Kenneth Phiri

International Relations & Development Graduate | Carports Maker | Bull Bars Maker|

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

Young Professional?

Thanks for coming to the last thread of the year.

Today, we'd look at:

'20 Practical Ways To Improve Oneself in 2020'

As always, there's coffee. Please grab a seat too.

[Ninja Wisdom | Self Improvement @Ninja__Wisdom]

A doctor who treated men with erectile problems for 20 years revealed what slowly destroys men's sexual health.

He said, “Most men damage their sexual health without even realizing it.”

Every man should read this...

[Kenneth Phiri @Kenneth82461247]

@ethel_nkandu I need a piece of land. Kindly connect me some?

[Felix @FMwenge]

I'm no farmer. But is small scale farming in Zambia profitable or we're buying farms to not feel left out? If you buy a farm & must buy a Canter to access it & build a house for a caretaker b4 any production, you're already making losses. I've observed many sunk costs in this business. For how long should a farm operate before we can start counting profits? Or may be profit isn't part of the plan?

[Jean Claude NIYOMUGABO @jcniyomugabo]

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[Hopewell Chin’ono @daddyhope]

Let us talk about Boer Goats for a minute, and let us cure the ignorance around why they are “expensive.”

I bought this male Boer goat christened Maserati in South Africa in 2016, I paid US$6000 for it.
A male goat is called a Buck, and a female is called a Doe.

A buck is your seed, so if your seed is rubbish, you get rubbish offspring too because the buck’s sperm determines the quality of the offspring that you then sale as a business.

Since 2016, Maserati gave me thousands of goat kids.
My friends and other farmers also benefited from his prolific prowess.
A goat of Maserati’s quality can mate with 80 Does a month.

Maserati was an investment not a goat to eat, each male goat kid born is sold for US$500 when it is six months old, females are sold for US$450.

Boer goats ordinarily give you 3 goats per each pregnancy, they deliver twice a year, that is 6 goats per year per female Boer goat.

So why do farmers pay in advance for male Boer goats and why is demand outstripping supply?

Maserati weighs 140 kgs, the Mashona village goat weighs 20kgs.
If you mate Maserati with a Mashona goat, the offspring you get weighs 70-80kgs.
In other words you get an extra 50 kgs per each pregnancy if you buy a Boer goat.

So it makes economic sense to buy male Boer goats for a farmer who wants to sell goat meat.
If he has 200 Mashona female goats, they will give him 4000 kgs of meat per single pregnancy at selling time.

If he or she crossbreeds a male Boer goat with his or her 200 Mashona females, he will get 16,000 kgs of meat.

If he or she breeds Maserati with 200 pure-breed female Boer goats, he or she will get 24,000 kgs of meat.

Boer goat farming or breeding is a business not a hobby, so don’t ask again why they are expensive, the answer is in the numbers that I have given you.

Meat is sold by the kilo not through sentimentality, that is why I sell one year old male Boer goats for US$1000.

I am now leaving goat breeding to focus on trading only because ZANUPF as you remember wanted to steal my Boer goats through its youth leader.

It means I will be buying one year olds from South Africa and taking them straight to the market.

I hope you have learnt something about pricing and why they are “expensive.”

Factors like genetic quality, reproduction rates, and meat yield contribute to the value and demand for these goats in the market.
The focus on breeding as a business underscores the economic considerations involved in livestock farming.

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

Tanzania building a grid interconnector with Zambia to help assist in mitigating its southern neighbour’s drought-driven power crisis. Tanzania already has some interconnectors with Rwanda, Burundi, and Kenya
https://t.co/oeD0BsQwUQ

[Kenneth Phiri @Kenneth82461247]

@GoodnessAdeosun I'm Zambian, how can I access your products?

[Kenneth Phiri @Kenneth82461247]

@C27Deborah Here we go MULUNGUSHI UNIVERSITY

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

This New Year, if you want to learn...

-Coding
-Excel
-A new language
-Video Editing
-Graphic Design
-Data Analysis
-Copyrighting
-Cyber Security
-Web Dev & more

...and need free resources, training, hardware (laptop) let me know.

RT & Reply with what you need.

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

Studied Chemistry for Undergrad. Ended up a HR Professional. What’s your own story?

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

10 Months into 2023, what’s the most important lesson you’ve learnt this year?

Do share.

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

6 months into 2023. Most important lesson you’ve learnt this year?

[Kenneth Phiri @Kenneth82461247]

@Learnwithbren Thank you for sharing

[‘Tunde Omotoye @TundeTASH]

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[Chekwas! @kaluchekwas_]

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[Falilat @Falilatt_]

I saw a TikTok of a 19 years old girl worried about almost 20 with no drivers license, a degree, boyfriend, job, and club experience. Talking about the pressure getting worser and people within same age replying “this.”
I think we need to reduce our social media consumption.

[The Africa Report @TheAfricaReport]

#Zambia: Human Rights Watch has said more than one-third of Kabwe’s population of 76,000 now live in lead-contaminated areas.

https://t.co/t9lz3Tys4z…d-poisoning-case/

[Kenneth Phiri @Kenneth82461247]

@Momentswithbren Thank you @Momentswithbren