The chicken gap
In Kenya today, farmers and county officials wanting to buy one of Kenya's three well-known improved indigenous chicken breeds—KC1, KC2, or KC3—routinely have to wait up to three months. The demand is real, broad, and growing as the country’s counties order the chicks in bulk to support livelihood programs and more and more smallholders invest in locally adapted dual-purpose chicken enterprises, which can grow from a backyard flo…
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