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A fully costed, compliance-checked 100-bird batch plan for your own town

The capstone project for Poultry Farming Business — a free Agriculture course. Pass it and you earn a certificate anyone can verify.

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The project unlocks once you complete the lessons. The workbook is free to download now so you can see exactly what is expected.

What you will submit

A written plan of roughly 900-1,400 words pasted as text, containing: your bird choice, housing and siting description, a dated local price survey with named sources, a full costed budget with 5% and 15% mortality cases plus cost per bird and per kg, a brooding and vaccination plan with a named vet or extension contact and avian flu reporting steps, a compliance register naming the offices you contacted and what is still to be confirmed, a market plan built on three real buyer conversations, and an assumptions and risks note.

What to do, step by step

  1. Choose and justify: state your town or LGA, whether you will raise broilers or layers and why (3-4 sentences on capital, cashflow and your local market), and your batch size. Then describe your housing in words with real measurements — floor size in metres, birds per square metre, materials for wall/wire/roof/floor, ventilation, where the single door, footbath and feed store go, and how you will keep rats and thieves out. Add two or three sentences on siting: where the pen sits relative to your neighbours' houses, wells and boreholes, where run-off goes, and who will take your used litter.
  2. Do a dated local price survey. Visit or phone at least one feed depot or agro-vet shop and at least one hatchery or its agent in your state, and record with names, dates and phone numbers where possible: the current price of a 25 kg bag of broiler starter and of finisher (name the brand), the current day-old chick price and the earliest available hatch date, the price of a bag of wood shavings, and the price of one vaccine vial. Write the date you collected each price.
  3. Build the full costed budget for 100 birds using YOUR surveyed prices, not the ones in the lessons: chicks, feed (show how you calculated the number of bags), vaccines and drugs, brooding fuel, litter, transport and miscellaneous, plus a compliance line for business registration and any state or veterinary charge you were quoted (mark it clearly as an estimate to be confirmed). Then show the totals two ways — at 5% mortality and at 15% mortality — and calculate cost per bird sold and cost per kilogram of live weight for both.
  4. Write the health plan: the brooding temperature schedule week by week for the first four weeks, the vaccination programme you intend to follow with dates by bird age, and the name and phone number of the actual veterinarian, extension officer or qualified agro-vet contact you spoke to who confirmed or corrected that schedule for your area. State where you will buy vaccines and how the cold chain will be kept. Add six specific biosecurity rules for your pen, and state exactly who you would call, in what order, and what you would do and not do in the first hour if you suspected avian influenza.
  5. Write a compliance register — a short table or list of the papers and duties for YOUR farm, each with the office responsible, what you were told, the date you asked, and what is still to be confirmed. Cover at minimum: your CAC registration status or plan (our CAC Business Registration Class covers the how); who you contacted at your state Ministry of Agriculture's veterinary or livestock department, or your ADP or LGA, about registering or notifying a farm of your size and what they said; whether a movement permit or health certificate is needed to move live birds in or out of your state; the drug withdrawal-period rule you will write on your batch sheet, for meat and for eggs; whether you intend to package a branded product and therefore need NAFDAC product registration, or will sell live and freshly dressed only; and your litter, manure and dead-bird disposal plan with whichever LGA environmental health or ministry of environment office you asked. Where you could not get an answer, say so plainly and name the office you still have to visit.
  6. Write the market plan and close with an assumptions and risks note: name at least three real potential buyers you actually contacted (type of buyer, area, and what they said about quantity, price, and live versus dressed), your target sale week, the day-old placement date you counted back from it, your intended price per kilogram and how it compares to your cost per kilogram — then the date your prices were collected, a bad-case paragraph (feed up 25%, mortality 15%, buyer offers 20% lower) showing what you would actually do, and a plain statement that prices change, requirements vary by state, and results vary.

Files to work with

Project workbook (fill in, then submit)The whole brief, an evidence checklist, the grading rubric as a self-check and the link-sharing steps in one file. Opens in Word, Google Docs or WPS.Word · 8 KB

How it is graded

CriterionWeight
Real, dated local price survey with named sources — feed brand and bag price, day-old chick price and hatch date, shavings and vaccine — rather than figures copied from the lessons20%
Costed budget is complete and arithmetically sound: feed quantity justified, a compliance cost line included, both 5% and 15% mortality cases shown, cost per bird sold and cost per kilogram live weight correctly calculated25%
Health plan is specific and safe: correct week-by-week brooding temperatures, a vaccination schedule by bird age, vaccine sourcing and cold chain, six concrete biosecurity rules, and a named real vet or extension officer who confirmed the schedule20%
Compliance register is real and correctly hedged: CAC status or plan, a named state veterinary/livestock or LGA contact actually approached about farm registration, correct avian influenza reporting steps (who to call, and nothing sold, moved or dressed), the drug withdrawal rule for meat and eggs, live-bird movement permit question, NAFDAC only if packaging a branded product, and a litter/manure/dead-bird disposal plan — with dates asked, open items named, and no claim that any fee or requirement is fixed25%
Market plan grounded in three real buyer conversations with a target sale week, a placement date counted back from it and price per kg versus cost per kg, plus honest risk treatment: prices dated, a worked bad-case scenario with a stated response, and no guaranteed-profit claims10%

You need 65% overall to pass. A human examiner also reviews this safety-critical project before any certificate is issued. A failed submission comes back with feedback and can be revised and resubmitted.

Before you submit: make your link public

If your work lives in Google Drive or Google Docs, open Share → General access and change “Restricted” to “Anyone with the link” (Viewer). Then paste the link into a private browser window: if it opens without sign-in, you are ready. A private link cannot be graded — it is the single most common reason a good project fails.

Frequently asked questions

Do I have to finish Poultry Farming Business before submitting the project?

Yes. The submission screen opens once every lesson in Poultry Farming Business is marked complete. The lessons are where the methods, the Nigerian context and the worked examples the project depends on are taught.

How is the project graded?

An examiner scores each rubric criterion from 0 to 100 and weights them as shown on this page; you need 65% overall to pass. Because this is a safety-critical trade, a human examiner also reviews every submission before a certificate is issued.

Can I resubmit if I fail?

Yes. A failed project comes back with feedback; revise the weak parts and resubmit. A passed project is final — the certificate is issued and cannot be re-rolled.

What do I actually submit?

A write-up of what you did (under 5,000 characters). You can mention a public link to supporting files in the write-up. The free project workbook on this page walks you through all 6 steps.

Is the certificate real?

Yes. Passing this project issues a certificate with a unique verification code. Anyone — an employer, a client, a school — can open the verification page and see that the certificate is genuine and which project earned it.

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