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We are piggery and chicken farm based in South Africa, in the Eastern Cape. We also own 21 hectares of land where we currently produce maize, spinach and black seed.
We would like to expand and grow all 3 businesses as follows:
1. The chicken farm:
# We currently have about 100 egg layers. We are looking to have no less than 1000 chickens at any given time. This is to increase production of the eggs layed to be sold.
# We also have 100 broiler chickens which we grow from day old chics and slaughter (in-house), at 5 weeks and sell as whole, cut, deboned, grilled and cooked meat.
The plan and goal for the farm is to have 1500 of these layers at any given time, in order to constantly supply food retailers in and around our area.
2. The piggery:
# We currently have around 30 F1 pigs. The pigs are kept until around 5 months, at 60-70kgs, and then are slaughtered (in-house) to be sold as meat.
The aim for both farms is to ultimately be a fully fledged farm that grows, slaughters and packages our product in-house to distribute to food retailers and supply the pigs to abattoirs.
We therefore need financial assistance to get the farm to where it needs to be to achieve our goal.
All 3 businesses are family run and owned, by my husband and I, and the plan is to have them in our family for generations.