Engineer creates own chicken feed formula

Farmer James Nyamai processes the wheat pollard, sunflower cake and cotton cake feeds at his broiler chicken farm Machakos county on Wednesday, January 21st, 2015. The chicken farm contains 2,043 chicks. [PHOTO: ANGELA MAINA/STANDARD]

Animal feed serves up one of the biggest headaches for farmers. Actually, feeds account for more than 60 per cent of total production costs. But one farmer has gotten his way around this.

James Nyamai, an engineer, has mastered how to make his own chicken feed saving himself significant production costs. When Smart Harvest visits him at his African Green Farm in Machakos County, we find him mixing several rations of different components. At his small factory, Nyamai makes feeds for his 2,300 chicken.