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I am thinking of retiring. I intend to rear cows and be selling fresh milk when am out of formal employment. Now,if my memory serves me right,i recall there was a time the sale of fresh milk had some controversial issues... like one can not sell unprocessed milk or something like that. Was a law passed to that regard? Can i still sell fresh milk within or in the neighboring towns in Nairobi without getting in trouble with authorities... i would want to do a clean business without cutting corners... at retirement time,who wants to be running around with city or county council askaris???

Please let me know any kind of info that you may have in this regard.

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

@Njung'e

yes. was thinking that i could later on add value to the milk than just sell it fresh... but the place will need to be known first,you know. so when introducing the other milk products,people can already identify with the place...

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Do you milk the cow on the spot as i wait ama?

Ninajua Yote!

@kusadikika
yes, i intend to be on the ground but also have some competent guys to help. I believe i can still afford a one week holiday here and there if i get good people and working systems.

@mainat

Yes,thats the route i intend to move that route may be open a milk parlour where you can get variety of hygienically packed fresh milk plus other products to be introduced with time.. not the hawking - hiyo siwesmek. umesikia ni na retire so will have lots of time plus if i can get good caretakers on a full time basis,i can still have some free time to do something else - or so i think.

Some deals are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Y are you retiring at that age? Make money both at bizna na jobo so if things dont work you can continue with your day job...ama?

BTW; how can one test the quality of this fresh milk?

Just started buying it instead of the processed one since it's cost effective,
but the one that i bought yesterday was so dilute....

i hear the farmers/brokers add things like Unga,Hydrogen peroxide,margarine,and water.. to make a kill.

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Just had to dig this post from the archives.
Here is my experience on dairy farming
I had 3 cows for a period of 3year before disposing them off to concentrate on other stuff. In that period i learnt a lot on the dairy farming.
Mine was more of telephone farming which i realized is quite tricky and prone to mismanagement and theft. i procured everything from the forage to the supplements and could "hawk" the milk. In fact buyers would stream by the door to buy the milk. A liter was going for minimum 30 bob and at times it could increase to 37/
The three cows at first would give 45 liter combined after calving but this diminished with time. in the course of the period,2 cows sired bulls of which 1 of the calves died owing to lack of care.(i stupidily poisoned it by feeding it supplements instead of the colostrum)
i had purchased the cows from a farm in naivasha and only later realized that the cows had actually been targeted for culling: two of the cows had calved over 5 times (too old) while the 3rd experienced difficulty in bringing "muruki" (showing signs of heat) - in short i had bought rejects; my only consolation was that i would count the sires as mine to manage.
During that period, the cows got foot and mouth and I was among the lucky guys who didn’t lose an animal to the disease. The disease spelt a major blow to my now loss riddled venture.- one of the cows had to be “dried “ cause it was too weak while the one that was hard detecting heat had now cut the milk.( dairy cows are ideally supposed to be milked for 305 days per year. Anything above that is straining the cows)
Lesson learnt from that short venture
1 Dairy farming requires dedication and on hand management. Don’t allow the milkman to handle the cash. By the time I was disposing them off, my milkman was laughing all the way to the “mpesa” (bank).
2 When purchasing a cow, examine all records of the particular animal. Any cow without records is not worth buying cause the owner probably isn’t keen with the cows’ management- I realized one of the cows had actually been operated on
3 If were given an option to venture into dairy farming, I would go full throttle! This time round nimejanjaruka
4 And people have the notion that dairy farming is for the less learned. My management style easily fits into this. However if I were to redo it all over again, I’d be wiser and more proactive in the daily management.

I don't know about 100k lakini you can check this out...for processing milk

You can bottle the milk if you don't want to use polythene.

Milk Pro is a wonderful idea, especially for babies. I hope that the agents involved give their all in its marketing.

I understand you can make 1.8 million a year!

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