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TVL-AFA
ORGANIC AGRICULTURE
Quarter 1 – Module 7:

SET-UP CAGE EQUIPMENT

TLE – Grade 11
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Quarter 1 – Module 7: Set-Up Cage Equipment
First Edition, 2020

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Quarter 1 – Module 7:
Set-up Cage Equipment
(Prepare bedding based on housing equipment housing design)
 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. perform the proper preparations and installation of beddings based on
housing equipment and design;
2. prepare beddings intended for chicks;
3. describe the different bedding materials.

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 What I Know

Multiple Choices
Direction: Let us find out how much you know about setting-up cage equipment.
Answer the following test items and e the letter of your choice. Write your answers
in your notebook.

1. 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.
2. Which statement best describes bedding?
a. 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.
3. 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
4. Which of the following is a function of bedding material?
a. Absorbs excess moisture from the droppings and drinkers
b. Dilutes fecal material
c. Insulates chicks from the cooling effects of the ground
d. All of the above
5. One of the characteristics of an effective bedding material is ______.
a. lightweight
b. expensive
c. toxic
d. heavy

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Lesson
SET-UP CAGE
1 EQUIPMENT
In this module, the step-by-step process of preparing and installing bedding
materials for poultry I discussed. Many of these bedding materials are readily
available in te community and even in respective houses. Exploring those local
materials is fun and enjoyable. Prepare and be amazed in this fun-filled learning.

What’s In

Direction: Take a look at the picture and answer the follow up questions below. Do
this in your notebook.

1. Tell something about the picture.

2. Do you believe that using appropriate beddings will make you a successful
poultry raiser? Why?

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

Prepare bedding based on housing equipment and housing design

Bedding is an important part of keeping your chickens happy and healthy.
On the chicken floor the bedding will provide a soft surface for your chickens to
walk on and will absorb droppings and odor. You want your chicken sanitary and
sweet-smelling. In the nest, bedding will give freshly-laid eggs a soft landing so they
don't crack. (A cracked egg is a spoiled egg.)

Bedding material serves a number of important functions. For example, it:

• 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; and
• 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.

Two of the most common beddings materials are pine shavings and straw.
⚫ Pine shavings
⚫ Straw

For pine, larger flaked shavings are recommended because they create less
dust and allow for quick scooping of waste. Cedar shavings are not recommended
because the scent can be overpowering and even toxic, especially to chicks.
Straw is one of the best materials for bedding. It has the same advantages of
pine shavings and provides something for chickens to scratch and peck through.
Either of these materials can be found at your local feed or farm supply store.

Other bedding materials that can be used

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What is It

Steps/Procedure in preparing available bedding materials

1. Wear Personal Protective Equipment

Personal protective equipment, commonly referred to as "PPE", is equipment
worn to minimize exposure to hazards that cause serious workplace injuries and
illnesses.

2. Apply good working and safety habits

Observe safety precautions at all times including wearing of suitable PPEs
while working. Appropriate field practices and proper equipment use and
maintenance is advised. Safety is the top priority.

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3. Collect available bedding materials (rice hulls, straw and hay, shredded paper or
saw dust) using sack, shovel or wheel barrow.

4. Install bedding based on housing equipment housing design inside the rearing
house.

5. Scatter beddings and arrange appropriate to housing design.

What’s More

Directions: Open the link below and watch the video clip. Identify the materials
needed in preparing beddings for chicken and take note the procedure on how to
prepare it. After watching the short video clip, answer the follow up questions
below. Do this in a separate sheet and submit to the teacher.

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Proper guidance and supervision from your parent/guardian is encourage.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=how+to+install+beddings+for+chicken&vi
ew=detail&mid=4099EEA3210FA5E7E55D4099EEA3210FA5E7E55D&FORM=VIR
E

Questions:
1. Describe the video.
2. What bedding material is used in the video?
3. How is bedding installed in the poultry house?

Alternative: The alternative activity is only for students WITHOUT ACCESS TO

INTERNET and were not able to watch the video clip.
Direction: Analyze the picture below and answer the questions after. Do this in a
separate sheet and submit to the teacher.

Questions:
1. Describe the picture.
2. What bedding material is used in the picture?
3. How is bedding installed in the poultry house?

Rubrics

Ideas 10points
Organization 10 points
Content 15 points
TOTAL 30 Points

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 What I Have Learned

I have learned that

I realized that

I will apply

What I Can Do

Instruction: Secure and prepare available bedding materials in the locality based
on housing equipment housing design.
JOB SHEET

Title: Securing and preparing available bedding materials in the locality based
on housing equipment housing design
Performance Objective: Given the necessary tools and materials, you should
be able to gather available bedding materials.
Time: 1 hour

Supplies/Materials: Personal Protective Equipment (Apron, gloves, mask, and

hairnet), sacks, shovel, wheel barrow.

Equipment : None

Steps/Procedure:
1. Wear Personal protective equipment.

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 2. Apply good working and safety habits.
3. Collect available bedding materials (rice hulls, straw and hay, shredded
paper or saw dust) using sack, shovel or wheel barrow.
4. Install bedding based on housing equipment housing design inside the
rearing house.
5. Scatter beddings and arrange appropriate to housing design.
6. Take video or picture and pass it to your teacher.

Assessment Method: Demonstration

Performance Criteria

Criteria Excellent Acceptable Needs

(10 Points) (7 Points) Improvement
(5 Points)
Preparedness Student is always Student is usually A student always
organized and ready ready to begin forgets to do with
to begin tasks. tasks, display the materials and
acceptable is rarely ready to
organization. begin the tasks.
Quality of Work Student maximized Learner’s arranged Put up bedding
the use of locally the bedding which using none of the
available bedding’s, is clean, suggested
which is clean, absorbent and materials.
absorbent, lightweightt
lightweight, covering 85% of
inexpensive and non- the house
toxic and enough to
cover the house.

Speed Secured and Had consumed 40 Collected and

prepared bedding in minutes in prepared bedding’s
just 30 minutes. preparing and within 50 minutes.
installing.
Work Safety Perform the correct Apply some ways Installed bedding
Habit way of installing in bedding without
bedding with all preparation inside considering the
Personal Protective the poultry house appropriate steps
Equipment. using some of the and without
Personal wearing the
Protective Personal Protective
Equipment. Equipment.

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Total

Assessment

Multiple Choices
Direction: Let us find out how much you know about setting-up cage equipment.
Answer the following test items and choos the letter of your choce. Write your
answers in a separate sheet and submit to the teacher.

1. What 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
2. The acronym PPE stands for ________.
a. Personal Property Equipment
b. Personal Protective Equipment
c. Proper Protection Equipment
d. Proper Personal Equipment
3. 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.
4. Which statement best describes bedding?
a. 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.
5. Which of the following is a function of bedding material?
a. Absorbs excess moisture from the droppings and drinkers
b. Dilutes fecal material
c. Insulates chicks from the cooling effects of the ground
d. All of the above
6. One of the characteristics of an effective bedding material is ______.
a. lightweight
b. expensive
c. toxic
d. heavy
7. What tool is use in collecting bedding material like rice hulls and wood shavings?
a. Wheel barrow
b. Shovel
c. Sack
d. All o the above

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8. Which of the following is a good work safety habit?
a. Wearing incomplete PPE
b. Playing around the poultry house
c. Keeping work area clean
d. Maximizing work pressure
9. Why is wood shavings a choice for bedding poultry?
a. It is expensive
b. It is cheap
c. It is absorbent
d. It is toxic
10. Which statement best describes bedding?
a. The process of providing chicks with proper temperature naturally or
artificially 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.

Answer Key

5. C
4. A
10. A 3. E
9. B & C 2. B
8. C 1. D
7. D II.
6. B 10. A Answers may vary
5. A 9. B & C
4. D 8. C What’s More
3. A 7. D
2. A 6. A
1. D 5. D
4. A
What I Know 3. D
2. D
1. A
I.

Assessment

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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://www.scratchandpeck.com/bedding-options-for-chicken-coops/

https://www.osha.gov/personal-protective-equipment

https://nifa.usda.gov/topic/agricultural-safety

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.google.com.ph/search?q=farm+ppe&dcr=0&source=lnms&tbm=isch&
sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiPiO_Fh__qAhWoBKYKHY8dAgIQ_AUoAXoECA0QAw&bi
w=1525&bih=730#imgrc=vV6VzQIaYuNJaM
https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=bedding+materials+for+chickens&tbm=isch
&ved=2ahUKEwjv646miP_qAhWsx4sBHdTdCBIQ2cCegQIABAA&oq=bedding
+materials+for+&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQARgAMgQIABAYMgQIABAYOgQIABBDOg
UIABCxAzoCCAA6BwgAELEDEEM6BggAEAUQHjoECAAQHlCmgxZYvL4WYL
vLFmgDcAB4AIAByQGIAdEikgEGMC4yNC4xmAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1p
bWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=_wYoX6_wDKyPr7wP1LujkAE&bih=730&biw=152
5#imgrc=cydw6dhpBB_euM

https://www.google.com.ph/search?q=poultry+bedding&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwi
jPX3gv_qAhVWyosBHUnXBdQQ2cCegQIABAA&oq=poultry+bedding&gs_lcp=
CgNpbWcQAzICCAAyAggAMgQIABAYMgQIABAYMgQIABAYMgQIABAYMgQIA
BAYMgQIABAYMgQIABAYOggIABCxAxCDAToFCAAQsQM6BAgAEEM6BwgA
ELEDEEM6BggAEAgQHlC9QFiXYGD0emgAcAB4AIAB4QGIAbcUkgEGMC4x
My4ymAEAoAEBqgELZ3dzLXdpei1pbWfAAQE&sclient=img&ei=YAEoX6PICd
aUr7wPya6XoA0&bih=730&biw=1525&hl=en#imgrc=vpuOqPASPFX9dM

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