Setting up a poultry project: from the dream to the file (market, site, house, calendar)
"I want to raise 5,000 chickens." That is how most projects start, and that is how many of them end: a house too big on a plot without water, chicks ordered before there is a buyer, a first flock in the middle of the hot season. The expert walks the other way: he starts from the market, then the site, then the water and the access, and only then draws the house and sets the calendar. This lesson gives that method step by step, with a worked example counted in chickens, metres and litres, never in money: you will put the amounts in yourself in the next lesson.
14 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Level 15 — Expert adviser: project, audit and passing it on. It opens to registered students who have passed the level 14 exam. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
- ✓Check a market before sizing a project: who buys, how many, when, at what weight
- ✓Assess a site on water, access, neighbours, slope and wind, with a visit sheet
- ✓Size an 8 m wide open-sided house and its equipment from the hot-season flock size
- ✓Set the project calendar, from choosing the plot to the first sale, and know in what order to move