Day-old chicks for Obuasi and the Adansi towns

Obuasi sits in a ring of hills in southern Ashanti, 63 km south of Kumasi, on top of one of the largest underground gold mines in the world. For a poultry farmer the town looks in two directions: north to Kumasi, where most of Ashanti's feed and farm inputs are traded, and south down the Cape Coast road, which is the way chicks from our hatchery at Opeikuma, Kasoa, arrive.

That road is about 270 km long and takes a bus five to six and a half hours. The rest of this page is what an Obuasi farmer should know before ordering: the route, collection day, the town's buyers, the hills and the rain, and where feed comes from.

Assin Fosu, the Pra and into Adansi: the road from Kasoa

The trunk-road route has two legs. First, about 105 km west along the coast highway from Kasoa to the Yamoransa junction, just short of Cape Coast. Then north on the Cape Coast to Kumasi road through Assin Fosu, over the Pra river into the Ashanti Region and on through New Edubiase, before the turn-off that leads west into Obuasi. Together that is about 270 km. A car needs around four hours. Buses and cargo vehicles halt along the way, so count on five to six and a half.

There is also a shorter inland road from Kasoa through Agona Swedru and Breman Asikuma that meets the same highway in the Assin area. It brings the total down to about 220 km, but it is a smaller road. Which way your boxes go depends on the vehicle, so ask us before dispatch.

Either way, the arrangement is the same. The boxes are loaded onto a bus or goods vehicle bound for Obuasi, you receive them at a station in town, and both the station and the delivery cost are settled before you pay.

Collection day on a five-hour route

Five hours is short enough that the chicks arrive with most of their yolk reserve unused, and long enough that the time of day matters. A vehicle that leaves the coast in mid-morning reaches Obuasi in the heat of the afternoon. A dawn departure, or an evening one, keeps the boxes cooler. Ask which is possible for your hatch date, then work through this list:

1. The evening before, set the brooder ring, spread the litter and test the heat source for a full hour.
2. On the day, light the brooder before you leave the house, not when you return.
3. Reach the station ahead of the vehicle. Boxes left standing in a loading bay are in nobody's care.
4. Lift each lid and count. Report any dead chicks to us by phone straight away; they are replaced free in the next hatch.
5. Carry the boxes level, shaded and with air around them. Obuasi's roads rise and fall, so wedge the boxes so they cannot slide.
6. At home, give water first. Feed can follow once most chicks have drunk.

Our article on transporting day-old chicks explains the reasons behind each step.

A mine, a campus and two markets: who buys in Obuasi

The mine and the firms that serve it pay wages to a large workforce. KNUST has a campus in the town. The central market is where most traders prefer to sell, and Kunka, the municipality's second-largest market, is being rebuilt as a 24-hour market, according to a government report of August 2026. Since trading places are shifting, ask egg sellers where they now buy and sell before you plan your rounds.

From that, some reasoning about demand (ours, not a survey):

• Eggs sell daily to food vendors, students, shift workers and households. But Ashanti is one of the main egg-producing regions of Ghana, and crates come into Obuasi from the Kumasi side. You will not set the price. Your advantage is freshness, delivery to the vendor's door and never missing a day.
• Broilers go to chop bars, fried-rice sellers and caterers. In Ashanti, funerals and the gatherings after them fall mostly at weekends, and caterers for those events buy birds by the dozen. Christmas and Easter are the other peaks.
• Live cockerels and Sasso have a place at festive times, when families prefer a bird they can see alive.

Before settling your selling price, read how to price eggs and broilers, and ask three traders in the central market what they pay now.

Hills, valley mist and 1,250 to 1,750 mm of rain

Obuasi has a semi-equatorial climate with two rainy seasons. The municipal profile gives 1,250 to 1,750 mm of rain a year, a mean temperature of about 25.5 °C and relative humidity of 75 to 80 per cent in the wet season. The main rains run from about March to July, wettest in May and June, and the second from September to November.

The hills are what make Obuasi different from flat country with the same rainfall. Cold air and mist drain into the valleys overnight, so a house on a valley floor is colder at five in the morning than one halfway up the slope, and its yard stays muddy long after the rain stops. Build on a slope or a low ridge, with the long axis of the house running east to west and a drain cut above it. The article on poultry house design for Ghana's climate goes further.

In the brooder, the wet months call for dry litter and a watchful eye on the drinkers. Between December and February the harmattan reverses the problem: dry, dusty air and cool nights. Chicks then need more heat before dawn and more water through the day. Timings and temperatures are in our chick brooding guide.

Check the ground before you build near a mine

Land around a mining town can carry claims you cannot see: a concession boundary, old workings or small-scale pits. Before you put up a poultry house, confirm with the landowner and the municipal assembly that the plot is free of mining claims. Look for a borehole or pipe water supply, and do not depend on a stream. The checklist in choosing a site for your poultry farm covers access, neighbours and water in more detail.

Feed from the Kumasi side, chicks from the Kasoa side

Kumasi is 63 km up the road. It is the trading centre for maize coming down from the Ejura and Techiman areas and for bagged feed, so an Obuasi farmer is better placed for feed than a farmer in most coastal towns. Compare prices there. We also sell poultry feed, vaccines, medicines and equipment, and we quote when you ask, because the figure depends on quantity, the maize market and the cost of carrying it from Kasoa. For bulky feed, a source close to you will often make more sense. We would rather tell you that than have you find out later.

Chicks are a different matter, because what counts is the breed and the hatch date. We hatch and import broilers (Ross 308, Cobb 500), layers (Hy-Line Brown, Hy-Line White, Lohmann Brown, Bovans Brown), Sasso, Kuroiler, Noiler, white cockerels, guinea fowl keets, turkey poults and quail chicks. If you are weighing foreign against local hatches, the page on imported day-old chicks explains the difference. Farmers nearer the regional capital can also read the Kumasi page.

Layers, broilers or Sasso: a worked choice for Adansi

If you want income that arrives daily and you can wait, layers fit Obuasi's steady egg trade. Expect the first eggs four to five months after the chicks arrive; layer chicks start from GH₵ 23 each. If you want to turn money round quickly and already have buyers named, broilers are ready in six to eight weeks and start from GH₵ 20. If you farm on a village compound outside town and want birds that tolerate simpler housing, Sasso starts from GH₵ 13 and white cockerels from GH₵ 3.

An example sum, for illustration only: four boxes of broiler chicks is 200 birds, and at the starting price of GH₵ 20 that is GH₵ 4,000 for the chicks alone. Delivery, feed, litter, heat and medicines come on top, and feed is by far the largest of those. Every figure here is a starting price as of 2 October 2026, and such prices do not stand still, so take the current one from the price list or from our reply to your form.

Akrokerri, Fomena, Bekwai, New Edubiase, Jacobu and Dunkwa-on-Offin

An Obuasi station can serve a wide circle of Adansi and Amansie towns:

• Akrokerri is about 18 km to the north, and Fomena lies to the east, close to the Cape Coast to Kumasi highway.
• New Edubiase is about 46 km away on that highway. A vehicle coming up from the coast passes through it before the Obuasi turn-off, so mention it on the form.
• Bekwai is about 46 km north, with Anwiankwanta beyond it at the junction towards Kumasi.
• Jacobu, in Amansie Central, is north of Obuasi and near Bekwai.
• Dunkwa-on-Offin, about 40 km to the south-west, is in the Central Region but close enough to collect here.

Sending an Obuasi order

Four details go into the form on this page: the breed, how many boxes of 50 you need (a single box is the least we send), your town and the date you have in mind. A call to 024 915 1503 does the same job. Back come a price, a hatch date, a delivery cost and a proposed station. Payment follows only once you accept them, in cash, by mobile money or by bank transfer, and never through the website.

The hatchery vaccinates your chicks before dispatch. Ask for the details of that batch and pass them to your vet or the municipal veterinary office, who will decide what follows. Advice from us is free, before the order and after the chicks are in your brooder.

Questions from Obuasi

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