Harare Woman Earns Thousands From Quail Birds

Harare Woman Earns Thousands From Quail Birds
Published: 2016 May 08 09:04:35 (9106 Views)
Banking and finance graduate Kudzanai Kanyangara, unemployed and with a family to look after, has hit a jackpot with breeding and selling zvihuta/izagwaca birds.

In August last year she aquired 70 quail birds to breed and sell at her Highfield home in Harare.

Her expectations at that time were that the birds would give her little money to help meet some of the basic family needs and complement her husband’s income.

But nine months later, Kanyangara, a mother and a wife, has over 2 500 quail birds and is making enough money to sustain the family.

Every month, Kanyangara sells up to 1 500 breeding quail birds to other farmers and each breeding bird, which is sold at two weeks old, costs $2.

But that is not all, as she also sells eggs at $6 for a crate of 30.

“Just yesterday, we picked 1 620 eggs, and because the demand is high, they will not take long before they are sold out, and the good thing is that I also get to take some to the incubator so that I have a fresh breed,” she told a Harare weekly newspaper.

Although Kanyangara could not reveal the exact amount of money she makes, she said “the demand is very high” and that she makes enough to make a decent living and she is targeting to have 20 000 birds by December.

Kanyangara keeps Chinese, Egyptian and Japanese types of quails.

Her success, and that of the many quail bird breeders around the country, comes in the back of a recent attempt by Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri to strictly regulate the breeding of quail birds in what was seen as a ban attempt.

This has sparked outrage among the Zimbabweans who are surviving on quail bird farming.




- The Standard
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