Kienyeji Chicken Farming Manual for Kenyans

What You Should Know 

Poultry Farming makes a substantial contribution to household food security throughout the developing world.

It helps diversify incomes and provides quality food, energy, fertilizers and renewable asset in over 80% of the rural households.

However small-scale producers are constrained by such challenges:

• Poor access to markets, goods and services
• Lack of knowledge and skills, weak institutions, inappropriate technology.
• Poor breeds, feeds, and vaccines

Poultry farming is an income generating project- this is the main goal in poultry keeping.

Eggs can provide a regular albeit small income while the sale of live and slaughtered birds provide a bit more flexible source of cash as required.

A study on income generation in poultry farming system in East Africa country showed that farming poultry accounted about 53% of the total income for small scale farmers

Flock composition is heavily biased towards chickens in Africa and S.Africa with more ducks in E. Africa and S. America. The main breeds of chiken kept are Kroiler, Kari among others.
This manual provides you with a detailed ways of keeping chicken, feeds composition, vaccinantion and market.  Buy this Book