For 13 good years, Sarah Atuhaire Persenaire worked and lived in the US, but she had only one dream –to invest back home.
The businesswoman would later decide to put up a Goat Keeping Farm after seeing the potential for money in farming.
Her farm, christened AIRE Farms Kayunga sits about 170 kilometres from Kampala City in Uganda and hosts about 1,000 goats of different breeds, including the South African Boer, Kalahari Red Goats, and the Savanna goat breed.
”The good thing about the Boers and the Savanna is that they get on the heat just six months after birth, unlike the local breed, which takes two years before they are served for the first time,’’ said Sarah.
”But we don’t serve them (Boers and the Savanna) at six months we wait for them to make at least eight months to make sure that the first pregnancy doesn’t affect them,’’ she added.
Inside Githunguri farm with pigs, dairy and beef cattle owned by Thee Pluto
Her goat pen is divided into sections where one section hosts female goats, another one male goats, and the last one the kids.
She notes that she separates male goats from females so as to plan reproduction when challenges and complications are minimal.
”We want to be able to produce during the dry season because then complications like pneumonia are less.’’
”Separating them also helps us to produce kids in groups which gives you bulk cash when you sell them to breeders, and also makes management easier,’’ she explained.
The male and female goats also graze separately to prevent mingling, given they graze on free range.
Sarah notes that the venture is very profitable as the goat market is readily available. She sells the goats for both breeding and meat purposes.
