Integrated Farming Project for Consistent Income - request for suggestions

May be you are planning chicken sheds like shown below picture. I had seen this in GKVK, this was first developed by Dr.Rudraradhya of agriculture dept. He has expressed concern on scalablity of this.

I have checked with locals they said, in winter chickens get cold. also infants less than 1 month old also needs brooding, you cannot keep them directly here. that means you need a secondary shed for brooding.

I am not poultry expert, you will have to validate these points yourself. try to go with plan A,B,C(if planA doent work you should have plan B ready)

Swarnadhara: I have heard it consumes lot of food. At present Eggs are sold at 12rs/piece and 18rs for a day old chick. Now all the eggs are going for hatcheries, when saturation happenes eggs will go for consumers. native and giriraja eggs are sold at 6/-(10/-retail).
If this happens swarnadhara will be one more EMU.

Giriraja is better in this respect. Laying rate of swarnadhara is 180/year and giriraja is 280/year.

So stall feeding is not economical at all for these two verieties. then scalability also an issues(if stall feeding is not possible).

Summary: Try everything with baby steps for trying new things.


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