Field exercise: draw the plan of the range and the 12-month schedule
Until now, the flock of 1,000 coloured chickens was the School's. This exercise replaces it with yours: your land, your house, your calendar, your buyers. In half a day in the field and an evening at the table, you produce two documents that fit on two sheets and that decide the flock before the first chick: the plan of the range to scale, and the 12-month schedule. These are the two pieces the School expects at the case study of lesson 10, and those you will show to the mason, the veterinarian and the transporter.
13 min read · 5-question quiz at the end
By Abdul Hussein ChoumanFounder of NEXTEKCI · Agnibilékrou hatchery since 2006This lesson is part of Free-range poultry and festive markets specialisation. It opens to every registered student, from free registration. Levels 1 to 5 and the tracks remain readable by everyone.
Until now, the flock of 1,000 coloured chickens was the School's. This exercise replaces it with yours: your land, your house, your calendar, your buyers. In half a day in the field and an evening at the table, you produce two documents that fit on two sheets and that decide the flock before the first chick: the plan of the range to scale, and the 12-month schedule. These are the two pieces the School expects at the case study of lesson 10, and those you will show to the mason, the veterinarian and the transporter.
- ✓Survey a piece of land and draw it to scale with all the elements of the range
- ✓Check the plan with the range sheet: square metres per chicken, shade, pop-holes, fence, water, drainage
- ✓Build the 12-month schedule with three flocks, the festivities, the reservations, the sanitary breaks and the bags per month
- ✓Read the result and correct the plan or the flock before ordering the chicks
- What you are going to produce, and why two sheets are enough
- Equipment and time
- Step 1: survey the land
- Step 2: draw the plan to scale
- Step 3: build the 12-month schedule
- Read the result and correct
- Going further
- •Plan to scale (1 cm = 2 m): outline, north and slope, house at the high point, pop-holes, gravel, drainage channel, plots, fence and gate, shade, drinkers, tank, store, footbath, legend.
- •Range sheet: 5 to 6 per m² in the house in heat (manufacturers 6 to 8), 2 m² of range per chicken, two plots, 1 pop-hole for every 100 to 150, 1 m² of shade for every 8, 1 drinker for every 80 to 100, 2 m gravel strip, 3-day tank.
- •12-month schedule: start from Christmas (sale 17-23 December, arrival 17 September, reservation end of July), place C then B, add the mobile dates, the plots and the bags per month (about 80 per month at the end of a flock for 1,000 chickens).
- •Six reading questions: area, shade, drainage, overlap, troughs, payable bags; each no is corrected before ordering, most often by reducing the flock.
- •The two sheets are pinned in the store and corrected every week; they are the pieces for the case study of lesson 10.