This research was conducted in the year of 2012 to 2014 by using a survey method on 122 farmers, under
purposive sampling design, who carry traditionally on small-scale local chicken in the various villages in the regions
of South Minahasa, North Minahasa, Center Minahasa, and Tomohon. The data was obtained through interviews
and direct observation in the field and analized with qualitative and quantitative approaches. The data taken include
the number of animals per farmer respondents, fulfilling the nutritional needs of animal, rearing to control the
potential spread of disease, which this data were divided into several categories according to the type of tradition
cultivated: a). Continuously cultivated in a pen; b) Released freely– only at night entered in a cage, and c). Released
freely in the day and without cage at night, the chickens seeking shelter they self around livestock, almost of them
used tree branches as shelter at night.