Free choice feeding of poultry: a method of feeding suggested for village, backyard and semi-commercial poultry production

Abstract

In Papua New Guinea, poultry are perhaps, the most suited small animal species that can be cheaply looked after for home consumption or for cash. Feeding them using formulated feed (usually manufactured in Lae) can be very expensive. In a village or backyard where only a few birds are looked after, it would be a waste of money to buy a 50kg bag of manufactured feed and find that by the time the birds have eaten half of it, the other half has been already spoiled by mould.