The study investigated the economics of small-scale cow fattening enterprise in Bama LGA of Borno
State. Random sampling was used to select 45 respondents from two districts that have large number
of beef fattening enterprise. The analytical tools employed were descriptive statistics and net margin
analysis. The result shows that the average age of the respondents was 41 years. The inputs used for
cow fattening were feeder cow, feed, drugs/vaccines, labour, water and potash/salt. The net margin
was N40, 528.58 per cow that is, for every one naira invested in cow fattening business, 67 kobo was
realized as net margin. The study shows that small scale cow fattening enterprise is profitable.