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From Ballotpedia This article is about a 2008 ballot proposition in California. For other measures with a similar title, see Proposition 2.Proposition 2, or the Standards for Confining Farm Animals [1] , was on the November 4, 2008 ballot in California, where it passed with 63.5% of the vote.

Prop 2 created a new state statute that prohibits the confinement of farm animals in a manner that …

April 27, 2003

The Mark I hoop coop. The coop is pulled by hand downhill to anew patch of grass, once or twice per day. The Mark II hoop coop, not shown,has the open end facing the direction of travel so the operator can seeinside while moving the pen. This reduces the number of broilers that getrun over by the back wall.

My wife Karen invented these simple chicken houses a couple of years …

It was a crime so monstrous, it led a Riverside County community to change its name.

In 1928, Gordon Stewart Northcott kidnapped several boys, keeping them as sex slaves on his parents’ chicken farm in a community known then as Wineville.

When he was done with them, Northcott butchered the boys with an axe and buried the bodies …

Truly sustainable livestock farming requires the use of a pasture-based system. Pasture-raised animals roam freely in their natural environment where they’re able to eat nutritious grasses and other plants that their bodies are adapted to digest. In addition to dramatically improving the welfare of farm animals, pasturing also helps reduce …

Points to Ponder Before Starting a Poultry Operation (University of California-Davis) HTML

Vertical Coordination in the Pork and Broiler Industries: Implications for Pork and Chicken Products (USDA) HTML

Practical Illustrations of Risk Assessment and Risk Management in the Poultry Industry (British Veterinary Poultry Association) HTML

Management of Large Broiler Farms …

Almost a year after Proposition 2, the Farm Animal Cruelty Act,was passed in California banning so-called “battery pages” forhousing chickens, the battle continues over how to implement thesomewhat vague legislation.

Last November, voters overwhelmingly supported the bill, whichasked that a farm animal have enough room to “stand up, lie downand extend its limbs” without touching …

The four wall panels are first assembled on a flat surface. Wood framing is cedar deckboards ripped in two. The vertical studs for the walls measure 5′. The frames are attached with triangular 1/4″ plywood gussets.

The two wall gable ends are built from 3/8″ rough sawn fir siding (4′ x 8′ sheets) attached to the cedar framing. I used an 8/12 pitch for the roof. The wire (Galvanized …

You can change feed to meat more quickly and more efficiently on a broiler chicken than anything else you could raise. It takes from six to eight weeks and usually doesn’t take but a few pounds of feed. If you were trying to raise a hog or a cow or most anything else it would require more expense: naturally it would be larger in size but for the most part a broiler chicken is not expensive to …

We currently have 35 chickens out and about during the day with our border collie/pyrenees cross on patrol and we shut their door at night. When the garden plants are young and too delicious to the chickens, we put them in a hoop house made from two cattle panels over a steel frame base that has wheels that rotate down to lift the hoop house up when we want to move it. We covered the lower …

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