Poultry Farming

Date: May 4, 2016Author: Farmers Trend0 Comments I had never thought much about what determines the size of a chicken egg until last week. Kyalo, my new worker, greeted me that morning with a crate full of eggs the size of those of a quail bird. Okay, you had not heard much about Kyalo because he joined the enterprise a few months ago and he has been on probation, meaning if I had written about him, perhaps I […]

Date: May 26, 2015Author: Farmers Trend1 Comment The roosters at a recent farmers’ exhibition in Nakuru drew crowds. The visitors marvelled at the size of the five birds that dwarfed the hens that were in an adjacent cage. Ann Walubengo, the farmer, fielded questions from the curious visitors. Many asked her about the weight of the huge cocks, which looked like a crossbreed of turkeys, what she feeds them, and about their breed. Her answers surprised them. The