Poultry & Fish Farming: The Agribusiness Launch Kit

The real import gap and egg deficit that make this a genuine opportunity, the equally real fact that roughly half of poultry farms folded on feed costs, the three enterprises at a glance, the two founders, and the feed-buffer promise.

• Demand is real — but demand is not profit · 9 min
• Meet Ngozi and Sadiq — the two builds you will cost bird-by-bird · 7 min

Broiler vs layer vs catfish on the four axes that actually decide it — capital, cash runway, skill and risk — with a decision tree and a full comparison table. Ends with Checkpoint 1.

• Broiler vs layer vs catfish — the four axes · 10 min
• Checkpoint 1 — is your enterprise choice honest? · 5 min

Why feed is 60–70% of every cost, what FCR means for your money, the 2026 feed brands and bag prices, the +164% price-shock history, and how to hedge it. Ends with the feed cost breakdown figure.

• FCR, feed prices, and the 164% shock · 11 min
• Hedging the feed price without gambling · 8 min
• Reading feed: starter, grower, finisher and layer mash · 6 min

Sourcing day-old chicks, the brooding temperature curve that decides most of your mortality, the 6–8 week cycle, stocking density, and Ngozi’s cost-per-bird model worked to the naira. Ends with Checkpoint 2.

• Sourcing chicks and the 6–8 week cycle · 9 min
• Brooding — the three weeks that decide the batch · 10 min
• Stocking density and Ngozi’s cost-per-bird model · 9 min
• Checkpoint 2 — are you ready to brood? · 4 min

The point-of-lay-versus-day-old-chick route decision, the capital runway that means money out for months before the first egg, lay percentage and crate economics, and Sadiq’s 500-layer model.

• POL vs DOC, the runway, and crate economics · 11 min
• Sadiq’s 500-layer model and the cashflow projector · 9 min
• Egg handling, grading and cutting breakage · 6 min

Why you start with juveniles not fingerlings, the system decision from tarpaulin to RAS with real costs, feed and FCR, water quality, grow-out, and the 1,000-fish model with its honest margin range. Ends with Checkpoint 3.

• Juveniles, systems and water quality · 11 min
• Feed, grow-out and the 1,000-fish model · 10 min
• Grow-out husbandry — grading, sampling and stocking down · 8 min
• Checkpoint 3 — is your fish system honest about water? · 4 min

The day-age vaccination schedule, the top diseases, the HPAI bird-flu reality and the legal duty to report it, and fish water-quality management. Ends with Checkpoint 4.

• The vaccination calendar and top diseases · 11 min
• HPAI bird flu — the reality and the legal duty · 8 min
• Biosecurity routines and fish water management — Checkpoint 4 · 9 min

Deep litter versus battery cage, the brooder build, siting and building fish tanks and ponds, and honest costs where prices are confirmable and honest flags where they are not.

• Housing choices and honest costs · 9 min
• Brooder build and fish-tank siting · 7 min

Channels for each enterprise, the December broiler window, egg off-take, the catfish glut and the value-add escape, and the sell-live-versus-add-value decision. Includes the seasonality wheel and a decision tree.

• Channels, the December window and the glut · 10 min
• Value-add costing and the selling plan · 8 min
• Pricing and negotiating with buyers · 7 min

A consolidated model across all three enterprises — cost structure, margin, break-even and runway — with Ngozi’s and Sadiq’s combined builds and a sensitivity test for feed, mortality and glut.

• Consolidated economics and sensitivity · 11 min
• Building your own Money Map · 7 min

The honest light-regulation reality for a small farm, CAC, the disease-reporting duty, tax cross-linked to the Tax course, and the farm records that make the Money Map real.

• CAC, the light-regulation reality, and disease reporting · 9 min
• Tax and farm records — the Money Map made real · 8 min

Farmforte and the agro-Ponzi collapse, the honest Thrive Agric distinction, the >90% crowdfunding default, the fake-vet-drug warning, and the red-flag test that separates a real farm from a fake “invest in a pond” scheme.

• The museum and the red-flag test · 10 min
• Due diligence before you back anyone’s farm · 7 min

The five failure modes that end farms — feed-price shock, under-capitalisation, disease, poor brooding and selling into a glut — each paired with the defence, anchored by the feed-buffer rule.

• The five killers, each with its defence · 10 min
• The feed-buffer rule as a habit · 6 min

A Week-1 / 30-day / 90-day plan, a pick-one-enterprise starter budget with 2026 prices, an off-taker vetting tool, a starter shopping list, and a readiness self-review. Ends with Checkpoint 5.

• Week-1 / 30-day / 90-day launch plan · 10 min
• Starter shopping list and Checkpoint 5 · 8 min

Real associations and extension services to plug into, the reciprocal cross-links to the Tax, Solar, AI and Creator courses, and the one thing to teach forward.

• Associations, cross-links, and teach-one-thing-forward · 8 min