A Modern Chicken House Built with Aluminium Material (Courtesy)
Nancy Nduku, a chicken farmer and a housewife, started raising chickens with 100 chicks and has since grown her flock to over 400 hens.
Nduku has currently built a big chicken building with the capacity to house over 1,000 birds, allowing her to engage in considerable poultry production.
A Small Beginning
Her husband was given a two-acre parcel of land in Gathiga village, Kiambu County, where the chicken farm is located.
She borrowed KES 300,000 from a local women’s group (Chama) to buy 100 layer chicks from Kenchic for KES 80 each, built a chicken house for Sh120,000, and put the rest of the money aside for emergencies.
Returns on Investment
Nduku now sells 186 trays of eggs per month at Wangige market, in addition to receiving orders from two bakers in the neighbourhood.
The chicken business started to make more money than she expected, allowing her to pay off her debt in instalments while simultaneously providing for her four children.
She has since been able to join two additional group savings accounts, to which she contributes between Sh2000 and Sh3000 per month.
Plans for the Future
With the money she gets from her poultry business, Nduku plans to develop a dairy farm in two years. Her residence was renovated for KES 100,000 thanks to the firm’s interior design and décor services.
Consider this:
In Kenya, the cost of beginning a poultry farm ranges from Ksh. 50,000 to Ksh. 780,000, depending on whether you want to do large-scale or small-scale chicken farming.
Kenya produced 91,000 million tons of eggs and imported one metric tonne each year, according to the Economic Survey Report. The annual value of chicken and eggs sold has risen to Sh10.67 billion.
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