About the Course

Poultry farmers face various challenges in their day to day farming lives. These range from low production output, difficulties in controlling diseases and adoption of management interventions. The short course training provides an excellent background into the “what”, “why” and “how” on improved indigenous chicken management. The training is hands on with numerous practical where participants are taken through all the aspects of Indigenous Chicken production, though with an agribusiness point of view. Participants are engaged in theoretical classes in the morning sessions, and then the afternoon is spent on practical work based on the morning sessions.

Target Participants

This course is ideal for smallholder poultry farmers, extension officers, supervisors and trainee farmers and poultry farm managers.

What you will learn

By the end of this course the participants will be able to:

• Get skills on important consideration on selection and breeding of poultry
• Know how to raise the production output in their poultry farming business
• Understand the various poultry diseases that are common in Kenya and how to control them.
• Understand how to manage a poultry farm

• Gain skills on how to feed poulry as well as how to formulate their feeds
• Understand the important considerations in poultry housing and daily management
• Know how to use ICT in poultry farming

Course Duration

3 Days