Looking for professional training services on Kienyeji chicken farming and management in any corner of Kenya? We do capacity building in poultry and commercialization of poultry production to self-help groups, CBOs, NGOs and other organizations working with smallholder farmers as beneficiaries in economic empowerment.
The training encompasses the following 3 phases”
Poultry Production and Commercialization of chicken production
Phase 1 of Training on Kienyeji Chicken Farming
1. Role of Indigenous Chicken in Household Economy (Gender roles, food security, income generation)
2. Production systems and profitability (Organized chicken production)
3. Disease control and bio-security
4. Chick Management (DoC-8 weeks)
5. Flock Management ( keeping the flock healthy and productive, flock sizes, general biosecurity, laying, brooding and hatching)
6. Chicken housing ( types of housing, construction of chicken house, roost and perches, maintaining a chicken house, provision of nest and protection from predators and theft)
7. Feeds and Feeding
Phase II of Training on Kienyeji Chicken Farming
8. Breeding Management (Chicken selection and mating, breed selection, characteristics of a good layer/meat bird, cross breeding)
9. Record Keeping and profitability
Phase III of Training on Kienyeji Chicken Farming
10. Marketing and value additions
11. Financial Literacy Training
12. Other diseases and vices