Brooding Day Old Chicks for Profit, a Wonderful Business Opportunity.
Brooding day old chicks for profit can be highly profitable if done properly.
A lot of newbie poultry farmers are scared of starting with day old chicks.
Due to the fragile nature of day old chicks, and the technicalities involved in raising day old birds.
Many a poultry farmer don’t want to go through the hassle of brooding day old chicks, they just want to skip the process.
To an experienced and knowledgeable poultry farmer, a wonderful business opportunity has presented itself to make extra cash.
It’s just for you, to brood baby chicks for a few more weeks and charge extra for your expertise.
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Brooding Day Old Chicks For Profit Has The Following Advantages These Includes:
- In brooding day old chicks for profit, you don’t have to wait for long periods to cash out.
- Day old chicks consume less food at this stage of their lives. Thus reducing the cost of production.
- You are not afraid of future outbreaks of viral diseases.
- At this stage, less space per square meter is required.
- You can easily convince your customers to go for your well-vaccinated baby chicks.
- Mortalities can easily be curtailed.
- You will become an expert in raising baby chicks.
There is a popular adage that says.
“Nothing good comes easy”,
This statement is very much true.
If you really want to stand out in your chosen profession, you have to go the extra mile to achieve your dreams, goals, and aspirations.
Newbie poultry farmers would always complain of the technicalities involved in raising day old chicks.
And how difficult it is to keep them alive, you as an expert have come to their rescue.
A few days ago I was discussing with a friend who wants to start poultry farming with about five hundred birds.
He kept on emphasizing buying already brooded birds, and I asked him why already brooded chicks?
He simply said they would die, meaning he cannot go through the rigors and technicality of raising day olds.
Because if he attempts buying day old chicks, they would die so he prefers buying already brooded chicken i.e. from six to eight weeks old depending on the breed.
This is an ample opportunity for the experience or serious farmers to go into the business of brooding day old chicks for profit. To other poultry farmers like my friend.
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The following points will help you succeed in brooding day old chicks for profit:
Understanding your Immediate Environment or Community Regarding your Products (Chicken)
To be successful in brooding day old chicks for profit you need to have good knowledge about your community.
Type and breed of birds that are widely accepted and popular in your community, in order for you to make quick sales.
Some breeds of birds are more accepted than orders due to some certain reasons and peculiarity attached, these includes:
- Hardiness
- Feed to meat conversion ratio
- beauty and friendly nature of the birds
- Certain breeds of poultry birds are peculiar to special ceremonies, and religious festivals.
Seizing the Opportunity to Brood Day Old Chicks for Profit
The other day I was discussing with my neighbor about, noiler chicken farming and he was quite interested in going into noiler farming.
But he kept on saying they would all die one after the other and I asked him why is he saying all this?
He said he cannot go into the stress of raising day old chicks. He would rather prefer to buy already brooded day old chicks.
Chicks that have been well taken care of and well brooded. These would save him a lot of time, headache, and stress.
I discovered that he is not only speaking for himself he is equally reflecting the minds of many intending poultry farmers.
Poultry farmers that don’t really want to go through the rigors of brooding day old chicks.
He had rather prefer to buy already brooded chicks or in case of laying hens, he would prefer to buy point of lay or point of sale chickens.
This is an ample opportunity to start brooding day old chicks for-profit and to go into large-scale production of brooded chicks.
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Have an In-Depth Knowledge of What You Are Doing
You cannot give what you don’t have. If you want to be successful in brooding day old chicks for profit.
Then you have to increase your knowledge base by learning extensively about the science of brooding day old chicks for profit.
Your customers (poultry farmers) would always ask you one or two questions as long as they purchase those chickens from you.
And anytime they run into problems with their birds, they would always call you for guidance and advice.
Take your time and go for further studies, attend agricultural seminars regarding your interest.
Make personal research visits bigger farms that are very vast in brooding day old chicks.
So that you can be successful in your chosen livestock business, and also be able to educate your customers better.
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If You Want To Be Brooding Day Old Chicks for Profit Successfully, Never Make Exaggerations to Your Customers, Because You Want To Make More Profit
Be true and very honest to your customers about what to expect from buying your products (already brooded chicks).
So that you don’t unnecessarily raise their expectations so high i.e. be very honest about:
- How many weeks old ( baby chicks) are before selling them to your customers
- The quality, quantity, and type of feed used, in case they asked you.
- Have a proper record of the vaccination schedule you used.
- Be transparent in revealing the type of antibiotics you used during the brooding process.
- Be willing to provide after-sale customer service, these will stand you out from the rest.
- Be willing to share some loss in case of high mortality, in the process of shipment and transportation.
- Never lie to your customers, i.e let them have full knowledge of the type of breed they are buying. When they will reach table size, tell them the exact period and duration, or when they will start laying for laying hens.
- Never withhold any useful information from your customers. If they succeed your profile will be elevated too.
- Avoid exaggerated claims by all cost, if you really want to succeed in brooding day old chicks for profit.
Have a Good Customer Relationship
You might be very vast and knowledgeable in brooding day old chicks for profit that is a plus for you.
But having a good customer relationship is equally very important it would sustain your business and keep it afloat for a very long time.
If you are harsh and mean to your customers I bet you, your business would sink in no time.
People don’t care how much you know, but how much you care, and willing to help.
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Brooding Day Old Chicks for Profit Entails Providing Healthy and Beautiful Looking Brooded Chicken
For you to be successful in brooding day old chicks for profit. If you really want to succeed in this your enterprise.
You have to be at the top of your game by producing healthy, and beautiful-looking brooded chicks.
Customers (poultry farmers) are often attracted to healthy and beautiful-looking birds.
In fact, that is why they are coming to you expecting to get quality, good-looking birds because they can’t raise the birds themselves.
Conclusion
For you to be highly successful in brooding day old chicks for profit. You need to build trust.
By producing high-quality brooded chicks that will always match up with your claims.
It’s the surest way to be on top of your competitors and to make you a distinguished, and experience poultry farmer.
Just be true to yourself and be supportive to your customers. With hard work and commitment definitely your newfound poultry business (brooding day old chicks for profit) enterprise would succeed.
Thank you so much, your tips / advice were very helpful. God bless u.
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It has been my dream to start a brooding system of chicks as a business, thanks very much for the supportive tips. I believe not to remain the same. Thanks
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