 You know what, I love showing you the city life of Africa, but personally, I'm a village boy and this is the place that I would love to spend my entire life, man. I got bored of Nairobi because I feel like Nairobi is too modernized for me, so I wanted to get out today just to go and see the countryside of Kenya. We drove from the Tikka Highway of which I think is one of the beautiful roads that I've seen since I came to Nairobi and joined the village that looks like my village in Ghana. We showed you that everywhere in Africa looks the same. I came in here, I met this handsome gentleman planting beans and I wanted to help him. He was like, can you do it? I was like, come on, I'm a village boy just like you. But hey, you know what, it's good to see that people were based in Africa, left to the west and now return back to make Africa home again. I'm impressed of what Kenyans are doing. I feel like Kenyans do large scale farming because I'm seeing huge farms in here. Please do me a favor and let's all come together and clap for all the Kenyan farmers. I really salute each and every one of you, but hey, you know what, I came here to see a man who left America and started an animal farming in here. He wants to tell me his story, but I told him that please do me a favor, let me just wait for me. Let me plant these, what do you call it, beans and I'm going to come in here to harvest my own beans. I'm not going to do this for free because they are not paying me so I need to come for my beans in future. So come with me, let's go talk to Tony who left the United States of America, left his engineering job and came to Africa to do what he loves. If you are new to the channel, my name is Wada Maya, you are one and only village boy from Ghana. Don't forget to subscribe, like and be part of this awesome family. I am Maya. Mr Tony, you are the one behind this animal farming. Someone told me about you and I had to find you. I travel like almost 100 kilometers to come and find you. Yes, 100 kilometers, maybe not 100, maybe 40 kilometers. The way was too long for me. And the weather didn't help either. It's so cold in here. Yes, yes. Let me know, what is your name and where are you from? Which part of Kenya are you from? My name is Tony Isyanka and I am from a town called Gatondu in Kenya, two places. And I came to this place, I bought this land so that I can farm animals. And you can see I have a lot of animals here. You bought this land just to farm animals? Just to farm animals. You were born and raised in Nairobi? Born and raised in Nairobi. And what happened to you? And then I moved to the US. And I moved to the US. I was there for 25 plus years. 25 years in the States? Yes. What were you doing in there? In the States I worked for a technology company. And then after a while you hit the ceiling. And then I started working by myself. I got a little bit of trucking warehouse. And then that also got to a point. And that magic bulb lit up and said, well, it's going to go back home. Home is best. Yes, I did. And you left all that? I left all that, came back, lived around. Why animal farming? Why animal farming? I think animal farming was easier for me than plant farming. This is a little bit more predictable. I can decide when we're going to slaughter the animals. I can decide when the rains are going to come so that I can plant. So it's a little bit more predictable for me. I love animals. I was exposed to animal farming on my own. When I was growing up at my grandfather's farm. And I think that's my inspiration. That's where it came from for the animals. How long have you been in Africa? I'm back now five years. Five years? Five years. And how long have you been doing this farming? This is about three years. You mean you achieved all this in Kenya within three years? Three years, yes. You brought some money from the state? Well, I had some little money. But it's a challenge. As you can see, it's still in development. Once it's fully functioning. Then we'll have more buildings here. We'll have more pigs. We'll have more ducks. We'll have more rabbits. I want you to know how was the transition from living in America back to Kenya? Because you were out there for 25 plus years. How was the transition? Were you able to mingle? The transition is a little tough. I always tell people the first year. The first year is a little touch and go. You're always trying to figure out things. It's like you're learning new things. But home is best. You have to look back and say, when I went to America, I didn't know much about America either. So I learned that system. At least I was born here. I should be able to adapt, adjust and make something out of it. Do you regret coming back home? I wish I came home sooner. Why? The freedom. The freedom, the quality of life. This place is amazing. I don't know why. When I talk to people, they keep on telling me the freedom, the quality of life. I don't understand because we as young Africans, we just want to go there. And you guys are coming back. No, no, no. I see a lot of people come here and they ask me again, why here, why now. And I say, listen, you have to program yourself not for the short term, for the long term. It's a process. And once you get started, every journey begins with the first step. The first step you make is more towards the destination. And the sooner you do it, the better. Tony, I want you to take me around of what you've done so far so that people can see. Sounds good, let's go. You don't be like, I'm making things up. This here is a pig's day. We have pigs. We're using half of the shed, as you can see. We have pigs here. This is where the pigs hang out. We have them on different ages. Some of them are pregnant. So if you come here next year, we'll definitely have more pigs than you see here. You mean like you started this three years ago? Actually, the pig thing was a little different. I started with a few pigs that I had a friend that was struggling to fit their pigs. And they told me, Tony, please, please, just take the pigs. You pay me later. And I said, wow, I never kept pigs before. But I'll give it a shot. So I took the pigs. And one of the pigs is Mama Pig. Mama Pig? Yeah, Mama Pig. Hi. One of the pigs is Mama Pig. No, Mama Pig. Come on, wake up Mama. Mama Pig is very pregnant. But she's due on Christmas Day. Mama Pig, you're tired. We have some fish. We have a pond here where the ducks spent most of their day. We rare a lot of ducks. These are what you call the pecan ducks, the camber ducks. So we rare them here. So when they come during the day, the first thing is they go for a swim. You see them grooming. And then after they groom, they'll go out. Now these ducks are quite interesting because for one, they don't brood. And they lay their eggs everywhere. So apart from the few eggs that we collect, my pigs enjoy being outside because they feed on the eggs. So now here part of the feeding is the pig manure. So when we switch the pig place, this is where we come and dump it. Now when we dump it here, you'll find a lot of chicken will come here to feed. And what do they feed on? Let me see if I can show you. So what the chicken would feed on is if you dig a little bit, you'll find there's a lot of worms. Maybe not this side. Come this side and see. You see there'll be a lot of worms. Oh, here you go. You see the worms. So this is basically where we will come here, get a whole bucket and go feed the new chicks. We have new chicks. But you also see the chicken will come here. That is freshly cleaned. So you see there's a lot of fly action there. So they come with eggs. And in seven days we have more food for the chicken. So we have this a lot of water. All these are massive water tanks. You see here. Basically what you're seeing, half of it is under there. So we have about 250,000 liters of water from these four tanks. It's not a bore hole. It's basically a concrete tank. Basically the same wall goes all the way down. So when it rains, all this water is a lot of water. It all goes down here. And when it goes down there, so we have water for at least two years. So we never run out of water. And it's free from other nature. So here here is where we have the chicken. Again our chicken they spend the day outside. We do feed them grain. But you can see the that's a fresh laid eggs. Fresh laid eggs. So we got more eggs. We get about three trays of eggs every day. Three trays. About three trays of eggs every day. So we have chickens everywhere laying eggs. They are feeding them. They are feeding them. Mwenie How is it? I'm not happy to say it. This is Mwenie when he takes care of the cuckoo. This used to do my job. You're well familiar. Sorry these things are bent because sometimes having animals outside when the pigs come here the pigs love to eat chicken feed. They come and they They destroy this. They are hungry. Something here. Come in here, we show you something. So here is our brooder. So these chicken, we put them on eggs. We put them on eggs about 2 days ago. So in another 20 days we're going to get chicks. So we don't use incubator? We do natural because it's convenient, it's cheap. I know so many people don't know this method. Can you tell us how many days does it take to hatch this eggs? 21 days. We have more chicks. Here we have to disinfect before we go. We're going inside the rabbit house. The hatchery. What is this for? That is to disinfect your feet in case you're brought in some germs. The rabbits are a little bit more sensitive than most. So you stick your feet in there and you come into the rabbit house. But why rabbits? Actually rabbits are probably the most profitable animal you can raise. Yes, and I hope that everybody in Africa can raise rabbits because you don't need a lot of space. Obviously this is a little bit of a larger scale. You can build one of these cages, fairly inexpensive material. And if you have three mothers, you can easily feed your father the rabbit meat. Which rabbit meat is the best meat out there? White meat out there. Yes, we usually actually eat more rabbit meat in my house than chicken. But also because we have a lot, we sell to restaurants who have rabbit meat. It's still not very, most people don't embrace it quite well yet. But I think the minute they realize it's actually very healthy. It's a deal. But I think you also sell to people when they keep an aspect. Yes, I sell to, you know, a lot of farmers come here. People who are getting into it. We also still feel new at it. You see, we're expanding. But you know, we have our share farmers that come here. If you see something that you like, you know, we'll tell you to take it. So I have a lot of farmers that, you know, practice rabbit rearing that got their rabbits from here. Yes, so we feed the rabbits with pellets. Those are the pellets here and water. They drink a lot of water. Yes, that's it. Nothing else. We don't feed them the green stuff because then you get into the problems of bloating. But those three things here pellets and pellets is a complete meal. I'll show you how we make it here. It's a complete meal. So when they eat it, it's pretty much sufficient. The hay adds a fiber pad. And then they drink a lot of water. They drink a lot of water. So about about this size here. Now this one here somebody might ask me how old is this? This is about two months. So in another month and a half, they are ready to be on a dinner plate. Three months. Three and a half months. Yes, they are ready to be slaughtered. I've seen a lot of cows down here. Yes, we have cows. The cows live here now temporarily before we build a shed for them out there. But there are still calves. We go and look for them. I know they are somewhere here. So we'll do goats at another time. That's the milking powder for the goats. The goats have their own sections because goats fight a lot. But when we do goats again, we're going to do the goats what you call zealot grazing. Or semi, but mostly inside not outside. Yes, because if we're here it gets really really hot. And the feeding becomes a problem because they want to be sitting under the shed the whole day. Then they can produce. So it was just, the breed wasn't the right one for this area. So if you come out this way, this is a section that we have for, this is where we keep the little ones. Why is a hen hatched by ducks? Good question. All the ducks that you see here, they are hatched by chicken because the ducks don't brood. So we use the duck eggs, we brood with the chicken and we get ducklings. Now if you look closer, there's also three other strange looking birds. Those are guinea fowls. It's the first time we're hatching them here. So I got eggs from a farmer friend. And we don't have any guinea fowl here, but we'll see what comes out. So these ducklings, they are about, maybe a month in change, maybe a month. But at this particular stage, the mother might move, but because I've never hatched the guinea fowl before, I might just let her nurture these three until they are done. The ducklings, if you take these ducklings now and throw them in the dump, they are perfectly fine. They are perfectly fine. If you come here, this is where we mix the feed for our animals, our lovely animals. So we buy the raw materials and the raw materials is a tricky part because you've got to make sure it's a wheat bran. It's a wheat bran. So we control where we source our materials 100%. So that's wheat bran. This is wheat pollen. It's a little powdery. We have the protein. This is the soya. This is a by-product when you make soya. So this is what we call the soya cake. We blend all of them together and then we feed the animals. So when we bread them, let me show you what we just made today. So if you come here, you'll see we mix everything here together. This is a mixer. So you'll go down. Once it goes down, it will come out from this end here. You'll do its quality control here and then this thing picks it up and goes to that side. So when it comes to this side, here is where we make the pellets. We put it in here. It comes out as pellets. This is the soya. So we put it in here. It comes out as pellets. So we put it in here. It comes out as pellets. It will come out as pellets. It will come out as pellets. And this is where we feed the rabbits. Oh, it started it. So hold on watch. You put it in here and you'll see what will come out. It comes out hot. Do you think that it's worth it to invest in animal farming? Absolutely. We have five different animals here. We have the ducks, the chicken, the rabbits. The cows are working in progress. And we also have the dogs. So you can make a living doing it. And you know we have brothers and sisters in the Diaspora who are looking forward to come back home. If you should say a message for them to come back home, what would that message be? That message would be you have to be passionate about farming. So find whatever you're passionate about. It doesn't have to be animal farming. It could be plant farming. Just whatever you're passionate about. Something that even when you don't make money, you still enjoy doing. And again I'm going to say when you look at the long term, don't look at something. In the west we're used to getting a paycheck every week or bi-weekly. So you get comfortable with a paycheck. This one here you could go months without anything. So you're always going to think long term. But even with that, maybe at the end of the year when you look it up and average it out, you're still going to come out ahead. I just want to say thank you so much for talking to me.