Aquaponicpoultry Culture in Africa
The Aquaponicpoultry Concept
The Aquaponicpoultry derives much of its concept from the aquaponic culture only that it assimilates poultry farming into this symbiotic relationship. Moreover, the whole structure depending on the availability of funds and space is located within a green house.
The main activities of the farming involves
- Fish farming
- Chicken rearing
- Crop farming
Although aquaponics methodologies and technologies have been around for a long time, this approach of assimilating chicken is only recently getting the attention it deserves.
The concept is well suited to the African environment since the warm weather reduces heating costs (solar energy can also be used) and there is a significant water saving as it is a re-circulating system and only requires topping up from time to time.
Fresh vegetables and protein in the form of fish are easily produced on a regular basis.
Domestic food waste can be used as chicken feed and this farming is not confined to a specific breed of chicken.
The Aquaponicpoultry derives much of its concept from the aquaponic culture only that it assimilates poultry farming into this symbiotic relationship. Moreover, the whole structure depending on the availability of funds and space is located within a green house.
The main activities of the farming involves
- Fish farming
- Chicken rearing
- Crop farming
Although aquaponics methodologies and technologies have been around for a long time, this approach of assimilating chicken is only recently getting the attention it deserves.
The concept is well suited to the African environment since the warm weather reduces heating costs (solar energy can also be used) and there is a significant water saving as it is a re-circulating system and only requires topping up from time to time.
Fresh vegetables and protein in the form of fish are easily produced on a regular basis.
Domestic food waste can be used as chicken feed and this farming is not confined to a specific breed of chicken.
The concept of aquaponicpoultry
How it Works
The project requires minimum space but can also take a large space depending space availability.
A typical domestic system can be established on a 24 feet by 50 feet space.
Aquaponicpoultry culture creates a symbiotic relationship between fish, chicken and plants.
Chicken are easy to maintain. However, when dealing with specific chicken breeds such as layers or broilers much emphasis must be put on the living conditions. Domestic chicken breeds are easy to maintain since they rely of domestic food waste. The fish moreover will survive on the chicken droppings which are rich in proteins carbohydrates and other minerals. The chicken will eat some of the plants grown and they provide the fertilizer for the plants. The fish will provide ammonia fertilizer to the plant as the excrete ammonia rich waste.
The water in a fish tank is high in nutrients and requires filtering. Instead of using a traditional filter, we pump the water into a specially built vegetable garden that feeds and waters the plants.
In turn, the vegetable plants obtain the nutrients they need from the water, and return the filtered clean water to the fish tank. A tap will be put to provide iron and nutrient enriched water to a water trough to the chicken. The water will be filtered by the gravel and flow back into the fish tank as clean oxygenated rich water. Growing in this nutrient rich water the vegetables experience accelerated growth rates, are stronger and healthier and use about 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in soil.
The project requires minimum space but can also take a large space depending space availability.
A typical domestic system can be established on a 24 feet by 50 feet space.
Aquaponicpoultry culture creates a symbiotic relationship between fish, chicken and plants.
Chicken are easy to maintain. However, when dealing with specific chicken breeds such as layers or broilers much emphasis must be put on the living conditions. Domestic chicken breeds are easy to maintain since they rely of domestic food waste. The fish moreover will survive on the chicken droppings which are rich in proteins carbohydrates and other minerals. The chicken will eat some of the plants grown and they provide the fertilizer for the plants. The fish will provide ammonia fertilizer to the plant as the excrete ammonia rich waste.
The water in a fish tank is high in nutrients and requires filtering. Instead of using a traditional filter, we pump the water into a specially built vegetable garden that feeds and waters the plants.
In turn, the vegetable plants obtain the nutrients they need from the water, and return the filtered clean water to the fish tank. A tap will be put to provide iron and nutrient enriched water to a water trough to the chicken. The water will be filtered by the gravel and flow back into the fish tank as clean oxygenated rich water. Growing in this nutrient rich water the vegetables experience accelerated growth rates, are stronger and healthier and use about 10% of the water it takes to grow vegetable plants in soil.