Medical doctor turns millionaire poultry farmer.

Dr Subiri Obwogo a medical doctor is a poultry farmer who hatches chicks for sale at his flat.Driven by passion for poultry, Dr Obwogo has converted his laundry area at the back of his house into a hatchery. The 1 by 6m space hosts a 528-egg capacity incubator and three carton brooders measuring a metre-squared each, where he keeps the chicks depending on their sizes before he sells them. The medical doctor started poultry keeping in 2010. He was doing it at his rural home in western Kenya.He went into commercial poultry farming over a year ago after buying 100 indigenous chicks from Kenya Agriculture and Livestock Research Organisation (Kalro) in Naivasha at Sh100 each.“When I bought the 100 chicks, I did not even have proper background on poultry farming. I had read mostly in books but I had no practical experience,” recounts Obwogo. About 20 of the chicks died due to poor care at the laundry area and diseases as they stayed in the brooding boxes for over a month. He later transferred them to a house in Parklands, where other members of his family live. Soon, the about 35 hens (the rest were cockerels) started to lay eggs, and Obwogo, who had then toyed with the idea of selling eggs switched to hatching. “I saw a good business opportunity in selling chicks because many people were keeping chickens for eggs.” He