Farmers Get Better Returns with Indigenous Chicken

Small scale farmers typically keep hardy indigenous chicken for home consumption. But improvements in the breeds now make it possible for low-income farmers to carefully select highly productive breeds that produce more meat and more eggs at relatively low feeding and maintenance costs. In the Kenyan market, two of the most admired breeds are the kuroiler and the KARI Improved Kienyeji Chicken which was locally developed by the researchers at the KARI Naivasha.  The improved kienyeji chicken has low costs of production and premium market prices thus putting more money in the hands of farmers.  Here are some of the top advantages why farmers are increasingly adopting the improved kienyeji varieties:-

• They can easily be fed on home-made rations or be allowed to scavenge in a free-range or semi-free range system which brings costs of production almost to zero. 
• The veterinary costs are reduced significantly because the chicken are hardy and resistant to most tropical diseases. 
• The improved kienyeji varieties are increasingly approaching the egg and meat yield levels of the exotic varieties with lower production costs. With KARI Improved Kienyeji Chicken for example, it is now possible to get between 200 and 250 eggs per year with proper poultry management.

The fact that the improved kienyeji chicken lay more eggs than the ordinary kienyeji is particularly an important boost to poultry farming in Kenya and Africa. The incentive to make big investments in exotic breeds which are beyond the reach of poor farmers is removed. Now even the poorest farmers can invest in commercial poultry rearing and get good yields. 

All these is covered in our Comprehensive Improved Kienyeji Chicken Farming Manual which is now available for Ksh.1000. Give us a call today at 0717444786 or drop us an email at improvedkienyeji@gmail.com to reserve your copy.