50,000, ksh. He was also able to rare other birds such as the quails, guinea fowls, ostriches, and ostriches to give an alternative of poultry products chickens aside. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. “Without records, it is hard to know sometimes how many birds you have in a particular week, as there are those that don’t survive. In Kenya there are a couple of poultry companies. That is a huge check and we thought of sharing her success story to get you inspired. Her main reasons to why she does crossbreeding is that diseases less affect them. She also said that poultry feeds rising cost is one of her challenges in that it can rise from sh.2,600 to around sh. Seventy of the birds survived and 30 died. According to Kagoa, most learn most of the poultry farming information in high school and therefore making him to refer the school level as his ground. Mutuko kuroiler cockerels goes at a price of ksh. Several entrepreneurs share their successful stories, which act as encouragement for people planning to join the business. Say, father NOT daddy: Queen Elizabeth II bans eight ‘common’ words, Why sponsors are many a city girl’s favourite secret, Rift Valley MPs throw their weight behind BBI. I implemented what I learnt and since we had been linked to financial institutions, I took a loan and put up a chicken house,” she said. After a wide research, she purchased a parent stock and used her 2-acre land to start-off her project in Embu County, Gachoka. In simple words, Mutuko is now a successful poultry farmer and his advice to those who are interested in the business is to halt shunning from farming. The request was successful and he was to repay the loan in 6 months time. Mrs Njue initial stock was the kienyenji chicks and before that she had purchased all that the chicks will require from the feeds to source of heat (charcoal). Reports shows that some people are becoming billionaires by commercial poultry farming in Kenya. Her secret to making her chickens healthy is by feeding them with feeds such as cereals, kitchen waste, fishmeal, sunflower, maize germ, as well as green grass. During periods of high temperatures, water consumption usually doubles,” he added. In every 2 to 3 months, she vaccinates her chicken to prevent them from getting infected with diseases, Newcastle diseases in precise. In Kenya, the story of the poultry industry is one that is full of many successes. How did he do it? 30-35 for the indigenous chickens. His major reasons on that is that those birds are resistant to diseases and a very good source of the white meat. It nurtured his interest in poultry farming giving him poultry farming new technology in that he even managed to develop an electric incubator in a science congress. Kenya’s representatives in pole after thrashing Djibouti opponents, Pregnancy made me hate my husband's voice, cooking. I plan to start Kienyeji poultry farming, already l have 12 chickens but plans to start small by hatching my own eggs. There is a billionaire poultry farmer in Kenya who has built up an entire value chain around the poultry industry including factories for manufacturing feeds, processing poultry, incubation facilities, eggs and poultry supermarkets and which employees thousands of Kenyans. There so many challenges that poultry farmers face and Geoffrey Kagoa was not spared. For a kuroiler, and ksh. This means that he has a total of 1100 layers, logically he makes around sh. Well, Mutuko chickens are healthy his kuroiler weighing an average of 6kg while the normal ones are about 3kg.