NAIROBI - The beautiful and silver-colored machine in a room at a corner in Calvin Githae's house in Kitengela, south of Kenya's capital Nairobi, resembles a small refrigerator. But it is until Githae ...

Sometime in 2017, Bernard Onyango, a poultry farmer, was shopping for a 512-egg capacity incubator for his farm. He visited several outlets in major towns and found the average price to be Shs5m, ...

You’d think that hatching chicks from eggs would be easy – after all, birds do it. But it turns out to be a fussy business for humans, and what momma bird does naturally isn’t necessarily easy for us.

Shawn Kasoa, 23, from Masinde Muliro University of Science and Technology has invented an egg incubator that uses biogas as the source of energy. “This egg incubator is best-suited for farmers who ...

ILOILO CITY (PIA) — Incubator units, viewed to hasten egg hatching rates and boost the poultry industry in Western Visayas, were distributed to farmers’ associations through the Department of ...

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