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A Comparison Between Broilers Pastured in a Day Range System and Broilers Raised Intensively in the Gauteng Province, South Africa

Published: June 2, 2008
Summary
Alternative poultry production, particularly pasture-based production, offers opportunities for producers interested in boosting incomes, diversifying operations, and providing a specialty product for consumers. A day-range system was implemented in this study using portable net fencing around a house to make multiple camps allowing chickens access to fresh sites weekly similar to the "Yarding" sy...
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Ould Ali  Omar
2 de noviembre de 2011

very interesting study, but more details on morbidity , mortality and use of medication would be more well come to appreciate better the economic benefits of puting birds on pasture beside feed effeciency
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