The empowerment of women and girls in the country through the provision of the requisite knowledge is welcoming. It is against this backdrop that the Sheela Logan StarGurlz Empowerment and Counselling Center seized the opportunity to engage the management of the one of the biggest eggs producing poultry in the country, the Serving Humanity for Empowerment and Development (SHED) Farm in Lower Montserrado, for the transfer of knowledge.
Participants and staff of the StarGurlz as well as the Management of the SHED Farm attended the one-day engagement that was held on the SHED Farm recently in Mount Barclay, Montserrado County.
During the engagement, the management team of the Farm, headed by Wolewu Yarkpazuo explained to the StarGurlz, the step – by – step procedures, ranging from the importation of the birds (chicks) from one day old up until four months when they begin to lay eggs. According to him, during these processes, the birds are fed treated, while preparing them for eggs laying.
“The farm has about twelve thousand birds and as such, the healthiness and wellbeing of the birds is of major concern thus, there is a high restriction on people encountering these birds. All birds in the poultry are egg laying birds except under other conditions and if that is done, such bird (chicken) can be uprooted from the rest of the birds,” Yarkpazuo indicated.
He furthered that, these birds, are special hybrid that are imported from the Institute of Animal Selection as SHED Farm is involved in the production of fresh eggs locally.