The chicken run

So, another day in the office and another day when am thinking being an entrepreneur has got to be hotter and more money than any kinda job; unless you are a CEO someone or full of no ideas.

Anyway, back to chicken. I have read, not experienced, that chicken rearing is such a hustle

Some of the issues

- Poor feed quality

- Lack of market

- Lack of day old chicks

- Vetinery services or lack of

- Lack of information on good chickenery (husbandry sort of thing)

- Who eats broiler meat anyway

So I thought, this has got to be the business of the future thinking of it

So many competitors and so many non-loyal chicken farmer

Here are the reasons for it

- Don’t need a lot of land

- Don’t need as much capital as keeping cows

- In 2 months there is cash in flow

- We all need chicken on the plate

so i think this is why many people go into chicken farming, and am soon to be one of those

Clearly if you arent kenyan or live in a cave ( no excuse) Kenyans like their chicken tough- proper free range; the chicken does a couple miles every day one way. They are call Kienyeji! The thing is they are indigenous and inter mixed breeds. furthermore there is no organisation i know of, that sells day old indigenous chicken throughout ( a cracking business idea if well researched and thought through). After all, it takes 21 days to hatch an egg and with an incubator you just need to ensure that the eggs are ferterlised. viola

oh yeah and indigenous chicken costs around KES 300 depending on you huggling skills

An indigenous chicken, most favoured to broilers in Kenya