Resources Tagged: Chickens

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  1. Village Chickens, Food Security and Poverty Alleviation: The Benefits of Newcastle Disease Control in Southern Africa

    2013-01-20 Village chickens can be found in all developing countries and play a vital role in many poor rural households. They provide scarce animal protein in the form of meat and eggs and can be sold or bartered to meet essential family needs such as medicine, clothes and school fees. Village poultry are...
    Chickens Village chickens Newcastle Disease Food Security

  2. “Cafeteria Feeding” of Chickens

    2007-10-20 Chickens are an important source of meat and eggs for many small-scale farmers. When only a few chickens are kept, they are usually able to meet their dietary needs with kitchen scraps and a bit of grain, and by scavenging for seeds, insects, worms, etc. However, if the flock size is increased...
    Livestock Chickens Forages Poultry Feed Poultry

  3. Chicken Raising

    2017-02-09
    chicken raising Chickens Asia

  4. Tick Control Options

    1993-03-19 L. E. Andrews in Houston, Texas. “It sounds like Mr. Mears in Ecuador has a lot of problems with ticks! Marsha Hanzi, Instituto de Permacultura da Bahia, Brazil.“Regarding ticks on cattle, this is also a serious problem in the Brazilian altiplano, where it has been successfully kept within limits...
    Ticks Chickens Guinea Fowl

  5. CTA Practical Guide Series

    2007-01-01 This Series contains 14fold-out leaflets,practical for use in the field and easy to read. Covering multiple subjects, it gives some background to the subject, outlines processes and provides tips, tables and explanatory line drawings. 1. Rearing Dairy Goats 2. How To Control Striga And Stemborer...
    Mango Fruit Fly Beekeeping Cookery-Tomatoes Banana Flour Tree Nursery Fish Farming Canning and Preser... Compost Cassava flour Sweet Potato Products Chickens Rainwater Harvesting Striga dairy goats

  6. Organic Feeds using Indigenous Microbial Fermented (IMF) Feeds for Organic Free Range Native Pigs and Chickens

    2017-10-05 This workshop will look at indigenous microbial fermented feeds as an alternative to our expensive foreign/imported GMO corn-soy based feed ration for our native animals (chicken and swine). Experiments on microbial fermentation on indigenous plants was conducted in terms of palatability,...
    Microbial Fermenta... Organic Feeds Pigs Chickens Asia

  7. NPC- ‘Non-Profit Chickens’

    2017-10-03 In this workshop, Scott talked about his small backyard urban garden and his experiments with integrating egg-laying chickens into the system on multiple levels. Faced with the economic reality of it being cheaper to buy eggs than produce them himself using store-bought feeds, he began to look...
    Chickens Asia

  8. The Small-Scale Poultry Flock An All Natural Approach to Raising Chickens

    2011-10-07 The most comprehensive and definitive guide to date on raising all-natural poultry, for homesteaders or farmers seeking to close their loo.The Small-Scale Poultry Flockoffers a practical and integrative model for working with chickens and other domestic fowls, based entirely on natural systems.
    Chicken Industry Poultry Farms Poultry Poultry production Chickens

  9. Backyard Chicken Production Using Local Breeds: Sustainable Agriculture for the Golden Triangle

    In addition to adequate housing, feeding and health care, the systematic management of the flock size can improve the production of eggs and chickens for improved family nutrition and income. 2 Copies
    Sustainable Agricu... Chickens

  10. Poster - Let's Raise Chickens for Profit!

    2017-11-01 While availability of food calories has paralleled human population growth in Rwanda, the supply of highly nutritious foods -such as complete protein, fats, and micronutrients -remain insufficient in the Rwandan diet. Past research has shown the barriers to Rwandans raising chickens to be a lack...
    Chickens East Africa