With 10 hens and four hatchings every year, a farmer can obtain 308 chicks if the mother hen raises the chicks or 539 chicks if the mother hen does not rear the chicks.
This serves as a stepping stone in the undertaking for a farmer who does not have the financial resources to launch a large chicken operation all at once.
Let’s see how you go about it.
You can begin with ten chickens and two cocks. You must train these chickens to lay eggs at the same time.
* Provide a nest for each hen. Fill a plastic container halfway with grass, wood shavings, or old clothing.
*Place one unfertilized egg or cooked egg in each basin. This is done to fool them into becoming broodies. To keep parasites at bay, sprinkle the nest with pesticide powder.
*Using a pencil, make a mark on the eggs that have been placed there. Remove any eggs that have been deposited but keep the indicated eggs in the nest. The gathered eggs should be kept cold and dry, not in the kitchen or cabinet. Make a pencil mark on the eggs with the date of laying.
*Normally, one bird will spend the night sitting on the indicated egg (cooked egg/unfertilized egg). Allow it to sit for 10 days while others begin incubating or sitting on eggs.
*After 10 days, feed all hens who have begun to sit on eggs 12 eggs apiece to incubate. The eggs have to be deposited lately.
*Leave the hens who haven’t begun incubating alone. The old eggs can be eaten or sold. When selecting eggs for incubation, make sure they are not too little, too large, broken, unclean, too pointed, spherical, or more than 10 days old.
When done in this manner, the birds will all hatch at the same time after 21 to 22 days. Farmers that have incubators can utilize them instead of chickens to hatch the eggs.
Economics of production
Let us now perform some calculations (production economics): In this situation, around 80% of the hens may be trained to lay at the same time.
If we have ten chickens, eight of them can brood at the same time. If each of the eight hens is given 12 eggs, the total number of eggs is 96. Hatchability can range from 80% to 90%. If 90% of the eggs hatch, we will get 77-day-old chicks.
One bird may hatch 3 or 4 times in a year under normal conditions (if it has to rear the chicks) or 7 times in a year if the chicks are removed after hatching. This will translate to 308 chicks annually.
Advice for Job-seekers
Many individuals, particularly young people, would want to go into poultry farming but have no clue how to start small.
They are unaware that raising chickens is not difficult, to begin with, because one does not need to start with a large number of birds at once.
Youth leave their rural homes in pursuit of work in towns and cities, only to be disappointed by a dearth of available positions. Chicken farming might be your deliverance from poverty.
Freddy 
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