Backyard Poultry
Um...well...maybe this is still not a picturesque scene, but it’s better than rocks and styrofoam! Also a lot less work, though more improvement will come. Here you can see the chickens in the garden beds. We put them on finished beds to scratch up the soil, and they found plenty of beetles and worms too, I’m sure. This is the idea of a “chicken tractor,” where you keep the hens concentrated over a patch of soil to turn it over naturally. It didn’t work fantastically for us in the end though—they mostly just dug dust holes, and left the rest alone. I think the soil has to already be pretty loose to work very well.
5 comments:
How did you get the chickens out to the runs?
We actually used two of these runs beside the chicken house as well, so we just dragged the runs with the hens in them out to the garden. (Sounds a lot easier than it was:)
Maybe their pay grade wasn't tractor level?
Ha ha ha!!
I guess they were mad at you for not letting them in the whole garden:).
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