Gambo moves from egg seller to poultry farmer

He said: “I started selling on my own when the crate of eggs was sold between the rates of N5.00 and N5.50. We were then buying a crate at N5.00 and sell for N5.50 to make a gain of fifty kobo per crate.“Lately, I thought over it that if I could be selling eggs and […]

He said: “I started selling on my own when the crate of eggs was sold between the rates of N5.00 and N5.50. We were then buying a crate at N5.00 and sell for N5.50 to make a gain of fifty kobo per crate.
“Lately, I thought over it that if I could be selling eggs and chicken all this while, why don’t I commence the production myself? That was how I started with 100-day old chicks.”
He said modern bakeries are the major buyers of eggs in Kaduna but because of fear of selling on credit, he turned down several requests for supplies from the bakeries.
Gambo, who is also the secretary of the association of chickens and eggs sellers in Sheikh Abubakar Mahmud Gumi Market, Kaduna, described agriculture as a dependable sector capable of providing jobs to most people.
He said however that poultry farming requires attention, adding: “During one of the crises in Kaduna when curfew was imposed, I could not visit my chickens and feed them. Some of the chickens died because there was nobody to give them food and take care of them by changing their water and cleaning the cages and removing some eggs that got spoilt.”
He said epileptic power supply is affecting poultry farming as the birds also require constant power supply, especially in the night, to keep them warm, adding that the “light makes them to feed throughout the night.”