Curriculum · Module 14
Poultry on Veld
Poultry is the enterprise most often started before anyone checks whether the product can lawfully be sold. This module fixes that first, then designs a range birds will actually use, sizes the avian influenza risk with SAPA's own numbers, works the margins per bird placed, and dismantles the two most-repeated ecological claims using the primary literature.
- 64 The Legal Route to Market and the Egg-Carton Regime Settles which lawful route you will use to sell a bird or an egg, decided before any capital is spent. Choose a lawful slaughter and sales route for the scale you actually plan, before you place a chickLabel an egg carton and a loose-egg display without using a prohibited wordIdentify and apply for the written egg-regulation exemption almost nobody is told about 14 min
- 65 The Range Birds Actually Use Settles that SA free-range density is twenty times the EU's, that most birds do not range anyway, and how to design a range they will use. State the SA legal free-range densities and how they compare with the EU standardReplace the legal shade figure with a design test that holds up in DecemberKeep a free-range label lawful through a confinement period 13 min
- 66 HPAI and the Predator Tax Settles the scale and legal position of avian influenza in SA, and how to diagnose which predator is taking your birds. State South Africa's avian influenza position, including the reporting duty and the compensation statusDiagnose a predator from the signature it leaves on the flockApply the legal constraints on predator control around a pastured flock 13 min
- 67 Breeds, Indigenous Chickens and Worked Economics Settles what SA indigenous breeds actually produce against commercial genetics, and what a small poultry enterprise really earns. Compare a South African indigenous breed against commercial genetics using the published record rather than the folkloreRe-model a broiler gross margin per bird placed instead of per bird soldState honestly what a 200-hen layer flock earns before labour, and decide whether that is the enterprise you want 17 min
- 68 Move Interval, Parasites and the Pastured-Poultry Myths Settles how often a pastured flock must move, and dismantles the two most-repeated ecological claims using the primary literature. Set a move interval from ground condition and dunged ground rather than from a published rest periodTest the eggmobile parasite claim against the study it is actually drawn fromState the defensible pitch for pastured poultry in South Africa, and the claims to drop 16 min