country to another, unless you're buying in very big quantities. A better option would be to mix your own feeds
I'm only asking for one bag, cause if you know the cost of one bag then you know how to buy in high quantity, may be a twenty foot container including transportation,(shipment) cost from Kenya to Liberia
@@corneliusmtarr1984 u could buy from ghana
If I had to buy from Ghana, what is the cost for a bag and what could be the cost of transportation for a bag?
@@corneliusmtarr1984 feed wise it depends on the type u want .. chick starter or adult feed. And transportation in nt sure it could be by air or land or if uno any cargo driver trabelling to ghana. Contact boris b farms . Check them on google u can find alot frm them
Is vaccine really important in poultry farming?? And also, do any (clean) water is good for them to drink??
Very important sir, cos the birds easily get infected
@@jeremiahidris5230 thanks, and I heard changing of water source make the the cough (I mean like rain water to well water or underground water)how much is it true.. Thnks in advance🙏
You haven't lost a single chicken because you are a doctor hahaha
Dr welldone please need your contact coz I have a day old chicks
Please Daniel can I get your contact so that I can call because I wanna raise chicks buh I dont have any ideal