Start a Small Pig Farm in Nigeria: The Honest Beginner's Guide (with Records Kit)

Thinking of starting a pig farm in Nigeria, or just started and feeling lost? This guide tells you the honest picture: what it costs, how feed really works, how to weigh and record, how to protect your pigs from disease, and how to run the farm when you are not standing in it.

It comes from Zuri's Livestock Limited, a pig and snail farm in Ikorodu, Lagos, managed remotely with AgriDoc Systems. Pig farming can make good money when it is well structured and properly managed, and when you cut your feed bill without cutting the nutrition. This guide shows you how.

WHAT YOU GET (3 files in one download)

1. The guide (PDF, about 31 pages), 23 chapters:

• Is pig farming right for you? An honest checklist
• Pig basics and the timeline
• The money: startup budget, a worked profit example in three cases (hard, middle, good) and break-even
• Site, rules to check, and a biosecurity layout
• Pens and space guidelines
• Buying your first pigs and quarantine
• Feeding: how much, bought feed vs home-mixed, a real batch cost, and a feed forecast so you never run out
• Feed alternatives: cassava, maize and azolla, how to prepare cassava, how to test a feed change safely, and the rule of cutting cost without cutting nutrition
• Weighing and growth, with a real batch growth chart
• Health and biosecurity, including African swine fever in Nigeria with dated sources
• Breeding and farrowing
• Records, selling, where margins can be larger (processing pork), and running a farm from far away
• Your first 90 days, a first-cycle cash plan, FAQs, WhatsApp message and sale-agreement templates

1. Pig Farm Records Kit (Excel, also works in Google Sheets): startup budget, pig register, weekly weigh-in with growth per day, feed log, feed forecast with a run-out date, health log with a "do not sell" warning, breeding calendar (+114 days), expenses, sales and profit with break-even.
2. Printable checklists (PDF): daily, weekly, monthly, gate and visitor, before and after farrowing, sale day, plus blank sheets.

WHO IT IS FOR

• Beginners planning a small pig farm in Nigeria
• New pig farmers who want better records and feed planning
• Farm owners who live away from the farm and manage through a farm manager
• Farm managers and agribusiness students who want clear routines

GOOD TO KNOW (please read)

• This is a guide and a record-keeping toolkit. It is not veterinary, legal, tax or financial advice, and it contains no drug names or doses. Work with a qualified vet, and check local rules with your state authorities.
• It does not promise profit. Pig farming has real risks, including disease and slow growth. We show a hard, a middle and a good case.
• Farm examples are from one farm's records, not averages. Examples and estimates are labelled so you can replace them.
• Prices, rules and disease news change. Sources and dates are listed in the guide.