9 Ideas that you can do with your land that Works!

You have land but have no idea to do with it? Let’s answer the question that thousands of people ask everyday: What can I do with my small piece of Land – Here are 9 Ideas that works for you to do on your land.

• Chicken Farming (Meat Chickens)
• Farming Chickens for Eggs
• Pig Farming
• Market Stall
• Vegetable Farming
• Make Cement Blocks
• Farm with Sheep
• Start a Scrapyard
• Storing Units

Farming with Meat Chickens

Broilers or meat chickens is one of the fastest ways to get an return on your investment. You can sell them alive or get them butchered at an credible abattoir. From day one, broilers only take six weeks to become slaughter ready. You don’t need a ton of money to get coops ready and it’s very rewarding, both financially and lifestyle wise. The pros is that you will always have meat to sell and to consume.

Farming Chickens for Eggs

If you own a piece of land and have time then you might consider starting a layer production. Layers such as Lohmann Brown can start turning your investment around in just 6 to 8 months. Eggs is in high demand across the world and you can sell eggs to shops, restaurants or directly from your farm.

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Starting a Pig Farming Business in South Africa

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Starting a Pig Farming Business in South Africa – When starting pig farming in South Africa you will need a plan. In fact, everything pig farming enterprise needs a plan, from the thousand-sow unit to the two-pig herd in the backyard of a poor-resource owner wanting to increase his family’s income.
Whether it is a large commercial pig farm or a tiny one, the basic planning rules are the same. The first thing to start with is the desired outcome, the end result. Do you want to breed and sell weaners? Or buy weaners and grow them to slaughter? Or buy and sell pigs as a speculator? Or breeding and raising young pigs up to slaughter-age?
The second thing to consider when starting a pig farm is to estimate the market requirements – how flexible, seasonal and what competition there already is.
Thirdly, consider the restrictions, regulations, health and environmental by-laws, town planning intentions for the town or area you plan to set up your farm?
Then, do a preliminary cost of production. You will need to calculate the basic cost of raw materials, what buildings (such as housing) are required, how much mechanization as well as the number of workers and their skill levels you will require.
If the end-product is perishable (pork meat), determine what is the shelf-life and storage capacity, refrigeration, transport, packaging you will need.

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How many pigs can I keep on a hectare?

Question:
How many pigs can be kept on 1 hectare?

Answer:

Just about anything is possible - and how long is a piece of rope?
In the East, they farm with pigs, ducks and carp in the same building.
Pigs on the top floor, ducks among them and the carp in the water at the bottom.

The normal recommendation is 20 hectares for a 100 sow unit.
It is not clear what type of pig farming is intended - intensive indoors or
extensively outside or something in between.
Outdoors need more space. The problem is not only the number of sows being kept, but also the growth margins that will hopefully appear with successful breeding.
A sow should be able to grow at least 20 pigs a year - ten times 2.2 litters per year
(in a 100 sow unit there are always 1000 plus pigs on the farm). All these pigs
produce mites and urine plus the cleaning water that has to go somewhere. Sewage dams should preferably be away from the buildings and one hectare is not very large.

Reduce Pig feed with 75% by using a free range system

If you have the privilege to have ground where the pigs can feed,
you can reduce the feeding process to a quarter of origanal feeding costs.

I bought a Gallaghar Power Plus B180 shock machine at my Agri in Caledon and 500m shock wire.
The shock machine works great but what I found is that the "droppers" are very expensive
and I also need a lot of work to do the shock wires.

My solution was to make my own and I did it by taking 1.8m poles
and cutting them into 600mm pieces. I then pushed the poles into building blocks and
screwed two insulators into it. I spread the building blocks (which are now my border posts) 10 meters apart in a straight line.
The pigs get used to it and getting them in and out of the camps is getting easier.

The advantage of the method is that the camps can easily be moved
and the camp with 500m shock rope is equipped for 15000sq meters of grazing.



My pigs have been very calm in the last two weeks and
their body has changed significantly positively.
My ground has lucerne, clover and grass.

Here are the costs:


Gallaghar Power Plus B180 shock machine R2400.00
Building block R10.00 ($1.50)
Pale cut in 600mm R20.00 ($3.00)
Isolators R0.99 ($0.13)

It's a quick process to set it up and I only feed 25% of my normal costs.

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Pig Skin Disorder (Scabs on the Back of Pig) What can I do?

Scabs or lice on Pigs - What can I do?
Recently a group of my pigs started getting dry spots on their backs and ears.
I initially thought it was dry skin from the sun. After asking an expert's advice, he told me that it was scam mites and  all I have to do is inject Dectomax. I did it and after a few weeks the pigs were clean and healthy. It is important to treat it immediately, especially under pregnant sows.
When the little pigs are born, they will be infected if the mother has scab mites and it is highly contagious.

This will slow their growth and the bones and hips will be weak. For an quick fix you can pour old car oil on their backs, but you need to give them the proper treatment.

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