3.5. Potential Buyers and Average Price of Slaughter Animals
The potential buyers of the slaughter animals at Kumasi cattle market are the butchers and private individuals. Thirteen percent of the interviewed landlords could sell, on the average, no more than 5 animals per day, 84.4% of them could sell from 5 to 50 animals on average per day and 3.1% of them could sell more than 50 animals on the average per day. About 3% of the landlords could sell at average cost of GHC 500 (or less than this) per animal while the other 3% could sell at price more than GHC 1000 on average. About 93.8% of them could sell at GHC 750 on average.
All of the butchers bought their animals from Kumasi cattle market. About 97.7% of the interviewed butchers bought less than 5 animals per day per butcher while 2.3% bought 5 to 10 animals per day per butcher. Most of the butchers were willing to buy animals without much worry about the health status of the animals i.e. they bought non-ambulatory and sick animals. Most of the animals bought by the butchers were slaughtered within a day and less than 5 animals were slaughtered per day per butcher. About 97.7% of the butchers kept the bought animals for approximately one day before slaughter, 7% of them kept the animals for approximately 2 days and 2.3% of them kept animals for more than 2 days before slaughter. About 56% of the butchers interviewed did not provide food and water before slaughter, indicating that the majority of the butchers do not care about feeding the animals.