Livestock farmers in Kenya are producing upto ten calves in an year thanks to a new fertilization technology that involves transfer of a fertilized embryo from a donor, which in this case is a high yi [ ... ]

Dairy farmers are insulating their livestock in dry spells and increasing milk production by upto 45 percent through storage of fodder in plastic bags, a move that has also stabilized the erratic nati [ ... ]

A livestock scientist who has worked in Kenya for over a decade is the lead researcher in a global project that is studying a nervous red jungle fowl which has superior health and breeding qualit [ ... ]

A recently introduced fodder growing technology is fast rising in the country, offering farmers year round supply of nutritious green fodder, grown for just eight days and producing upto 50 kgs of the [ ... ]

The government has distributed some 54 mini-fish feed production machines worth Sh46 million to farmers across the country which would reduce the feed cost by upto 30 percent, cushionioning farmers fr [ ... ]

Rising cases of fish diseases are threatening the ability of fish farming to feed a growing world population and putting to risk economies of countries like Kenya where the sector contributes about 0. [ ... ]

Information gap is locking thousands of smallholder dairy farmers in the country from multiplying their cows using a unique artificial insemination method that gives a farmer 90 percent chance to acqu [ ... ]

In a bid to balance the consumption demand between animals and mankind researchers are courting sweet potato as pressure from climate change and population growth puts households at food security risk [ ... ]

 Livestock farmers in Pokot are replacing traditional low yielding breeds with superior ones at low or no cost in a project that has not only doubled the pastoralists’ income from meat and milk [ ... ]

Farmers feeding their cows with a multi purpose sugary tuber with ability to complement energy and protein levels not available in traditional feeds like nappier are recording upto three more litres o [ ... ]

A new breed of farmers keen on improving conditions for their cows and increase milk yields have invested in cow mattresses, a unique rectangular bedding made of recycled tyres, which is now seeing th [ ... ]

Scientists from the Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Icipe), have identified skin odours found in livestock which the mosquitoes use to spread the deadly Rift Valley Fever, a discovery that wi [ ... ]

Confining pigs to their sties increases their weight by upto eight kilos and halves both pig diseases and those transmitted from pigs to humans, scientists now say, a revelation that could alter the p [ ... ]

A novel method of surrounding livestock sheds with insecticide-treated nets has cut the number of disease transmitting insects by 90 percent while tripling milk yields among smallholder farmers in Kis [ ... ]

A new breed of superior, fast maturing indigenous chicken that weighs twice as much as  foreign breeds and lay eggs throughout the year is enjoying impressive uptake among poultry farmers as effo [ ... ]

The war on the deadly East Coast Fever is close to be won after Kenya recently launched a new highly improved vaccine to curb the disease responsible for over 1.1 million cattle deaths yearly. The vac [ ... ]

Scientists and conservatists are sounding the alarm over the wanton poisoning of rare birds along Lake Victoria by  illegal hunters which is now threatening tourism in the area that is already pi [ ... ]

Farmers in Kyangwithya area of Kitui County are adopting a trend where they rear fish under chicken sheds, as arable land dwindles in the area, a move that has seen the farmers increase fish yields by [ ... ]

A section of Kenyan poultry farmers are now using crushed pawpaw seeds to cure intestinal worms and the fatal Coccidiosis chicken disease  responsible for over 50 percent of poultry deaths after  [ ... ]