Chicken Farmer Teaching Others How To Raise Chickens!

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pcgboca said:
how about augmenting Solar with Generator far away (few hundred feet) that would work to ensure 30 days for incubation cycle. depends on your ability to support a decent solar system and how many watts you need.
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I hadn’t thought about this idea! If we can get solar, what I don’t yet know, is what supplies I will need to build a solar setup like what you have described!

Do I need an inverter or would I need several? Marine batteries I’ve been told are the best! But how many? What size solar panels would we need? We want to start small as we raise funds for these purchases.

This is a not-for-profit mission in Liberia! We will need something we can build on later. The aim!!! To get the mission and surrounding villages self-sustainable! For too long, they have been an oppressed people, forced to rely on the government there!

These men and women had no idea how to keep the chickens healthy. They were loosing chickens daily. When I first arrived, the first thing I did, was open the coop, and allow the chickens out! I explained, in America, it is called free range.

I convinced everyone to get the nesting boxes up off the ground, and actually provide nesting material for the hens. I taught them how to build roosts, and even a chicken run. I eventually convinced the farmers that the hens don’t need the help of roosters to lay eggs.

One task at a time, one day at a time!!!
 

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Blueswamper55 said:
I’ve been raising chickens in the US for years, having grown up on a farm. I travel to Liberia yearly to teach men, women, and children how to raise chickens! Electricity or what they call Current isn’t readily available. I’m interested in other ways of raising chickens, including the use of kerosene to operate an incubator for a 21-23 day stretch.

Thank you!
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Modern poultry keeping (1948) - my favourite book, has some discussion of this. Also talks about hay box brooders. A brooder without electricity. See post linked below for pictures of same.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/anyone-using-a-haybox-brooder.1598782/
 
Blueswamper55 said:
I hadn’t thought about this idea! If we can get solar, what I don’t yet know, is what supplies I will need to build a solar setup like what you have described!

Do I need an inverter or would I need several? Marine batteries I’ve been told are the best! But how many? What size solar panels would we need? We want to start small as we raise funds for these purchases.

This is a not-for-profit mission in Liberia! We will need something we can build on later. The aim!!! To get the mission and surrounding villages self-sustainable! For too long, they have been an oppressed people, forced to rely on the government there!

These men and women had no idea how to keep the chickens healthy. They were loosing chickens daily. When I first arrived, the first thing I did, was open the coop, and allow the chickens out! I explained, in America, it is called free range.

I convinced everyone to get the nesting boxes up off the ground, and actually provide nesting material for the hens. I taught them how to build roosts, and even a chicken run. I eventually convinced the farmers that the hens don’t need the help of roosters to lay eggs.

One task at a time, one day at a time!!!
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We run solar when camping and only have one controller and 2 marine batteries, and that runs the furnace, TV/DVD player, and everything else, but not the air conditioner. We bought a Grape solar panel and controller from Home Depot about a decade ago. There was already an inverter in the camper and one we bought to plug in outside to run stuff out there. You'd only need one for an incubator as they all come with at least two plug-in receptacles on them.


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