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WELCOME TO KLBA

Who is Kenya Livestock Breeders Association (KLBA)?

The KLBA is a farmer’s body formed with a specialized function of promoting and coordinating livestock breeding in Kenya through two schemes, livestock registration, and performance recording.

  • Extension and Training
  • Breed Inspection
  • Certification
  • Decision Making

Our Mandate and Objectives

Our Vision

To be the best Livestock Registration and Performance Recording Center and bring Livestock and Recording attain international standards.

Our Mission

To improve livestock breeding through effective and efficient livestock registration and performance recording services for improved food security and livelihoods.

Key Objectives of KLBA
  1. To keep records of the pedigrees, recording births, deaths and transfers, and performance data of livestock and issue certificates of registration and performance recording, and publish such pedigrees and recordings in the form decided on by the Association in collaboration with the livestock breeders’ societies;
  2. To encourage and promote the breeding and genetic improvement of the production of potential livestock in Kenya;
  3. To verify the pedigrees of imported livestock.
  4. To determine the conditions for membership of the Association.
  5. To grant membership to livestock breeders' societies.
  6. To safeguard and advance the common interests of breeders of pure-bred livestock, registering with the Association, as well as breeders of commercial livestock in Kenya and other countries.
  7. To render technical and advisory services to its members.
  8. To promote the export of livestock, which have been registered or recorded with the Association and of semen, ova, or embryos from livestock registered or recorded in terms of this Constitution
Kenya Stud Book

This is the livestock registration center with a major objective of recording and maintaining accurate and authentic ancestral and identification information of animals with due regard to dates of birth and extended pedigree details.

Functions of Kenya Stud Book

  • Setting up livestock registration rules in liaison with the breed societies -breeds standards of excellence.
  • Registration and issuance of certificates for both Grade and pedigree stock.
  • Promotion of proper animal identification.
  • Effecting livestock transfers and issuance of export certificates.
  • Running the Up-grading scheme.
  • Is the secretariat to member livestock breed societies.
Dairy Recording Service of Kenya

This is the country’s milk recording scheme where systematic measurement and recording of daily milk yields. The scheme also ensures systematic sampling and recording of milk for quality analysis all of which are summarized in form of reports at the end of a lactation period.

Functions of Dairy Recording Service of Kenya

  • To collect and collate lactation data from registered farms.
  • To prepare lactation certificates for registered herds.
  • To process herd average reports.
  • To maintain and avail relevant production data to the Genetic Advisory Committee for purposes of the Contract mating scheme.
  • To avail relevant data to the Livestock Recording Center for the purposes of progeny testing (evaluation of genetic merit of Artificial Insemination bulls) and recruitment of dams for contract mating.
  • To offer advice on good livestock husbandry through extension services.

What We've Done

Our Figures

15178Breeders
7Species
33Breeds
172623Registrations
689747Milk Records

We're here to help you make profits in your livestock enterprise

Why Register and Record your Livestock with (KLBA)? 

Benefits at Farm Level

  1. At the farm, milk record reports guide the farmers in monitoring the performance of the farm managers.
  2. They form the base for making management decisions e.g. – selection, culling, claims, feeding, breeding.
  3. Value addition – registered and recorded stock fetch a better price compared to unregistered ones.
  4. Consistency in breeding and milk recording guarantees ownership of pedigree without necessarily spending a fortune.
  5. Chance to benefit from the contract mating and progeny testing schemes.
  6. Marketing opportunities- through entry to the Kenya Stud Book Volume, Exhibitions during the Agricultural Society of Kenya Shows, Kenya stud Book office, and Bulls at the Bull Stations in Kenya.

Benefits at National Level

  1. Program Important as resource materials for research by Research Institutions, Universities, and for national planning purposes.
  2. For the national livestock breeding program.

  3. Efficiency leads to increased production and hence improvement in national food security.