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Be intentional about your farm
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Be Intentional About the Farm You Want to Start

Stop waiting for approval from friends and family. Even those who tried and failed cannot predict your story. Clarity of intention is the first and most important input into a successful farm — before any chick, feed, or house is sourced.

January 9, 2025 Read Article →
Expand Within Your Means — The Kofi Farms Philosophy
Business

Expand Within Your Means — The Kofi Farms Philosophy

The temptation to borrow heavily and stock thousands of birds before you understand the basics is real. Here is why we preach steady, self-funded growth and how that philosophy has kept us in business when others collapsed.

January 22, 2025 Read more →
Why Poultry Farms Are Collapsing in Ghana — And What to Do About It
Industry

Why Poultry Farms Are Collapsing in Ghana — And What to Do About It

The Central Region alone lost over 2,500 active poultry farmers. We examine the real causes — feed cost spikes, lack of capital, poor market access, and inadequate training — and what a determined farmer can do to survive anyway.

February 14, 2025 Read more →
Feed Changed and Our Birds Stopped Laying — What We Learned
Feed Management

Feed Changed and Our Birds Stopped Laying — What We Learned

We went from 10 crates of eggs a day to 1.5 crates almost overnight. The cause was a feed change we did not anticipate or manage properly. This is the honest account of what happened, what we did, and what every layer farmer must know about feed consistency.

March 5, 2025 Read more →
The First Three Weeks Are Everything — A Guide to Brooding Day-Old Chicks
Brooding

The First Three Weeks Are Everything — A Guide to Brooding Day-Old Chicks

More chicks die in the first 21 days than at any other stage of production. Temperature, ventilation, water access, and starter feed management during brooding determine the trajectory of your entire flock. Here is how we do it.

March 28, 2025 Read more →
Why Ghana's Poultry Farms Struggle to Find Good Farm Hands
Workforce

Why Ghana's Poultry Farms Struggle to Find Good Farm Hands

Skilled, reliable farm workers are harder to find than people realise. We look at why, what employers really need, and how our training-to-placement model is addressing the skills gap at the farm worker level.

April 10, 2025 Read more →
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