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Roosterman No. 11; January, 2012
Egg incubators for small-scale poultry production
F ood security has been highlighted as one of the key requirements for Africa’ s economic and longterm socio-political development. There is also a great need for countries to start producing food instead of importing it.
Surehatch produces egg incubators that allow entrepreneurs to get involved in poultry production. The challenge is to enable a broad sector of society to benefit from this ethos in a sustainable manner instead of monopolising it into the hands of a few major corporations.
A South Africa-based companySurehatch has pioneered the concept behind small-scale poultry production. Raising chickens has enabled many smallscale farmers to compete with larger, more established producers at a micro level.
By introducing a chicken egg incubator into a community a micro economy is created. Eggs are put inside the egg incubator, the egg hatches, the chick becomes a chicken, and the chicken lays an egg. Eggs are put back inside the incubator. So the process repeats itself. After an initial three weeks, chicks can be produced on a weekly basis in our egg incubators.
From this basic business model you can sell eggs, meat, live chickens, day-old chicks, etc all from one incubator. If you allocate the eggs correctly you will always have eggs for the incubator, to sell, and to eat. The same holds true for your hens that lay the eggs. You can keep some chickens to lay eggs and the others you can consume and / or sell to the market.
The capital outlay is minimal and very little infrastructure is required for the incubators to work. All our incubators are designed with simplicity, durability, ease of use and affordability in mind. There is no age limit, no gender requirements, and virtually no reading skills are required to operate the incubators. poultry.
There is the added benefit of a skills transfer taking place. Communities are encouraged to become active participants in their economy by becoming entrepreneurs. The creation of micro economies leads to the alleviation of poverty and the eventual upliftment of those communities.
Basic food security is established by supplying people with a sustainable nutrient i. e.
Surehatch‘ s egg incubators can also be used to hatch guinea fowl, ducks, geese, quail, and all other major egg types.( From website: How We Made It in Africa)
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