Strategies to cope during low feeds season

 Some of the chicken reared by Mwangaza Women Group in Kapseret, Uasin Gishu County tends to improved Kienyeji Chicken breeds procured to them by the county government under the Inua Mama na Kuku initiative.  PHOTOS BY MICHAEL OLLINGA 24.02.2016

If the weather experts’ prediction of La Nina is anything to go by, then it is the optimum time for all livestock farmers to re-strategise in order to cope well during this looming feed shortage season.

Poultry farmers are no exception to the impending perennial challenge. In any scenario of food scarcity anywhere on earth, humans become priority and animals take second place.