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Organic Agriculture
Module 6 –GROW AND HARVEST CHICKEN
Quarter 2, Week 6
Aussie Charity T. Calibo
Jovie E. Abaa

(SUPPORT MATERIAL FOR INDEPENDENT LEARNING ENGAGEMENT)

A Joint Project of
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF DIPOLOG CITY
and the
DIPOLOG CITY GOVERNMENT
 What I Need to Know
This module was designed and written with you in mind. It is here to help
you master the nature of Organic Agriculture. The scope of this module permits it to
be used in many different learning situations. The language used recognizes the
diverse vocabulary level of students. The lessons are arranged to follow the
standard sequence of the course. But the order in which you read them can be
changed to correspond with the textbook you are now using.

After going through this module, you are expected to:

1. Identify different organic materials for fertilizer.

2. Collect and formulate organic waste for fertilizer.

3. Show the significance of organic waste through postermaking.

What I Know

A. Multiple Choices
Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the correct answers in your notebook.
Let us find out how much you know about grow and harvest chicken. Take this test.

1. The following are belongs to brown manure that can be used as organic waste
fertilizer, except?
a. chicken dunk
b. carabao manure
c. grass clippings
d. dry leaves

2. These are fertilizers derived from animal matter, animal excreta, and vegetable
matter.
a. organic fertilizers
b. organic manure
c. composting
d. none of the above

3. If you are composting in your backyard, how many percent of green waste or
manure must your pile include.
a. about 75 %
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 b. more than 60%
c. about 50%
d. 100%

4. Which is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called

composting?
a. compost
b. fertilizers
c. animal manure
d. green manure

5. This can be adding carbon to your compost pile.

a. brown waste
b. green manure
c. animal manure
d. human manure

B. Direction: Fill the circle with different sources of organic waste.

Organic
Waste

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Lesson
GROW AND HARVEST
2
CHICKEN

In this module, you will learn about different organic materials. You will be
collecting and formulate organic waste for fertilizer. In addition to that, you will be
showing the significance of organic waste through a poster.

What’s In

A. What are the common diseases of poultry?

1.
2.
3.
4.

B. Other Common Poultry Diseases

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies

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 What’s New

Direction: Identify the kind of organic waste

1. 2. 3. 4.

What is It

Collect and formulate organic waste for fertilizer

Organic fertilizers are fertilizers derived from animal matter, animal excreta
(manure), human excreta, and vegetable matter (e.g. compost and crop residues).
Naturally occurring organic fertilizers include animal wastes from meat processing,
peat, manure, slurry, and guano.

1. Farm animal manure, straw, and bedding

2. Crop residues

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3. Fruit, vegetable, food, and seafood processing wastes

4. Grass clippings and leaves

5. Sawdust, newspapers & other wood wastes

Compost is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called

composting. This process recycles various organic materials - otherwise regarded as
waste products - and produces a soil conditioner (the compost).

Compost is rich in nutrients. It is used for example in

gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming. The
compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil
conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural
pesticide for soil. In ecosystems, compost is useful for erosion control, land and
stream reclamation, wetland construction, and as landfill cover. At the simplest
level, the process of composting requires making a heap of wet organic matter (also
called green waste, such as leaves, grass, food scraps) and waiting for the materials to
break down into humus after months.

However, composting also can take place as a multi-step, closely monitored

process with measured inputs of water, air, and carbon- and nitrogen-rich materials.
The decomposition process is aided by shredding the plant matter, adding water,
and ensuring proper aeration by regularly turning the mixture when open piles
or "windrows" are used. Earthworms and fungi further break up the material.
Bacteria requiring oxygen to function (aerobic bacteria) and fungi manage the
chemical process by converting the inputs into heat, carbon dioxide, and
ammonium.

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Collecting Biodegradable Material

1. Gather organic food waste and scraps. Collecting compostable material requires
little additional work—you simply place organic items, such as food waste and
scraps in a collection container separate from your trash can. While you may
purchase a designated indoor compost bin, many people collect their food scraps
and waste in repurposed plastic food containers, trash cans, or compostable bags.
After preparing or eating meals, place your food scraps into a compost collection bin.

2. Acceptable items include table scraps, fruit, vegetables, and eggshells. These
items are considered ―green‖ waste as opposed to ―brown‖ waste.

3. If you are participating in a public or private program, only place approved

compostable materials in your bin.

4. If you are composting in your backyard, do not save meat and fish products for
your compost pile—these items attract rodents and pests.

5. Store your collection bin under the kitchen sink, on the kitchen counter, in your
fridge, or your freezer.
6. Collect green manure. If you are composting in your backyard, your pile should
include about 50% green waste or manure. These items, which introduce nitrogen into
your pile, serve as a catalyst to the composting process. Table scraps and food waste are
just two forms of green manure. Other green waste items include:

Grass clippings

. Clover
. Buckwheat
. Wheatgrass
. Coffee Grounds
. Tea leaves or tea bags
. Store these items in an outdoor yard waste bin.

7. Set aside brown waste for your compost pile. Brown waste should make up the
other 50% of your compost pile. The brown waste adds carbon to your compost pile.
You may find brown waste items both inside your home and outside in your yard.

These items include:

*Shredded newspaper
*Shredded paper
*Shredded brown paper bags
*Dead branches
*Twigs
*Leaves
*Straw
*Untreated sawdust

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Compostable Materials Requiring Special Handling

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Materials to avoid putting in a compost pile

Compost Additives

1. Inoculants- contains special cultures of dormant bacteria and fungi.

2. Starters or Accelerators-help the decomposition process by adding nitrogen,
enzymes and bacteria to a pile.
3. Activators-contains a nitrogen source. Activators include organic types
(manure, blood meal, finished compost, soil) and artificial types (chemically
synthesized compounds such as commercial nitrogen fertilizers.
4. Indigenous Microorganism (IMO)- organic spray serves as a compost activator
and helps to fasten the decomposition process.

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 What’s More

Direction: Analyze the given picture and answer the questions below.

1. What do you think are they doing?

2. Describe the item put inside a sack and tell what is itfor.
3. If you are to collect organic waste materials that can be found in your locality,
what will you collect?

What I Have Learned

1. Organic fertilizers are fertilizers derived from animal matter, animal excreta
(manure), human excreta, and vegetable matter (e.g. compost and crop residues).

2. Compose is organic matter that has been decomposed in a process called

composting.

3. Compost is rich in nutrients and it is used

for gardens, landscaping, horticulture, urban agriculture, and organic farming.

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4. The compost itself is beneficial for the land in many ways, including as a soil
conditioner, a fertilizer, addition of vital humus or humic acids, and as a natural
pesticide for soil.

5. In ecosystems, compost is useful for erosion control, land and stream

reclamation, wetland construction, and as landfill cover.

6. At the simplest level, the process of composting requires making a heap of wet
organic matter (also called green waste, such as leaves, grass, food scraps) and
waiting for the materials to break down into humus after months.

7. The decomposition process is aided by shredding the plant matter, adding water,
and ensuring proper aeration by regularly turning the mixture when open piles or
"windrows" are used.

8. Earthworms and fungi further break up the material. Bacteria requiring oxygen to
function (aerobic bacteria) and fungi manage the chemical process by converting the
inputs into heat, carbon dioxide, and ammonium.

9. There are compostable materials that require special handling and to be avoided in
putting in a compost pile.

10. Compost Additives are inoculants, starters or accelerators, activators, and

Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO).

What I Can Do

Direction: Collect and formulate organic waste in your community by listing the kinds
of waste and its sources.

Kinds of Organic Waste Sources

1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

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 Assessment

fruits cow dung shredded newspaper twigs

vegetables chicken dung shredded brown paper green leaves
grass clippings dry leaves crop residues dead branches
straw untreated sawdust coffee grounds tea bags

Direction: Classify the items below. Choose the answer inside the box.

Green manure Brown manure

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 Answer Key

What I Know Assessment

What’s In
A. A.
1. c 1. AVIAN PEST (New Castle
B.
2. a Disease)
Green manure
3. c 2. CHRONIC RESPIRATORY coffee grounds, Fruits,
4. a DISEASE (CRD) vegetables,
5. a FOWL FOX 3. grass tea bags, green
B. 3. INFECTIOUS CORYZA (Cold leaves,
waste, animal or Sipon) clippings
kitchen Brown manure
,manure Other Common Poultry shredded newspaper,
, crop manure Diseases cow dung,
green m and Their Treatment and , shredded chicken
fruit, vegetable, Control dung twigs,
residues, 1. Avian Malaria. brown paper
food and seafood 2. Infectious Bursal Disease dead dry leaves, crop
processing (Gumboro) residues,
and etc., wastes 3. Cage Layer Fatigue straw , untreated , rice
4. Scaly Leg branches
Coccidiosis 5 sawdust

References
Content:
Competency Based-Learning Material
Animal Production NC II Module 1-7 Deciding to Raise Poultry pages 1-14

ANIMAL PRODUCTION NC II
Unit of Competency: RAISING POULTRY Module No. 7 Module Title: MAINTAINING POULTRY
HEALTH AND SANITATION

Anacleto B. Coronel, MS., DVM.A primer on Animal Husbandry Technology and

Livelihood Education III . Agriculture and Fishery SEDP SERIES

https://www.wikihow.com/Recycle-Biodegradable-Waste

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_fertilizer