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Hey, i heard you can make good kishi through fish ponds, and that the startup is about emm...10-50k..this aint a bad idea for NYSC year o.

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Well.. the opportunity have always been there. In our days, our eyes were not opened to it.. All in the chase of white collar jobs... It's high time we began to groom enterpreneurs!!

hmm... thats true sha..
but with white collar jobs, you are sure of a startup capital..at least.
character

Afolabi, tell me about poultry please.
How much is the startup?
do you have a farm?
can i co invest?
what are your experiece so far?
Fill me in bro
Gb!

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we're all looking for info.. so we need estimates

Hi all ya guys that are interested in rearing birds, Afolabi, Gbolahan et al...
I gat good news for y'all

Well it's usually better to start small for beginners (say about 50-70 day old chicks) .This shud be about 25-30k . Feeding the birds to market age represents usually 70-75% of total cost of raising the birds.

10% mortality rate is still very profitable for a well-managed flock.
Drugs and verterinary costs are about 15-20% of entire raising costs.

It is assumed that u already have space in your backyard, land etc for
your poultry.

Other specific information wud be given on demand via this forum.

Wish you the best in this venture! Cheers!

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Okafor Chuka
SocketWorks Ltd.

Fellas!,

I have shown some interest in Snail farming and made some enquiries. I understand it is more profitable and more risk free to rear snail.

The only problem I have at the moment is the space, which I am looking eargerly to create soon. I am planning to go for the training soon too as soon as I get the space.

I wouldn't really mind any advice and hints to guide me.

The start up is not a too big deal.

Regards

Arubi Lucky
Power Holding Coy Of Nigeria Plc
Ikeja Distribution Zone, Alausa

Where and how do they do the training?
i dey interested too.
what do you mean by space? is is time or land ( area).
remember ..snails no dey too waka far.. just get few locks together..and they are game
Hmm power holding....you guyz still dey hold power abi? ( just a distraction)
Gb!

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Mr. Gbolahan,

What I mean by space is where they(the Snail) can be free without intervention, like once backyard... You know wetin I mean now...

I get one of our staff, in PHCN, whose mother is into it bigly. She even promised to do it in her farm somewhere around Iyana Ipaja.

She has been in it for long and I was also made to understand that they have formed a union and she is the president...

Regard
Arubi Lucky
PHCN
Ikeja Distr. Zone, Alausa

234 8055467390

i read some articles on fish farming and visited some farms , they are good business ideas but it requires a short training and little patients. Friends you can start a little and grow big if you work hard at your dream or project . bye

missioncare,

do you have any soft coy of material to study, or say an ebook on fish farming that you can share?
my email is omogbolahan01@yahoo.com
i no mind ooo
G!

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i've been hearing about this fish farming bizness for a while. A friend of mine met a man who had actually developed a land and has all the facilities in place except the fish and he now wants to sell the land for health reasons. we intend to try and raise the capital for it or get some one to invest in it cos i believe it will be a good investment.

Its really profitable if u can devote time to it.

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balogun

like au much does he wanna sell the stuff?
where is it located?
what is the condition.. light dey? borehole dey
what is the exact size of the land/
Gb!

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he wants to sell the land for 4M. he has set the whole place up with light, borehole, fenced it and the land is over a plot. d only work left is to put the fish in the pond

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balogun

location of the land nko?
if na lagos, the land get c of O?
...why the guy won sell am?
Gb!

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Hes selling it cos of health problems, his doctor advised him that the farm was quite a distant from where he resides and he wants to use the money to buy a land close to his residence and set it up like he did on the land he wants to sell off. The land is in igando outskirt of lago

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balogun

God bless the person that brought up this issue of fish and snial rearing.
Please is there anybody in the house that can give the all the relevant and necessary info about this venture.PLEASE YOU CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH ME THROUGH THIS EMAIL ADD :SAMADEWALE2K1@YAHOO.COM, OR PHONE NUMBER 08023904761. i will appreciate an urgent and detailed reply.
Thanks

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THE PROOF OF DESIRE IS PURSUIT

one member sent me an email saying that most of the materials are in the hard copy and he can only send me a photocopy...
we dey try arrange to meet so i go fit get am.
i will meet him once im chanced and i will let u guyz know..
for now, make we go on
Gb!

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U guys can't believe it that sometimes ago @ the begining of this thread, we spoke about Poultry, Well, now I have started my poultry buz with 100 birdds.

I have a small space in my yard. I then constructedd a cage dt cost like 14K with 3 steps. Each step can take up to 30 birds. I am using Cockrelles which takes like 6 months to mature to market value. I would have used Broiler but they would be ready for market in 3 months which makes it too far for Xmas sales But with good feeding for Cockrelles, they would reach market status in 6 months.

I got the idea from here and I have started working on it. It see dt it's a cool business but U need to read up on many things. Birds types, feeding, housing mgt, hygiene, vaccinations, etc. U also need good market sense to know which bird to rear and when to rea what!

However, I am planning to go for more training in Fish & snail Farming cuz Fish and snail have more profit than poultry on short term consideration and considering the fact that they require little land space.

I stay in Abuja. I am planning getting a small piece of land in one of the villages in Abuja where El-Rufai would not deMOliSH soon. However, I can C a lot of prospect in this market, and I am consdering investing in it. I read more on this things online than Netwokring, programming and WebDesign that I do Professionally.

IT Professional Farmer!
Kindly share some of ur internet search on farming with us. We are ready to learn.

Anyway u gat a great spirit. U dont just talk, but u make things happen!

I pray you make a lot of profit from your poultry bizzz.

Enjoy

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Fowe.
Choices make or mar Chances ... add extra care to your choices today.

HI,
what a huge step u have taken , i am quite impressed about this development, nigeria definitely needs more of bold guys like u.here is my advice for the business.

1.develop a written plan for the business. this wiil contain ur short and long term strategy, your mission statement, develop a cash flow, document all spendings and capital expenditures, get your breakeven point, challenges you are likely to face, competitors, worst case scenario,best possible scenario, expected profit, expansion plan, possibilities of partnership .
it seems a long list but i tell u that the same way u run a big company is the same way u run a company of ur own. for more visit http://www.entrepreneur.com.

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that was quick and handy..
but all these grammar - cash flow etc dey quick tire me..
let it be very simple...like stir garri in hot water and you make eba....
explain all these terms in simple grammar abegg
Gb!

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gb,
before u crucify me let me explain what i mean

cash flow: this wiil show you how much u have spent, how much u wiil spend to nurture them to maturity and your expected profit. it is theoretical to some extent but it wiil show you at a glance how much u are likely to make as profit.when you know this then you can look for areas to cut cost. it can also help you to determine the final price u can decide whether to sell at a discount or a premium. this is very important becuase u might actually be running at a loss. keep records and project your cash flow.

mission statement. the believe is that when you have a written statement of your desire for the business as captured in a mission statement it helps you to be focussed e.g a mission statement could go like this. company ABC. MISSION STATEMENT: TO BE THE LEADING PROVIDER OF HIGH QUALITY INTERNET SERVICE IN A CUSTOMER FRIENDLY WAY. this immediately focuses ur attention on customer friendliness as a strategic approach.
long term and short term strategy. where do you what to be next year.you are starting with 100 .... how many do you want next year. when you do this you wiil see the gap to fiil to get to that level.


Competitors[b]. as you all know u wiil not be the first or the last to do that business ,so u have to identify a unique selling point vis-a vis the analysis of the strength/weakness of ur competitors. e..g u can do buy 2 get one free if nobody is doing it( u must sit down and do th calcullation) or after sales services like killing the chicken after purchase and doing all the whatever for the customer. this u can only do by careful analysis of competition.

scenario planning: what if there is aglut by dec do you have a contigency arrangement, or are u anticipating scarcity? you have to simulate some scenarios so that u do get caught unawares

G.B
I HOPE I HAVE MADE MYSEELF CLEAR. DONT MIND ME I CAN BE TOO ACADEMIC AT TIMES. WAITING FOR UR QUESTIONS.

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Fowe, tankx for teasing me as an IT professional Farmer... humnn dt could be a great combo, U know! My birds are fine and I take great care of them like babies. Rain have been heavy in Abuja recently making them behave more like human, I love watching them early in the morning and late @ night and I discover they also have PERSONALITIES! sound strange hummm.... yeah! Moreover, I have no mortality yet and they are growing fast. Thank God.

Ajileye, I appreciate dt weblink. tankx. and God Bless GB for requesting for a breakdown of the grammar, I was already looking for my thesarrus

Aji, I have started duing them immediately, I just opened a book to document the cost of the birds, the feeds which would cost 300% more than even the cost price of the Day old Chick birds!

I wrote a mission statement... and I am thinking of modalities to expand like getting a small piece of land. Men.. It all seems like a HUGE full time buz to me now. I like the idea of B3GOF - Buy 3 Get One Free. Hey, it's great, sounds more like a philantropist-trepreneur (sounds strange though). Anyway, it a market strategy. I just need to raise the price a little to cover cost of production. The more I think abt it, the more fun the marketing strategy thing gets.

I need to let guys in house know dt EVERYTHING I have done is still within the range of 50K. Guys should not wait till when money start rolling in b4 thinking of a gud buz to do. I don't have much money, infact, I have not been paid @ my office in 2 months and I'm looking forward to get my own job soon thu alljobs but I have to MOVE forward somehow if I dont want to be left behind.

THIS IS OBVIOUSLY A WAY TO MOVE FORWARD. Isn't it?