How is the zakah of a poultry farm calculated?
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The questioner : How is the zakah of a poultry farm calculated? Please inform us, may Allah guide you.
The Shaykh : A poultry farm does not have zakah due on it unless it produces fruits or crops on which zakah is obligatory. If we assume that this man has a farm with alfalfa and feed used to feed the poultry, then he owes nothing on it. However, if the farm yields grains and fruits, then zakah is due on its grains and fruits. It is half of one-tenth if it is irrigated at a cost, and the full one-tenth if it is irrigated without cost.
As for the poultry, keeping them falls into two categories:
The first category is that they are kept for trade, where one buys and sells them; he sells this bird today and buys another in its place, selling and buying in its place as a trader in them. In this case, zakah is due on their value. The value is assessed each year at the time zakah becomes obligatory, and one-quarter of one-tenth is paid from their value. However, if the poultry are kept for breeding and reproduction, and they are fed from this farm for a lunar year or more, then there is no zakah on them. This is because zakah is only due on grazing livestock, which are those that graze on what Allah the Exalted has grown for a lunar year or more.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.
The Shaykh : A poultry farm does not have zakah due on it unless it produces fruits or crops on which zakah is obligatory. If we assume that this man has a farm with alfalfa and feed used to feed the poultry, then he owes nothing on it. However, if the farm yields grains and fruits, then zakah is due on its grains and fruits. It is half of one-tenth if it is irrigated at a cost, and the full one-tenth if it is irrigated without cost.
As for the poultry, keeping them falls into two categories:
The first category is that they are kept for trade, where one buys and sells them; he sells this bird today and buys another in its place, selling and buying in its place as a trader in them. In this case, zakah is due on their value. The value is assessed each year at the time zakah becomes obligatory, and one-quarter of one-tenth is paid from their value. However, if the poultry are kept for breeding and reproduction, and they are fed from this farm for a lunar year or more, then there is no zakah on them. This is because zakah is only due on grazing livestock, which are those that graze on what Allah the Exalted has grown for a lunar year or more.
The questioner : May Allah bless you.