How to begin your own Chicken Farm Business

In the chicken industry there are two types: We have broiler, chickens raised and bred to be food, and Layers, which are chicken bred and raised to produce eggs.


It is one thing to start a chicken farm , but to start an actual business out of it is something else in it own. Going for chicken farming, you are not going to be a chicken farmer, but a businessperson as well , depending on what markets you are targeting and what types of chicken sector you want to going into.


To start a chicken farming, you have to make responsible managerial and financial decisions for your chicken farm to be a profitable business.


1. First thing you must think of when you want to set up your chicken farm is CAPITAL AND EQUIPMENT. These two thing are necessities. You will need a building to raise your chicken, and this building can be a barns or hutches depending on the numbers of your chicken.
You may raise your chicken in a conventional way or free -range.


2. What kind of ways you will want to raise your chickens.
We have two popular ways to raise your chicken. They are Conventional systems, which is a system where you have your chicken confined to a barns that are temperature controlled areas.
Free- range systems allow your chicken to just moving about , have fun on the farm to behave as if they are in their natural habitats.


3. You must be able to decide what sectors of the chicken industry you wish to pursue.
We have two types of raising chicken, they are Broiler , which are chicken raised for meat, and we also have Layer, which are chicken raised for making eggs.


4. Finding market for your chicken or their eggs: You must look at what are the most popular needs of your immediate area, you must know what they want and when did they need it most, e.g. In place like London chicken is mostly sell very well during Christmas season.


5. Make your self and product known to potential customers: You need to advertise your chicken, simply by letting other people know that you have what they want, like chicken meat and eggs that you want to sell. You can also use social media to advertise you poultry produce.


6. You must keep records and accounting of your chicken business: This is to help you to know if you are making profit or lost, and it will also help you against theft.


7. Get a vet doctor: You must have a vet doctor who will advice you and proscribe drugs and treatment, incase you have a sick chicken.
If you can abide and followed these thing when setting your chicken farm, you will succeed and make profit as you expected.

How to protect your business and yourself from fraudsters

There are three set of people that can be easily fall prey of fraudsters. They are,
1.THE GREEDY - Those who want to get rich quick. These kinds of people do not want to work hard. People with greedy attitude, who want an easy ways to wealth. Those who want to live an expensive life but they are not ready to what hard and they are looking for easy way to make huge amounts of money.


2. THE GULLIBLE - People who easily trust and easily relying on others. These people do get into business partnership with someone without thoroughly investigating the background of the person they are in partnership with. Those who dabble into such kind of business they are not conversant with, just because it appears highly profitable.


3. THE FRUSTRATED - These are the people who are in finance mess . People who have try one business and other but they have failed. People who have been downtrodden by the society or been disappointed by friends. They are usually desperate. And you can easily reads there problem on their face. Fraudsters easily approach such people by pretending to profer solutions to their problem. When such a person listens to them . They then present a proposal that sounds simple and highly profitable. Some ladies fall into the of fraudsters" because they are desperately looking for a marriage partners.


Fraudsters use various techniques to catch their victims, so note these techniques.
1. CONVERSATION - Maybe are in a public bus with them and he or she starts a conversation that eventually leads to questions and answers and he or she started exchanging name, address, phone number.


PSYCHOLOGY - They easily note people who appear sad and frustrated and pretend to be concerned and willing to help.


ENQUIRY - They pretend to be searching for someone and show you an address and beg for your assistance in locating someone. Most often they speak with a strange " Americana" accent" An not a Nigeria, but came by ship. This person am looking for ordered for goods and I cannot locate him bla bla bla.."
"if I can't locate him I would have to sell the goods cheap to someone else.


4. ENCHANTMENT - They arrange with sellers of soft drinks at the Moto park. You are boarding a vehicle together and he or she call for a soft drinks from a seller and buys one for himself and asks the seller to give you one also. If you refuse he laughs and prods and teases you to collect it, after all you are both traveling together. You flattered his generosity and to sho courtesy, you accept. The hawker helps him open his bottle and yours too. You must drink up and return the bottle before the vehicle leaves the park. When you inhale it, you become a slave and you do what you are ask to so . Sign a document, cheque, or whatever. You may end up bring out all the cash and valuable in your possession, or just anything.

SECURITY FOR YOUR CHILDREN

Teach your children to be safety and security conscious by making them read this article. You can also share the ideas in this article with your household during morning prayers, at the dinning table and in the school.
The security of your family and household is most paramount and is your personal responsibility.


Avoid sending children on errands at night as this exposed the children to kidnappers, rapers and child molesters.


Avoid sending children to hawk as this exposes them to accidents, and child molesters who may take that to molests them.


Children should inform their parents before embarking on any trip. Teach you children to always report any strange movement of people and objects around the house.
Teach your children not to give their house address and phone number to anybody, including their friends, without informing their parents.


It is in order to teach your children self defense , like judo, karate , boxing and how to use electric self defense garget etc. For the purpose of self defense. You never know when your children might need it.
You should let your children know the danger of accepting free ride from strangers.


Teach your teenage age children to avoid bringing casual friends home without the parents approval, so as to assess and advice them.


Teach your children why they must close the entrance door of the house at all time, teach the not to open the door to unknown person at all time.


Teach your children the danger in bringing too much friends to the house, because some of the friends they brought to the house may constitute a security risk to the family and the immediate society.


If the person who use to pick your children from school is your housemaid, relation or driver, make sure the class teacher or school authority can identify that your housemaid, driver or the relation to avoid being a victim of kidnappers.
it is possible for impostor  to snatch the car from your driver, drive to your children's school and kidnap your kids. Make your kids security conscious.


Mind closely the way your male house help relates with your female children. We have had cases where male house helps violate female children. We have had cases where male house help impregnated female children. We have had cases where male house help had carnal knowledge of female children and infected them with HIV.


Teach your female children not to allow their big brother, uncles, cousins or house help to fondle their sexual parts. Sexual education, like they say of charity, must begin at home . Most parents are too busy , too shy or to spiritual to relate with their children closely enough to discuss and render help on sensitive issues like their sexual growth and development. Try to be different as a parent. Teach your children all what they need to know, including sexual education.

THE IMPORTANT OF PRAISING GOD

It is said that when scientist researchers break down the matter' that comprises our universe, it is actually contains some musical molecules. When the Pharisees tried to silence that who were singing and drumming to praise the Lord, perhaps that is why Jesus Christ said 'if you Pharisees stop these people from praising God, the stone will cry out and give praise.


The bible speaks of trees clapping there hands in praising and oceans and the mountains exalting God. All of the creation are designed to praise God.
And when you don't, there is a connection with God that is not made and emptiness within you that nothing else can fill. David said , let my prayer be set before You as incense, the lifting up of my hand and my heart as the evening sacrifice (Psalm 142:2).
Here the word "prayer" is an Hebrew language , which means" songs of praise" and the Bible us it not less than 72 time in this context. So you as a living thing and work of almighty God should start singing praise God.


The Ark of the Covenant represented three things: Victory, guidance and God's presence. And any time the Ark of Covenant is not with Israeli , they felt lost without it. But observe how they can bring the Ark back from their camp of the Philistine foes. Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing to almighty God with big and small harps and Psalteries and with tumbrels and all others type of music instruments.
You must notice the phrase, "with all their might" away with pale , pathetic praise!


Put all your heart and soul ,whenever you are to praise God and worship him, brings intimacy with God. When the people want to rebuild Jerusalem, the singer were as vital and useful to the success of the operation as the solders and builders.
So for you also to succeed and to be progressive in life, you need to praise God always. Praising God is best way to get grace and eye of God.
Always praise God, even when your are driving, because Gid and his angels like like to be in were there is praise, and by doing so the angel is on guard and source a person will always have a saver journey.

WOLVES AMONG THE SHEEP

Business people easily trust others who are members of their Church, Mosque or social club and love to transact business with them. But as a Nigerian, never put your money into any business without thoroughly investigation and verifying the claims of your business partner.


Two year ago in a city in Nigeria, a certain Pastor who had a call to prison ministry, went a certain prison regularly, to witness to inmates of the inmates called Lawal, had been jail for armed robbery. As the Pastor continued to visit the person, Lawal came for an alter call and gave his life to Christ. The Pastor was very happy, since Lawal was originally a Muslim. It never crossed his kind Christian mind that Lawal was a pretender, an imposter.


Shortly after that, Lawal was released from prison after he had completed his sentence.
Filled with with joy, Pastor drove his car to agodi prison and picked Lawal. Lawal explained to Pastor that he had no place to go. That now he had become a Christian his family would kill him if he went to them. Pastor said, "No problem". And took Lawal to his own home, and gave him a room to live.


Pastor had just newly married and had a whole three bedroom flat to himself and his wife.
Lawal ate with the family , drank with the family , attended church programme and gave testimony of his conversions to the amazement and administration of fellow Christians.


Pastor gave Lawal the position of Personal Assistant and paid him accordingly. Lawal had become one with the family and knew the in and out of Pastor' s life.
Nine months later, Pastor's brother-in-law arrived from the United State on a visit.
He was on annual leave and had come to purchase a piece of land and build a House, so he came reasonable amount of money.
Pastor made contact with the estate agents, located a piece of land and they agreed on the price.
Pastor then went with his brother in law and lawal to change dollars to pay the land and start contradiction on the site. Lawal would supervise the construction work.
At Sabo, they collected cash of about N59 millon. This was on Friday evening. Payment would be made on Saturday morning.
Friday night was night vigil in the church, and Lawal was firt to leave home to church to see that all was in order before the arrival of the pastor.


Later in the evening,Pastor and his brother in law joined Lawal and others members at the church. Pastor 's wife was now heavy with pregnancy and could not attend. About 11 p.m the night vigil started , dancing and clapping, Lawal sneaked out of the church and went back home.
He enter into the house and explained to the pastor's wife that Pastor had forgotten something at home. She open the door and Lawal enter into pastor room, killed the pregnant woman , stole the money and disappeared.


That pastor was gentle, but not wise. He should not have brought an ex armed robber into his house for whatever reason under heaven.

Gratitude is contagious

Bless the Lord, oh my soul, And forget not all His benefits. Psalm 103:2.


Although forgetfulness sometimes increases with age, its really common to us all. Even children have lapses of memory and excuse themselves by saying " I forgot" But there's one kind of forgetfulness that is inexcusable at any age- forgetting to be grateful to God. The psalmist David was determined not to fall this way, so he exhorted his soul, "forget not all His benefit (psalm 103:2).


David didn't keep his thanksgiving to God a secret. In psalm 35:2 he wrote "The humble shall hear of it and be glad, and who were the humble?
They were those who, like David were going through tough times. Why should they be glad to hear his praises? Because their own faith was strengthened when he testified about God,s help to him in times of fear , trouble, need, sorrow and affliction.
When was the last time you openly and unashamedly praised God for helping you in your difficulties? Someone has this to say: "If Christians praised God more, the world would doubt Him less. "Not only is it appropriate, therefore, to express your gratitude for all His benefits, but your example may also encourage others to move from doubt to faith as you praise Him. JEY.
Thank the Lord when trouble comes.

Culture and tradition of Ekiti people

An important feature of the Ekiti State is the large number of hills it possesses, which are the site of towns in which much population resides.


The state is highly rich in culture. They have their own unique traditional ways of dressing and dancing. The Ekiti people are mostly Christian and Muslim while some still practice their traditional religion. The ruler of the town are called Obas like other Yoruba Towns. Traditionally, the Obas in Ekiti state, are usually described as sacred or divine. The Oba installation and coronation are performed with solemn and lengthy rites which set them apart.
Thereafter living an ordered ceremonial existence, secluded in their palaces, subjected to many ritual of court an approached only with infinite respect.
They rarely appeared in public, expect on ceremonial occasions .
By old costumes , the king (OBA) were not only the head of their town and kingdoms, but by their personifications , reincarnating also all their ancestors back to the origin of the dynasties, they are also the titular heads of all religious set in their kingdom.
Their appointment are partly by divination, made by the king makers who are mostly high chiefs.
They are usually appointed from among the children of the past Kings. The ceremonies for their appointment and coronation are elaborate. The sacredness of their offices was neither empty nor normal; They are they sources of honor, to bestow titles and chieftaincies. The kings are also the fountain of justice.


In the state framework, the kings are not expected to be part in patrician politics.
Palace of traditional rulers are true symbolical relic of the people culture and tradition.


Some of the richly endowed artifacts oriented palaces in Ekiti state are the Ewi of Ado's palace, Elekole of Ikole"s palace, Oore of Otun"s palace , Alawo of Awo's palace, Olohan of Erijiyan's palace and others.