Feasibility Study “CHICKEN FARMING IN MAUPYE VILLAGE”

Criteria Meat Production/ Broilers Egg Production

Type of Chicken required?  Cornish/Rock Cross  Leghorn
Broilers.  Rhode Island Red
 Jersey Giant  Buff Orpington
 Dark Cornish  Plymouth Rock
 Brahma

Production White Eqgg layer: 250 – 280

eggs/year
Egg colour:
Leghorn - White
Barred Rock/Rhode Island
Red/Buff Orphington/Black
Australorp/New Hamsphire
Red.
Brown egg layers:150 – 200
eggs/year.
Production weighting periods Hens start laying at 5 – 6
monts of age.
 Production will
decrease as the hen
grows older.
 To maintain profit,
replace hence every
2 – 3 years.

Season Production Summer Production:
 Production cease to
exist in winter
months.
 Lights need to be
installed to warmed
up.
 Light: 40 – 60 watt
bulb are required
for 16 hours a day
or 15 watt bulb for
24 hours a day.
Cleaning  Dry clean the egg to
preserve the bloom
(antibacterial
coating).
 Wash egg in warm
running water.
Storage  1 month or more at
refrigerator
temperature.
 2 – 3 months at
below 55 degrees at
 75 % humidity.

Hen – mature female chicken ( > 1 year old) • Pullet – immature female chicken ( < 1 year old) •
Cockerel – immature male ( < 1 year old) • Rooster – male chicken ( > 1 year old) • Molt – natural
process of shedding feathers • Brood – hen that sits to lay egg or cover chick; the action of caring for
a chick • Crop – pouch where chicken digests food • Vent – opening through which hens lay eggs.

Prices for Day Old Chicks from LUFAFA Hatchery in Tzaneen.

100 1st Grade Chicks Per Box (Including ND&IB sprays and chick box): R735/box

100 1st Grade Chicks per Box (Including ND & IB sprays and chick box): R785/box

100 2nd Grade Chicks per Box (Including ND & IB sprays and chick box): R575/kg

Contact Maria Ramathoka (082 889 7669) (087551 2854) (maria@lufafahatchery.co.za)

Point of Laying eggs

 Young chicks for this purpose are called pullets.

 Pullets are to be transported once they are 16 weeks old due to health reasons.
 At about 19 weeks, the hens are ready to start laying eggs.
 At about 25 – 39 weeks, hence reach their production peak period. At this age, they produce
almost 1 egg a day.
Figure 1: Egg laying hence.

Lohmann Brown is one of the breeds of for laying eggs.
 At about 60 – 70 weeks of age, egg production slows down and ready to be slaughtered at
72 weeks.

Lohmann Browns

 Best egg laying hen in South Africa.

 Produce large brown eggs.

Things to note before start raising your chickens:

1. Build the coop before buying chicken.

For 6 chickens: 2 – 3 square meter chicken coop
8.5 square meter chicken run (Space outside the chicken coop).
2. Do not overcrowd the chicken.
3. Get the chickens the right nutrition.

White Leghorn for Meat