NATURAL FARMING CHICKEN

adapted from Andry LIM

The original comments of Dr CHO are in italic

2- The advantage of natural farming poultry is:

- has no feces cleaning
- emits no waste water
- lowers the cost
- uses homemade feed

3- The 3 purposes of NF poultry are:

- Poultry farming and agriculture should complement each other
- Chickens provide food and manure while agricultural by-products are used as their feed
Poultry farming fosters the harmony among family NF poultry rehabilitates the surrounding environment

4, 5, 6, 7 – The 3 principles of NF poultry are:

- Floor of chicken housing should be soil
- Do not artificially control temperature even for small chicks. Fermentation heats the compost.
Putting chicks in the enclosure: it does not matter if outside temperature is -20°C
Note soft cloth on top of the box. Chicks do not know their parents. When they look for their parents they go
through the “feather of the mother”. So by instinct they know when they crawl into the soft feather they know it
will be warm. The cloth actually plays the role of the mother chicken so when the chicken goes through the cloth
they feel comfortable and it is warm place. Right after the chicks come out from the egg (hatch) they eat brown
rice from 3 days.
- Feed whole brown rice and shredded bamboo leaves after they hatch
Right after the chicks hatch they eat brown rice for three days. Strong digestive system develops and allowing
chicks to feed on hard harsh material and still be healthy.

8- NF Chicken innovates
- Raise chicken by using rice hull on floor to heat the chicks
- It will keep the temperature high on the box. Chicks will choose the good place to stay at the good temperature
- It does not matter if outside temperature is low

9- Natural farming livestock house

10- Bedding
Rice straw size 3 cm
Rice straw thick in bed
7 cm. for Layer
3 cm. for Broiler
FPJ (banana trunk), LABS, IMO spraying for control moisture. Concoction mix with the bedding hastens the
decomposition of the organic matter and converts it instantly into basic minerals.

Right after the chicks come out from the egg they eat brown rice from 3 days. Some scholars opposed to this say
chicks fed brown rice for three days will die. However we can see that the happy ones are the chicks and the
worried ones are the scholars. So who is right? I believe it is the chickens themselves.
Digestive system: Intestines are 2.3 m for chicks fed brown rice; 1.3 to 1.4 m long in chicks fed the soft
nutritional diets. Intestine of NF fed chicks are almost twice longer. A strong digestive system feed for layer chicks
include green grass! Asia has 30% more of grass. So they have 30% more feed than in the northern area.
But even though this is the case the feed cost is high because they use foreign materials such as corn.
As chicks enlarge the moving space. When the chicks are fully grown they will occupy the entire space
Chick’s drinking water. When chicks drink they face down and face the sky. The problem is when they face the sky
the water fall from their beaks on their body and they get wet. Their tummy gets cold and they get sick. This can
lead to diarrhea and also toxemia. NF – WATERER when chicks look up their bleaks touch the waterer and excess
water is remove NF has touched that much on the life cycle of the chicks.
11- Rice straw 7 cm in depth cut straw 3 cm length
Day 1 to day 15 chicks
You can see their area is now much enlarged. Note the straw on the ground. The straw has great capacity for
decomposing nitrogen materials. We all know that the chicken feces smell very bad and that is because of
nitrogen. But if we used the straw the straw will decompose all the nitrogen so there is no odor. NF poultry has no
smell.

12, 13- THE HOUSE SIZE 810 x 360 cm

LAYERS
Brooder box size 90x90cm
 Two layers and partition ceiling material is rice straw and rice hull
 Slopping floor with aeration pipe
 cloth divider to simulate mothers feather
 Secondary brooder box for layers twice as large as the brooder box
 When more than one third of the birds take perches remove the secondary box
BROILERS
 Size: 810 cm x 360 cm
 Brooder box size 180x90 cm
 350 to 400 birds

14- Brooder box heads of baby chicks touch end of cloth simulate mothers feather

15- The chicks still like the cloth even if they have grown up / since they feel that is the bosom of their mother,
just leave the cloth and the brooder box there. We all know when the children come back from elementary school
they call out of there mother first and if they find their mother they feel very comfortable and secure. If they do
not find her they will wonder about trying to find her.
Finally the chicks have occupied the space. In NF chicks raised 41-42 days weigh 2.0 to 2.2 kilograms
When the sun shines it becomes very hot. Hot air rises and goes out. Cold air comes from the side sucking all
moisture from the floor and raises it up with hot air.

16- You can see their area is now much enlarged. Note the straw on the ground.
The pipe of the water was initially 35mm but since they have grown , a 50 mm pipe is used. They are growing and
have become bigger. The diameter of the pipe is now 1cm. As the chickens grow the size of the waterer and
feeder change also. On the outside you see grass growing. In standard practice farmers are advised to cut grass
outside since they think the grass can carry a lot of diseases. This is a wrong concept. The wind comes through
the grass into the chicken house making it very comfortable of the chickens. If grass is cut the temperature will
become very cold and will make the chicks sick.

17- Brooder box to keep chicks from predator such as snake and rats

18- WATERERS size change according to bird’s growth and ages

PVC pipes size of holes:
Small ø20 mm
Medium ø30 mm
Large ø85 mm

In NF the poultry is dry. In NF we do not have to clean up the manure. We believe that the micro organism feeding
on the manure keep the poultry odor free. You can see the wind moving from the outside. Nets prevent damage
from storm. The recent super typhoon caused a lot of damage. Only NF poultry greenhouse was standing without
damage.
This is the soil after we have sold the chicken to the market. We don’t clean up. we just put a new batch of chicks
directly. The older the floor gets better the chicks grow. There is no difficulty in growing them
We do not clean out the manure for 3-4 years. Feces do not accumulate. Microbes are always feeding on them. In
time the chickens feed on the microbes. Chicks can be raised in orchards – mango, papaya, or durian orchards.
Chicks feed on microorganism and the grass that grows in the orchard so the feeding cost is low.
19- Drinking water expanded as growing space enlarged. Playground has been enlarged. The length is 7 meters.
Chicks run around the area of 50 to 60 times a day. Drinking water expanded as growing space enlarged. Compare
this to human legs. That will exceed 100 meters for humans. That would mean running 5-6 kilometer per day.

This is why they are very healthy and do not become ill. Note water bottles on the ends of the waterer. No need to
refill. Compare this to human legs. That will exceed 100 meters for humans. That would mean running 5-6
kilometer per day. This is why they are very healthy and do not become ill.

20, 21, 22 - THE FEEDER

Before day 30: 90cm x 6 cm x 3 cm
After day 30: 90cm x 15cm x 3 cm

23- Picture poultry

24- NFS (Chicken)

 Feed once a day (2 hours before sunset)
 No stranger
 Brown rice 1 day after hatching (Broiler) 3 days after hatching (Layer)
 Brown rice & Bamboo leaves
 After three days give hardboiled egg do not give the shell
 Feed only for 3 minutes. Do not leave the feeds it will train chicks to eat on time.
 Shading area = 1: 2 (sq. feet / bird)
 No heater
 On ground only

25- NF CHICKEN FEED

NF emphasizes the use of HOMEMADE CHICKEN FEED.
We cut down the use of commercial feed as much as possible. But feed is not just simply made from material lying
around.

26- Chicken feed

 30 % Commercial feed
 30 % Red soil (ant or termites house)
 20 % Green grass/plants
 10 % Broken rice & rice bran
 10 % FPJ LABS
2 Cows for manure feed (300 Chicken)
7-10% of Chicken manure

27- Step 1
Put together the liquid in one container:
4 liters of FFJ (banana)
4 liters of FPJ (kangkong)
2 liters of LABS
Note: Set aside the sludge of FFP. Mix it with the rice bran mixture.

28- Step 2
Slowly add liquid to the rice bran to make granules. Mix by hand thoroughly to break up the big lumps. Add
commercial feed slowly to the to the granule.
Mix commercial feed to the granules slowly to the granules. Store in an airtight container. Ferment for three days.

29- STEP 3 Fresh plants/herbs

Assortment:
 50% leguminous plants (plant source protein)
 30% vegetables (green and leafy)
 20% herbs and grass
 Cut plants into small pieces. Add to rice bran and feed mixture.
Add the sludge from FFJ and FPJ to this mixture
30, 31- STEP 4
After three days mix the granules/feed mixture with soil. Create a hole and place the feed mixture inside the hole.
Mix it like your mixing a cement. This mixture is ready to used.

32, 33, 34- Nesting box

Size 180 height weight 60-30 - 28
Nesting box is made to be dark. Chickens are not comfortable laying eggs if it is bright. Note the consideration
are for the chickens laying eggs.

35, 36- We all used to think that we had to get rid of all the grass so we applied a lot of herbicides. However if we
change our thinking we can get rid of the bugs, get rid of the grass and have lot of manure for the orchards. We
can do these 4 times a year in one orchard. This is chicken in the mountains. This is another way – not for
commercial farms but for small farmers.