They say that you can't count your chickens before they hatch

A poultry farming business has appeared in the small village of Sintas, Aksu rural district, Pavlodar region.

There are people in the village who breed cattle and earn a living from it, as they say. But there was no one who "kept" geese or bred other poultry.

This summer, a farm of this type appeared in Sintas. And all because Ermek Suleimenov, a 52-year-old villager, took part in the National Project for Entrepreneurship Development and presented his business project. Apparently, Ermek's project was immediately supported by the coordinators and won a non-refundable grant of 400 MCI. With these funds, the "newly minted" businessman bought 500 poultry, including more than two hundred goslings.

"When I was little, our mother "kept" poultry at home. I have watched them since childhood, so much of their care is familiar to me. In other words, there is basic experience. After thinking about it, I decided to try to do this poultry farming, already at my age. Especially since where I live is the very outskirts of the village, this side where the meadow is located, and this is important primarily for breeding birds "like ducks and geese," says entrepreneur Ermek Suleimenov.
However, it was not easy for Ermek, because geese require special care, especially goslings. It was difficult for a single man. Some goslings, only one week old, soon died. But the rest of the goslings of the Linda breed, brought from Russia, have already grown up, almost to a "marketable appearance." By the New Year, he will put them up for sale.
"They say that chickens are counted in the fall. The geese grew well. Now, after the snowfall, some of them are suitable for slaughter. In the winter, I will sell everything and then next spring I will buy goslings again.
Next year, I have a plan to buy about a thousand goslings. In addition, I am thinking of hiring one person as an assistant," says Ermek Suleimenov. Ermek is a disabled person of the second group, so he knows that without an assistant he will not be able to work with such a volume of geese, according to him, alone. There are requests for goose meat from Astana, not to mention Pavlodar. Nevertheless, Ermek says that first of all he will give priority to his neighbors and other fellow villagers.

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