STARTING A POULTRY BUSINESS IN NIGERIA

Poultry business is a lucrative business in Nigeria, it is lucrative sour in the sense that
 poultry products such as the meat and the eggs are high in demand and
 they are very good good source of protein.

One of the factors that place poultry meat above the other meat is the fact that
it is believed that white meat has a lot of health benefits than red meat.
you can as well read aboutWHY GOING INTO POULTRY
                 WHY GOING INTO POULTRY FARMING

As a farmer you must have a purpose of going into poultry business but basically poultry
business provides the following opportunities for farmers

1. Source of income- we venture into poultry either to raise chicken for meat or eggs,
so the sales of poultry eggs and meat is a good source of income for farmers

2. Manure-Poultry droppings is a good source of manure in the farm.

 3, Poultry feathers are used for decoration

 CLASSES OF POULTRY

Generally poultry refers o all domesticated birds such as fowl, duck, quail etc
poultry can be raised in the following forms

1, BOILERS- Boilers  are mainly reared for meat production and they have short maturity period
the farmer going into this type of poultry production should be ready to feed the chicken maximally so that they will be able to convert this to meat.

2. LAYERS- These are the birds kept for egg production, Egg poduction is a very lucrative business in Nigeria as table eggs is in high demand in the Nigerian Market,