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and garlic work as antibiotics and there are leaves that can be used as anti a nti-mite and anti- parasitic medicines such as ipil-ipil ipil leaves. Ω He or she also does not need to spend any more time cleaning up after them and the coop stays cleaner for longer. Disadvantages of the Free Range Method M Ω Free range chickens will often poop everywhere everywhe re so if there are areas of the farmer’s yard he or she may not want ant to get the chicken poop, he or she will have to find a way to block the chickens from those areas. Ω Free range chickens will also tend to lay their eggs everywhere which can make it difficult to collect the eggs. Ω The chickens may stray into neighboring neig hboring homesteads and free range chicken farming make makes them more prone to predators and disease outbreaks. Ω The chickens also eat up the greenery so that some parts of the farmer’s yard will be bare whi which can make the farmer’s yard more unattractive. Ω Scientific tific management practices cannot be followed because there is no control over the birds. range during the day.  Backyard extensive system: : Poultry are housed at night but allowed free-range They are usually fed a handful of grain in the morning and evening to supplement s upplement scavenging. adopt ed where the amount of free spac space available is  Semi-intensive system: This system is adopted limited, but it is necessary to allow the birds 20-30 20 30 square yards per bird of outside run. Page 28 of 163

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