Spend wisely in raising game fowl
Raising game fowl is enjoyable as long as it is affordable. Of course, the word affordable is relative. What is not affordable to us ordinary sabungeros might be affordable to them the elites. At any rate my advices are always meant for those who need or want to save.
We should always take into consideration the value of anything we do. What is the cost and the corresponding benefit. Thus, we factor in the difference in the cost and the difference in the benefit.
Are you in game cock breeding for hobby or for business or both? It doesn’t matter though, either way or both, all the same it is all about money.
Hobby is expenses. The less expenses, the better. Business is about making money. The more money you make, so much the better.
Aside from technical matters such as hatching, brooding, rearing, ranging, vaccination, medication, nutrition, conditioning, etc—there are more to cockfighting. You also have to consider matters as sound administration and finance and even marketing if you will sell.
For example here are some details that a farm owner must learn:
1. How many eggs a hen lay in a month?
2. How many chicks a hen produce in a month?
3. How many males and how many females a hen produce in a month?
4. What is a reasonable survival rate or harvest rate, allowing for mortality and culling?
5. How many kilos of feeds a chicken consume from hatch to harvest (how many kilos booster; starter; developer)
6. How many kilos of feeds an adult chicken consume in a month.
7. Computing fixed costs and variable costs.
8. Apply 50% rule to assess performance.
9. Know the expected phenotype of each mating to detect “switching” and detect “mismarks.”
10. The different charts from laying to survival rate per mating.
Believe me, knowledge on these matters will guide the owner or farm manager in setting reasonable goals and assessment of performance. It will also enable him to keep track of money matters.
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