Additional feeding equipment for my poultry venture

Catherine

Nakuru, Kenya

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Name

Catherine

Member since

July 2017

On-time repayments

83 installments • 54%

About Me

Hallo Zidisha Team,

I'm an entrepreneur working on dairy and poultry farming. I started of with poultry farming specifically to raise my living standard and care for my ailing mother who is now disabled after a road accident.

I worked hard in the poultry farmer and through Zidisha, I was able to rear over 300 chicken for sale of meat and eggs.

This venture really improved my standard of living and was also care for my mother.

My ultimate goal was to venture into dairy farming of which I now have 4 milkers with a production of 65 litres a day. This was possible after I sold a parcel of land I had acquired years ago. I practice zero grazing so I have to buy fodder and water for the cows. They are now all incalf and start calving down late July consecutively.

I thank zidisha Team for enabling me get this far especially when I needed funds for purchasing feeds, poultry equipment and even buying the chicks.

I look forward to your help whenever I need it.

Thank you.

My Business

My business currently is mainly dairy farming. I have 4 milkers (Holstein Fresian cows) with an average production of 65 ltrs currently. They are almost calving down (due) starting end July this year.

The milk sales are at us$. 50 wholesale and. 60 per ltr retail . The milk is sold to households, hotel at the highway of Nairobi/Nakuru and a local shop.

The sales are used to purchase feeds (hay), supplements and minerals and pay my farm help. Any surplus goes to my house expenses and mums meds.

I sold all my chicken and will embark on it in August. I have had good experience with rearing chicken and I'm now able to manage a poultry farm better than when I started. I expect to make better profits in the next season.

Loan Proposal

The loan will be utilized to purchase 2 feeders at US$ 9.00 and 1 6ltr drinker @ US$ 6.50 for the chicks.
Currently I have 4 chick feeders and 1 3ltr drinker. This is sufficient for 50 chicks only. So there's alot of competition for food which is not healthy as some chicks will not get enough feeds meaning that some will grow bigger than others.
The businesses has now grown to 150 chicks which should reach maturity by December. I expect to have at least 30 cocks for sale then at US$ 10-15.00 and enough supply of eggs for the coming year by Gods grace.