Been following this thread for some time and I've learnt a lot and decided to get Fulani hens and noiler roosters to start breeding. Please I have some questions
1. When they start producing chicks do I need to vaccinate them the way broilers are vaccinated with gumboro, lasota etc.? If yes, which ones should be given?
2. I intend to scale it up to business, is there a need to get an incubator for hatching of eggs as time goes on?
3. What kind of feed will be good and economical for them and make them grow fast?
Thank you

@farouk or any other,
I googled the name of where to get kerosene powered incubator around East , I couldn’t see it, can anyone tell me where I could get local incubator in East or Ibadan
Thanks

Noilers can free range even better than our local chickens o.
As to d best cross, i prefer Fulani Cock to cross my Noiler hens. I got offspring males dt hit 1 2- 1.5 kg in 8weeks

Oga! The local chicken business is a gud one o. I do it even i av til nw, just dat since i dnt av time they av start reducing. Infact the i make from there eggs is what i used to feed them. Is gud nd sale fast in my area, just a call even if i av milion of it to sel, dy wil buy all. Av bn doing since my jss 2days in in year 2000

kenny160:
Oga! The local chicken business is a gud one o. I do it even i av til nw, just dat since i dnt av time they av start reducing. Infact the i make from there eggs is what i used to feed them. Is gud nd sale fast in my area, just a call even if i av milion of it to sel, dy wil buy all. Av bn doing since my jss 2days in in year 2000

Really ; that we have huge market for them, even their eggs. Where is your city please

Nigerfine3:

Really ; that we have huge market for them, even their eggs. Where is your city please

Ibadan

kenny160:
Oga! The local chicken business is a gud one o. I do it even i av til nw, just dat since i dnt av time they av start reducing. Infact the i make from there eggs is what i used to feed them. Is gud nd sale fast in my area, just a call even if i av milion of it to sel, dy wil buy all. Av bn doing since my jss 2days in in year 2000

Please do we sell the eggs in crates, how much in Ibadan. Is it in every market or just in one particular market. I kmow Ibadan very very well
Thanks

Nigerfine3:

Please do we sell the eggs in crates, how much in Ibadan. Is it in every market or just in one particular market. I kmow Ibadan very very well
Thanks

av no more in Ibadan oo nd i cant really say soso amount now but last time i remember i sel it is 60 naira per egg and is any market so far dey are selling fowls dre. Nd is not create even if is one u get dey will buy.

Prior to months ago i do feel anxious to visit nairaland due to this beautiful thread buh it hurts to see boss faruq,nativechicken and others aren't giving us update
you guys are my source of motivation

sodeeqsulaimon88:
Prior to months ago i do feel anxious to visit nairaland due to this beautiful thread buh it hurts to see boss faruq,nativechicken and others aren't giving us update
you guys are my source of motivation

I love this thread...I really miss their updates

Good morning guys. Hope we are all doing great and staying safe? Just a small update; My cross of Fulani Male and Noiler females seem to b doing great? I got chicks with males weighing between 1.2kg - 1.5kg in 8weeks!! Fed them starter for those 8weeks. They are currently on grower.

Wow @ 8weeks looking so big

NativeChicken:
Good morning guys. Hope we are all doing great and staying safe? Just a small update; My cross of Fulani Male and Noiler females seem to b doing great? I got chicks with males weighing between 1.2kg - 1.5kg in 8weeks!! Fed them starter for those 8weeks. They are currently on grower.

kaycino:
Wow @ 8weeks looking so big

They are 13weeks now on the pix. and all weighing over 2.3kg.
Am looking to cross them with some Isa brown layers.
Let me post some other pix of younger ones between 3days old to 5weeks mostly

Good day everyone

@native chicken, if I may ask, do boiler x fullani do better than pure noiler? , or maybe your feeding parten is good, can you share how you feeding them? , do you free range of cage? .

My pure noilers are in there 16 weeks now and the biggest rooster is just 2kg, their average weight is 1.7kg and the smallest is still 1.3kg, am free ranging, and feeding morning and evening, simulated feeds in the morning and kitchen waste in evening , sometimes I feed them waste fruit in afternoon if available.

GafarOlatunji:
Good day everyone

@native chicken, if I may ask, do boiler x fullani do better than pure noiler? , or maybe your feeding parten is good, can you share how you feeding them? , do you free range of cage? .

My pure noilers are in there 16 weeks now and the biggest rooster is just 2kg, their average weight is 1.7kg and the smallest is still 1.3kg, am free ranging, and feeding morning and evening, simulated feeds in the morning and kitchen waste in evening , sometimes I feed them waste fruit in afternoon if available.

I really do not know abt Broiler x Fulani cross . I tried it without any success. The broiler male was too heavy to mate. Then on the other hand , i tried a female broiler, but their egg production was very poor.
I dont know which one compares better; A purr Noiler or a cross. But i know dt a cross of Fulani male to Noiler female is better than Noiler male to Fulani female. I read a journal of an experiment done in University of Ilorin some years back.
As per feeding, i feed starter for 6-8 weeks and then my own formula.

NativeChicken:

They are 13weeks now on the pix. and all weighing over 2.3kg.
Am looking to cross them with some Isa brown layers.
Let me post some other pix of younger ones between 3days old to 5weeks mostly

nice�.my cross between white cockerel and Fulani hen offsprings came out small all ten of them even at 7 weeks they still look small....since I now have both huge male and female noiler I can now swap her eggs when she leaves her chicks and starts laying again..though the female noiler has been laying since Oct 5 till date ,I pray she doesn't stop laying anytime soon�

Thanks for your response @nativechicken,i typeed error in the first post, what u want to say is noiler x fullani not broiler, I think to breed broiler one needs to get the parent stock

@Keycino, at what age do your noiler start laying?

GafarOlatunji:
Thanks for your response @nativechicken,i typeed error in the first post, what u want to say is noiler x fullani not broiler, I think to breed broiler one needs to get the parent stock

@Keycino, at what age do your noiler start laying?

at 5 months ..some people around think its boiler because of the huge size and most of her eggs are 2 yolk very big

I believe with the prevailing challenges with DOC price and feed price hike, we can go ahead and commerciallize these enterprise.
Some people have argued that Noiler or Kuroiler farming is not profitable. Am begining to prove them wrong as my males get to 2kg in 8weeks and the female produce 4-6 eggs per week with food scraps and supplemented with locally formulated feed.
Here are some of my breeding stock

Noiler is very profitable, and once they grow big, you can feed them almost anything, Infact I discovered giving them remaining food from kitchen makes them even grow faster. AND they lay eggs almost every 3-4 days. Hardly bought eggs from D market. And they can brood those same eggs if you leave it to them.

I just keep taking the eggs till they get broody, last year I mixed the eggs with the ones from my turkeys, and they got hatched successfully.

Elsueno:
Noiler is very profitable, and once they grow big, you can feed them almost anything, Infact I discovered giving them remaining food from kitchen makes them even grow faster. AND they lay eggs almost every 3-4 days. Hardly bought eggs from D market. And they can brood those same eggs if you leave it to them.

I just keep taking the eggs till they get broody, last year I mixed the eggs with the ones from my turkeys, and they got hatched successfully.

surprised to know yours are going broody..I'd left 2 of her eggs and notice it was laid at different spot and that's not an attribute of a broody hen , since then HV been collecting d egg. Really tasty egg I must say just like that of a local hen.

NativeChicken:
Noilers can free range even better than our local chickens o.
As to d best cross, i prefer Fulani Cock to cross my Noiler hens. I got offspring males dt hit 1 2- 1.5 kg in 8weeks

what abt noiler male x noiler female ? Or cockerel x female noiler?

I’m interested in precise place to buy kerosene powered incubator, anyone who can help please?

NativeChicken:
I believe with the prevailing challenges with DOC price and feed price hike, we can go ahead and commerciallize these enterprise.
Some people have argued that Noiler or Kuroiler farming is not profitable. Am begining to prove them wrong as my males get to 2kg in 8weeks and the female produce 4-6 eggs per week with food scraps and supplemented with locally formulated feed.
Here are some of my breeding stock

Where is your location sir ?
Can I get pure Fulani Males and Females from your farm ?
If not can you help to source for it ?
Please let me have your details or you can reach my whatsapp no 08056152810
Thanks and God bless you sir.

kaycino:
what abt noiler male x noiler female ? Or cockerel x female noiler?

Never tried any. I dont lke Cockerels, especially d white ones. They take too long and their weight gain is too poor.
As for Noiler Male x Noiler Female, i do not know. I simply dont think its a good way to go , considering they are from same parent stock

azikiweironsi:


Where is your location sir ?
Can I get pure Fulani Males and Females from your farm ?
If not can you help to source for it ?
Please let me have your details or you can reach my whatsapp no 08056152810
Thanks and God bless you sir.

Am in Abuja and its difficult getting a pure bred fulani chicken. I have four males and they are not pure lines. I just dey manage them until i can get pure ones. Will chat u now

NativeChicken:

Never tried any. I dont lke Cockerels, especially d white ones. They take too long and their weight gain is too poor.
As for Noiler Male x Noiler Female, i do not know. I simply dont think its a good way to go , considering they are from same parent stock

you are right presently regretting why I bought cockerel weight gain is really poor and HV spent so much on their feeding.

NativeChicken:

Am in Abuja and its difficult getting a pure bred fulani chicken. I have four males and they are not pure lines. I just dey manage them until i can get pure ones. Will chat u now

That's serious. Please chat me.

My two noilers have been laying everyday. A male Noiler has been crossing them, my problem is that 8 don't know how or where to hatch them.
I have about 20 eggs here

kaycino:
surprised to know yours are going broody..I'd left 2 of her eggs and notice it was laid at different spot and that's not an attribute of a broody hen , since then HV been collecting d egg. Really tasty egg I must say just like that of a local hen.

They do that at first, But will eventually start gathering it at same spot. Just keep reducing it, till it's around 10, Because, even if you left it, she can't hatch all of the eggs

@Redomi, I believeyou can build your incubator yourself, search Google for homemade incubator for idea , what egg needs is certain amount of heat to hatch .

I have plan for building one for my production when my noilers start laying, they are 4 month plus now .

GafarOlatunji:
@Redomi, I believeyou can build your incubator yourself, search Google for homemade incubator for idea , what egg needs is certain amount of heat to hatch .

I have plan for building one for my production when my noilers start laying, they are 4 month plus now .

That certain amount of heat is my problem sir