Tuesday, August 09, 2011

Factoid of the day

There are 19 million chickens in the world...that's three chickens for every person.

and with modern techniques, this means protein for a growing population, since chickens produce both eggs and cheap meat...and manure for organic fertilizer.

we used to run a chicken farm, but it is now rented out so we can concentrate on organic rice.

For some reason, I can't find any photo of our chicken farm, but I did find this one as an example of the world wide trend toward "factory farms" to feed the urban population.

Shown: Engineer Hamid at his teaching farm in Iran. His blog is here.
From engineerZiyaeePoultry

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