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The year quails replaced chicken

Nakuru, Kenya: As we usher in a new year, the dying one will go into history as the one in which quail eggs were hailed as the answer not only to all ailments, but also to farmers’ ‘thin pockets’ and hence a lucrative business venture.

It was also the year enterprising Kenyan farmers briefly replaced chicken with quails.

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