Introduction
Poultry farming is the practice of raising domesticated birds such as chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese, for the purpose of meat or eggs for food. Chicken have the widest distribution worldwide and are used as a source of high value protein in human nutrition.
This domestication of birds is believed to have started in South Asia, some 2000 years ago. It is believed there are more than 50 billion chickens in the world reared per year as source of food.
Kenya has an estimated poultry population of around 29 million birds, with chicken forming the largest percentage.
Chicken reared for meat production are known as broilers, and those reared for eggs production are called layers.
Here is Kenya the market trend show consumers shifting from the previously dominant hybrid layers and broiler meat towards what is conceived as a healthier diet of indigenous eggs and chickens.
