Coop design needed for the Middle East persecuted & poor

[Mystic7]

Working with persecuted Chistians, other minorities, and women in the Middle East is heartbreaking. The lives of the poor are worse than animals.

In Pakistan poor Christian adults work for 100 to 300 rupees - less than 1 to 2 dollars daily. Small children work daily for much less. 12 hens will provide a daily luxury food to their diet and increase there income by 50 to 100%. Our companion vertical garden project will also double that or more.

Help us change things one idea at a time - one family at a time. You are the experts on chickens!

They live in cramped houses, often with no outdoor space and little indoor.

Help design the perfect vertical coop.
-- It must be compact, but humane, and easy to clean daily.
-- 12 hen capacity for family to eat and sell
-- PVC structure with durable fabric/nylon netting. Flooring on the subflooring frame must easily slip out for daily cleaning
-- 6 ft tall, narrowest posible but humane depth, width variable by adding 3 ft sections
-- feed / water in spill resistant PVC pipe - hanging bottles not available - be creative
-- easy access to take hens out daily to stretch
-- what have I forgotten?

Rated project:
-- Indoor vertical gardens attached to walls to provide green food year round, purify air, sprouts.
-- Be a missionary!!

I am looking forward to your desperately needed design. You will save the lives of many thousands.

Thank you very much for your loving compassion -- our heavenly Father bless you!

Eden Earth Project & Middle East Miracle

 

[aart]

Are you living there now?
Looks like you first thought of this 3 years ago?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...a-chicken-farm-ministry.1153865/post-18226181

 

[impr3]

Working with persecuted Chistians, other minorities, and women in the Middle East is heartbreaking. The lives of the poor are worse than animals.

In Pakistan poor Christian adults work for 100 to 300 rupees - less than 1 to 2 dollars daily. Small children work daily for much less. 12 hens will provide a daily luxury food to their diet and increase there income by 50 to 100%. Our companion vertical garden project will also double that or more.

Help us change things one idea at a time - one family at a time. You are the experts on chickens!

They live in cramped houses, often with no outdoor space and little indoor.

Help design the perfect vertical coop.
-- It must be compact, but humane, and easy to clean daily.
-- 12 hen capacity for family to eat and sell
-- PVC structure with durable fabric/nylon netting. Flooring on the subflooring frame must easily slip out for daily cleaning
-- 6 ft tall, narrowest posible but humane depth, width variable by adding 3 ft sections
-- feed / water in spill resistant PVC pipe - hanging bottles not available - be creative
-- easy access to take hens out daily to stretch
-- what have I forgotten?

This sounds like very cramped quarters to try to make income off of chickens. Will they be free range during the day? Is there ready access to forage for them (could be a compost pile for grubs, green space for seeds and wild insects, other)? If not, you're really going to need to think through the cost and accessibility of feed as it might be unaffordable for many of the families you are describing. Furthermore, the kind of coop you are asking for would only be even close to feasible if the chickens are free range during their waking hours (assuming from your post that there is no space for an enclosed run).

 

[tacothechicken]

This seems a little difficult to do with chickens, have you considered meat pigeons? Giant runts, king pigeons etc can all be kept in a set up suitable to what you want and will excersize themselves as long as they have a wide enough loft to flap their wings. Quail can also be kept in stacked cages and don't require being let out and will lay daily and multiply fast. Chickens are just not very aboreal birds, and those that are are not suitable layers generally.

 

[Gwethrien]

My understanding is rabbits and quail are more sustainable for these types of circumstances.