Table 4.

Production challenges ranked by farmers of indigenous chicken in Dagoretti and Kibera in Nairobi.

Challenge	Rank		Implications for indigenous chicken farming in Nairobi
	Dagoretti	Kibera
Lack of motivation	1	–	Lack of motivation on keeping indigenous chicken by young people
Insecurity in farms	2	2	Theft of chicken linked to types of housing and malicious behaviour towards chicken
Limited land/space	3	1	Indigenous chicken kept on free range and dense human population exposing them to disease
Sources of Chicks	4	4	Farmers hatching own fertilised eggs or buying already hatched eggs/chicks from other farms
Poor quality feeds	5	3	Poor quality feeds e.g. “Kienyeji” chicken mash, market leftover from informal settlements, kitchen leftovers, posho mill wastes and vegetable wastes from markets fed to chicken
Lack of information/training	6	8	Limited training only offered to farmer groups and not individual chicken farmers
High cost of equipment's e.g. feeding troughs etc.	–	5	–
Water shortage	–	6	Birds watered from water sourced from vendors and boreholes
Shortage of labour	–	7	Labour was often obtained from family members and hired employees from outside Nairobi
Large capital needs	–	–	Capital was mainly from personal savings