Tips and tricks for good hatch rates

A poultry farm in Mosoriot, Nandi county. [Christopher Kipsang, Standard]

Since devolution was introduced in Kenya eight years ago, we have witnessed mushrooming of small to medium size incubators in almost all the peri-urban areas around major town centres in our counties.  There has been a lot of excitement at the county levels with women groups and individual agribusiness entrepreneurs delving into artificial incubation of eggs from improved ‘Kienyeji’ breeders to supply farmers with one-day old, two weeks old and one month old pullets.  Thanks to the flow of funds from the central government and external supporting partners county bosses have supported this venture, with the aim of improving livelihoods in devolved sectors like agriculture.