Backyard snail farming ( Giant African snail )

(Achatina species), African giant snail the biggest snail that available in west Africa, this big snail is known to grow up to 30cm in length and can be found in the dense tropical rain forests

PRESIDENT BUHARI REUNION WITH HIS MEDIA PEOPLE , WRITTEN BY RUEBEN ABATI

I was really excited on Saturday when I received news of the eventual visit of President Muhammadu Buhari’s media team to him in London

Must read, Inspirational post, written by Femi Aribisala ( Love is better than sacrifice and Love cannot be bought)

This post is a must read for everyeone      Love cannot be bought neither can God be bribed.” A man got his girlfriend pregnant. Therefore, he asked her to marry him.

‘But do you love me?’ the girl asked him. “What’s love got to do with it?” he replied. “Am I not doing the right thing by you?” However, the girl would not be moved. “Do you love me?” she insisted. Heart of the Matter A requirement fulfilled without love is intrinsically inferior to one done in love. An obligation done without love merely answers the call of duty. But one done in love goes above and beyond the call of duty. We cannot love without giving but we can give without loving. Therefore, believers should be encouraged to love and not just to give money, knowing that if we love we will automatically give. In any case, what God requires of us is our love and not our money. For this reason, he says: “My son, give me your heart.” (Proverbs 23:26). He does not say: “My son, give me your money.” What God desires is love (mercy) and not sacrifices. But what our pastors and religious leaders insist on are sacrifices and not love. Indeed, sacrifice is another name for religion. Religious man has always seen sacrifice as a means of appeasing deities, and pastors are quintessentially religious. They will tell you about five keys and seven strategies for obtaining God’s favour. But the true God is not an idol and believers should not be made to act like idol-worshipers. When God finally sent his Son Jesus as his one true and faithful witness, he validated Hosea’s cry in the wilderness. God says through Hosea: “I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” (Hosea 6:6). Jesus confirms this by telling us: “Go and learn what this means: ‘I desire mercy and not sacrifice.’” (Matthew 9:13). Today’s pastors have still not learnt what this means and Christians are none the wiser. Sacrifice is another word for tithes and offerings, for these are ostensibly offered to God. In effect, God says: I desire mercy and not tithes and offerings. I want you to love me. I don’t just want you to give me tithes and offerings. Fleecing the Flock Pastors have refused to learn what this means because it is not in their interest to do so. If God does not desire sacrifice, how then can they continue to insist on the money they extort from their parishioners in the name of sacrifices to God? How can they continue to have their free lunches and cortege of cars? How can they continue to finance their lavish life-styles from the income of others? How can they continue to get others to bank-roll the religious empires they build as a result of their illusions of grandeur? Let me ask again: What does God require of the believer? He wants us to love him and to love our neighbour as ourselves. These straightforward requirements are highlighted in a discussion between Jesus and one of the scribes: “The scribe said to (Jesus), ‘Well said, Teacher. You have spoken the truth, for there is one God, and there is no other but he. And to love him with all the heart, with all the understanding, with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbour as oneself, is more than all the whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.’ Now when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, ‘You are not far from the kingdom of God.’” (Mark 12:32-34). But pastors remain far from the kingdom of God; holding others down with them. Let no one deceive you. The payment of tithes and offerings will not guarantee anyone’s place in heaven. It will certainly ensure that men will be in the good books of their pastors. Wrong teaching in the churches has shipwrecked the faith of many. When affliction comes, some go before the Lord in anger and confusion: “But Father, I pay my tithe and I give my offerings, so why is this happening to me?” Who told you paying tithes and giving offerings safeguards a Christian from anything? Love Covers Sins Sacrifices do not and cannot motivate God. God loves us not because we sacrifice to him but because love is his nature. God is love, therefore, he loves unreservedly. (1 John 4:8). God’s love and forgiveness cannot be bought. Neither can God be bribed. If God loved us when we were his enemies, would he not love us now that we are his sons? Would he not love us irrespective of whether or not we pay tithes and give offerings? In any case, who ever heard of a son giving offerings to his father? (Matthew 17:25-26). Everything the father has belongs to the son and everything the son has belongs to the father. God is not worshiped with men’s hands, as if he needed anything. (Acts 17:25). But we worship God with our hands by what we claim to give him. When we give a lot of money to a church, we are convinced we are worshiping him a great deal. However, the one true God is self-sufficient. He does not need our money to build his church. What we are as believers is far more important to God than what we have. God loves us because of who we are and not because of what we have. He loves us because he is our Father and we are his sons. He dearly loves those who follow the commandments of Jesus and are therefore re-created in his divine image and likeness. God says of himself: “I AM WHO I AM.” (Exodus 3:14). He does not say, like men: “I am what I have.” Sacrifice of Fools Sacrifices for sins are like the flowers a husband gives to his wife after having an affair. It is foolish to presume they would atone for his unfaithfulness. The wife doesn’t need the flowers. She needs a loving husband. She needs a husband who is faithful and committed to her. Similarly, God needs sons who love and obey him, rather than those who give him ritualistic gifts. That is what Samuel meant when he asked Saul: “Has the Lord as much pleasure in your burnt offerings and sacrifices as in your obedience? Obedience is far better than sacrifice. He is much more interested in your listening to him than in your offering the fat of rams to him.” (1 Samuel 15:22). That is the reason why David observes in the psalms that the sacrifices of God are fundamentally different from those offered by men: “You do not desire sacrifice, or else I would give it; you do not delight in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit, a broken and a contrite heart – these, O God, you will not despise.” (Psalm 51:16-17). David should know. He slept with another man’s wife; got her pregnant, had her husband killed, and married her; all in one fell swoop. When God exposed his sin through Prophet Nathan, David secured God’s forgiveness without offering any sacrifice whatsoever. He secured forgiveness by simply repenting of his sins and by appealing to God for mercy

How to begin your own poultry farming as a civil servant and after retirement,

Benefits of Poultry Farming are so numerous that this page may not contain it all. Apart from the chicken being used as food,

Poultry Farming is equally profitable. A good poultry farmer earns above N20 million per annul depending on how big the farm is. All these benefits are open to you if you start your own poultry farm today! There are basically three different breeds of bird for poultry business. We have the Broilers, Cockerels, and Layers. The Broilers grows very faster and are ready for sale at 12 weeks from hatch. Cockerels grows slower and can take up to twenty four weeks before they are matured for marketing. But, Cockerels are reliable in terms of survival and withstanding bad weathers. They are more resilient, and can absorb shocks far better than Layers and Broilers. Poultry Farming is a bit capital intensive – it’s all like trading money to make more money. You need to prepare for this especially if you wants to start on a higher scale. But be assured of making back whatever amount of money you invested in the business in multiple fold within a short period of time. Before you venture into poultry farming business, you need to seat back and do proper calculation and planning; make sure you have idea of all the costs involved. In this article, I’ll be endeavor to give you the ideas of what is involved so you can build upon . How To Start Egg Supply Business In Nigeria Currently they seem to be no high level, hi-tech poultry farms in this country like the ones we used to see in USA, Europe and Asia. Any investor who have enough nerve and needed capital to venture into it will have reasons to smile within a short period of investment. Up till now, Nigeria still import chicken from other countries because the ones the local farmers produces are not enough to meet the demand of the over 150 Million citizens. There is certainly huge market for poultry rearing in this country as well as other countries. Now – if you’re ready to get started and hit the goldmine that is awaiting in poultry farming business, here are the basic requirements you need to set up your farm. Acquire Land In Good Location One plot of land of 120 x 60 square meter is perfect for setting up medium scale poultry farm, but as a salary earners you can use that vacant room in your hours or that uncompleted building in your area  at least for a start. Once you have a land or a room that is big enough for your farm set up, half of what your need have been taken care of. Space to keep birds is one of  the hardest and probably the most expensive part of poultry business in places like Lagos, Abuja, and other major cities. Since you may not be allowed to carry out Big Poultry farming amongs residents or other populated environment due to the smell that is associated with poultry rearing and the subsequent health impact, I’ll advice that you look for land in a rural area or in farms if you want to go for bigger poultry farming, There you will get lands cheaper, stays out of trouble and do your production there, while your products will be transported to the urban area for sell. You can get a large chunk of land in a developing area for small amount compared to how much you will get the same size of land in a city like Lagos.
Build Chicken House For Your Birds Chicken Coop or poultry house is the building where your chicken will be kept. This is the second most important part of your poultry farm set up. The sizes and construction varies based on your need but make sure the building is spacious enough for the chicken to run around. The house should be constructed in a way that you will be able to control the ventilation and air movement. Get a qualified engineer to do designing and building for you if you are going for large scale construction. Else, you can just visit any good poultry farm to see how the house is constructed. The diagram below is the typical design of the standard chicken house. Like I said before, visit Poultry farms to see how it is done in your area. Save Poultry farm house plan When planning out your Hens house, always remember that space is very important. Don’t compromise on this to avoid frequent loss of your birds through suffocation and contamination. Buy Healthy Day Old Chicks For Starting You need to acquire your birds (normally day-old chicks) and will have to take very good care of them for the first seven to nine weeks of their life. You must buy your day-old-chicks from a healthy source — the productivity of your chicks depends on how healthy they are! Buy from chicken hatchery that mainly deals with the supplying of different species of day-old chickens. It’s better to buy from the hatchery, Chicken hatchery usually produce good quantity of day old chicks through the use of incubators. The estimated price for day old chicken in Nigeria is N100 – N250. Negotiate the prices with the sellers, you can get it cheaper if you’re buying many, if you nee day-old-chicken you can call or e-mail this number and email 08132648095 for your healthy day old chicken. So you can start with 50birds or 20 birds for your new poultry farm, you will need nothing less than 20 thousands naira to begin. This will cover the cost of birds, drugs and food. And you must ensure that you have enough space for the chickens to run around; then you put up low cost poultry house or any type you think you can afford because chickens need shelter from the rain and predators. Get Feeds, Feeders And Water Troughs Chicken feed is very important if you want good harvest. You can buy feeds at stores and make sure you buy the sack of feed that bears the label for the kind of chickens you have, such as Broiler starter, Chick starter, Layer feeds, etc. The store feeds are basically balanced feed which will help your chickens do fine if you don’t feed them other feeds. Avoid cheap feeds that have low nutritional value — your bird wouldn’t do well with that, don’t just buy because they are cheap, buy because the feed is quality and contains good nutritional value. You can also set out whole grains in a separate feeder if you like. I do. This can save you a lot of money if you have a source of cheap grain, especially if you use a high-protein chicken feed. For example, a high-protein layer ration with 20% protein will be formulated for use with supplemental grain, with the assumption that the hens will eat about 50% layer ration and 50% grain. Chicks need lots of protein and will pretty much ignore supplemental grain until they’re older and aren’t growing as fast. There’s really little point in offering them grain until they’re 6-8 weeks old. — Plamondon.com/faq Apart from the feeding, you need to regularly vaccinate your chickens to protect them from bird flu and other diseases. Feeding is extensive, you have to feed them from day-old to maturity. Important: Light must be available at all time in your poultry farm to keep the chickens warm, especially during raining season when the humidity is always very low. Look for reliable source of power to supply your hens house with heat and light. Most layers will start laying eggs the moment they are 18 weeks old but some wait till they are about 22 weeks old. Whichever way, Layer farming is considered the most lucrative of all poultry farming. This is because Layers do two things, they lay eggs which fetch good money in the market, and are equally sold for the meat. A full crate of pullet eggs sells for about N800, while a crate of semi-pullet sells for N950 wholesale price. If your Layers are large enough to produce 10,000 crates of large eggs which sells for N700, you will be making at least N650 X 10,000 = N6,500,000 From eggs alone! The chickens itself is another ball game! A fully grown chicken sells for between N2,000 and N2,500 (N1,500 to N2,000 at wholesale price) depending on the size and maturity level. Therefore, ten thousand chickens will give you N1,500 x 10,000 = N15,000,000!. With this post post I believed you will start preparing for your retirement. Poultry farming is on of those businesses you can lay your hand on after retirement so far you have been doing it when you are at active service. You also read and learn from this too. http://www.chickenandsnail.blogspot.com.br/2017/11/indications-of-chickens-comb.html?m=1

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MAKING MONEY WITH SNAIL FARMING

Animals can be good friends and a pet, having animal in someone home is so lovely but some animal are more profitable than others. In ours world , people
prefer to take some animal as pet . animal like dog, cat  are mostly seen in many home today.
  There are many other animal that people kept which are for making money. Example of such animals are Cow, goat ,Chicken , and sheep, all these animal mentioned are highly profitable but they requires more money to start such animal business.
But in this post I will discuss about an animal which many people don't use to put their attention on, this animal am talking about is "SNAIL".
Snail is a kind of animal that is more profitable and less capital base to begin , you spent less on doing snail farming than doing other animal farming , the reason for this is because snail feeding is everywhere, its easy to get snail food and is also easy to get snail , even if you don't have money.
HOW TO BEGIN YOUR OWN SNAIL FARMING .
  To start snail farming. 1. You need a house where to keep your snail, this house for snail is called, SNAIL PENS
Snail pens most be build under a shaded tree or environment. Snail love to live in a cool environment or where there is no direct sun light. They love hiding and they are very active in the evening or night, so you should provide a hidden place for them in their pens. To do this, you can put rags and dry woods on the floor of their house, so that they will be able to feel as if they are in their natural habitant.
The house can be build by using breaks or planks and pens most be cover with net so as to prevent the snails from escaping from the house.
2. How to get your snail. You can get your snail from other snail farmers or directly from forest, but is preferable to get your snails directly from the forest as a beginner for best results.
African giant snail is the best snail for snail business. This kind of snail, I mean African giant snails is the biggest kind of snail , and is the best and profitable snail for business.
3. Snail foods. Snail is one of the easiest animal to feed, because it food are easy to get. Snail feeds on any fruit , some kinds of leaves , like water leaves , moringa leaves and vegetable leaves, they also feed on dry maize and Millet powder. Just put these food in a place and u will be amazed how these wonderful creation will eat them all. Sand must be added in their food, snail use the sands to build their cells.
Snail also need water, because they also drink water like any other animal.
  4. BEHAVIOR AND CARE FOR SNAILFISH.
Snail are wonderful creature, they are the shy kind of animal, they like hidden in dark and cool area, they are more active at night than in the day light.
Snail use the slime on their body to hold on to any object and this help them to be able to climb. Snail can Lays up to 15 to 30 eggs at ones, imagine having hundreds of snail and each lays 30 eggs. That is a big money. It took up to a year before a baby snail canal to grown to market size.
  CARES FOR SNAIL. All care snails needs is protection from direct sun light and millipedes. Millipedes are the enemy of snails.
  4.  BUSINESS AND MEDICINAL BENEFIT OF SNAILS.
Snail is another such of protein for human , many people who has one health issues or the other love to eat snail, snail is also one of sweetest animal meet on earth.
BUSINESS AND MEDICINAL BENEFIT OF SNAIL.  The slime coming from the body of the snail is use to treat skin problems, put the snail slime on the affected area on till you can notice a result. Snail SLIME, are those water coming out of the body of snail.
  Remember, snail farming didn't need huge amounts of money to start, even if not for business you can do it to provide meet for your family.
 

DIFFERENT KINDS OF CHICKEN, THEIR BEHAVIOR AND BUSINESS VALUE

There are many type of chicken in the market,  for business or for meat. Chicken are of different type and names,  Some chicken grow faster

between 6 and 8 week and more, while some grow between 5 and 7 month. The two profitable kind of chicken will be discussed and analyze on this blog.
  The names of these chicken which you can use to make money are,
1. BROILER CHICKEN
2. COCKEREL CHICKEN
They are both good for business, but one is more profitable than the other.
Broiler is a fast growing chicken because it grow faster than any other chickens,  broiler chicken is of different species , It depends on the farm where you got your broiler, All broilers used same weeks to grow but their weight and growth defer.  The reason for different in their weight is tied to the species you got.
         
       BROILER  CARE AND FEEDING
To start broiler farming, u need a house or cage for your broiler,  but it preferable to build a house for your broiler in open floor. 
As a starter, you need to get 4 week broiler from market or a chicken farmer near to your area. Am saying this because you may not be able to cope  with the technicalities in taking care of day old chick broiler. When begin with 4 week broiler,  you will be able to study and know more about broiler,  after successful gain knowledge from the 4 weeks broiler , you can then try to start your broiler business from day old chicks.
  If you will like to begin your broiler farming from day old chicks.  All what to know will be discus. Get your day old chicks from any farm near to you,  where you can buy your chicks, you should make sure you get them injected immediately ,  when you got home, make sure you kept your chick in a higher temperature house, I. e,  your chicks didn't like cold and you must protect them from cold for the first 7 days and you can reduce the temperature as they began to have more feather. 
          BROILER FEED FROM DAY OLD TO ADULT.
Broiler chicken eat much than other chicken,  so you must prepared for their feeding.
From day olds, Broiler eat STARTER MIX, and this starter mix will be giving to them from first day to fourth week.
GROWER MIX, this will be what to eat from Fourth week to sixth week.
FINISHER MIX.  This is the last food which broiler eat till you which to sell or eat them. The growth and weight of your broiler depends on how you feed them , if you are to feed them with Starter mix and you decided to feed feed them with Grower Mix, you will not get the best results from your broiler.
     CARES AND BEHAVIOUR'S OF BROILER.
   The first thing you should always put in mind when dealing with broiler,  is dirtiness and watery house.  To make your broiler healthy , you must make sure that their house or cage are very clean and dry.  Reason for this is not to let your broiler feed on bacteria which may forms from the dirty house and  wet floor, if this happens,  your broiler may got sick and it may cost huge losses on you business.
As normal character of every chicken,  broiler also like to scarves on the floor to find and eat insets,  To prevent this,  you should make the floor of your broiler house clean always.
  DRUG THAT YOU NEED TO USE FOR.   YOU BROILER,  FROM DAY OLD TO ADULT.
  Broiler also need drugs as any living things will do. 
FROM DAY OLD.  You broiler need to be giving vitamin and antibiotic drugs. This will help to give them strength and also to prevent them from bacteria.
  Antibiotics should be given at every two week,  while vitamins can be giving when they are stressed up.
  Others preventive drug must also be given, at every 2 weeks so as to prevent them from other diseases.
If your broiler is sick and you don't know what to do, please kindly consult a  Vet doctor so as to give the best treat me the
             BROILER BEHAVIOURS
Broiler are lovely birds , they love food more than any other chicken , they eat as the food is available. They quickly know steps and voices of person  who use to feed them everyday, these behaviour make it very easier for you to know when your broiler is sick or is not feeling fine. A usual broiler will fly at you whenever they saw you with their food and they will not rest until the food is laid in their front. Whenever you notice any of your broiler which is not able to perform these Characters , you should know that something is wrong . Make sure the affected broiler is taken from out and treated alone in another house so as not to infect others.
         BROILER DISEASES AND SIGNS.
Broiler also confronted with many diseases as other animal, but these diseases can be controlled if is detected ontime ,  There are drugs for any diseases your broiler may have.
These are the names of some broilers diseases and their signs.
1. POX. it sign is rashes on broiler heads.
2. COUGH,  it sign is unusual sound from broiler.
3.GOGORO. is the worst of all broiler diseases, is fast to kill. it sign is coloured excretion from their anus
  These diseases are usually common in where broiler house are not well cater for,  these diseases can be product of a wet floor in broiler house.
  Broiler is very easy to sell in the market,  because of it size and weight. Many buyer will like to buy an healthy and heavy chicken in the market.