The country has been hit by a shortage of day-old chicks after the State introduced a 25 percent excise duty on imported fertilised eggs from July 1, a poultry industry association has said.
The Kenya Poultry Breeders Association (KPBA) said production of day-old chicks would drop by 28.57 percent to one million this week from an average of 1.4 million per week.
