How to Raise Kampung Chickens: 3 Steps to a Profitable Flock

Raising kampung chickens (Indonesia's free-range native chickens) is still a popular venture. Kampung chicken is widely used in profitable food businesses, for example bakmi jawa (Javanese-style noodles), served boiled or fried, which is mostly made with kampung chicken. On top of that, ingkung (a whole chicken slow-cooked in spiced coconut milk) made from kampung chicken is in high demand because of its rich, savory flavor. Demand for kampung chicken keeps growing over time, which has made it a business with good prospects. If you plan to go into the kampung chicken business, you need to know how to raise these birds properly. Good-quality kampung chickens come from good farming practices. Here is how to raise kampung chickens the right way so they grow into quality poultry:

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Choosing Kampung Chicken Breeding Stock

To produce quality chicks, you need to choose quality breeding stock. Indonesia has many native chicken breeds that can serve as breeders, for example Ayam Bangkok, Ayam Kedu and many others. Each type of kampung chicken has its own price, and the better the breeding hens, the better the chicks they produce. Some people raise them for resale, while others keep them as a collection.

Quality Kampung Chicks

If you want to buy chicks without buying breeding stock, you can choose DOC, or day-old chicks, meaning chicks that have just hatched. To get quality kampung chicks, buy them from a trusted seller with long experience in kampung chicken farming. Why should you care about the quality of kampung chicks? Because the chicks you start with are directly tied to whether your chicken farming business succeeds or fails.

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Quality DOC show several signs: they hatch on time, neither late nor too early. Look at their eyes to see whether they are bright and shining. Healthy day-old chicks have bright, shining eyes, while poor-quality chicks have dull, droopy eyes. A healthy newly hatched chick is lively and can stand upright. Do not choose newly hatched chicks with physical defects such as a limp, malformed wings and the like.

Feeding

Success in raising kampung chickens depends heavily on feeding. If the feed is right and healthy, the poultry you produce will be healthy and nutritious for the people who eat it. Kampung chickens do not have to be fed pellets or concentrate, as long as the feed is healthy and does not cause disease in the chickens that eat it or in the people who later eat the chickens. You can give them fresh worms. Kampung chickens digest worms well, so the birds become even healthier after eating them.

The poultry meat you produce is a direct reflection of how you raise your birds. When you know how to raise kampung chickens the right way, both the chickens and their meat will be of higher quality, and that works in your favor.

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