So many people reading my blog especially after reading the article on grasscutter farming; as requested of me an ebook that will help them succeed in their grasscutter farming business and today the ebook is out, i have written all you ever need to know about Grasscutter farming.
Are you living in the rural where there are many green vegetation? Are you in the urban and you are accessible to livestock feeds?
Concentrates?
Then this guide is for you and the business is actually yours!
Grasscutter farming Business is still a Virgin Business in Town
Its wisdom to start now and dominate the market before it becomes crowded.
Grasscutter is one of the animal that is extremely suitable for commercial rearing for very good reasons. If you are in the village and still complaining about money, you need to be brought out to the village square and be given 24 strokes of hot cane on a hot afternoon. Why? Because you’ve been allowing opportunities to pass you by all these while!
If your family in the village still ask you for money for their up keep, then they need to be taken to the village chief for judgement. After reading this article, and buying the ebook I give you 6 – 12 months to make at least one million naira in this business. If not, then something is wrong with you somewhere. So, let’s get down to business and see how it goes –
Grasscutter farming is highly profitable, more profitable than you imagined. The meat is widely consumed allover the West Africa region and beyond, making it one of the top 10 animals whose meat is in highest demand in the market. A market ready Grasscutter is sold between N4,000 to N5,500. Five hundred Grasscuters in a year could earn you between N2 Million to N2.75 Million.
The animal reproduces very quickly and in good numbers. A fully grown female Grasscutter after gestation, carries the pregnancy for 140 – 150 days and deliver about twice a year. Each pregnancy produces average of four to seven young ones per birth. Sometimes up to ten, that means one female Grasscutter could produce 8 – 20 other Grasscutters in a year
It grows big and very fast too. Grasscutter is one of the biggest rodent in Africa. A fully mature female or male that is ready for market weighs between 3.5kg for the female and 4.5kg for the male. While measuring 45cm to 60cm in body length. The standing height is between 25 to 30cm. The body size of a fully grown male is about the size of a nine inches block.
A good number of Grasscutter is consumed yearly but most of them still comes from the wild through hunters who goes into the bush to hunt for them but usually not easy to catch, making the animal meat very scarce in the market.
Getting Started With Grasscutter Farming
Colony – Grasscutter lives in colony, two mature male doesn’t live together. Therefore, start with a male and few females together. A colony should consists of one male and three to four females. Your capacity determine how many colony you wants to start with. A small farmer may start with one or two colony, with the arrangement of one male and 3 females in each colony.
Breeding – Grasscutter is kept 100% for the meat, it has to grow well and healthy in other to be profitable. To achieve this, a new farmer must lay emphasis on the choice of breeding stock. Each colony must have a very health male. The male is the engine of reproduction, a healthy male makes a healthy stock. While selecting the male, pay attention on the well being, good weight gain in male animals is a very important factors that determine how healthy it is.
In any case, both the male and female stock you are selecting for breeding purpose must be healthy. While a healthy, strong, agile male animal should be selected for breeding programs, if the female is not genetically healthy too, it will also affect the breeding stocks. To ensure that you achieve the best possible result, both has to be healthy.
Grasscutter Pen – Grasscutter don’t sleep where they eat! If you are providing them house you must put this factor into consideration – either cage or house, you must provide steeping place and dinning and playing place.
They can be breed either in a properly build cages or in a house specially designed for them. Grasscutter is sensitive to good habitat, for a colony (1 male and 3 females) the dimension of the cage should be 180cm in length, 60cm in width and 45cm in height. Build your cage that way, separate for each colony.
Grasscutter Cage |
If you are using walled pen or house, make sure you build it in such way that the place they eat must be separate from where they sleep. Also the production building must be designed to protect the animals from excess temperature and humidity.
The biggest enemies for Grasscutter are Snakes and Soldier Ants.Make sure their house are built is a safe place and you must also be wary of human thieves. To protect them from the invasion of soldier ants, you may pour black engine oil around their houses, especially at night during raining season mostly.
The floor should be overlay with dry soft grasses to protect their feet from being hurt and to provide them soft cushy play ground condition.
Feeding – Grasscutter is a herbivorous animals meaning their source of food is basically from the bush, that’s why they are more comfortable in the bush where their foods could easily be found. Their major food is Elephant or Napier grass. They also love Sugar cane and most farmers use sugar cane mainly for their feeding, Guinea grass, Gamba grass, Congo grass.
According to experience farmers, Hygiene and good feeding are the most important factors for successful,
profitably Grasscutter farming. You can also fatten the male with broiler’s finisher
or broiler starter’s feed to help attain market weight within short
period of time.
profitably Grasscutter farming. You can also fatten the male with broiler’s finisher
or broiler starter’s feed to help attain market weight within short
period of time.
The animal also like Gliricidia sepium, herbaceous legumes like Stylo (Stylosanthes gracilis) and Pueraria phaseoloides. The root and pitch of oil and coconut palms, bark of the anacardium and fruits such as half ripen pawpaw, plantain, pineapple, mango etc are their delight. Food crops such as groundnut, rice, maize, grain legume, tubers like cassava, sweet potato etc also make part of their food, stressed the grasscutter farmer.The farmer also stated that grasscutter feed on palm wine and that is why they destroy oil palm plantation. They take their water mostly from the field and go to the river during the dry season only. But when domesticated, you can give them water by adding some attractant to it. Cane rate it should be noted does not dig a hole and cannot climb a tree either, he further stressed.
They can also be fed with formulated concentrates like pellet as well as other processing by-products like wheat bran, corn bran, groundnut, soya, oilseed, cotton seed cakes, brewer yeast, grain legume pods, brewers’ grains, maize shucks and cobs, brewer’s yeast etc as feed supplements. – Seye Adeniyi
Grasscutter don’t like cold environment. The rooms or cages where you keep them must neither be too cold nor too hot. Environment that is suitable for human is considered suitable for Grasscutters.
Weaning time – With good, adequate feeding, the grasscutter kids can be weaned between four to eight weeks. But as a family, they can be with the mother for four months. The kids can be separated from the mother between five to seven months and place with a male to mate with them.The weaned animals can be mated at the age of between seven to eight months from birth. Indefinite mating is expected to have taken place when the weaned male grasscutter is seven months old and the female is eight months. The indefinite mating period is 140days. But if after 160 days of separation from the male, there is still no sign of pregnancy , then it should be taken back to the male for proper mating. Usually there should also be an extra male that can serve the same purpose.
The Market – The market like I stated earlier is very big. Grasscutter meat or Bush meat is probably the most desirable animal meet in the market. Everyone loves it and it sells very fast. Big restaurants uses it to prepare high priced delicacies. Full meat of a mature Grasscutter goes for N4,500 in the market and the market women who trade on it are always in demand of it.
Most people in the city couldn’t buy the meat because it’s very scarce, so no amount of Grasscutter you produced that can’t be sold within days. It will take combined efforts of thousands of farmers to fill the need of bush meat in the market in west Africa right now.
Grasscutter is a fast reproducing animal and starts mating with 7 months after birth. It gives birth twice yearly and produce 4-7 at a time. That means, if you have 100 females that gives birth twice in a year, you would be having 900 to 1,500 in your farm within just a year! Such number will bring you nothing less than N5 Million when they are matured for marketing.
I just show you the lucrativeness and profitability of grasscutter farming in Nigeria, Ghana, and anywhere across the world so far markets is available.Now according to your request, so many calls, text messages and mail as come to me, that you guys need an ebook that will guide you well on Grasscutter Farming.
So i have eventually come up with something like that; trust me, it promise to be great, it will educate you so well and help you get started with the whole idea in grasscutter farming, how it works, what they feed on, how to handle them, how to care for them, how to make profits, how to turn it into a million naira business venture and much more.
When you get your own copy, that is when you will discover, you actually don't need such a huge capital to start grasscutter farming, just some few bucks, you are good to go!
You really need the book, if you must be successful in Grasscutter Farming Business.
I have written the book in such a way as to guide and help all beginners with a step by step approach that will help you get started and also provide the best answers for every of your questions on grasscutter farming.
What i share in the ebook is my own personal experiential knowledge on grasscutter farming and we have been able to turn it into A big time business venture.
How can you buy and get your own copy of the ebook?
That is so very simple!
Make a deposit of #5000 into UBA
Account Name : Akanni Matthew
Account Number : 2061105094
I want to ensure every new beginner is able to afford it, that is why the ebook was not sold for #5000 or for #10,000 because the information inside it, is even worth much more than that price, but far beyond the money, i want to be able to help new farmers and especially the youths that are picking interest in Farming, especially livestock farming.
After you might have make the deposit, call/text Your name, email and teller number to me on 07066784204 .
I will send the ebook PDF to your mail.
If you have any question or you need further help and clarity, drop a comment below and i will respond.
Those that have been following this Blog for a longtime, can testify to the fact that, i have been dishing out some very good updates for farmers here, so you can trust this ebook, will deliver t you all you need to know on Grasscutter farming.
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I will call you now, i am going to buy the ebook today, thanks a lot for this information.
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DeleteI just bough the ebook,,, it is so loaded and resources and of a truth, the way you wrote is is so simple and easy to understand, thanks for those marketing points also they are mind blowing!
ReplyDeleteI really love what you are doing here, i wish i could submit your blog to the minister of agriculture, he would encourage such moves as this, keep on the good work here bro.
wow!! Am excited at your compliment and i found it inspiring, yeah it will be nice to have the minister of Agriculture read our blogs, comment and even be interviewed and featured here, we don't need getting it done if only we have the previlege, am also glad you find the ebook useful, today you can empower yourself with grasscutter farming business in Nigeria, I wish you all the very best!!!
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ReplyDeleteMy problem is how to get the grass cutter
ReplyDeletei have the grasscutter, if you want to buy, it is available, call 07066784204.
ReplyDeletePlease what is the cost of 1 colonie of grasscutters
ReplyDeleteWe sell grass cutters for affordable price for those that are willing to start up grass cutter farming we sell in colony and single you can come down to the farm for inspection and we also do nation wide delivery to any location thanks ...contact for more info on 09036729050
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