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Small-scale poultry raisers in Asia generally use two types of feeding: free-range and using feeders.
Free-range feeding
Free-range poultry eat household wastes, worms, grain seeds, leaves, grasses and insects. Their owners supplement this diet with a small amount of grain each day. The amount varies from household to household and with the household's economic situation. The mother hen forages and feeds her chicks. In doing so, she teaches the chicks to forage for themselves.
Feeders
Farmers put the grain in a feeder in the poultry house or pen. They also provide water to the birds.
Containers for feed and water
Good nutrition
To give a balanced diet, make sure the birds eat ingredients from each of the four columns in the table below.
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Cereals |
Meat and beans |
Oilseeds |
Vitamins and minerals | |
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Barley |
Crab meat |
Lentils |
Coconut cake |
Green |
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Corn |
Fish |
Mungbeans |
Copra |
grasses |
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MiIIets |
Insects |
Soybeans |
Cotton seed |
Leucaena leaves |
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Rice |
Meat scraps |
Brewer's |
Groundnut | |
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Wheat |
Snails yeast |
Linseed (distiller's corn) | | |
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Worms |
Buttermilk |
Mustard seed |
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Cowpea Gram (black, green, horse, red) |
Rice polish |
Sesame | |
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Skim milk |
Sunflower seeds |
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Medicinal additives
Farmers in India regularly provide these additives to prevent intestinal worms and other problems in their chickens.
· Mix 1 teaspoon of turmeric powder in every 2 liters of the drinking water (or a pinch for every glass of water). (India. 1, 2, 3, 4)
·· Grind 6-7 cloves of garlic for every 10 chickens. Mix with the feed. (India. 1, 2, 3, 4)
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