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TVL-AFA
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Quarter 1 – Module 6:

SET-UP CAGE EQUIPMENT

TLE – Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module 6: Set-up Cage Equipment
First Edition, 2020

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Quarter 1 – Module 6:
Set-up Cage Equipment
(Secure available bedding materials in the locality)
 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. secure available bedding materials in the locality;
2. choose appropriate bedding for chicken; and
3. practice the proper way of securing bedding for poultry production.

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 What I Know

Multiple Choices
Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the correct answers in your notebook.
Let us find out how much you know about setting-up cage equipment.

1. What should be the characteristic of the facilities inside the rearing house?
a. Small
b. Cleaned and disinfected
c. New
d. Big enough for the birds
2. What will be the result of improper selection of bedding materials used for
birds?
a. Keep smells down and reduce ammonia.
b. Provide birds with a comfortable bedding.
c. Provide compact and absorbent kind of bedding.
d. Encourages bacteria that can be harmful to poultry which releases
ammonia and damages the respiratory system of birds.
3. Which statement best describes bedding?
a. The process of providing chicks with organic materials to make them
warm and comfortable
b. The act of separating the male from the female birds.
c. The process of separating the productive from the unproductive bird.
d. The process of providing birds with proper ventilation.
4. Which is the hard protecting covering of grains of rice use as organic bedding
material for chicken?
a. rice hull
b. Shredded Paper
c. Straw and Hay
d. Wood shaving
5. A bedding material that is more absorbent and does not get as compacted as
paper or straw is _____.
a. shredded paper
b. chop cardboard
c. rice hulls
d. wood shavings

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Lesson
SET-UP CAGE
1 EQUIPMENT
In this module, specific instruction on bedding materials in the locality
based on housing equipment is discussed. It is intended for your learning on the
different bedding materials that readily available which are very useful in organic
agriculture. Read this module and be ready to conduct the activities full of fun and
excitement.

What’s In

1. What are different breed of chicken?

2. What are the characteristics of good quality chicks?
3. How will you choose appropriate site for a poultry project?
4. Why we should consider the different factors in preparing chicken house?

Notes to the Teacher

This contains helpful tips or strategies
that will help you in guiding the learners.

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 What’s New

What is the Best Bedding Material?

There are a number of choices when it comes to bedding for chickens, ducks
and other poultry. The most obvious requirement is that it should be safe for the
birds to use but there are other desirable qualities in bedding: it should not
compact down and be absorbent for as long as possible. Damp bedding not only
encourages bacteria, some of which can be harmful to poultry but also releases
ammonia which damages the respiratory system.

Functions of bedding materials:

⚫ absorbs excess moisture from the droppings and drinkers and promotes
drying by increasing the surface area of the house floor
⚫ dilutes fecal material, thus reducing contact between birds and manure

⚫ insulates chicks from the cooling effects of the ground and provides a
protective cushion between the birds and the floor
An effective bedding material must be absorbent, lightweight, inexpensive
and non-toxic. Ideal materials will have high moisture absorption and release
qualities to minimize litter caking. In addition, a bedding material must be
compatible as a fertilizer or soil amendment after it has served its purpose in the
broiler house.

Use caution when considering alternative bedding sources. Materials need to

be evaluated based on their performance potential, downgrading potential, and
potential for residues. The possibility of residues is the most serious consideration,
whether it be compositional or accidental. If a chemical is in the bedding material,
it has the possibility of ending up as a residue in broiler tissues.

What is It

Secure and prepare available bedding materials in the locality based on

housing equipment housing design

Bedding Materials

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 White wood shavings (dust extracted, not sawdust) is one of the most
popular bedding materials for chickens, ducks and other poultry as they are
relatively cheap, very absorbent and easy to use. Shavings keep smells down and
reduce ammonia in the air from droppings that can cause respiratory damage and
eye problems.

Straw can be used as a bedding material although it compacts easily and isn’t very
absorbent so needs changing regularly.

Chop Cardboard

It is more absorbent than shredded paper and doesn’t get as compacted as

paper or straw. It will compost quickly and can then be dug into the ground as
compost. It is dust free which is a big advantage over other bedding types.

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 Shredded paper can be used as bedding material but again, isn’t a very good
choice since it compacts easily and isn’t very absorbent. Depending on how it has
been shredded and how thick it has been layered depends on how absorbent it is. It
can work in nest boxes if it’s changed regularly before it compacts.

Rice hulls (or rice husks) are the hard protecting coverings of grains of rice.
In addition to protecting rice during the growing season, rice hulls can be put to
use as bedding material for chicken, fertilizer, insulation material, or fuel

What’s More

Direction: List down all available bedding materials that can be found in the
community.

Bedding Materials for Chicken

What I Have Learned

1. There are many local materials that can be used for bedding for chickens and
most of them can be found in the community or at home

2. An effective bedding material must be absorbent, lightweight, inexpensive and

non-toxic.
3. Examples of bedding materials are:

⚫ Wood shavings
⚫ Straw and hay

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 ⚫ Chop cardboard
⚫ Shredded paper
⚫ Rice hulls
4. Chop cardboard is more absorbent than shredded paper and doesn’t get as
compacted as paper or straw.

5. Rice hulls (or rice husks) are the hard protecting coverings of grains of rice.

6. Shredded paper can be used as bedding material but again, isn’t a very good
choice since it compacts easily and isn’t very absorbent.
7. White wood shavings (dust extracted, not sawdust) is one of the most popular
bedding materials for chickens, ducks and other poultry.

8. Straw can be used as a bedding material.

What I Can Do

Instruction: Make a pictorial report on the different materials that can be used as
bedding material for chicken that are available in the community. Take a picture of
it and prepare your pictorial report with identification of the material and its
characteristics. The template below will be your guide. Do this is a short bondpaper
and submit to the teacher
Your safety is considered, make sure you do the activity with the guidance of your
parent/guardian.

Name: __________________________

Date: ____________________

Material Picture Characteristic

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 Scorecard

Criteria Excellent Good Fair Poor

20 points 15 points 10 points 5 points
Picture The picture Picture includes Does not have The picture is
Content includes all all relevant all of the lacking and
information information; relevant taken from
relevant to the however, it does information of another source
topic in bedding not utilize the the picture. like internet.
materials for resources There are many
chicken. and/or is not gaps in
well-organized. information
presented.

Work The work done The work was Work is done It is evident that
quality/effort exceeds all done with good with fair effort, the work was
expectations and effort that but the quality rushed and little
shows that the shows what the is still not what time was spent
learner is proud learner is the learner is on the final
of his/her work. capable of. capable of. product. Work
is incomplete.

Presentation The student gives The student There are The student is
the gives the several not able to give
characteristics characteristics a confusing the
clearly with good amount of characteristics characteristics.
complete the information and the No preparation
understanding.. expected. information was done.
presented is not
clear.

Assessment

I. True or False
Direction: Write True if the statement is correct; False if it is incorrect.
_______ 1. White wood shavings is one of the least popular bedding materials for
chicken.
_______ 2. Shavings keep smells down and reduce ammonia in the air.
_______ 3. Straw can be used as a bedding material.
_______ 4. Chop cardboard is dust free.
_______ 5. Rice hulls is also called rice husks.

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Multiple Choices

Direction: Read each item carefully. Write the correct answers in your notebook.
Let us determine how much you already know about raising organic chicken.

1. What should be the characteristic of the facilities inside the rearing house?
e. Small
f. Cleaned and disinfected
g. New
h. Big enough for the birds
2. What will be the result of improper selection of bedding materials used for birds?
e. Keep smells down and reduce ammonia.
f. Provide birds with a comfortable bedding.
g. Provide compact and absorbent kind of bedding.
h. Encourages bacteria that can be harmful to poultry which releases
ammonia and damages the respiratory system of birds.
3. Which statement best describes bedding?
e. The process of providing chicks with organic materials to make them
warm and comfortable
f. The act of separating the male from the female birds.
g. The process of separating the productive from the unproductive bird.
h. The process of providing birds with proper ventilation.

4. Which is the hard protecting covering of grains of rice use as organic bedding
material for chicken?
a. rice hull
b. Shredded Paper
c. Straw and Hay
d. Wood shaving
5. A bedding material that is more absorbent and does not get as compacted as
paper or straw is _____.
a. shredded paper
b. chop cardboard
c. rice hulls
d. wood shavings

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 Answer Key

5. True
4. True
3. True
2. True
5. True 1. False
4. True II.
3. True 5. B Answes may vary
2. True 4. A
1. False 3. A What’s More
I. 2. D
Assessment 1. D
I.
What I Know

References

Content:

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

Livelihood Education III .Agriculture and Fishery. Animal Production. SEDP
SERIES

Competency Based-Learning Material

Animal Production NC II Module 1-6 Deciding to Raise Poultry pages 1-14

https://poultrykeeper.com/housing-chickens/what-is-the-best-bedding-material-
for-chickens-and-ducks/

Images:

https://poultrymanual.com/poultry-philippines-chicken-breeds

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Hubbard+chicken&FORM=HDRSC2

http://www.filipinopoultry.com/index.php/2016/05/23/chicken-breeds-in-
philippines/

https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=Houses%20for%20Chicks%2FBrooders%
20in%20the%20philippines&qs=n&form=QBIR&sp=-
1&pq=houses%20for%20chicks%2Fbrooders%20in%20the%20philippines&sc=0-
45&sk=&cvid=51701CC9666441AEA2D030BE12BFF6A3

https://www.instructables.com/id/Home-Grown-Eggs-Building-Your-Own-
Chicken-Cage/#:~:text=Home Grown Eggs: Building Your,10 Water More items...

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