LivestockTwo Limpopo brothers sell backyard eggs to fellow students between lectures
Phuti and Dumisani Maake started Maake Poultry in 2024 with about R40,000 and 200 layer chicks; they deliver eggs on campus and want 20 hectares to expand.
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LivestockLivestockRwandan teacher turns 50 chickens into a 1,000-layer egg business
After entrepreneurship training under the YEFFA programme, 26-year-old Fadhella Modeste left a RWF 150,000-a-month teaching job and now produces about 800 eggs a day in Gatsibo District.
LivestockBird flu cut South Korea's laying flock by 13.6% last season, forcing egg imports
Fifty-eight outbreaks on chicken and duck farms in winter and spring 2025-26 led to the culling of about 11.3 million layers and 400,000 broiler parent birds, according to a USDA Foreign Agricultural Service report.
LivestockAfter an early loss, a Natore woman builds a 2,000-hen layer farm
Sharmin Akter of Gurudaspur lost about Tk 100,000 on her first batch of Sonali chickens seven years ago; she now keeps about 2,000 Kazi Farms red pullet layers and has put in some Tk 700,000.
LivestockKwaZulu-Natal farmer who lost her flock to rain now runs a 1,000-hen egg business
Sinethemba Gebashe began with a mud-brick broiler house in 2011, lost it to heavy rain, and with municipal help and R400,000 in provincial funding now supplies eggs to wholesalers and aims for 5,000 layers.
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A small chicken farm at home: housing, litter and choosing breeds
Families can raise chickens on little space, labour and money to meet their needs for eggs and meat and earn extra income; guidance on house size, floor litter and sourcing birds for a small farm.
LivestockLayers or broilers? Find the buyer before you buy the birds, poultry vet warns
A South African poultry specialist says new producers who jump into broilers for quick money fail when they have no market; feed, cash flow and house design decide the rest.
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Feed at Tk 2,500-2,900 a bag: Matlab Uttar poultry farms shut as eggs fail to cover costs
Layer farmers in Chandpur's Matlab Uttar upazila say rising feed, medicine and chick prices have closed farms and driven others into debt; they want price controls, the poultry association blames the monopoly of chick and feed companies, and the livestock officer says vaccines are sold at government
LivestockAbout 8,000 layer hens die in three months on a Bagerhat poultry farm
On a layer farm in Chapatala village, Bagerhat Sadar, about 8,000 White Leghorn hens died between December 2025 and February 2026. The farmer suspected bird flu; the upazila livestock officer said samples were being tested and the cause would be known only from the laboratory results.
LivestockFear of people can cut hens' egg output, but farm studies give mixed results
Jagonews24 reported in October 2025 that hens' fear of people can lower egg output and harm welfare. Experiments support the link, though studies on commercial farms gave mixed results.