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Broiler Chicks in Accra — Cobb 500 & Ross 308, Vaccinated in Kasoa, Market Weight in About Six Weeks.

The broiler cycle is the fastest cash conversion in Ghanaian poultry, and Accra is where the market eats it — chop bars, frozen-chicken traders, hotels and festive caterers, all of them buying weight and uniformity six weeks after the chicks are placed. Agro Prime hatches Cobb 500 and Ross 308 in Kasoa every Thursday, 30 km from your farm: vaccinated at day zero, graded and counted, delivered in about 45 minutes, with the batch's vaccination record in writing. Live price on WhatsApp before you commit a cedi, because the honest broiler budget starts with an honest chick price.

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Cobb 500 & Ross 308 — the strains the trade runs on· ~42 days to realistic Ghana market weight· 30 km hatchery to farm, about 45 minutes

White broiler chickens, the Cobb 500 and Ross 308 strains Agro Prime hatches in Kasoa

Next hatch — days — hrs — min Thursday 7:00 · broilers ready same morning

The batch math

What a Realistic Accra Broiler Batch Actually Delivers

Breed-company brochures assume climate-controlled houses and perfect feed. Almost nobody in Ghana hits those numbers, and planning your batch around brochure weights is the most common way new growers lose money before week six. These are the week-by-week targets we publish from our own hatchery floor for a well-run open-sided house on good commercial feed — the honest version. Budget against the right-hand column, sell against the weight you actually hit, and treat every week you beat the target as found money rather than the new baseline. Growers who plan on the honest column and hit it consistently are the ones who reorder every six weeks; that is the entire business model of the Accra broiler trade in two sentences.

Age	Breed potential	Realistic Ghana target	Cumulative feed/bird
Day 0	42 g	40–44 g	—
Day 7	200 g	160–185 g	150–170 g
Day 14	520 g	420–480 g	520–580 g
Day 21	1,000 g	820–920 g	1,150–1,300 g
Day 28	1,600 g	1,300–1,450 g	2,050–2,300 g
Day 35	2,250 g	1,850–2,050 g	3,150–3,500 g
Day 42	2,900 g	2,300–2,550 g	4,300–4,700 g

Orientation figures from our customer records and the breed objectives — the full table, with FCR by week, lives in our Cobb 500 management guide. Weigh a sample of 30–50 birds weekly and compare; that habit is the difference between farming and guessing.

Feed is the whole budget

Roughly 4.3–4.7 kg of feed per bird to day 42 — feed is where broiler margins live or die, which is why the order estimator includes the bag count with the chick count.

Heat is the Accra factor

Coastal heat stalls feed intake in the afternoon. Good airflow, adequate water and stocking discipline protect the weight curve — our heat-stress guide covers the details.

Six weeks, not five

Plan revenue at the realistic day-42 target, and treat anything faster as a bonus. Farms that budget on brochure numbers are the ones forced into panic sales in week 5.

All-in, all-out

The cycle only works as a cycle if the pen empties, cleans and refills on schedule — which is why a supplier whose Thursday hatch never moves is worth more than a cedi off the chick price.

Cobb 500 vs Ross 308

Which Broiler Strain Suits an Accra Grow-Out — the Honest Comparison

Farmers ask us which is "better." Neither is better in a vacuum — the honest answer depends on your feed, your house and your market, and anyone who answers the question without asking about your feed first is selling you a preference, not advice. This is the comparison we give on WhatsApp every week, unchanged, because the underlying logic does not move with the price of maize: the strain either matches your system or it does not, and no discount on a mismatched bird makes it match.

Cobb 500 — the forgiving performer

The most widely raised broiler strain in the world, and the bird most Ghanaian commercial hatcheries hatch in the largest numbers. Its strength in Ghana is tolerance: it was selected to perform on a wide range of feed formulations, which matters when your mash comes from local millers whose protein and energy vary from bag to bag. It feathers reasonably, stays calmer, and in the typical open-sided house on locally milled mash it usually finishes with a lower feed cost per kilogram.

If your setup is "real Ghanaian conditions" — open-sided house, local feed, charcoal brooder backup — the Cobb's forgiveness is worth real money in week six.

Ross 308 — the precision instrument

The Ross has a slight edge in early growth rate and breast yield under excellent management with high-quality feed. That "under" is doing all the work in the sentence: pay off the feed quality and the housing control, and the Ross rewards you; run it on average feed in a hot open house, and the Cobb usually wins on cost per kilo.

The strain question is really a feed question. Tell us your feed plan on WhatsApp and we will give you the honest recommendation for your setup — including when the answer is "either, buy the hatch that fits your calendar."

Cobb 500tolerates local mash variation; calmer; usually lower feed cost per kg in open houses

Ross 308slight early-growth and breast-yield edge under excellent management and high-spec feed

Eitherif your feed is good and your calendar rules the decision — the hatch date matters more than the logo

One warning worth its own paragraph: be suspicious of any seller who cannot tell you which strain is in the box. "Broiler" is a job description, not a breed — Cobb 500, Ross 308 and Arbor Acres are different animals with different management curves, and a supplier who hatches his own birds knows exactly what he is handing you.

Ask which strain fits my farm Read the Ross 308 guide

Delivery + week one

From the Hatcher to 2.4 kg — the Accra Delivery and the Week That Decides It

The Kasoa→Accra run is 30 km, about 45 minutes — one of the shortest supply lines in the country, and it matters more for broilers than for any other bird: a fast, cool, short journey means chicks that start eating on schedule, and broiler economics is nothing but schedule.

Distance from Kasoa30 km

Typical transitAbout 45 minutes

Delivery tierShort local run

We deliver across Greater Accra — Madina, Adenta, Spintex, Dansoman, Achimota, the Amasaman stretch and the wider ring — or you collect on Thursday from 7am and carry your own birds. Either way, have the brooder pre-heated 24 hours ahead: 33–35°C at litter level, drinkers filled 2–3 hours before arrival so the water is brooder-warm, and the first feed down before the boxes open.

The first 48 hours are where the day-42 target is quietly won: chicks that find feed and water within hours convert better for six straight weeks, and the ones that don't never fully catch up — the growth curve has no mechanism for redoing week one. Watch the huddle, dip beaks, check crops on day two, and write down what you see; the notes from your first batch are the cheapest consultancy you will ever own. It is not complicated — it is just unforgiving of delay, and it rewards the grower who treats arrival morning as the most important hour of the whole cycle.

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Plan the batch, not just the birds

Estimate Your Full Accra Broiler Batch in One Tap

Chicks are the first line of the budget — feed is most of the rest, and the gap between a planned batch and a surprised one is usually a feed bill nobody estimated before the birds arrived. This estimator uses our real orientation math: birds, chick cost, feed bags, feeders and drinkers, brooder lamps, and the estimated live weight your batch should carry at market. Run it twice — once at your intended number and once at the number you would buy if the price were right — because the difference between the two runs is the exact shape of the decision you are making, and it takes ten seconds.

Instant estimate

Plan your broiler batch

Enter your numbers for a quick, no-obligation estimate. It builds a ready-to-send WhatsApp order — we confirm the exact live price for Accra.

How many birds? Strain

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Estimates are for planning only and use orientation prices that move with feed cost, season and the cedi. We confirm the exact price and delivery cost to Accra when you message.

Inside the Agro Prime hatchery in Kasoa, Ghana

Hatched and handled by our own team in Kasoa

Agro Prime is a working hatchery, not a reseller. Our team runs computer-controlled incubators on a weekly hatch cycle, vaccinates every batch at the hatchery, and candles, grades and counts the day-old chicks before they leave us. Because we hatch locally, your birds are hours old — not days into a long import journey — when they reach you.

Written and reviewed by the Agro Prime hatchery team · Kasoa, Central Region, Ghana

The six weeks

Week by Week: What Separates a 2.4 kg Batch From a 1.8 kg Batch

Same genetics, same feed budget, wildly different outcome — the gap is management, and it compounds weekly. The short version of every brooder talk we give Accra growers.

Wk 1

Temperature decides everything

33–35°C at bird level, dropping toward 32–34 by the week's end. Pre-heated 24 hours before arrival, thermometer at litter height, behaviour watched twice daily. Chicks that are chilled in week one never fully recover their growth curve — the weight table above is won or lost right here.

Wk 2

Feed and water discipline

Starter feed two-thirds full, never bone-empty; drinkers clean, close and checked for slime daily. Weigh a sample of 30–50 birds — day-14 birds should be pushing 420–480 g, and the spread across the sample tells you as much as the average does. Uneven weights now mean a management gap, not a genetics problem, and it is cheapest to fix this week: a pen that evens out by day 14 finishes evenly at day 42, and uniform batches are the ones the frozen trade pays a premium for. This is also the week to settle your vaccination follow-ups with the batch record we hand you — Newcastle and Gumboro timings ride on what was already given at the hatchery, so keep that WhatsApp thread open.

Wk 3

Space and air

Expand the guard fully, keep litter dry under the coastal humidity, ventilate above the birds without a floor draught. This is the coccidiosis window — bloody droppings mean act the same day, not after market day.

Wk 4

The grower switch

Transition to grower feed gradually, keep the weight sample going, and watch afternoon heat — Accra's midday stall in feed intake shows up in week-4 weights if airflow is poor.

Wk 5–6

Finisher and the market

Finisher to market, weights checked against the day-42 target of 2,300–2,550 g, and the pen plan already set for the next cycle. Book the replacement batch against the Thursday hatch before you sell this one — the all-in/all-out rhythm only works if the next birds have a date, and Accra's serious growers hold their hatch-day slot the way a shopkeeper holds his market stall. A batch sold at the right weight, on schedule, with a clean pen behind it and the next one already booked — that is the whole business, and it compounds.

Plan my batch with the team Read the full feeding guide

Straight answers

Broiler Chicks in Accra — Questions Growers Ask Every Week

The questions Accra broiler growers actually ask, answered the way we answer them on WhatsApp — with numbers, not slogans. If yours isn't here, ask it directly; an answer costs nothing, and a broiler budget built on a question you were too shy to ask is the most expensive kind there is.

Ask us anything

Which broiler breeds do you hatch?

Cobb 500 and Ross 308 — the two strains Ghana's commercial broiler trade runs on, both listed in our store with their published starting prices.

How fast do broilers reach market weight in Ghana?

In a well-run open-sided house on good feed, realistic Ghana targets are 2.3–2.55 kg at 42 days — we publish the full week-by-week weight and feed table on our blog, written from our own hatchery floor.

Are broiler chicks vaccinated at the hatchery?

Yes — Marek typically, and often Newcastle and Gumboro depending on the batch. We tell you exactly what was given so you can plan the rest with your vet.

How much do broiler chicks cost in Accra?

Broilers start from GH₵20 as published on our store, but prices move with feed cost and the cedi — WhatsApp +49 151 68495881 with your quantity for today's live price delivered to Accra.

What feed does a Cobb 500 batch need?

Broiler starter from day one, then grower and finisher phases — roughly 4.3–4.7 kg cumulative feed per bird to day 42 under Ghana conditions. Our farm store stocks the feed, and the order calculator on this page estimates the bags for your batch size.

The broiler library

Read These Before Your First Box Arrives

The guides Accra broiler growers send each other, written by the team that hatches the birds — no filler, no affiliate links, just what works in Ghanaian houses on Ghanaian feed budgets. Read them in the week before your birds arrive, not the week after a problem appears; the difference is the whole margin. Every guide pairs with the WhatsApp thread: if a paragraph does not match what you are seeing in your pen, ask the team directly and get an answer grounded in the same hatch your birds came from.

Breeds & Stock

Cobb 500 Management in Ghana: Weights, Feed and Profit

The strain, the realistic week-by-week targets, the heat problem and a worked profit example for a 500-bird batch.

Feeding

Broiler Feeding Guide for Ghana: Starter, Grower, Finisher

Phase feeding explained with real quantities — because feed is most of your budget and most of your margin.

Climate

Heat Stress in Poultry: The Accra Grower's Afternoon Problem

Why birds stop eating at 1pm, what it costs in week-6 weights, and the airflow fixes that cost almost nothing.

Where Accra broilers go

The Market That Eats Your Batch — and Why Timing Beats Volume

Every Accra broiler batch ends in someone's pot: chop bars, frozen traders, hotels, event caterers. Knowing which buyer you are growing for changes your target weight, your sale date and therefore your hatch booking.

Match the bird to the buyer

Chop bars and domestic buyers often prefer manageable bird sizes; the frozen-chicken trade buys weight and uniformity; festive caterers buy volume against a date. The difference is real money: growing past your buyer's preferred size spends feed on kilograms nobody pays a premium for, and every extra day in the pen after your target weight is feed bought at retail and sold at wholesale. Decide the exit before you book the entry — name your buyer, name your target weight, name your sale week — and count backward from that selling window to the Thursday hatch that fits. When the arithmetic lands on a mid-week arrival gap, remember the market absorbs birds every day but the hatch only falls on Thursdays; plan the batch so the sale date, not the chick date, is the fixed point you plan around.

Accra's calendar edge

Our Accra customers range from Spintex apartment keepers to commercial broiler farms on the Amasaman stretch supplying hotels and event caterers. Because the Kasoa hatchery sits on the city's western edge — 30 km, about 45 minutes — Accra growers get some of the shortest transport times in the country: less stress on the birds, lower first-week mortality risk, and a hatch day you can build a six-week revenue calendar around.

Match my hatch to my market