Meet Callum,19, from South Wales. Find out how set up his own pet food business, Clydach Farm Group. Part of our Bitesize world of work series.
Callum:
Hi, I'm Callum, I'm 19 years old, and I run a pet food business.
I started my first business when I was 13 in the back garden of my parents' house with two chickens, a cockerel, and a hen. I bred these birds to have offsprings and chicks, which I sold at local markets, and to friends and family.
This is where I really first thought about running a profitable business and how I could earn extra income.
One thing that I did realise is that people only need to buy chickens once in their lifetime, and therefore I needed to find a way to make a recurring revenue stream, where customers would keep coming back to buy more.
This is where decided to start selling chicken feed. For me, understanding nutrition was incredibly important. So I went to the local library to get a book that really taught me how to develop a poultry feed.
So, after our chicken feed was really successful, customers would ask us: "if you can do this for chickens, and you can create such a quality chicken feed, why can't you do this but for my dog">