If you are planning to carry out a profitable egg laying poultry production operation in Nigeria, then you cannot do it with the Yoruba chicken, Fulani chicken or Nigerian Indigenous Chicken(NIC) in general which have all the features that you would not want in an efficient layer operation: they grow slowly, lay fewer eggs, have poor feed conversion and have a shorter laying period. You are not going to be profitable with this kind of operation.
Fortunately for Nigerian poultry farmers, layer genetic improvement through selective breeding has been one of the biggest developments in the past 50 or so years and it is now possible to rear layer poultry breeds that are prolific layers.
For Nigerian farmers, the most prolific layers are undoubtedly the ISA Brown Layers by ISA Brown Layers Commercial Stock by ISA, a French-Canadian company and one of the leading layer breeders and distributors in the world.
The ISA Brown layers are highly suitable for Nigerian poultry farmers because it is a bird that is highly adaptable to various climatic conditions and is thus perfectly suited for Nigeria’s hot conditions which is generally not the perfect environment for efficient poultry production. With ISA Brown layers, Nigerian farmers are able to get higher earnings for the eggs with a high number of eggs produced and better feed conversion ratio. Here are some of the features of the ISA Brown Layers that make it the super-profitable layer that it is:-
Liveability is 93.9%
Age at 50% of production is 144 days: This means that the farmer is able t begin getting high production levels within a very short time of less than 5 months.
Peak percentage: 96% which is a high level of production that will make your layer farming operation in Nigeria profitable if you use the right techniques for poultry husbandry.
Average egg weight is 62.9g
Laying period of 18-90 weeks: This is a very long laying period of close to two years that will guarantee that you will not need to replace your flock often.
Average feed consumption per day: 109g
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