Cutting the cost of production with homemade feeds

Kevin

Karatina Town, Kenya

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Entrepreneur

Name

Kevin

Member since

July 2015

On-time repayments

132 installments • 50%

About Me

Hello lenders, I am Kevin Nyachihi. I am a diploma holder in Business Information Technology.
I run a computer and cyber café in Karatina Town. My day to day activities at the shop include: Sales and service of computer parts, stationaries sales, general printing, graphic designs and online service like applying for government permits, travel visas, online job application among others.
I am also a follower of Christian faith. I am also involved in social works in the community that I serve like helping the old and vulnerable people in the society.

My Business

I am running a computer and accessories enterprise accompanied with printing and photocopying activities under the name Jelani Technologies. My business is located at Karatina Market Mall Building adjacent to Post Bank Kenya.
Computer and Accessories entails selling ex-uk laptops and desktops computers among other computer accompaniments like chargers, power cables, hard discs etc.
Printing and Photocopying involves walk-ins’ officials and college and university students who come for printing, scanning and photocopying their documents.
My customer base includes clients with official purposes like payslips, license renewals, income tax returns, visa and passport applications, vehicle registrations and transfers among others. While I offer university students services like Higher Education Loans Board application, online students registration and printing services.

Loan Proposal

Commercial feeds have become too expensive nowadays that you cannot survive with them if you want to make profits. Due to the government regulations that most of the products should be packed in a 50kgs bag most of the millers have used this to their advantage they have reduced their bag sizes from 70Kgs to 50kgs but we have not seen the prices go down and those who have is with less than a 1US dollar.
Recently I paid and attended a seminar at KARI (Kenya Agricultural Research Institute) where the agricultural gurus as I would call them showed us on how to make the feeds using the Pearson square method, in this method the digestible crude protein is the basic nutritional requirement for any feeds preparation for all animals and birds. I learnt the crude protein content of the ingredients used in making chicken feeds noting that each stage of growth and category have different nutrition needs.
From my record, I realised that 75- 80 percent of the total cost of production goes to feeds which lead me to think about making my own feeds so that I can at least lower the price of production and save. I also noted that I am not guaranteed that the feeds are of good quality and poor quality feeds may lead to slow growth of my chickens, disease or even death which even thinking of it gives me running stomach.
The materials are available locally and cheaply especially the harvesting season, and depending on the cost of raw materials I can save 30-45 %. After doing enough research I concluded that I want to make this feeds. And making this feeds I would require around Kshs42,800/=. With my savings and the loan from the lenders I hope to achieve my target.
Materials include:- whole maize, soya, fish meal(Omena) sunflower , Maize bran, lime as a source of calcium, cotton seed cake, bone meal and additives.
Materials goes for Kshs38,000/=
Transporting the materials using public means Kshs3,000/=
Labour cost: - 2 personnel to help me Kshs1,800/=
TOTAL COST: KSH 42,800/=

THANK YOU AND WELCOME ABOARD
KEVIN NYACHIHI