Turkmen livestock breeders plan to establish cooperation with local leather enterprises for the production of ostrich skin, reports “MIR 24”.
Now about a thousand ostriches live on a farm located in the south of the country. Although quite recently, last year, the first hundred African birds were brought from Türkiye.
“The heat is not a problem for these birds, so they quickly adapted to the climate of Turkmenistan. About a thousand ostriches live on the farm. For them, on the territory of 5 thousand hectares, all conditions have been created for breeding chicks. Every day, laying hens bring up to 85 eggs, which are placed in an incubator. Kilogram ostriches are born, on average, after 40 days. Now four hundred chickens are growing up on the farm”, - the report says.
In addition to the production of ostrich skin, Turkmen entrepreneurs will be able to provide markets with ostrich meat and eggs. There are also plans to export abroad.
According to the portal “Ostrich Breeder”, the first ostrich farm in Turkmenistan was founded by entrepreneur Bayram Kekiliyev in 1997. She was in a picturesque place near Ashgabat, in the foothills of the Kopetdag.
