{"id":3746,"date":"2020-09-16T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/?p=3746"},"modified":"2020-09-16T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-16T08:06:08","slug":"advantages-of-improved-kienyeji-breeds-over-local-kienyeji-breeds-in-kenya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/advantages-of-improved-kienyeji-breeds-over-local-kienyeji-breeds-in-kenya\/","title":{"rendered":"What are the advantages of Improved Kienyeji breeds over local Kienyeji breeds in Kenya"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What are the advantages of Improved Kienyeji breeds over local Kienyeji breeds?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The term \u2018improved\u2019 means the breed shows increased productivity. As compared to local breeds. i.e. for instance, its birds produce: more eggs, are heavier. And are more immune to diseases than local breeds. Samples of improved Kienyeji brands available within the country are: KARI  Kienyeji, Kuroiler (from Uganda) and Rainbow Rooster.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Local breeds are the breeds of chicken natively found within the country; those tons folks had on our farms growing up that were sourced from our local market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Poultry\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Poultry<\/a> farmers are commonly either rearing birds for meat or for eggs. The Improved Kienyeji breeds mentioned above are great for both purposes; growing heavier than traditional breeds during a shorter span of your time and producing tons more eggs annually than their indigenous counterparts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rainbow Rooster farmers in Nairobi report having up to 300 eggs produced by one Rainbow breed in its lifetime compared to the 80-egg lifetime average for an indigenous Kienyeji layer [1]. Kuroiler farmers in Uganda report that it\u2019s commonplace to possess a bird weigh up to 4 Kgs at maturity compared to 1.5 Kgs for indigenous Kienyeji birds [2].<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Produces more eggs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Unlike a number of the normal Kienyeji breeds, improved Kienyeji breeds have higher disease resistance in order that they fall sick less easily with proper care and hygiene. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can survive on local feeds<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Another advantage is that improved Kienyeji breeds, a bit like the local breeds, don&#8217;t need to be feed up with commercial feeds. They can, when older, survive on local feeds like crushed sorghum, millet etc. and locally available food like greens, insects and leftovers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Improves Kienyeji Chicks for Sale in Kenya<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you looking to urge started with Poultry farming at Nextgen Poultry<a href=\"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/1-day-old-improved-kienyeji-chicks-for-sale-in-nairobi-kenya\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> we sell IMPROVED KARI KIENYEJI CHICKS and KUROILER CHICKS at affordable prices:-<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3days old at ksh100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1week old at ksh130<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2weeks old ksh160<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3weeks old ksh200<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4weeks old at ksh230<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chicks are vaccinated accordingly counting on their age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What are the advantages of Improved Kienyeji breeds over local Kienyeji breeds? The term \u2018improved\u2019 means the breed shows increased productivity. As compared to local breeds. i.e. for instance, its birds produce: more eggs, are heavier. And are more immune to diseases than local breeds. Samples of improved Kienyeji brands available within the country are: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nextgensolutions.co.ke\/poultry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}