From Chicks to Egg Sales — a production, budget and business guide for beginners.
Layer farming is different from broilers: you feed and care for your birds for 18–20 weeks before a single egg appears, then earn that investment back slowly over a year or more of laying. Most beginners underestimate this wait. This guide doesn’t.
Includes:
- A full startup budget covering the cost to reach point-of-lay, before any income arrives
- A worked example showing real cedi figures across a full first laying year — conservative, expected and strong scenarios
- A week-by-week rearing-to-laying production calendar
- Egg grading and crate management guidance
- A pest and disease early-warning table
- Recordkeeping and sales templates
- A marketing chapter built around Ghana’s real egg-price swings
