Confined Chicken Coop Whether you provide a coop built from reclaimed materials or purchase a high-end fancy-schmancy chicken manor, all coops must fulfil a specific set of chicken requirements. Here I provide information on all requirements for any chicken housing, some additional optional(s) and provide basic designs to get you started. Know what you… Continue reading The C Files: How to raise chickens – Housing and Coops
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SISTAS IN DA COOP! Native South African Chicken Breeds
We have been keeping chickens since 2012. So during my quest to source chickens, many local sites suggested that if you’d like to keep chickens, try and do so with indigenous ones. I did not even knew that you get chickens indigenous to Southern Africa when I started! It is hard to find information on… Continue reading SISTAS IN DA COOP! Native South African Chicken Breeds
The C Files: Reasons for keeping chickens
Before we get to the reasons for keeping chickens lets first summarise the different chicken keeping methods and their terminologies: There are two categories of chicken keeping; Battery cage and cage free. Battery-cage: These are industrial units for poultry farming on a large scale (also known as factory farming). Mostly the cages are small… Continue reading The C Files: Reasons for keeping chickens
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