He had then taken over a servants’ quarters and transformed it into a housing unit for his few chicken then. Broiler chicken farming is what came to his mind, after conducting some research. “This was just about the much that I needed as motivation to start producing my own chicken feed, as I didn’t want to lose more birds to that, compounded with the high feed prices constantly digging holes in my pockets,” he says. ENGINEERING BACKGROUNDHe buys the ingredients from different suppliers mainly in Nairobi and Kitengela and the finished product can be fed directly as mash to the birds or made into chicken feed pallets, a process he performs in his feed manufacturing plant. He now makes about 1,500 kilos of feed every three days, to ensure there is no deficit of the commodity.

Source: Daily Nation August 19, 2016 17:37 UTC