The high feed condition is fairly significant in Uganda and from new news(August and October 2011) several Ugandan poultry farmers are now being pushed out of organization and so before you invest, you'll need to think about this very carefully. That large supply price has been pushed by increase in rates of maize bran. Maize bran composition is approximately 52% of chicken feed. Coupled with high Maize bran rates is that proven fact that fish stocks in Uganda are appearing being reduced easily (fish is about 10-20% of the chicken give composition.

I touched upon this fleetingly when I early in the day on mentioned coccidiosis. You can find however other chicken diseases like New Fort infection which can get rid of the entire poultry stock. I've however not placed Uganda agriculture this chance at the the top of CONS because any significant investor may hire a qualified and appropriately skilled farm supervisor to stop disease threats and likewise have use of a great veterinary officer/doctor and this will further lower this threat. I will deal with the details in the part below.

Sustainable industrial chicken farming takes a fair quantity of money especially because layers get about 17 weeks before they begin producing eggs and therefore with this period there's no income. The investor will therefore require to supply functioning money with this period of approximately 4 weeks before he can expect any revenue. That working money involves the important thing price of chicken feed. From my estimates (I can come compared to that later on) you need about Shs 26m as launch money for a 1,000 chicken farm(shaver brown variety.

Chicken have existed quite a while and in the produced earth chicken is cheaper than beef. The reverse does work in Uganda and chicken is normally reserved for special days (like when I had transferred my P.7 PLE exams and was accepted to the college of my first choice). In Uganda, this is but planning to improve especially as our populace grows and more folks come out of poverty. Recent studies display that we have increased egg usage by 28% and chicken usage by 60% between 2000 and 2006.