chicken care

Poultry Business Kenya: Caroline Oloo’s farm is popularly known as Zera. It is based in Kisumu. At the farm, Caroline keeps some 250 birds, a business that is about a year old, but which is growing steadily because she is doing it differently. The farmer randomly picks some 30 birds, which she...

Lilian Kimutai’s poultry farm is located at Ainabmoi village, 11km from Mulot town in Narok South sub-county, off the Mulot-Ngaram Road. Dressed in a blue dust-coat and a white headscarf, Lilian and her daughter Marion Chelangat walk in the chicken coop checking on how her 350 Kuroiler chickens...

Is Chicken Farming Profitable in Kenya: BY ZABLON OYUGI: Side hustles can be a make-and-break for many Kenyan workers, as the difference between scrimping and saving, and living a life where bills get paid. For Sela Awino Migaya, an Information Technology expert by profession, rearing chickens...

Most Profitable Chicken Breeds: The following feature was first published in Seeds of Gold magazine. Dressed in a white overcoat, a black trouser, and gumboots, Nicholas Omondi digs his hand in a sack of poultry feeds and offers his birds at his farm in Dunga, Kisumu. The farmer keeps 42...

In June 2017, Hesbon Andika was employed as a teacher at Esokone Secondary School and was being paid by the County Government of Kakamega Sh10,000 (USD 100) a month. For 10 months, he saved Sh80,000 (USD 800) In that period, he underwent a two-day mentorship programme on better poultry farming...

Immediately after he was forcefully retrenched from his TV job at K24 in 2013, Caleb Karuga ventured into poultry farming. Two years later, he has no regrets to boot. In fact, the founder and CEO of Wendy Farms Limited have gone on to build a poultry empire that rakes in over Sh. 800,000 from...

Role of calcium in poultry production.. 1-Helps improved on egg production. 2-Hepps in formation of strong egg shells. 3-Improves growth in birds. 4-Helps in strong borne formation. 5-Controlls cannibalism, pecking and egg eating.. #keystonepoultryfarm

The reason why at Keystone we encourage use of Phytobiotics instead of antibiotics.. Antibiotics in poultry make humans resistant to drugs that fight infections. Phytobiotics can be defined as plant derived products added to feed in order to improve performance. They originate from leaves...

Phytobiotics, a natural growth promoter for poultry Phytobioitics are the object of increasing interest across livestock production as antibiotic use become ever-more restricted. A major feature of poultry production today is the reduction of in use of antibiotics and other allopathic medicinal...