How many chicken should you keep to feed your family or village?
Here we give simple calculations based on a village of 5 families and around 20 people.
Eggs:
5 families, thus 20 people, eat on average 1 egg per day = 20 eggs per day. Thus you need 30 egg laying chicken (not all lay an egg every day and you also need eggs to produce chicks)
Meat:
2 chicken per family per week = 10 chicken per week or 40 per month.
Free range broilers take 3 months to grow. Thus you need 120 broilers growing up.
Thus you need 150 chicken. (Some need to lay eggs for broiler production).
So as a rough guide for every person you need 7-8 chicken.
A deep litter house measuring 6m x 11 m can hold 200 laying hens at a stock density of 3 birds/m2.
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