The Anglo-Nubian goat is a crossbreed between the British goats and bucks of African and Indian origin, which can also be found in Northern Nigeria.
This specie is a multipurpose goat for the production of milk, meat, and hide. In this post, we’ll share with you important information about Anglo-Nubian doe and buck.
The Altai Mountain specie of wool goat was made between 1944 and 1982 on the joint farmlands of the Gorno-Altai Autonomous area of the past Soviet Union. It is reserved on pasture round the year.
Thus Altai Mountain Goats is known as Gornoaltaiiskaya in Russian. Its origin can be traced to the Soviet Union. The Altai Mountain specie is the outcome of Don goats used for enhancement of the local goat breeds.
French-Alpine goat derives its origin from the Alps. These goats were brought from France into the United States where they had been carefully chosen for a far better evenness, production, and size, unlike the ones that were moved from Switzerland to France.
This is the process of measuring the number of ingredients needed to form a single diet for poultry that contains all the necessary nutrients they require.
Feed alone takes about 65%-75% of total production expenses in poultry farming, thus a slight mistake in feed formulation may lead to a big loss for the poultry farmer.
Appenzell Goat is pure white in colour and has a mid-length hair. It has a dominant, pleasantly built body. The appendages are strong and positioned well.
It has a broad body than that of the Saanen breed thus it is slightly smaller. This goat is also hornless.
If you’re raising a few goats for the purpose of getting fresh milk, the most crucial aspect is in the milking.
And in this post, we’ll share with you how to milk goat by hand. It is called manual milking because it’s more affordable.
Angora goat has been since early biblical history and it originated from Angora in Asia Minor. The use of mohair was talked about in the days of Moses thus the Angora would be sometime between 1571 and 1451 BC.
Writing a creative, yet simple two-page business plan is essential to the success of would-be SMEs at a time when there are more than 10 CBN-backed loans to apply for.
If you want to win the necessary financial support from the government or private organisation, you need a well-conceived and well-packaged plan.
Turkey is one of the birds marvelled by millions of people around the world, though some of them are usually aggressive, this shouldn’t stop you from making cool money from going into a full-scale turkey rearing business.
All over the World, there are more than two dozens of breeds of turkey. In the United States alone, 20 breeds are reported to the Domestic Animal Diversity Information System (IDA-IS) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, which manages and takes record of animal genetic resources programme.
But in this post, we’ll focus on 7 turkey breeds in Nigeria you can rear which would fetch you lot of money within your community or on a large scale.
Hello there, this post can simply be described as the manual for poultry farming in Nigeria and we’ll not disappoint you at giving you all you need to layers poultry farming and the cost rearing chicken.
Currently, there are a variety of poultry birds available for human consumption. While some are known for egg production, meat production others are a combination of both.
You don’t really have to a millionaire to start a chicken farming business if you already have a plot of an unused portion of land in your compound you kick start on a small scale and key into the Buhari Young Farmers Network which was launched recently across the country.
Basically, poultry birds can be grouped into 3 types based on what they produce.
