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What is poultry farming business

Poultry farming business is called Murgi Palan business in Hindi, which is considered to be a business related to agriculture. In this business, you get two types of options, in the first option, if you want, you can sell the eggs of chickens or in the second option, you can raise chickens and sell their meat.

If you want to do the business of selling chicken eggs, then it will be called layer farming and if you want to do the business of raising chickens and selling their meat, then it will be called broiler farming.

Broiler farming is very popular these days because companies like Venky, Shalimar, Gravity, Supreme, IB are doing broiler farming in collaboration with farmers, and there are also some companies that are doing layer farming in collaboration with farmers.

How to do poultry farming business 

Poultry farming business is done at two levels, small and large, and it depends on the person at which level he wants to start this business. Less investment will be required at small level and more investment will be required if poultry farming business is done at large level. However, considering the demand for eggs and meat in the market, a person can get very good profit in this business.

To start poultry farming business, a person should have experience of doing this business in addition to money, he should also have knowledge of poultry farming business. Well, if you want to know about “how poultry farming business is done”, then you are given the details of poultry farm business below.

1: Make a plan

When a business plan is made, the funds required for the business, the land required for the business and the equipment to be used in the business are all analyzed correctly with a calm mind. Thus, to start a poultry farm business, you first have to get information about the poultry farming business plan or make a plan.

For this, you have to properly analyze everything from funds to market, along with this, you also have to include in the business plan whether you want to start poultry farming business on a small scale or on a large scale in the beginning because the funds and equipment required will increase or decrease depending on the scale of the business.

2 : Arrange the Money

After preparing a plan for poultry farming business, you get an idea of ​​how much money you will have to invest to start this business. What we mean to say is how much fund you will have to invest to start poultry farming business. Therefore, as per the requirement, you have to collect a little more fund than the amount required in this business, because sometimes unwanted expenses come up knowingly or unknowingly. In such a situation, if you keep the fund increased in advance, then you will be able to cover those expenses.

If you have already arranged for the money required for the business, then it is fine, but if you do not have the money or you are short of funds, then you can apply for a loan from the bank, but remember that apply for a loan in the bank which has a low interest rate.

3 : Select the land 

When poultry farming business is started, the poultry farm is built at a place which is located at a higher place because during the rainy season, if the poultry farm is located at a lower place, then there is a high possibility of waterlogging in it, which harms the chicks as well as the poultry farm. Therefore, you should choose a place which is slightly higher than the ground.

Apart from this, poultry farming business is not opened near the population, but it is opened at least 1 km away from the population, because in the poultry farm business, when the chicks are put inside the farm, a lot of foul smell is generated. In such a situation, the poultry farm is opened in a secluded place so that this smell does not spread in the populated area. However, wherever you start this business, make sure that there is a proper arrangement of drinking water there and also make sure that a vehicle can come there to bring and take the chickens.

4: Make arrangements for shelter and equipment 

If you have the necessary funds to open a poultry farm, then you will have to buy shading and other necessary equipment to raise the chicks. At present, most people use cement sheets to cover the poultry farm, the price of which varies in every state.

Apart from this, as other resources you need long iron pipes and also vertical iron pipes which are used to make the poultry farm structure and after the structure is erected, a cement sheet is covered over it.

Along with this, a tank for drinking water is also kept nearby on the upper side and then a pipe is joined to that tank and installed in the poultry farm and from that, water is given to the chicks in a vessel for drinking.

In this business, you will need things like utensils for feeding the chickens, cement sheets, long and vertical iron pipes, shovel for weeding, stone for cleaning, generator, plastic pipe for water supply, temperature meter for measuring temperature, husk for keeping the chicks, medicine spraying machine etc. You can buy all these things from local shops or you can order some of these things online.

5 : Select the Chickens

To be successful in the poultry farming business, it is also necessary that you decide whether you want to raise chickens and sell their meat in the poultry farming business or you want to raise chickens and sell their eggs. If you want to sell the eggs of chickens, then you will have to do layer chicken farming and if you want to sell the meat of chickens, then you will have to do broiler chicken farming.

To farm broiler chickens, you can partner with companies like Shalimar, Gravity, Venky, Supreme and if you want to farm layer chickens, you can buy chicks yourself and put them in the poultry farm. If a person farms broiler chickens, then generally the chickens gain the right weight in around 35 days.

6: Find a market for your business

After selecting the chickens for poultry farming business, you need to find a market to sell the chicken meat or the chicken eggs.

For this, first of all you should contact people in your vicinity who sell chicken eggs or chicken meat. You can supply your goods to them at the local level and if your goods are sold at the local level, then the cost of transportation is reduced considerably.

Apart from this, you have to contact non-vegetarian hotels and finalize the deal with them as well. By doing this, you can supply chicken meat or chicken eggs to the hotels. Similarly, you have to establish contact with small restaurants, small cart owners, small non-vegetarian shop owners and convince them to buy your goods.

If your poultry farm business is on a large scale, then you can try to supply chicken meat or chicken eggs in cities as well. For this, you have to contact the chicken meat or egg dealers present in cities.

If you are doing broiler farming in collaboration with a company, then you do not have to do anything to sell the chickens because the company itself takes the ready chickens from you and then after selling the chickens further, whatever payment is made, it gives it to you in your bank account.

 7: Keep accounts

It is often seen in poultry farming business that sometimes chickens get affected by some disease. In such a situation, you have to give the chickens related medicines to protect them from diseases, which are unwanted expenses. That is why you should keep a diary to account for all the expenses incurred in poultry farming business.

If you know how to use a computer, you can upload all the expenses related to the business on a daily basis, so that when you have sold all the eggs or all the chickens, you will know how much profit or loss you have made in that round and how much money you have invested in that round. This will help you improve in the next round.

8 : Follow local rules​

Poultry farming business is an agriculture related business. Therefore, you have to follow some important rules in it. According to the information received, you cannot do poultry farming business in a populated area. A secluded place is required for this.

Therefore, it is said that a poultry farm can be built in a secluded place at least 500 meters or 1 kilometer away from the populated area. Apart from this, you also have to obtain a No Objection Certificate from the Health Department. However, under certain conditions, poultry farming business can be started near the populated area as well.

Investment in Poultry Farming Business

If poultry farming business is started on a small scale, then an investment of about ₹ 80000 to 1.5 lakh rupees will be required, which will include the necessary items to start the poultry farming business, and if you are not associated with the company, then the chicks will also come in the same price.

If the business is started on a large scale, then it can cost around ₹ 7,00000 to ₹ 8,00000. You can raise around 4000 chicks in your poultry farm by spending ₹ 7 lakh to ₹ 8 lakh. In this way, we have told you our estimate about the expenses involved in this. These expenses can be more or less.

Benefits in Poultry Farming Business

If you are doing broiler farming, that is, you are raising baby chickens and giving them to the company with which you have partnered, then how much profit you will get depends on the weight of all the chickens. The price of chicken meat in the market keeps increasing or decreasing from time to time.

In such a situation, we cannot tell you exactly how much profit you will get from this. Only when you enter this business, you will get the right information about the profit in poultry farming business. The same condition applies to the chicken egg business as well.

Risk in Poultry Farming Business

In this business, the chicks get some disease or the other. Generally, they get diseases like cold, cough and flu and the chicks are very delicate, so if they are not taken care of in time, they start dying. Apart from this, if the chicks are small, they are not able to bear loud noises.

Due to very loud noise they die of heart attack, and sometimes due to extreme heat not only small chicks but even big chicks die.

Thus, it is also called raw business, and in winters, the chicks have to be given heat to protect them from cold, while in summers, they have to be given air to protect them from heat. Thus, it is very troublesome. However, it is not necessary that everyone has to face these troubles.

Marketing of Poultry Farming Business

If you have started this business by joining a company, then you do not need to do any marketing but if you are doing this business personally, then you will have to market your business to get customers.

For this, you can either give advertisements in newspapers or tell the people you know about your business.

Apart from this, you can also tell people who deal in meat or eggs about your business. You can also print small pamphlets and distribute them in shops or you can also make small banners and put them up at busy intersections around your area. By doing this, more and more people will know about your poultry farming business, which will increase the number of your customers. And write on the banner poultry farm for sale.

Also, add the address of your poultry farm on Google Maps. So if someone searches on the mobile for the nearest poultry farm – then your address will be shown to him.

Staff for Poultry Farming Business​

Generally we have seen that 2 people are required to do this business i.e. you can employ 2 people to work in this business. If you want to do this business full time yourself then you will need to keep a helper with you.

Generally, in this business, the chicks have to be fed and watered on time, and the poultry farm has to be cleaned from time to time. These are the main tasks in this business. In this way, 2 people are enough to handle this business.

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