📘 Course Description:
This practical course equips learners with comprehensive knowledge and skills for successful indigenous chicken farming in Kenya. Indigenous chickens, known for their hardiness, adaptability, and high market demand, offer a sustainable and low-cost entry point into poultry agribusiness, especially for smallholder farmers and rural entrepreneurs.
Participants will explore key aspects of indigenous poultry production, including breed selection, housing, feeding, disease management, breeding systems, and marketing. Emphasis will be placed on low-input, high-efficiency practices, integration with other farm enterprises, and leveraging local resources. The course also highlights opportunities in value addition and market linkages, including the growing demand for organic and free-range poultry products.
Designed with Kenya’s diverse agro-ecological zones and rural livelihoods in mind, this course is ideal for aspiring agripreneurs, extension officers, farmer groups, and youth seeking to turn indigenous poultry into a profitable enterprise while contributing to food and nutrition security.
