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KEEPING POULTRY AS A
BUSINESS
I can understand not
every one who keeps poultry, or has thought about poultry, would see
it as a business venture. Why should they? It’s a pleasurable
pastime in its own right.
However, that said,
could it provide a business opportunity? We certainly know it could.
How big a business would depend on your own knowledge,
determination, drive, attitude and ambition and probably the
involvement, support and encouragement of your family.
Very few people would
disagree, that there is a growing market out there. How much of it
is for you, depends on what qualities you have and how willing you
are to make use of them. Like any area of self employment it does
require a real discipline and commitment.
Along side the
understandable concern all of us have for the health of our selves
and children, there is also a growing concern as to the health of
the animals involved in the production of our food. If you can offer
a product for consumption, that is healthy, not chemically produced,
interfered with, free of artificial additives or colourings, that
might even taste like Real Food, the way food used to taste, people
will definitely buy it and expect to pay a higher price, if only for
the sake of their health and that of their family.
There has been a great
deal of publicity with regards to intensive farming, especially in
connection to poultry. Also there has been an equal concern as to
the treatment, by some producers, of the animals bred to provide
food for our table. This awareness is growing.
If you feel this
business is not for you, you might still consider for the reasons
given above, keeping a few chickens in the backyard, benefiting the
chickens, as well as you.
It is probably best to
start off, as we did and many others, with a few hens, sell a few
eggs and you may well see you have little option, but to develop
into a larger operation.
If the idea of a
poultry business appeals to you and you feel you are ready to make a
start, then the following DVD may be of some help to you
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