TAILIEUCHUNG - Small-Scale Pastured Poultry Grazing System for Egg Production

Available primarily as an emulsifiable concentrate and dust, malathion is used as a premise treatment on approximately 6 percent (12 million square feet) of poultry house area by North Carolina producers. Premise treatments are applied for fly and beetle control at a rate of to pound of active ingredient per 1,000 square feet of surface area. Dust formulations are applied at about pound of active ingredient per 1,000 square feet. The status of malathion is not yet clear, but many livestock and poultry uses have been voluntarily cancelled. All indications are that livestock and poultry. | Livestock Management July 2009 Lm-20 Small-Scale Pastured Poultry Grazing System for Egg Production Glen K. Fukumoto Department of Human Nutrition Food and Animal Sciences Raising you own food can be fun rewarding and also a great educational tool to teach children about simple animal husbandry responsibilities and the food production chain. There is a strong need in today s society to build upon the connections between the farms and ranches involved in agricultural production as the main sources of our food. With a greater interest in supporting local food production systems and community discussions about becoming more food self-reliant small-scale poultry grazing systems can be integrated into many small farmsteads in our tropical ecosystems. With the closure of many commercial poultry operations in Hawai i and in other Pacific island nations small farms will play an important role in improving community food security and sustainability and will be a vital link toward building a network of people involved in the production and marketing of high-quality artisanal foods. tors. The possible benefits of starting your own pastured poultry unit include providing fresh meat and or egg products with a minimal carbon footprint or the need to import food miles recycling of household food residuals reduces our waste stream to the landfill and our environment developing an agricultural ethic in our children by providing an understanding of where food comes from developing livestock husbandry skills and builds responsibilities in caring for animals that produce food introducing and integration of the natural systems mineral water and plant growth cycles involved in agriculture providing a sense of pride when providing high-quality foods in the community providing a potential source of additional revenue for the farmstead The objectives of this publication are to discuss the overall benefits of pastured poultry grazing to provide basic guidance for developing a small-scale .

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