Quality
Healthy, high-quality poultry every cycle. A bird that is not right does not leave the farm, even when the batch is short and the buyer is waiting.
A working farm at Sisulu Location, started in 2024.
Sompisi Poultry Farm exists to put healthy chicken within reach of the district that raises it, and to build a business that can still be here in twenty years. This page sets out what we are aiming at, how we run the houses, and what we will not compromise on.
Our story
Started small, run properly, growing on purpose.
The farm was established in 2024 on family land at House No. 513, Sisulu Location, just outside Umzimkhulu. It began with a single house, one batch of broilers, and a straightforward observation: this district eats a great deal of chicken and produces very little of it.
Chicken sold here has usually travelled hundreds of kilometres from a commercial abattoir, and the price carries every one of those kilometres. Meanwhile local buyers, shops and caterers among them, were driving to Kokstad and Pietermaritzburg for stock they could have bought down the road.
So we built for that gap. Two houses now run on an alternating cycle so there is almost always a batch coming off, and the price list is public so nobody has to negotiate for a fair rate. Growth from here is deliberate: another house only once the current ones run clean, on time and full.
Vision & mission
Vision
To become a trusted and leading poultry farm in South Africa, supplying healthy, high-quality chickens while promoting sustainable farming and contributing to food security.
Mission
Sompisi Poultry Farm is committed to producing and supplying fresh, healthy and affordable chickens to suppliers, retailers and local customers. We maintain high standards of animal welfare, hygiene and customer service while creating employment and supporting the growth of our community.
Core values
Six commitments, and what each one costs us to keep.
Integrity
Honest, ethical and transparent business. One published price list for everybody, a scale you can read from where you stand, and terms written down before money moves.
Customer satisfaction
Your needs first. That means answering messages within a working day, saying no when we cannot meet a date, and replacing anything that reaches you in poor condition.
Sustainability
Responsible farming that protects the environment. Litter is composted and sold back into local gardens instead of dumped, and water and feed are managed against waste.
Community development
Jobs and local economic growth. Casual work at catching and dressing time goes to people from Sisulu Location first, and we buy our inputs locally wherever the price is fair.
Innovation
Better methods every cycle. We record feed, weight and mortality per house, then change the routine based on what the record says rather than on habit.
Health, hygiene & welfare
How the houses are actually run.
Biosecurity is the whole business. One careless visit can cost an entire batch, so the routine below is not negotiable, for us or for anybody who comes onto the property.
- Sourcing. Chicks come from a registered hatchery with vaccination records, never from an unknown seller.
- Vaccination. Newcastle disease and Gumboro are given on schedule and logged per batch.
- Access control. Foot dips and hand wash at every entrance. No movement between houses in the same clothing.
- Clean-out. Houses are stripped, washed, disinfected and rested before the next placement.
- Stocking density. Birds are given room to move, reach feed and lie down. We would rather run a lighter house than a stressed one.
- Ventilation and litter. Fresh shavings, dry bedding and airflow managed daily against ammonia build-up.
- Water. Drinkers cleaned daily, lines flushed between cycles.
- Records. Daily mortality, feed intake and sample weights per house, so a problem shows up in the book before it shows up in the flock.
- Humane handling. Catching is done calmly and in cool hours. Slaughter is quick and clean, out of sight of live birds.
Where we are going
Business objectives we are working to.
These are not slogans. They are the targets the farm is managed against, and they decide what we spend on next.
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01
Supply quality at scale
Keep wholesalers, retailers and local customers stocked with healthy birds, without dropping standards to hit a number.
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02
Build long relationships
Turn once-off buyers into standing weekly orders by being predictable on date, price and quality.
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03
Grow production capacity
Add housing and staggered placements so a batch is always coming off, and demand never has to wait a full cycle.
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04
Hold the health line
Maintain strict biosecurity and welfare standards as we grow, because scale is where most small farms lose control of disease.
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05
Reach new markets
Expand into neighbouring towns and formal retail while keeping the local price affordable for the community around us.
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06
Create local work
Grow the permanent team from the surrounding area and train casual workers into skilled poultry roles.
On the farm
The sheds, not a stock photo.
