Free-Range Kampung Chicken

Over the past year, I have been testing out growing Ayam Kampung or Village Chicken.  During that period, I was monitoring the feed and growth as well as the general health of the chicken along with its predators.  I was also building my prime stock - the starter for all my chickens.  We also sold the eggs produced as there was too many for us to consume and it was well-received.  The chickens that we raise are strictly ayam kampung and also mixed-bred with ayam hutan.  The eggs produced have a golden yellow yolk and are smaller in size in comparison to the regular eggs.
I tried a few types of "homes" for them and finally settled on one, an enclosure with partial roof as well as laying boxes for the hens.  We also placed "standing" rails where the chickens put place themselves during the night time.  It appeared that they preferred to be above ground when they rest at night.  It was really interesting to watch them look for their spots as darkness fell.  As these chickens can fly, albeit not at a very high height, the fencing around the enclosure is about 12 feet high and to prevent them from getting up to the roof of their house, we placed the zinc vertically.
The hens seems to be happy with their laying boxes although I cannot understand why sometimes they want to share the boxes when there are empty boxes.  Alhamdulillah, they seem to lay every day and over this period of Ramadhan and Aidil Fitri, I have decided to let them hatch their eggs.  At last count there are over 50 eggs and it would be interesting to see how many hatch.  This will my starting point for seriously rearing chickens. 

It seems that these types of chickens are popular and not easy to find, and when you do find it, it is more expensive.  It makes sense as you require a larger area as well natural source of food for them supplemented with store-bought feed.  The growth period is also slower as compared to cage-reared chicken that spends its days in the cages.
The chickens are let out during the day, to forage for insects and worms as well as the greens such as grass.  We also fed them with the extra ripe bananas and papayas as well as grated coconut that we had extracted the milk from.  So they also served as our organic disposal "machines".  Every evening around 6pm, we feed them crushed corn and they seem to have this down to a tea.  Should I be walking around during this time, they will follow me until I feed them their corn.
The chickens I raise are strictly for food and not for fights.  So, I am selective as to who I sell it to.  If all goes according to plans, then we will be able to offer for sale free-range ayam kampung in the near future.