According to poultry experts, chickens are susceptible birds. Therefore, they will need to be very alert in their food, maintenance, and care. Due to this, it also becomes necessary for which poultry farm should be opened, eggs or chicken, according to our city and market.
The business of eggs and chicken is proliferating in the poultry sector. According to poultry experts, this sector is growing at a rate of seven to eight percent. The demand for Indian eggs is increasing abroad and for chicken in the domestic market. Last year itself, 14 thousand crore eggs were produced. At the same time, chicken alone has a 52 percent share in the country’s one crore-ton meat production. The country needs 22 to 25 crore eggs every day. The highest production of egg is in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and West Bengal.
This is the reason why new companies are opening along with poultry farms every day in the country. Experts say that in our country poultry farms are opened especially for egg and chicken. But before opening a new poultry farm, it is very important to know some special things about both the egg and chicken business.
These things related to eggs are very special:-
- The normal egg sold in the market is laid by a hen called a layer bird.
- The layer bird lays 280 to 290 egg in a year.
- The weight of an egg is 55 grams to 60 grams.
- The layer bird does not lay the egg from which a chick comes out.
- 28 crore hens in the country fulfill the demand for eggs.
- The hen that lays eggs eats up to 125 grams of grain daily.
- The hens are given millet, maize, soybean rice, etc. as grain.
- Pebbles and stones are given to egg-laying hens so that there is no calcium deficiency.
- The National Egg Coordination Committee decides the rates of eggs across the country.
- Be it Sunday or Monday, eat egg every day, the advertisement of which is given by the National Egg Coordination Committee.
Before doing business with broiler chicken, you must know these things.
- A one-day-old broiler chicken chick costs 40 to 45 rupees.
- In 30 days, the chick becomes 900 to 1150 grams which is used in tandoori chicken.
- The rates of broiler chicken are decided according to its weight.
- The heavier the broiler chicken, the lower its rates.
- Five lakh broiler chickens are supplied daily from Ghazipur, Delhi Mandi alone.
- In the year 2022-23, about 331.57 crore broiler chickens were needed in the country.