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🐣🐣🐣 Potch Koekoek Chickens for sale  🐣🐣🐣

Pasture raised Poultry – The Potch Koekoek

GroSpace stands for thinking differently about space. Consider pasture-raised chickens – it’s cheaper for you and healthier for your chickens. Save on your feed bill when you raise your chickens on pasture. Your feed bill will drop by 20% by following this simple and effective tip. You can also join the GroSpace Partner Network and sell your chicks, chickens and eggs back on GroSpace.

It’s simple really, we have built a decentralised supply network of backyard urban farmers which significantly reduces our logistics because we have self-governed farmers in every corner of the country and we are growing the partner network fast. This means that our chicken meat is fresher than existing centralised producers, it has travelled less distance to get to your plate and we have lowered the carbon footprint of distribution drastically. We also encourage our farmers to utilise our chicken tractor design that we call the GroCoop and raise their Potch Koekoek chickens on open pasture. This decreases the fat content on the bird and improves the meat quality significantly.

Buy your Potch Koekoek chickens here. Potch Koekoek chickens will be shipped to you. The minimum order for delivery is 20 at a time.

The Potch Koekoek chicken is South Africa’s favourite chicken

Here is why the Potch Koekoek is South Africa’s favourite backyard chicken:

1st – The Potch Koekoek Chicken is a great dual-purpose chicken for meat production + egg production.

2nd – The Potch Koekoek chicken is great for free-ranging in the GroCoop which will lower your feed bill by 20%.

Financial information – The Potch Koekoek:

The Potch Koekoek chicken increases in value by R5 per week. An investment in Potch Koekoek chickens is a low-risk investment, with a high return on investment for a short to a midterm period of 1-18 weeks with a week-on-week Return on Investment(ROI) of 20%. Comparable investments include the Rhode Island Red chicken and Popcorn. Free-ranging the Potch Koekoek is advisable to decrease your feed bill by 20%. Free-ranging or better yet, pasture-raised chicken is sweeter and more tender than average grain-fed chicken.

Care:

The Potch Koekoek chick is a hardy, free-ranging chick that requires heating in the evenings to stop piling. Potch Koekoek chicks pile on top of each other for warmth in the evening so make sure to prevent any windy drafts from entering into the bedding space. Piling results in the suffocation of your little chicks.

How to stop Potch Koekoek chicks from Piling:

Place a simple heat lamp above the brooder. A simple heat lamp will suffice and encourage the young chicks to spread out. Make sure to top your bedding daily with straw or wood shavings. Bedding can be straw, wood shavings but not wood dust as it is too fine and the birds will eat it or choke on it like a spoonful of cinnamon for a human. The Potch Koekoek chick should be ready to enter pasture after 2 weeks.

Feeding – the Potch Koekoek:

• Feed intake during starter period (Week 1-6): 56.46(g/day) std. dev. 4.6
• Feed intake during grower period (Week 6-18): 84.30(g/day) std. dev. 6.3Feed intake during laying period (Week 18+): 124.80(g/day) std. dev. 8.6
• Mass of Potch Koekoek Hen at Week 10: 1.0(kg)
• Mass of Potch Koekoek Rooster at Week 10: 1.2(kg)
• Mass of Potch Koekoek Hen at point of egg-lay (Week 18): 1.80(kg)
• Mass of Potch Koekoek Cockerel at (Week 18): 2.70(Kg)
• Potch Koekoek Annual egg production: 213 std. dev. 12.4
• Age at point of egg lay: (Week 18)
• Hatch-ability: 80%
• Mortality: 4%

What to feed – the Potch Koekoek

Day-old – Week 6

Broiler Starter Feed is the best – it does not have growth hormones – however, note that from week 6 the Potch Koekoek moves onto General Fowl because broiler grower is packed full with growth hormones specific to Broilers.

Week 6+

Feed your chicks General Fowl feed for consistent growth and egg production. Make sure to add oyster shells to your chickens’ diet to increase the calcium uptake for egg production. You can find these at your local Ocean Basket – offer to supply Ocean Basket eggs in return for avocado pips and oyster shells and if you’re interested in lowering your feeding bill by 100% consider asking restaurants for their left overs aand cooking scraps – your chickens will benefit from aa diverse nutritious diet and due to the diverse seafood diet, the egg quality will improve along with the meat quality of your birds. Consider pasture raising your birds for sweeter and more tender chickens. This will drop your feed bill by 20%.

Here are a few questions that we get asked:

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How to Order chickens from GroChick

1. Create an account
2. Enter your delivery address and a courier will deliver the parcel to you.
3. You pay today.
4. You receive your parcel in 7 days
5. You sell your live chickens or slaughtered chickens on GroSpace or elsewhere

Are you interested in starting a chicken farm?

If you are looking to start a chicken farm, consider speaking to one of our friendly and professional farming consultants. We would be interested in arranging an off-take agreement with you. We have strict regulations however and we are very strict with our quality controls and farming methods. We are looking for poultry farmers that are looking to grow their flock with organic means. Read this post for more info regarding starting your poultry farm today.

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