Week 3

Check the box if it refers to a characteristic of chick ideal for free-range organic chicken production.

• Healthy and vigorous.

• Free from disease and abnormality

• Stock purchase from a reputable hatchery

• Cheap and comes from an unknown and unreliable source

• Has potential to produce eggs or meat

A good chicken house provides an adequate supply of fresh air and sunshine

• True

• False

An ideal site for housing free-range native chicken should be accessible to a stream, pool or lake and with wide open pasture.

• True

• False

Birds are more active in the afternoon, when they spend more time in the sunlight looking for food.

• True

• False

In planning to build a chicken house, organic chicken raisers should consider location as the least important factor.

• True

• False

The ideal site for raising organic chicken should not be prone for flooding, be away from residential areas or dense human population and should secure from theft and harmful animals.

• True

• False

Raul wants to build a chicken house for his 50 native hens and 3 roosters in an open range area on his farm. Which roofing materials should be use because they are more economical to use?

• Bamboo

• Plywood

• Galvanize Iron

• Nipa or Cogon Grass

Which of the following materials is the most economical to use for the posts of a chicken house?

• Cement post

• coco lumber

• good lumber

• ipil-ipil or madre de cacao

To construct a chicken house, one must meet PNS recommendations. Which of the following recommendations is prescribed by the PNS?

• At least one-third should be solid and neither slated nor grid construction.

• At least one-third should be solid, slatted, and with flooring that is converted with bedding materials.

• At least one-third should be solid, slatted, and with bedding materials covering the flooring

• At least two-thirds should be solid but should not be slatted or of grid construction

Which of the following siding materials is appropriate for a chicken house for raising free-range organic chicken?

• Bamboo split

• cogon

• nipa

• used fish net