Started with just Sh3,600 in 2008, Fundi’s Kirata Poultry farm
in Kagare has grown to host 1,600 chicken, 80 per cent of which are
broilers.
Apart from selling chicken, his hatchery can
produce 2,000 chicks in a week or two. “I began with 30 chicks and today
I have 1,600 chicken worth Sh960,000,” he says.
His two brooders hold 500 chicks at a time and, in addition. he has crossbred a variety of chicken, producing what he calls taste yangu (my taste) due to its special flavour.
Fundi recently opened an outlet at Mwea town in Kirinyaga County, where he slaughters at least 40 chicken daily.
A
Facebook enthusiast, he sells most of his chicken via the medium. His
wife, Anne Wawira, manages the farm when he occasionally lands
consultancy jobs with local road construction firms.
“I would be earning Sh70,000 month. See where I am?” he challenges graduates who are still job-hunting.
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