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http://www.np.edu.sg/~lpi/ww/CagedKampungChicken.htm
Caged Chicken, Kampung Chicken David PI Lim - MDE
There are two types of bird in this world
or I mean two types of
chicken. Once you are employed, you are a caged chicken. You lost
the freedom of a kampung chicken.
Kampung chicken has a tough and uncertain life, caged chicken has a
more comfortable, predictable life. When a lot of things are
provided for, caged chickens dont need to spend a lot of effort to
get them, food, water, shelter, etc. they lost some of the lifes
necessary survival skills.
Caged chickens are supposed to be well looked after so that they
can produce good quality meat and high quality eggs. The chicken
minders should know how to look after them so that they are healthy
and happy. Happy chickens produce more eggs and have better quality
meats.
But this does not always happen because chicken minders are also
caged chickens, just a bigger cage.
Big-cage chickens have different view of the world with different
agenda. You will be surprised how many items on the agenda has
nothing to do with the chicken industry. Look after the chickens
is just one of the items somewhere near the bottom of the
list.
Some chicken minders believe that polishing the cage to make it
shine to the outside world is most important. Some prefer to mum
all chicken to create a quiet environment for the surreal feeling
of peace and harmony. Many will simply do whatever their bosses (in
even bigger cages) want regardless of whether they are right or
wrong, for obvious reason. Some old-world chicken minders believe
that caged chickens should be kept constantly hungry with minimum
feeds and chickens can be squeezed to lay more eggs.
Without changing the fundamentals, they always try new things
whenever there is a crisis, and changes always seem to work.
Because some caged chickens will do anything, including
cannibalizing, to survive. The greater majority will soon learn to
bottle up, lie low, protect themselves and bide their time. But a
place cannot be constantly sustained by having only a few pretty
and happy chickens. Over time, slowly but steadily, overall quality
of chickens will decline to the lowest level.
Chickens cannot be truly healthy and happy being caged. Smart
chicken minders will encourage the chickens to go out of the cage
to exercise, physically and mentally. Physical exercise is
essential to cut down fat and grow muscle. Mental exercise will add
to total health and productivity.
But not all chickens are born the same. Some caged chickens
exercise everyday to prepare for the eventuality when they have to
compete for food on the kampung turf. But some have been caged for
too long that they lost the guts to walk out even when the cage
door is open. Many are just too comfortable that they find the life
of a kampung chicken is no life at all. Some chickens blame their
good life for making them immobile.
All this will change only when disaster strikes, like the bird flu
or Japanese B encephalitis. Who would survive?
Before the doomsday comes, when things are not looking good, some
roosters must rise and make enough noise to arouse the attention of
every chicken. They must prompt all chickens to wake up and
exercise, and dont just scramble to eat from the hand-down plates
not knowing when the sky will fall down.
Even when the doomsday comes, there are still choices to make:
which chickens eat too much and lay no egg, which chickens eat
little but lay many eggs, are the eggs large, medium or small, what
about the taste?
So remember a few things while caged:
keep laying the same eggs does not make you lay better eggs
exercise your muscles while laying eggs
one day your muscles may have more use than your eggs
of course you have nothing to worry about if you know you have been
laying golden eggs ...
