Improved Kienyeji chicks

21/12/2021

Month olds available. Call 0702605225

17/10/2021

A complete guide on Chicken feed formulation

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Making your chicken feed at home can help in cutting on the cost of purchasing chicken feed. Formulating your own chicken feed is advantageous because you will be able to control the quality. Saving on the cost and feeding your chicken with high-quality chicken feed will ensure that you maximize on....

15/10/2021

Kari Improved Kienyeji Chicks available in Embu. Visit us at NEXT-GENERATION kuku farm for more call 0702605225

15/10/2021

Improved Kienyeji Chicks available in Embu. Visit us at NEXT-GENERATION kuku farm for more call 0702605225

20/09/2021

17/09/2021

The biggest mistake we have ever done in poultry was not following vaccination correctly and not knowing some diseases....

Through the experience i hard to learn more and know we are successfully supplying more than one thousand chicks every month .I belive that alot of people complain about poultry alot not knowing that the simple mistake they make is the course of the death like

uncleaness, biosecurity and not even following the simple vaccinations!

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09/09/2021

POULTRY FARMING - WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM THE BEST

Kienyeji poultry farming is the rearing of improved breeds of indigenous chicken in the market. In Kenya, it is mainly referred to as rearing of Kuku kienyeji.

Here are the few things that need to be considered before starting up a Kuku kienyeji farm:

You first need to choose a poultry breed that meets your current market. This will give you a chance of making spectacular returns. Take your time and research on finding the best chicken breed that is suitable for your environment. If you think with a business mind, you will be able to take some required risks and initiate good capital to maximize your returns from the business. The most popular kienyeji chicken breeds are as follows:

Kari improved kienyeji chicken.
Kuroiler chicken.
Rainbow Rooster chicken.
Kenbro chicken.

Secondly, note that one can stock day old, month old, fertilized eggs, or mature kienyeji chicken to start with, but this needs to be guided by some technical information, like the age of maturity of the breed, disease resistance and adaptability, low input or high input breed. This is because some chicken are heavy feeders, and this can strain your budget for feeds.

Next, note that some improved kienyeji chicken are less productive in terms of egg production. This is the main reason as to why their eggs are so expensive to purchase.

Kienyeji chicken may not require intensive feeding and management since one can supplement commercial kienyeji chicken feed with locally available feeds which prove to save maximum capital.

On the same note, to make kienyeji feeds, you require a good formula

When it comes to housing, the housing can be made of locally available materials, but more space for the chicken run is needed.

Note that chickens need the chicken perches where they can rest or lay eggs. Short ladders are needed if the chicken house is above the ground.

NEED TO START A PROFITABLE POULTRY FARM AND SMILE ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK?

CALL US FOR AFFORDABLE TRAINING ON SETTING UP OF YOUR FARM.

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0702605225

09/09/2021

Training for poultry keeping as a business in kenya loading.

Subjects to be covered include

1 Niches in poultry farming
2 profitable breeds
3 Brooder management
4 Feeding
5 Vaccination and disease management
6 Marketing

Training location is Embu-gatunduri
Training date 25th September 2021
Arrival time 9:00Am
Training fee Ksh 499/= per person
For more info contact 0702605225

09/09/2021

See on method of brooding young chicks

30/08/2021

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16/07/2021

WHAT ARE THE DOS AND DON'TS IN POULTRY FARMING?
I always receive many calls,Sms and inboxes from frustrated and despondent poultry farmers who are on the verge of giving up on their farming projects.Most of the time it's their faults.So what are the dos and don'ts of poultry farming?
•Allow for good air circulation in laying house.I have been to farms with poor ventilation you might think it's a prison cell.How do you expect your birds to breathe?All the ammonia,carbon dioxide and dust will accumulate there and this is disastrous to your birds.Respiratory problems will always lurk in the poultry house.
•A hybrid layer needs on average 130 gm-140gms of feed per day.A kienyeji/improved kienyeji can feed on 110 to 120gms of feed per day.Some farmers underfeed their bird and expect to get good production.It can never happen.Overfeeding your birds is a no-no.
•Distribute food troughs and water troughs evenly (1 drinker for 50 birds.Likewise for trough feeders)
•Provide layer's mash at around 20 weeks when you get 10-20% egg production and introduce it gradually to avoid stressing the birds.
•Laying nests must be kept in dark places and eggs collected 3 times a day.Failure to collect eggs on time will lead to broodiness and egg eating.
•Allow a nest with 4 hens each.Don't let your birds lay on the floor as this leads to dirty eggs.
•Provide soft clean litter.Wood shavings and rice husks is most suitable.
•Store eggs with small end down to allow them to 'breathe'.
•Clean dirty eggs with steel wool/coarse leaves (never wash them).Don't touch eggs with dirty hands as this leads to contamination.
•Debeaking at 12 to 14 weeks is most suitable.
•Culling when egg production drops below 40% is recomnended.This is at 72 to 80 weeks.
•Don’t overcrowd brooders .A spacing of 4 metres diameter for 500 birds is most suitable.
•Feed must be of good quality.Always test your feeds in a laboratory to ensure its quality.
•Give clean water ad-lib(usiwapimie).Birds drink twice as much as they eat.
•Don’t mix young and older birds.Younger birds have lower immunity than older ones and diseases would spread quickly.Another thing is that older birds would fight the younger ones.
•Clean poultry house is of utmost importance.If you live in a clean house why subject your birds to dirty environment?
•Dispose of dead birds quickly and isolate sick ones.Never consume sick birds.
•Provide disinfectant at entrance to house
•Antibiotics should never be used to replace good management and should be used on prescription by a veterinarian.
•Keep records which should include:
• Number of eggs produced
•Amount of food eaten
•Health interventions e.g. treatment
•Deaths
•Sales and purchases.
When all these is done then you will be on your way to becoming a successful poultry farmer .May your efforts be rewarded.

+254702605225 for poultry consultation

Day old chicks available at our farm in Kiambu and Embu

16/07/2021

Deal with the experts, we sell to you the chicks and as well buy eggs from you at 500 per tray.

16/07/2021

WHAT ARE THE DOS AND DON'TS IN POULTRY FARMING?
I always receive many calls,Sms and inboxes from frustrated and despondent poultry farmers who are on the verge of giving up on their farming projects.Most of the time it's their faults.So what are the dos and don'ts of poultry farming?
•Allow for good air circulation in laying house.I have been to farms with poor ventilation you might think it's a prison cell.How do you expect your birds to breathe?All the ammonia,carbon dioxide and dust will accumulate there and this is disastrous to your birds.Respiratory problems will always lurk in the poultry house.
•A hybrid layer needs on average 130 gm-140gms of feed per day.A kienyeji/improved kienyeji can feed on 110 to 120gms of feed per day.Some farmers underfeed their bird and expect to get good production.It can never happen.Overfeeding your birds is a no-no.
•Distribute food troughs and water troughs evenly (1 drinker for 50 birds.Likewise for trough feeders)
•Provide layer's mash at around 20 weeks when you get 10-20% egg production and introduce it gradually to avoid stressing the birds.
•Laying nests must be kept in dark places and eggs collected 3 times a day.Failure to collect eggs on time will lead to broodiness and egg eating.
•Allow a nest with 4 hens each.Don't let your birds lay on the floor as this leads to dirty eggs.
•Provide soft clean litter.Wood shavings and rice husks is most suitable.
•Store eggs with small end down to allow them to 'breathe'.
•Clean dirty eggs with steel wool/coarse leaves (never wash them).Don't touch eggs with dirty hands as this leads to contamination.
•Debeaking at 12 to 14 weeks is most suitable.
•Culling when egg production drops below 40% is recomnended.This is at 72 to 80 weeks.
•Don’t overcrowd brooders .A spacing of 4 metres diameter for 500 birds is most suitable.
•Feed must be of good quality.Always test your feeds in a laboratory to ensure its quality.
•Give clean water ad-lib(usiwapimie).Birds drink twice as much as they eat.
•Don’t mix young and older birds.Younger birds have lower immunity than older ones and diseases would spread quickly.Another thing is that older birds would fight the younger ones.
•Clean poultry house is of utmost importance.If you live in a clean house why subject your birds to dirty environment?
•Dispose of dead birds quickly and isolate sick ones.Never consume sick birds.
•Provide disinfectant at entrance to house
•Antibiotics should never be used to replace good management and should be used on prescription by a veterinarian.
•Keep records which should include:
• Number of eggs produced
•Amount of food eaten
•Health interventions e.g. treatment
•Deaths
•Sales and purchases.
When all these is done then you will be on your way to becoming a successful poultry farmer .May your efforts be rewarded.

+254702605225 for poultry consultation

Day old chicks available at 100

28/06/2021

Let's learn brooding chicks together. This are my 2 days old

24/06/2021

HOW TO REDUCE CHICK MORTALITY IN THE BROODER

Every farmer desires 100% survival of chicks once he or she has bought and put them in a brooding house. Losses will, however, almost always occur especially during the first two weeks of life.

A mortality of 1-3 per cent may be considered normal, but anything above 3 per cent is abnormal and requires immediate intervention to stop further losses. Indeed some of the causes can actually wipe out the entire flock. The number of mortality will depend on the source of the chicks and how the farmer prepared the Brooder before introduction of chicks.

Some of the common causes of mortality in brooding chicks include:

GENETIC FACTORS

There are many lethal gene mutations in birds, most of which cause death during the incubation period. A few, such as congenital loco and congenital tremors will cause death of chicks within a week of hatching.

To prevent this, farmers are advised to purchase day old chicks from reputable farms who select against such genes. From experience, I have experienced few mortalities from Olam and GS chicks, compared to other sources of chicks.

MANAGEMENT FACTORS
The most common errors that famers commit include:

A) High brooding temperatures
These result into two major problems, namely,

Dehydration

The body of young chicks comprises of about 70 per cent water. If temperatures remain continuously high, it results in loss of water from the body leading to dehydration.

A water loss of about 10 per cent will cause death due to circulatory failure.

Pasting
This is when high temperature in the brooder house causes pasting or sticking of faeces around the vent leading to blockage and ultimately death of chicks. Chicks like taking cold water but if the temperature is high in the Brooder, then even the water will be hot. So chicks will neglect taking the water leading to death.

Low brooding temperature cause chilling and pneumonia which kills chicks in high numbers. Dead chicks on post mortem show pale to blue lungs in colour.

Low brooding temperature makes the chicks to huddle together to keep warm and maintain body temperature. This further leads to smothering and death. The chicks tend to collect around the heat sources where they die from.

To prevent the effects of temperatures, A farmer should use our new chacool brooder,

A farmer should also try to maintain the normal recommended temperature throughout the brooding period and evenly in the brooding areas. You can use the chicks behaviour to tell if the temperature is right or not.

B) Feed related factors include
Feed poisoning such as fungal (mould) contamination or feed contaminated by toxic substances especially tannin found in saw dust and excess salt in water and feeders well as toxic gases (Ammonia, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide).

This should be avoided through use of proper feeding and use of clean water, as well as proper litter management, If possible, you can avoid saw dust in the Brooder, and use either wood shavings or brooding carpet.

Adequate ventilation in the house is also very important, and farmers should avoid using smoking charcoal in the Brooder. First check the charcoal if it's not smoking before you put the heat source inside the house. A farmer is supposed to leave an exit of bad gases out of the Brooder and an entry of fresh air..... Sealing off the Brooder completely may end to suffocation and death.

DISEASES
Newly hatched chicks do not have a high immunity level. If hygiene is therefore, not maintained, a number of diseases responsible for early chick mortality will thrive.

Among the most prevalent of these diseases are:-

Omphalitis

Also referred to as ‘mushy chick disease’ or ‘navel ill’, this is an infection of the navel characterised by inflamed skin in the navel area, soft, flabby and distended abdomen, pasting of the vent and foul smell on the carcass on opening due to unabsorbed yolk. Affected chicks appear depressed with drooping heads.

This is a bacterial disease and can spread very fast becoming responsible for high losses in the flock of chicks. To avoid this, a farmer should maintain good hygiene of the Brooder, and proper disinfection before introduction of chicks.

Pullorum
This is an acute infectious and fatal bacterial disease of chicks characterised by ruffled feathers, white diarrhea, laboured breathing, chirping and death. It is also common to find dead chicks without showing any signs of disease.

Salmonellosis

This is a condition referring to a group of acute rapidly spreading diseases affecting all ages. It is characterised by rise in body temperature, septicemia (presence of infectious oroganisms in blood), omphalitis, hepatitis (inflammation of the liver), enlargement of spleen and death.

When it affects young chicks, it can be responsible for a very high death rate in the brooder room.

Colibacillosis
This is a serious and acute bacterial disease affecting the blood system and can affect all ages of chicken with high prevalence and mortalities in newly hatched chicks.

Strict bio- security, or hygiene is the one major method of preventing the above diseases. The houses, water and feed equipment and the entire surrounding of the brooder room must be kept clean and free from all contamination. Proper disinfection of you poultry house with strong disinfectants like V-ox helps to get rid of these disease causing micro organisms.

A measure to control such diseases from your flock should also included maintaining good temperature using our chacool brooder.

Other factors to be considered are:
• Floor, water and feeder space must be adequate to avoid overcrowding, starvation and dampness of the litter which facilitates multiplication of pathogenic micro-organisms and further deaths.

Pendulous crop/ crop impaction.
This results from birds eating the litter. At one day old, birds cannot differentiate feed from litter. So you need to cover litter with Brooder paper so that the birds can get used to feed. After which, you will remove the brooder paper after 5-7days. Failure to remove the brooder paper may lead to coccidiosis.

• Proper handling of chicks during vaccination and other procedures to avoid injuries which predispose chicks to contamination and subsequent infections. When the workers were entering the brooder with shoes, they used to step on the chicks until we stopped shoes from the brooder then this mess also stopped.
When workers entered with buckets of feed and water, they could place the buckets on the chicks and they died...
Talk about the stress after vaccinations. Don't neglect this, because it can cause problems to your flock. Always handle the vaccination stress with the help of good multivitamin like vitaflash.

•Maintaining proper humidity to avoid dampness in the brooder room. Dampness facilitates accumulation of toxic gases and growth of infectious micro-organisms.

• Construction of brooder houses should also be proper to keep away predators such as rats, dogs and cats.

• Proper ventilation is necessary to regulate temperature and remove carbon dioxide, ammonia, other gases, moisture, dust and odour. Fresh air should be introduced uniformly, mixed well with house air, and circulated properly throughout the brooder house.

• Light is an important factor during brooding because chick activity is greater in bright light intensity than in low light intensity. During brooding the light should be at the brightest intensity to encourage chick activity assisting them to locate feed and water. The entire brooder should be well lit with bright light all around the brooder. This will give uniformity in growth. Sharp corners should be avoided in the brooder room

20/06/2021

To market and sell chicks weekly

19/06/2021

Welcome to Next-gen KUKU FARM. we specialize in KARI IMPROVED KIENYEJI. we sell quality vaccinated chicks;

Day old @100
Week old @ 130
Two weeks old @170
Three weeks old@ 200
Four weeks old @ 230

We are located in Embu and Kiambu and we do deliveries country wide. Visit us or call 0702605225 to place ur orders