Most batches that fail don't fail because of disease. They fail because the farmer bought 500 chicks with the money he had for buying 500 chicks, without checking he would have enough to feed them to the end.
This manual is built around one number you should know BEFORE day zero: your real cost per bird, and the floor price below which you are selling at a loss.
WHAT IS INSIDE
The cost-of-production worksheet, blank, with a worked example using Nigerian reference ranges: feed bags at 25,000 to 36,000 naira, day-old chicks at 550 to 900 naira (early 2026).
Your break-even price per kilo, the figure that lets you refuse a bad offer without hesitating, worked out cold instead of under pressure.
The day 0 to day 45 protocol, one line per day: temperatures, feed transitions, weighing days, health checkpoints, and the day you start calling buyers.
Record sheets to print: daily mortality (all 45 days on one page), weekly weighing, feed intake and conversion ratio, a prophylaxis plan to fill in with your vet, visitor log, sales log, and the end-of-batch review.
The demand calendar that actually applies to you: Sallah and Christmas peaks, and the harmattan night risk most guides written abroad never mention.
WHAT IS NOT INSIDE, said before you pay
No veterinary prescription, no dosages, no drug names. The health checkpoints exist to prepare the conversation with your vet and your hatchery, not to replace it.
No guaranteed prices and no promised margin. Every worked figure is dated and illustrative. You collect your own prices at your own market: that is the whole point of the tool.
It will not teach you poultry biology, breed selection, or disease diagnosis.
WHO IT IS FOR
A first-time or second-batch farmer running 100 to 1,000 birds in anglophone West and East Africa.
WHO IT IS NOT FOR
If you are running over 2,000 birds with accounting already in place, you have this tool already.
PDF, 55 pages, readable on a phone, printable at A5. Instant delivery after payment. Mobile Money accepted.
