Month: November 2025

When I started my chicken farm in 2017 at Oyi Local Government Area, I made one costly mistake. I cemented my entire poultry floor. That decision cost me ₦180,000 extra. My chickens developed leg problems within three months. Today, I’ll share real costs, pros, and cons of cement vs sawdust for deep litter systems in…

Rats killed 47 of my birds in one night back in 2017. I woke up to find a serious attack had happened in my brooder section. Many chicks were killed and scattered. It was a rough morning. That morning changed everything I knew about poultry housing. The rats didn’t just kill the chicks. They ate…

My name is Pius Emeka. I raise chickens in Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State. I’ve been doing this for eight years now. I’ve trained over 200 farmers across Anambra and neighboring states. One question I get asked almost every training session is this: “How can I let my chickens graze without losing them to…

I still remember the day Mrs. Chioma called me from Awkuzu. She was frustrated. Her chickens kept dying in the open coop she built behind her compound. Rain soaked them. Rats attacked at night. She was losing money every week. I asked her one simple question: “Do you have any empty room in your compound?”…

When I first started training farmers across Nigeria eight years ago, one young man from Abeokuta called me. He had just lost over 2,000 birds in three months. His farm was beside a noisy highway. The stress alone killed his chickens faster than any disease could. That single phone call taught me something important. Location is…

When I started chicken farming in 2017 at Oyi Local Government Area, Anambra State, I lost 45 day-old chicks in my first batch. The electric brooder I bought failed during one of those long PHCN outages we all know too well. That night taught me a hard lesson: you need a reliable backup heat source…