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Welcome to our course on poultry keeping. Poultry keeping is one of the most
popular forms of businesses among small-scale farmers. This is because poultry
requires little capital, is easy to rear and easy to manage. Poultry keeping thus
provides farmers with a great opportunity to start an income generating activity.
The aim of this course is to provide you with all the knowledge and skills you need to
raise poultry for meat and eggs and manage a small-scale commercial poultry
business. This main target group of this course is farmers who are interested in
starting a poultry business. However, extension workers and other stakeholders who
are interested in working with small-scale poultry farmers will also benefit. There are
many types of poultry but in this course we shall concentrate on chicken. We will
start by looking at the economics of poultry production so that you can make an
informed decision about the viability of this business before you start. Then we shall
discuss various important aspects of poultry farming, such as, poultry housing, types
of chicken breeds, brooding, feed management, health management, and poultry
production and marketing.
Course Objectives
By the end of this course you should be able to:
Explain the economic importance of poultry farming
Determine the best housing design for your poultry project
Identify a suitable breed for your poultry project
Determine the best poultry management system to use for your project
Formulate feed rations based on the nutrient requirements of your chicken
Implement routine poultry management practices such as, poultry hygiene,
debeaking, pasting and detoeing;
Identify poultry diseases and take the necessary control measures
Prepare your poultry products for the market and record all your activities.
Course Content
This course is divided into the following 9 units:
Unit 1: Introduction to Poultry Keeping
Unit 2: Poultry Housing
Unit 3: Breeds of Poultry
Unit 4: Poultry management systems
Unit 5: Feed management
Unit 6: Routine poultry management practices
Unit 7: Health management
Unit 8: Poultry products and marketing
To help you acquire the skills you need to be a good poultry farmer, you will be
expected to attend demonstration seminars which will be held at the Thika Training
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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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