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Promotion of rural income diversification continues to gain widespread support in poverty reduction strategy discourse in the developing countries. This study examined diversification of rural livelihood among small-scale poultry farmers in Oyo state, Nigeria. The study utilized data from a sampled survey of 104 small-scale poultry farming households to establish the effect of diversification of livelihood on poultry production and factors determining diversification of income among the poultry farmers in the study area. Results showed that majority of the farmers are male, married, and young with mean age of 44.35 years. The average year of schooling of the farmers was 10.3 years and mean farming experience is 7.52 years. Approximately 46% of the farmers have access to credit and 44.2% are member of cooperative society. The results showed that, at the 1% level, there is significant difference between farm size of farmers with other sources of income and the farmers without any other source of income. Farm size is significantly and positively related to non-poultry income, education and farming experience among the smallholder poultry farmers at 10% level of significance. The major determinant of livelihood diversification includes education level of households head, household size, access to credit and cooperative society

Determinants and effect of livelihood diversification among small-scale poultry farmers in Oyo State, Nigeria