Commercial Feeding of Improved Kienyeji Chicken

Feeding is one of the central areas covered in our Comprehensive Guide to Kienyeji Chicken Farming which now retails at Ksh.1000 per copy. This is because it is key to quality meat production as well as good production. Remember that with good feeding and poultry management, you can get your kienyeji chicken to lay as many as 250 eggs per year. In the free-range and semi-free range systems of poultry rearing, the feeding costs are significantly reduced because you can allow the chicken to scavenge in a big or limited area. This not only lowers the costs of production but also adds to very good meat quality.

Some farmers may however, prefer to give the Kienyeji chicken-whether Kuroiler or KARI Improved Kienyeji chicken-some commercial feeds that are generally fed to the broilers and layers of the exotic breeds. This is even better, particularly if you also combine it with a semi-free range rearing system to improve on the meat quality.  If you are one of those considering this as an option, here is a simple guide that you can use to feed your chicken on the commercial feeds:-

• For the 1-8week old chicks, provide the chick mash.
•  For the 8-19week old hens, provide the growers mash.
• After 19 weeks, you can provide the layers mash to boost your egg production.

 We highly recommend that you mix these with other innovative feeding methods that we have outlined in our comprehensive book and guide on kienyeji chicken feeding. These include the use of omena, bonemeal, ochong’a(very tiny fishes) , termites, sukuma wiki and other vegetables amongst others. Mixing with these makes both economical and nutritional sense.

Order our comprehensive kienyeji chicken farming book and guide today and equip yourself with the right knowledge to apply the best feeding techniques for the best poultry production.