
Agricultural sector in Kenya is one of the fastest growing economic sectors in the last 10 years. Since 2005, we have witnessed great investments that are agricultural based being set up or being expanded in various parts of the country. In fact, the Nairobi Stocks Exchange have consistently had agricultural oriented companies among the best performers in share index. One of the amazing fields that is quite promising in terms of profitability is poultry keeping. There are very many areas that a farmer can invest in regard to poultry farming. These areas include;
- Hatching Chicks For Sale
This venture basically involves incubating fertile poultry eggs with a view to selling chicks to other farmers who intend to rear them. Here you many individual focus on selling one day old chicks, immediately after coming out of the hatcheries. Others prefers selling one week, two weeks or three week old chicks. As you would see later, there are various merits and demerits in selling chicks at each of this stages.
- Rearing Layers For Selling Of Eggs For Consumption.
This is one of the most common poultry farming practice in Kenya. Here, you buy chicks and rear them to maturity for them to start producing eggs. You will then sell this eggs to consumers who will use them directly as food or as ingredients for various food products likes cakes, breads etc.
- Rearing Cockerels and Hens with an aim to selling Fertile Eggs
You can also rear both male and female poultry breeds in order to be supplying fertile eggs to the farmers who carry out incubation and hatching services. In this business, you have to find out which breeds of poultry that are more popular and that have a higher demand either in your area or region since you do not want to have fertile eggs which no one is willing to buy, bearing in mind that fertile eggs have a very short life span.
- Rearing Poultry Breeds for Meet (eg. broilers).
This is another common type of poultry keeping practice in East Africa where chicks are reared for several weeks and then sold as meat for consumption. The most reared breed for meat is called the Broiler breed. Other breeds that are also reared for meat are the Indian Kuroiler and Kenbro. Before venturing into this investment, it is good to ensure that you have ready market since it could be quite expensive for you to rear the birds beyond their selling age.
- Rearing Poultry Breeds for Aesthetic Purposes (eg Guinea fowls).
This type of poultry farming is not so common but it is still a very lucrative venture in some part of the country. One of the areas where this is mostly practiced is along the coastal region whereby the farmers target the tourists as their main customers. Various poultry breeds that can serve the aesthetic purpose include guinea fowls, goose and ostrich.
- Rearing of Cockerels to Sell as Breeding Cocks.
In this practice, cocks are matured with an intention to sell them as breeding cocks mainly to propagate a new and better breed of poultry or just to ensure production of fertile eggs to farmers who may currently only have the females.
My names are Truphena Machoka. I live in Eldoret . I have read about your Company and i am really impressed. I really want to start poutry farming (kienyeji) as a small scale farmer. So my question is do you have a branch in Eldoret? And do u give out loans for starters like me?
Hi, I have been to your site. I have an interest in doing kienyeji poultry farming. I have tried calling the line on the website 0707787884 but no one is picking the calls?
I am interested in starting with 500 birds for kienyeji chicken. Advise me on what is required and how much it will cost.
I wld wish to start kienyeji chicken. plse advice angeline kemboi eldama ravine
Hallo
I would like to start a kienyeji poultry farm in Bungoma, with around. 200 birds.. please Advice
Joel
Kindly download our Kienyeji farming notes from http://neochickspoultry.com/downloads
Our prices are as follows:-
3 days old at ksh100
1 week at ksh140
2 weeks at ksh170
3 weeks at ksh200.
4 weeks at ksh250
call us on 0707787884
Incase I need an incubator, can it be delivered in Kisumu? Please respond. Thanks in advance
How long does it take for kuroiler chicken to be sold for meat
about 4 months. 0707787884
This sounds like a great business idea, the trouble we have here in the UK is that many people don’t have the land to do this kind of farming, plus there are rules and regulations for noise, pollution and bird welfare. However, for small land holders, this is a good way to be self sufficient or make money. Just written a post about this http://www.littlepeckers.co.uk/blog/chicken-coops-and-runs/
Thanks
how long does a kuroiler take to start laying
On average, 4 and half months. Call us on 0707 78 78 84 for more info