The project officially started on December 29th, 2012 as the first step to self sustainability. The project was facilitated by a team from St Benedicts University. John and Cole came to URF to help build coops, as well as fundraise to purchase approximately 600 chickens. The goal is to reduce donor dependency, and to help develop smaller projects with income from sale of the eggs. The end of the year target is 1000-1500 birds producing 50-100 eggs a day.
About ten feet from the edge of the building where I sleep is a chicken coop. A wooden frame coated in metal panels. The interior is coated with chicken wire for obvious reasons. Wooden poles criss cross over wooden feeding containers. Around 524 chickens occupy the room, and when the power goes out they huddle together.
The rooster likes to wake me up at 5am, and on those mornings where I do get up I like to venture out in the darkness and see these birds.
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