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How a Simple DIY Chicken Coop Can Provide Everyone With an Opportunity of Keeping Their Own Poultry


If ever there has been a time a time to consider keeping poultry it is most definitely now and to build a simple DIY chicken coop to house them is a very easy thing to do to ensure the perfect accommodation that will suit both you and your chickens needs. When I say simple DIY chicken coop I mean simple and not at all complicated. There is such a wealth of information to help guide you; it really is an exciting time for poultry keeping.

There has been a recent worldwide explosion of interest in keeping poultry and the most amazing thing about this is the sharing of such a huge amount of information that once would never have left farms or small holdings, having been passed down from generation to generation.

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Practical Poultry Farm Business Performance Calculations


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In this article, I share VERY practical, real world relevant tips about performance measures you can compute daily, weekly, monthly and at the end of year to accurately determine at every stage whether your poultry farm business is operating optimally.

These performance indices are NOT aggregate measures. In other words, they are NOT measured in monetary terms. Instead they have NO units, being ratios, usage rates and percentages that help to (a) establish a normal trend of your farms’ behaviour (b) quickly identify/detect departures from that trend, so that you can take timely/corrective action.

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South African Agriculture Livestock Farming


Livestock is the largest agricultural sector in South Africa, with a population of some 13.8-million cattle and 28.8-million sheep. Stock breeders concentrate on the development of breeds that are well adapted to diverse climatic and environmental conditions.

Dairy farming:

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