Poultry Raising - How To Start Your Own Chicken Farm

       Raising chickens can give you a lot f benefits. If you start growing your own fowl in your backyard, you will be guaranteed to have fresh poultry products. Aside from having fresh chicken eggs, these animals are also great in controlling pest and weeds. These are the reasons why many chose to raise chicken. If you want to raise chicken, you need to know how to choose and how to take care of them the right way.

Choosing the right chicks to breed in your backyard is the first step. You can buy your chicks in a local store or you can also opt to incubate some fertilized eggs. When you already have your chicks, you need to keep them warm for the first week of their lives with a temperature approximately 95 degrees Fahrenheit. If you do not have the brooder, you can warm them by having a small light bulb. Water is very important for the newly hatched chicken and it should be available all the time. A chick starter feed is what you should give them to make them healthier.



For their bedding, the best bedding for them is wire because it is easier to clean and it is not slippery. As the chickens grow, you need to have a convenient place where they will be protected from extreme weather conditions. The place should also be clean and the number of chicks inside should be just enough for them to be able to move.



If your chickens are mature enough to lay eggs, you should make special room for them to lay and hatch their eggs. Hens will produce eggs for 21 days. They are protected by their nest and will make unusual sounds, and even peck, just to make its nest free from danger.



If you want your chicken to roam around your garden to peck some weeds and eat insects, you have to control their access to your garden for them not to gobble on your plants and flowers. Just simply provide the best venue for your poultry so that all your breeds will have the place where they can roam around. More so, to prevent them from destroying your garden, it is highly advisable to place a boundary or a fence that will limit them.



Raising some chickens in your backyard will give you a hobby like nobody else can. This is not just a recreational activity that you do during your spare time; you can also make this a profitable business and healthy sources of foods for you and your family.

Taking advantage of season to make money

    We should understand what season is, statistician use is to makes use of what they call time series. Time series is a group or sequence of values of a variable recorded  in a CHRONOLOGICAL order as the observation are made at specified often regular interval of time.

Types of time series

1. The trend.

2. Seasonal variation.

3. Cyclical variation.

4. Irregular variation

The most important things here is to understand how to make money with seasonal variation.

◈ Seasonal variation: these are the identical pattern which a time series appears to follow during a successive corresponding months (or quarters) of successive years. These movements re-occur regularly during specific periods of the year, depending on the seasons of the year, e.g.

Some recurring events like

• Christmas ( sales of poultry product like chicken, turkey, etc. and sales of greeting cards during festivals)

• Air tickets

• The supply of fresh maize.

• Fruits.

• Yams festival.

• And other agricultural products follow seasonal patterns.

Following basic procedure, to make fast living and be self employ is accepted by examples listed. People makes more money by selling greeting cards but, I choose it as addition because is not everybody that will purchase, but no one can avoid food. 

At Christmas, Easter and at some festival occasions, chicken, turkey was the main item on the menu. And the preference was for live, home-slaughtered chicken.

In order to take full advantage of this peculiar preference of the market, poultry farmers timed their production schedules to coincide with the festive season’s peak demand.

If you went around the food markets in the days preceding Christmas or Easter, you would see busy customers at the chicken vendor’s makeshift stands, bargaining and carrying the prized bird’s home. 

The high sales of chicken and turkey come every Christmas or Easter.

Ways to make money with chickens, turkey in every festival

If you own poultry and if you don’t own poultry you can make bulk sales of chicken or turkey and sell in your own price.

1. Many office workers would be busy, or want to avoid the market hustle, you can create awareness on how to make order and deliver at their work places.

2. Makeshift chicken stands at the front of your house or rent a piece of land, because is not everybody that will visit the market to buy. They will surely patronize you, when they found you are selling and when what you sell satisfied them.

Conclusion: Taking advantage of season to make money, but to think about business is the best. Thanks for reading.