Thread by @agribusinesszw

GOAT FARMING BUSINESS!!
Business models
1. Breeding
2. Meat production
3. Buying and selling
4. Dairy

👉🏾Register a company (can be done later) and give your business a name. Get logos and business cads designed, a number of free apps are available online.

👉🏾Prepare a business plan. Cover in detail marketing, production, finance and human resources. These are the key pillars to tour goat business success
👉🏾 You can start as part time or full time. If employed, you can use your salary to raise capital should you want to start big.

👉🏾 Start small. Even with 2 - 10 goats. Females-Does Males-Bucks.
👉🏾 Get trained on goat production by reputable organisations.
👉🏾 Be involved. Don't delegate everything.
👉🏾 Get the right assistants.
👉🏾 Choose a suitable breed bssed on your business model.
👉🏾 Secure land.

You can start off from your rurals since you don't need a large area for intensive production.
👉🏾 Feed. You don't necessarily need grazing area for feed. If using intensive systems consider hydroponic fodder, hay making, commercial feed.

👉🏾 Use low cost designs from your training. Invest in more goats than fancy expensive structures. Always ensure structures secure your goats feom theft & predators & create optimum conditions for production.
👉🏾Enroll for a digital marketing cource

Indigenous goats characteristics
👉🏾 Gestation period 150 days (5 months)
👉🏾Birth weight 2.5 kg
👉🏾Weaning weight 12-15 kg
👉🏾Does 35-40 kg
👉🏾Bucks 45-50 kg

Health
👉🏾Ensure good nutrition & clean fresh water
👉🏾Biosecurity & vaccination
👉🏾Parasite control

Equipment Required

👉🏾Cooler box
👉🏾Goat stock record book
👉🏾Animal Health Book
👉🏾Burdizzo
👉🏾Ear tag applicator
👉🏾Hoof trimmers
👉🏾Tattoo applicator
👉🏾Knapsack sprayer
👉🏾Scale or weight belt
👉🏾Mask
👉🏾Gloves
👉🏾Blades
👉🏾Digital thermometer
👉🏾Antiseptic handwash
👉🏾Gauze swabs.

✍🏽Veterinary

👉🏾Disposable syringes (5cc, 10cc)
👉🏾Large syringe for drenching/dosing (60cc)
👉🏾Non disposable syringe
👉🏾Needles (20 gauge or 22 gauge but preferably 5/8 or 1 inch length)
👉🏾Antibiotic eye powder
👉🏾Antibiotic powder
👉🏾Broad spectrum dewormer
👉🏾Dip

👉🏾Wound spray with fly repellent
👉🏾Wound oil
👉🏾Tick grease
👉🏾Long acting antibiotic
👉🏾Short acting antibiotic (such as oxytetracycline 120)
👉🏾Sulphur based antibiotic (such as Disulphox) for treating coccidiosis
👉🏾Injectable solution for mange, lice (such as Ivermectin)

👉🏾Iodine spray
👉🏾Iodine drops
👉🏾Copper Sulphate
👉🏾Vitamins

Records
👉🏾Financial, production performance, sames and marketing, administration