Tag: chicken industry
The principles of feeding broilers
Estimated reading time: 5 minutes
Feeding broilers successfully depends on a few crucial factors of which water and management tops the list.
Broilers must have...
Adding value to a chicken enterprise
Estimated reading time: 6 minutes
They farm with chickens and produce farm chickens. This, in short, sums up the recipe for success of Spif Chickens...
Rodents in poultry housing: A multi-faceted plan of attack
Three different rodent species are usually encountered on a poultry farm. They are Rattus rattus or the roof rat, Rattus norvegicus or the brown...
Certified organic, pasture-based, poultry production
Estimated reading time: 8 minutes
The Ferreira family of Moedskepvlakte farm near Kirkwood, in the Eastern Cape’s Sundays River Valley, specialises in organic production.
Johnny Ferreira...
Pasture-raised eggs in a regenerative system
Estimated reading time: 7 minutes
Ultra-high density grazing (UHDG) is a practice steadily gaining traction as an essential part of regenerative agriculture. Most UHDG practitioners...
