Tayo Solagbade’s
Performance Improvement IDEAS
(PI Squared) Newsletter

Monday 19th September 2016

NB: This PI Squared newsletter will be published weekly, on Mondays, in place of the Speaking/Web Marketing IDEAS newsletter, starting from today – 15th February 2016. I’m reinventing my Monday newsletter content and theme, to accommodate my vision of serving the growing audience of serious minded individuals and organizations reaching out to me, with information, education. news and research findings designed to help them do what they do better.

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PII 032: Maximise Returns by Integrating Rabbit Farming into Your Farm Operations [True Story: Excerpts from my response to a tweeted request from Eno, a Nigerian Rabbit farm owner]

Below: Screenshot of a tweeted request from Eno, a Nigerian Rabbit farm owner

I’ve been passionately preaching the gospel of Commercial Rabbit Farming on this blog for years (see past articles below). This is because I believe its potential as a high quality protein supplying micro livestock (aka “Biological Refrigerator) is grossly underestimated.

It is for that reason that I always go out of my way to support any rabbit farming enthusiast or practitioner who reaches out to me (e.g Korku, the soft-spoken Accra based Rabbit Farm CEO client who purchased my Excel-VB Ration Formulator and Feed Formulation Handbook 2 months ago).

Based on my personal experiences doing it in the past (which drives my vision to go into it via my proposed Farm Business Support Centre), I believe Rabbit Farming, properly done, offers low cost, multiple high income generating benefits, beyond sales of meat to include production of a wide variety of money making handicrafts from its many byproducts.

The tweeted request from Eno, a Nigerian Rabbit farm owner therefore excited me so much that I decided to feature it in this week’s issue of my Performance Improvement Ideas (PII) newsletter, with my response – which is in form of excerpts from notes I sent to a group of clients, earlier in the year.

I’ll end by saying that the versatility of the rabbit in terms of what it can eat and convert to flesh/meat, makes it an excellent animal to rear on ANY farm – or indeed in any backyard or homestead farm.

A little creative thinking and planning by most crop farmers can enable them integrate rabbit farming into their operations to maximise returns from their enterprises.

This can be done simply by developing systems to use relevant wastes to feed their rabbits for meat production purposes at a fraction of conventional costs.

If you need help making use of the ideas I’ve advocated here, click here to sent me a message.

Below: My response to Eno…

Thanks for your inquiry Eno.

I’m currently in Nigeria. But back in April 2016, I traveled from Cotonou to visit Songhai’s Porto Novo headquarters, on behalf of some members of my Farm Business Ideas Club, to make inquiries about pineapples, rabbits, grasscutters etc.

I notice you mentioned Ghana – and I am aware from speaking with my client, Korku, that they do have some good breeds there, though I do not have breed specific information. However, even he has spoken to me about the possibility of getting superior breeds from Benin Republic!

This is why I believe your best best would be to get what you need from Songhai – they are the ones I can vouch for in terms of the integrity of breeding stock you can purchase. I cannot however tell you what kinds of breeds they have in stock.

The Songhai officers I’ve met told me their rabbits are reared on another site located in a town called Savalou, but I have not been able to follow up the contacts and get the needed info.

TIP: It would help greatly if you can speak French in reaching out to, or visiting them. But they do also have officers proficient in English.

1. Click here to visit the Songhai website | Click here to use the contact form
2. Click here to contact them through their excitingly updated Facebook page (Don’t leave without LIKING it!!!)

Below are excerpts from an email broadcast I sent to my Farm CEO clients. It offers information I obtained directly from the officers I met

I’ve posted it on this blog, in responding to YOU, Eno, so as to afford other interested persons access to it via a link I can easily send out in future…I love to save my time

Hope this helps – but do let me know if you need further assistance.

With kindest regards,

Tayo

PS: It goes without saying that the information below is NOT under my control, and the prices stated may have changed since the date(s) I obtained them. You will have to contact the gentleman I mentioned to establish the current status.

—–Original Message——
To: info at thefarmceo dot net
Cc: m
Subject: Re: Grasscutters, Rabbits, etc
Sent: Apr 21, 2016 9:36 PM

I finally got through to Monsieur Victor Boko at Songhai about the snails:

He said Songhai does not sell its snails – but offers training.

Will ask around for possible sources that sell snails of the kind needed for this business..

Tayo

——Original Message——
To: info at thefarmceo dot net
Cc: m
Subject: Re: Grasscutters, Rabbits, etc
Sent: Apr 20, 2016 2:14 PM

A note on current exchange rate: Last week I cashed N50k naira equivalent for approx FCFA 103k.

That means the Naira devaluation has resulted in a 2:1 ratio instead of the 3:1 ratio that existed (Naira : FCFA) before the crash.

So, you need to divide the FCFA prices given below by 2 instead of 3, to convert to the Naira equivalent.

1. Une famille de Aulacode [A family of Grasscutters] 4 females + 1 male – FCFA 90,000.0

2. Rabbits – FCFA 15,000 for one adult rabbit.

…deleted text…

I tried calling this morning to ask about snails, but he has not picked up.

He speaks French. Not sure if English is okay for him. But I’m told Porto Novo is Ajase, and many of them speak Yoruba. You may call him and try to communicate in English or Yoruba. I will keep trying here.

3. Caisse de transport (transport case)-

This is optional.

Price = FCFA 10,000.0

4. Certificat Sanitaire – this is needed to transport live animals across borders.

Price = FCFA 5,000.0

All the above info provided by the “Responsable du (I.e Head of) Production Songhai M. Victor BOKO.

His mobile: (reomved for privacy) – fill/submit this form to request it.

His email: (reomved for privacy) – fill/submit this form to request it.

Disclaimer

This is information passed to me by those mentioned. I have no means of verifying how realistic or accurate any of it is.

Listing them here does NOT constitute an endorsement of any of them.

You must therefore take the due diligence action of going further to check and verify etc.

Call me if you have questions or require clarification. I’m still moving around a lot and mat not find it easy to do emails.

For those of you who requested information about livestock like Rabbits etc, watch out for the next email.

In your service,

Tayo

Related Articles

1. They Want to Learn English from Me & I Want to Improve my French! (PLUS Video of an angry Beninese Grasscutter, Photo of Rabbits, & a Photo of a 13 Year Old Burt Dubin Classified Ad!)
2. THE FARM CEO (Issue 36): Rabbit Farm Business Startup As Alternative to Traditional Livestock Businesses, The Cost-Saving Farm Business Ideas Private/Closed Facebook Group Debuts, A Permanent Solution to Africa’s Low Per Capita Protein Consumption
3. A Permanent Solution to Africa’s Low Per Capita Protein Consumption!
4. Rabbit Farm Business Startup As Alternative to Traditional Livestock Businesses
5. Layout Plan for TK Solagbade’s Proposed Best Practice Farm Biz Support Centre (FBSC)™ – Benin Republic

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Tayo K. Solagbade*

Self-Development/Performance Improvement Specialist

*Best Practice Farm Business Support Specialist & Founder of the MS Excel Heaven Visual Basic Automation Club and Competition

Mobile: +234-803-302-1263 (in Nigeria) or +229-66-122-136 (in Benin Republic)

http://www.tayosolagbade.com

Tayo K. Solagbade is a Location Independent Performance Improvement

Specialist and Multipreneur (i.e. a highly versatile/multi-skilled entrepreneur), with a bias for delivering Best Practice solutions to Farm Businesses and others.

Since 2002, he has earned multiple streams of income providing individuals and organizations with personal development training and coaching, custom MS Excel-VB solutions, web marketing systems/web hosting, freelance writing services, and best practice extension support services (for farm business owners).

Tayo is the author of the Self-Development (SD) Bible™ and the popular Livestock Feed Formulation Handbook. He is also the developer of its accompanying Excel-VB driven Ration Formulator™ and the Poultry Farm Manager™ software.

He has delivered talks/papers to audiences in various groups and organizations, including the Centre for Management Development, University of Lagos, Christ Baptist Church, Volunteer Corps, Tantalisers Fast Foods and others.

In May 2012 he was the Guest Speaker at the Centre for Entrepreneurship Development’s Annual Semester Entrepreneurial Lecture at Yaba College of Technology in Lagos.

On 1st April 2013, Tayo (who reads, write and speaks the French language) relocated to Cotonou, Benin Republic to begin slowly traveling across the West African region.

His key purpose is to deliver talks, seminars and workshops on his key areas of focus and interest to interested audiences (Email tayo at tksola dot com for details).

In a previous life, before leaving to become self-employed, Tayo served for seven years (October 1994 to December 2001) as a high performing manager in Guinness Nigeria. He rose from Shift Brewer to Training & Technical Development Manager, and later acted in senior roles as Production Manager and Technical Manager.

In addition to constantly challenging the status quo and influencing positive work changes, he built a reputation for using self-taught spreadsheet programming skills (starting with Lotus 1-2-3, and later moving to Excel Visual Basic) – in his spare time – to develop Automated Spreadsheet Applications to computerize manual report generation processes in the departments he worked. Over four(4) of his applications were adopted for brewery level reporting.

Tayo holds a B.Sc degree in Agricultural Extension Services from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, having graduated top of his class – with Second Class Upper Division honors – in 1992. He is an Associate Member of the UK Institute & Guild of Brewing, a 1997 National Finalist of the Nigerian Institute of Management’s(NIM) Young Managers’ competition, a Certified Psychometric Test Administrator for Psytech UK, innovator of Spontaneous Coaching for Self-Development™ (SCfS-D™), and Founder of the Self-Development Academy (SDAc).

When he’s not amazing clients with his superhuman skills (wink), Tayo works as the creative force behind his Daily Self-Development Nuggets blog – on which he also publishes The Farm CEO Weekly Newspaper (sent via email to paid subscribers) and his Weekly Performance Improvement IDEAS newsletter.

You can connect with him on Twitter @tksola.com and Facebook.

Visit Tayo Solagbade Dot Com, to download over over 10 performance improvement resources to boost your personal and work related productivity.

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[IMPORTANT NOTE:====

On 4th May 2014, Tayo’s 9 year old domain (Spontaneousdevelopment dot com), which hosted his website, was taken over by Aplus.net.

Within a few days however, Tayo used his advanced self-taught web development skills to build a SUPERIOR “reincarnation” of it the website http://www.tayosolagbade.com.

But updates are still ongoing to URLs bearing the old domain name in most of the over 1,000 web pages, and blog posts

he’s published.

If you experience any difficulties finding a page or document, email Tayo at tksola dot com.

Click “Tayo, What Happened to

SpontaneousDevelopmentDotCom ?” to read a detailed narrative about how the above event occurred :-))

Here’s an article Tayo wrote, to inspire others to defy adversity, and bounce back to even greater reckoning at what they do EVERY time:

And he wrote the one below, to explain why losing a domain name, no matter how old, NO LONGER determines your online success or otherwise:

A Proven Strategy to Find Profitable Buyers Regardless of Your Domain Name
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