Posted on 08/07/2008 4:40:47 PM PDT by SandRat
“This is the second cycle of farms which have been given chickens,” said Paul Heidloff, the Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team lead agribusiness advisor. “Twenty-four farms are set to receive chickens throughout the cycle, with six receiving chickens every two weeks.”
This cycle of chicken distribution is scheduled to flow directly through the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.
“We are on 45-day cycles, starting with the distribution of the chicks until the full-grown chickens are brought for slaughter,” Heidloff said. “The first group that received chickens will see the front end of the holiday, where the final group will see the end.”
Heidloff said chicken prices go up during the holiday, and the farmers are expected to see a much greater profit.
“One major contributing factor to increased profit is the fact that the farmers had to put 40 percent of their profit from the first cycle back into the Bashaeer Al Kayeer Poultry Association of Mahumdiyah,” said David Speidel, embedded Provincial Reconstruction Team. “Funding for this cycle has come from the poultry association, as opposed to Commanders’ Emergency Relief Program funds.”
Speidel said it’s important to note revitalizing the chicken industry is not just about building up the poultry house, but also building a network of people to run the industry.
The farmers are being trained on maintenance of their equipment as well on how to properly care for the chickens to achieve the lowest possible mortality rate. To meet that goal, the chickens are sprayed with a vaccine to help prevent disease.
“If it comes down to using medication we will supply light antibiotics; none of the chickens produced in this area use any type of hormones,” Heidloff said.
Each farm with chickens distributed is expected to have full-grown, ready-for-slaughter, broiler chickens at the completion of each 45-day cycle.
It’s criminal the stinking MSM never reports the good America and it’s soldiers do. The MSM are a bunch of chicken $h1ts
Biddies are cool.
hmmm remember the avian flu that was supposed to ‘evolve’ and turn into this super virus that would take over the world?
Forty years ago, a broiler took 84 days to reach market weight; 4 pounds, now, it can do so in just 37 to 40.
Let me guess... they’re promoting the baby chicks over a border blaster radio in Kuwait!
Ah, I remember XERF!
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