Sold his mother's jewellery for 300 quails; now 3,500 birds, 2,400 eggs a day, Tk 1 lakh a month

A 29-year-old young man in Kalkini upazila, Madaripur, has had a bent left leg and hip since birth. After passing his Dakhil he took a job at a madrasa, but the salary could not support the household; in 2016 he left the job. As a hobby he bought six quails at the haat and kept them for three months; then, after watching quail-rearing videos on YouTube on someone else's mobile phone, he thought of a commercial farm. On his mother's advice he sold her gold jewellery and bought 300 quails from Nimtoli in Dhaka. From those 300, the farm now has 3,500 quails. It produces 2,400 eggs a day on average, each sold for Tk 2.5. He bought a machine and hatches 1,485 chicks every 16 days, and every two months he goes to Nimtoli to sell 300 quails at Tk 45 each. He also sells bazigar pigeons, Australian doves and local and foreign pigeons at Tk 3,000 to Tk 30,000 a pair, and farms fish in three leased ponds. The farm has three employees. By his reckoning, he earns Tk 1 lakh a month from everything combined. He had not yet received any government support; if he gets a loan on easy terms, he wants to add livestock.