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Give chickens free space
Allowing your chickens access to a
large outdoor area during the daytime
reduces build-up of chicken manure in
their shed. The sun and its effects are
the best known sanitizer for chicken
droppings, thus disease build-up on
the outside is naturally controlled.
Chickens also control their own body
mites by having regular dust baths.
We use a mobile chicken housing
unit on the farm that we move twice a
year. The benefits are three fold:
1. The ground is very fertile for crop
production due to the chicken droppings
which are high in soil nutrients.
2. The insect and nematode population
are reduced as the chickens have
eaten most of them.
3. By rotating our chickens, we reduce
the incidence of disease build-up that
otherwise may affect future flocks.
This is done in the same way that
organic producers rotate
I would like to get an alternative way
of making poultry feed without using
omena (fish meal). I saw the formula
in one of the recent copies of TOF
which proposed 8 kg maize, 1 kg
sorghum and 1 kg omena at the ratio
of 8.1.1. I would like to make my own
poultry feed using soya bean, which
is an equivalent protein source.
What weight of soya bean do I require?
Hudson Wanjohi, Tel. 0722 461 772
Soya is a good source of protein
Soya bean is very rich in all the nutrients
necessary for proper growth.
It can also be a good substitute for
omena (fish meal), so we would recommend
that you go ahead with constitution
of the feed without the use
of omena. Remember to mix at the
same ratio as you have given above
(i.e. using 1 kg of soya bean instead
of omena).
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Pig industry sustains livelihoods of many families in Kenya. Pig rearing has been one of wellestablishedindustry
in Kenya following growing export markets and increasing number of health
conscious consumers. Pig production if efficiently managed has great potentials for increasing
protein supply in Kenya. Smallholder pig farms in Tharaka-Nithi County have been facing
varying and dismal profits. The main objective of this study will be to establish which
institutional arrangements and management factors affect the profit efficiency of small-holder
pig farmers in Tharaka-Nithi County. A multi-stage purposive sampling technique will be
adopted to collect cross sectional data of eighty (80) smallholder pig farmers in Maara
Constituency by the use of semi-structured interview schedules. The work will employ Data
Envelopment Analysis to come up with profit efficiency rankings among the farmers and
stochastic frontier profit function will be used to analyze the factors that affect profit efficiency.
The data will be processed using STATA and DEA Frontier packages. The findings could be
useful to the stakeholders of the pig industry sub sector to formulate policies pertaining to pig
enterprise inputs, marketing issues and financial products and also can establish benchmarks
which can be used as a package for enhancing and stabilizing profit efficiencies of smallholder
pig farmers which in turn could help improve the Kenya economy.
An Overview of Livestock Sub-sector in Kenya Perspectives, Opportunities and Innovations for Market Access for Market Access for Pastoral Producers Recent statistics point that the livestock sub-sector in Kenya accounts for approximately 10% of the National Gross Domestic Product (GDP). This is 30% of the agricultural GDP. It employs about 50% of the national agricultural workforce and about 90% of the ASAL workforce. 95% of ASAL household income comes from this sub-sector. This is despite the fact that the sector receives only 1 % of the total annual budget allocation. The livestock resource base is estimated at 60 million units comprising of 29 million indigenous and exotic chicken, 10 million beef cattle, 3 million dairy and dairy crosses, 9 million goats, 7 million sheep, 0.8 mi camels, 0.52 mi donkeys and 0.3 million pigs. (Strategy for Revitalizing Agriculture (SRA) 2003) Kenya is broadly self-sufficient in most livestock products but is a net importer of red meat mostly inform of on-the-hoof animals trekked across the porous boundaries of neighbouring countries- Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. Livestock supply in Kenya results from a complex set of interactions between Kenya and its neighbours and the traditional Middle East market and their respective livestock populations, demand and market prices. Kenya is part of a regional market where livestock flow according to markets and price differentials in a liberalized system throughout the region as a whole and where Nairobi represents a focus of demand for the region Supply of red-meat from domestic cattle, shoats and camels falls short of demand, and is almost permanently augmented by a traditional livestock trade drawn in from neighbouring countries, especially Somalia, Tanzania, Sudan and Ethiopia in varying quantities according to demand, which maintains a supply/demand
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