Jan 23, 2009
Permanent Free Range?
What's with our claim that our chickens are "Permanent Free Range"?
In some countries, free range is defined as having "access to outdoors". So, if you have lots of little doors for the chickens to go out, and yet you place all the feeders inside so that the chickens seldom if ever go out, you can still validly say your chickens are free range. In Malaysia, free range can mean hanging around a permanent reban which the chickens retire to during the night. The grounds will be smelly, dirty, full of flies.
Our permanent free range chickens are raised in fresh fields with movable coops being used to move them from padang to padang. They never go back to a reban. They are moved from fresh field to fresh field, and when the time come for them to be harvested, they are on fresh fields, not muddy smelly bacteria infested grounds.
We are the only farmer in the world using these heat-insulated movable, dismantleable field houses. One man can pull the tent to a fresh field once the existing field becomes dirty.
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i still can't imagine how's the coop looks like. is it a movable reban with jaring as the floor?
Posted by: safuan | Jun 20, 2009
Hi,
Yes the hoop house is movable, and also can be taken apart. For the floor we actually use pieces of plastic flooring - the type some commercial poultry houses have. It is about 1 meter square per piece. So all we need to do is lay them.
Posted by: HS | Jun 21, 2009
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