Benefits of Backyard Native Chicken Raising
Dr Abe V Rotor
Improvised chicken coop. Living with Nature, author's residence
San Vicente, Ilocos Sur
Features:
- Practical and low technology
- Locally formulated feeds, mainly palay or corn
- Natural immunity and resistance to diseases
- Litter of rice husk (ipa) or sawdust as natural fertilizer or compost
- Native chicken beat foreign breed in taste, especially local recipes
- As pets children love their unique colors and features
- Raised on the range, or in make-shift coop (or combined)
- Virtually self-supporting at harvestime, reduces crop wastage
- Game fowls from selected roosters or by crossbreeding
- Family self-sufficiency in poultry meat and eggs
- Pastime and hanapbuhay (livelihood)
- Physical activity, family project, and therapy,
Backyard chicken and native ducks for meat and eggs.
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