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During large poultry sale at festive seasons like Christmas in Nigeria poultry farmers have a an edge because of the period we are and they can make sales that are astronomically higher than the usual market price, but buyers who are getting their Christmas birds from the local market have a way of beating down this astronomically price. They do that by arguing that the poultry birds don't have enough weight that way the prices are cut down gradually.

But is it the farmers fault that the birds don't have enough weight ?

Well that's not entirely true , after experimenting with my first sets of poultry birds I don't seem to support such notion . The birds have eating so well and have had the best care required I don't think putting on so much fat is ideal for the birds it isn't nutritionally good for any one eating them .

What we get from this is a high level of unhealthy fats, weight gain and cardiovascular disease. Fats contain 9 calories per 1g of fat which is a level that is not good for the body ,that doesn't mean that fat is bad because it is one of the essential nutrients that our body needs it is just the quantity that matters .

The demand for chicken that has more weight due to this fat accumulation is the reason farmers are struggling hard to make this happen just to meet market standards and that is understandable but the consumers have to be the ones to control what they are demanding from poultry farmers .

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