permaculture

["HS" <wal@pc.jaring.my>]

Hello, one acre - chances are you are not going to practice all - in, all - out.  If that is the case, I would do the following:

1. quarantine new chicks

2. have a vaccination program - find out what is endemic in your locality and vaccinate accordingly.

3. from quarantine brooder, move them to a "growing-out" coop before releasing into pasture.

 

Regards

 

HS

 

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----- Original Message -----

From: Christo van Staden

To: permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org

Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 5:28 PM

Subject: [permaculture] free-range chicken farming

Hi

I am going into free-range chicken farming (to be evolved, within a year, into a food forest project) soon, initially on about 1 acre north of Pretoria, South Africa (bushveld). Can anyone perhaps point me to some good chicken info sources on the net, and publications? Any thoughts will also be appreciated – about pitfalls, possibilities, guilds, etc.

Christo