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Benefits: Improved soil quality, natural pest control, nutrient recycling. Challenges: Land management, potential for overgrazing, runoff issues.

Benefits: Natural growth patterns, less reliance on growth promoters. Challenges: Slower growth rates compared to conventional systems, weather impacts, seasonal growth variations.

Benefits: Ability to express natural behaviors, less feather pecking and cannibalism. Challenges: Need to manage hierarchical behavior, space management, conflicts among birds.

Benefits: Natural ecosystem balance, potential for reduced use of pesticides. Challenges: Losses to predators, fencing costs, active management required.

Benefits: Premium product prices, lower feed costs. Challenges: Higher labor costs, infrastructure investment, increased land usage costs.

Benefits: Assurance of quality and safety standards, industry recognition. Challenges: Adherence to strict regulations, costs of compliance, frequent inspections.

Benefits: Creates skilled labor jobs in rural areas, education opportunities. Challenges: Need for trained workforce, high turnover rates, varied workload.

Benefits: Access to diverse forage can improve feed conversion ratios. Challenges: Less control over diet, potential feed wastage, supplementation costs.

Benefits: Consumer appeal for ‘free-range’ or ‘pasture-raised’ products, niche market development. Challenges: Marketing costs, certification and labeling, consumer education.

Benefits: Potential for higher quality products, better taste, more nutritious. Challenges: Inconsistent product size, variable egg production, seasonality.

Benefits: Natural mating behaviors, improved fertility rates. Challenges: Managing breeding, potential for inbreeding, monitoring offspring.

Benefits: Less disease transmission due to lower stocking densities. Challenges: Exposure to wildlife diseases, less controlled environment, need for proactive health management.

Benefits: Early detection of health issues, preventative care. Challenges: Intensive labor to monitor each animal, training requirements, record-keeping.

Benefits: Improved health and well-being, natural behaviors, less stress. Challenges: Requires vigilant health monitoring, risk of predation, potential for weather-related stress.