How to Make More profit from Your Poultry Farming?

Reasons Why Your Poultry Profits are Less?

Some Chicken farmers are very jealous when other chicken farmers make money.

But when they start their own chicken farming, they failed to make profits from 

farming. We are now summarizing various reasons why you did not make profit 

from your chicken farming.

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Basically, reasons are as follows:

• Pilfering; 

It is very common in big farms with poor supervision and corrupt workers. 

they tend to steal eggs, chicken etc. Always monitor your farm activities. You 

can install cameras which are monitored on your mobile phone!

Visit your farms abruptly any day.

• Feed wastage; 

When feed is not properly served, when the feeders are overfilled and when

bad feeders are in use. Change your spoilt feeders and feed appropriately. 

Raise feeders from the floor, for cages you need to put stoppers at the 

end of the feeders and keep touching through the feed once every hour

as you properly distribute it in the feeders so that birds do not pour feed!

• Improper feeding pattern; 

Some  farmers tend to over use starter or over feed their laying birds. Feeding

pattern/chart is meant to be followed. We no longer give feed to the birds 

adribitum! No way! You are supposed to start measuring for them feed from

day one following your management guide. 

Download the ISA BROWN MANAGEMENT GUIDE and follow it up. mature 

birds in cages should take 110g per bird per day, but deep litter layers take 

130g per day per bird.

Also Read: Three Factors make Poultry Farming a Profitable Business

• Unnecessary use of feed additives; 

Some farmers buy virtually every feed additives in the market because they

want their birds to grow faster. Go for quality feed and spend less on additives. 

The only supplement will bring back Returns in form of reduced antibiotics 

usage, more eggs, faster growth rate and healthier birds.

Do not waste money on additives and supplements that do not bring back

your money!

• Indiscriminate use of medication; 

Unnecessary use of drugs is wrong especially when the birds are healthy. 

Use the right dose at the right time. In many cases I found it un neccessary 

to give antibiotics to birds because most of these challenges are managerial

so correcting management errors can save your birds instead of depending

 on antibiotics!

Note: 

the best immune booster and production booster is your management and feed.

• Inability to improvise/laziness; 

Some farmers are generally lazy, they virtually buy every single thing and they 

find it difficult to think outside the box. Some things you do not need them! 

The famous boosters you buy have methionine, lysine and enzymes.....these 

things are already in your feed!....now tell me, did you think about it before 

incurring that expense?  Most of the vitamins you depend on in drinking 

water are already in your premix!

• Poor management and bio-security; 

Poor management leads to poor profit. Birds not well managed will not do 

well and won’t yield better profit. Improving on your biosecurity as we have

been discussing before will save you from a lot of diseases and expenses! 

Also Read:  Chicken Care:Biosecurity and Health Management

Vaccinate on time, change litter in time, remove droppings in cages every 2 to 

3 days, clean the water pipes and drinkers, change disinfectants in foot bath 

weekly or every 4 days if its raining, misting in the poultry houses, etc.

• Poor marketing strategy; 

Most farmers don’t market their products. When they do, they market it in 

the same group dominated by their fellow farmers looking for buyers too. 

Go to other WhatsApp and Facebook groups and market your products, print

flyers, take them to banks, office etc tell your friends about your products. 

I actually think it's you who is supposed to determine your market price not 

the middle man. Try as much as possible to reduce middlemen in the poultry 

business. 

• Neglecting the power of bulk purchase; 

Why buy farm inputs bit by bit when you know that bulk purchase attracts 

discount? Always buy what you need in bulk. If you don't have the capital, 

meet other farmers and pull resources together. 

Some farmers have already done it and it works for them. Take an example,

if we were ten farmers, we would buy a container of concentrates at lower 

cost and we distribute  it within our selves.....

we can buy maize in bulk, we can sell our eggs in bulk.

Also Read: How to increase chicken egg production rate?

• Neglecting other poultry outputs; 

Empty feed bags, poultry manure etc can fetch you some money. Do not 

neglect or throw them away. In Africa a used feed bag is sold at 50Cents. 

How many feed bags do you throw away? 

In Africa, theres a group of women who grow vegetables are using chicken 

manure....

• Having too many staff; 

When you have too many workers, it will automatically increase your farm 

expenses. Staffing should be done properly. Automation will help you to 

reduce on your workers. Fetching water and washing drinkers is very hectic 

and can increase your labour. Ideally if its non automated deep litter you 

need 1 worker for 1000 birds.  Still you will need one worker for 2500 birds

in cage system.

• Depending on middle men;

What most middle men want is to get your products almost for free! If you 

depend on them, they will ridicule your business. Survey the market and 

check your cost of production before selling. Soon my birds start laying, I 

am going to open up an eggs kiosk in my home town....my eggs are going

to be antibiotics free... Actually you can start booking.

• Trying out every new technique/method ; 

Some farmers have failed to stick to what works best for them. They keep 

buying every idea they come across. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try 

out new things but at least we need to tread with caution. 

Do not just change from one feed type to another! You can not try to change

your Feed concentrate from one to another. You have to find your own way

to feed your chicken well,

Also Read:Deep litter or cage system? Which gives the most profit on investment？

• Buying wrong inputs; 

Some farmers don't buy the right stuff for better profitability. They are either 

buying fake or low quality products. Buying from trusted sources will save you 

a whole lot of stress and increase your profit. 

Get a reliable feed dealer. Ask successful farmers about the reliable people. 

*Note*

As you fight to improve on the profits that you get from your farm, you need to;

1. Keep your birds disease free by choosing a good breed, and offering good 

vaccination schedule.

2. Reduce deaths in your birds by using chicken cage to separate your chicken 

from manure.

3. Improve egg production by scientific and technical methods.

4. Keep your birds stress free from frightening noise, and Polluted Environment.

5. Supplement your birds on the right and useful supplement.

Offer good supplement to your birds in the brooder, after vaccination, after 

debeaking, add with antibiotics in case the birds are sick, after deworming, in 

case they have reduced performance, in case you need better growth rate in broilers.