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What you/they eat 19/7/2013
People say, “You are what you eat.”
Ng……….. so I say, “They ( poultry) are what they eat.”
If you want organic /natural chickens, ducks, pork and
mutton, we must give them natural foods and rear them in as natural ways as
possible. We must provide them the
living conditions that deem fit for them.
I quest and crave for clean natural foods. Hence I fence up 90% of the my house compound
and partition it into 12 coops. In
feet measurements:
1. 3W X 6 L X 2H = 2 coops
2. 3
X 3 X 4
3. 3
X 5 X 2
4. 3
X 10 X 4
5. 5
X 6 X 4
6. 5
X 8 X 4
7. 9
X 12 X 4
8. 12 X
16 X 4
9. 16
X 16
X 4
10.
3 X 3 X 4
+ 3 X 2 X
2
11.
3 X
9 X 2 on stilts (for chicks)
I
asked a carpenter to construct No. 8 and
9 coop for me and the rest I built them myself.
I bound the 3’ X 4’ frames to form the coops. I started this project in 2006 or 2007. I keep chickens for meat and eggs. For at least 3 or 4 years, we have the supply
of eggs from our hens and chickens from my house compound.
We try to keep our place as clean as possible, otherwise it
is not fair to our neighbours. We cannot
upset our neighbours from the foul smell of chickens’ and ducks’ dropping.
Now I try to limit the number of poultry within my capacity to keep the
place as odourless as possible.
I decided to go 100 self-subsistent for chickens, ducks and
eggs when I realised the problems of commercialised and unnatural farming. I was really upset when I found that the bone of one of the
drumstick of the chicken looked funny in
2006 Chinese New Year. It was the
chicken I bought from a chicken vendor
that I cooked for Long-life noodles
to eat on the morning of New Year’s Day.
I almost do not eat chicken, duck and egg from market. My husband has his lunch out and eats the
meat from the farm. My son, well, is not
convinced yet to avoid meat from the commercialised farm. I believe
he will stick to natural foods one day. Organic
and natural foods are the key to good health. Do
you need further argument to get convinced?
I hope one day we will move to our farm about 7 - 10 km away
from my house in Salim. Then, ng……….. I
will keep at least 2 - 3 small pigs a year for pork for own consumption and
give some as gifts to others to promote organic and natural living.
