You can’t afford guinea fowls? Why not hatch their eggs
Agnes Kandoya on her poultry farm in Kilifi County. She says her journey to poultry-keeping started with Kienyeji chickens that she kept for meat. PHOTOS | BOZO JENJE | NMG
Agnes explains that her journey into poultry keeping started with Kienyeji chickens that she was keeping for meat. She started with 20 three months old chicks and raised her flock to 200 chickens.
Luckily for her, the ducklings turned out to be three female and a male. The duck population has since increased to 30 and she sells each at Sh1,000 each.
In rearing the birds, Agnes says ducks are heavy eaters compared to the guinea fowls. She feeds them maize germ and Kienyeji mash she buys from an agrovet at Sh1,500 for a bag of 50kg.
Dr Jumaa Muthoka, a private veterinarian in Kilifi, says the easiest way to start a small poultry farm is to buy the fertilised eggs, identify a broody chicken and let it hatch them and foster the chicks.
As the Seeds of Gold team approaches Agnes Kandoya’s farm in Sabaki on the outskirts of Malindi in Kilifi County, one can hear ducks squawking.
At the gate, one easily picks out a structure made of wood and wire mesh hosting helmeted guinea fowls that Agnes keeps alongside the ducks.
