Housing structures for animals: Pasture for birds

Grassland hens rearing is commonly use in large, extensive production, small farms and medium-sized producers. It consists of gathering eggs from hens which are allow to graze freely as well as having a hut or hen house.

Where they are protect by poultry net preventing other animals from entering and kill grassland hens.

The housing structures for this system generally consist of the following:

• A chicken coop: Where the birds are keep overnight. It is usually a type of barn with two doors (one on each side), alongside the pasture ground where the birds are keep, with the door opening onto the grassland kept open. Any inner divisions require can be make use chicken wire. The outer rim of the grassland area is section off using a good quality chicken wire or poultry net.
•  Feeders: To be located inside the coop. They can be circular or canoe-shaped.
•  Watering troughs: To be located inside the coop, alongside the feeders. Care should be take that water from the watering troughs doesn’t get the food wet.

• Beds: These should be on the opposite side to the feeders and watering troughs.
• Nests: Inside the coop, usually between the watering troughs and the beds.
• Grazing areas: There should be at least two grazing areas so that the birds can be rotate from one to the other. These zones must be completely surround with poultry net to stop other animals from entering. Grass and fodder which the birds can eat should be grow in these areas.
• Storage: A place inside or alongside the coop where food, other consumables and a supply of poultry wire can be store.

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