It works now. Sorry to read you have to move, your place sounds idyllic. I'll be thinking about you. I went to your site and I'm...
Unfortunately, roosters are still a necesary ingredient if you want chicks. Although, we've always had atleast two around with our girls and...
If you're doing the tractor thing right the soil will be fluffing up not squishing down (unless you've got some awfully big mutant chickens). The...
We've used these with good results. They're fruit fly traps. I dunno about the shipping costs to where you are (Lee Valley is in Canada) but...
Welcome to the world of permaculture! Here we try to arrange things so that they interlink and become stronger and more stable/selfsufficient....
I don't know if you have them available to you, but I'd get some straw bales and stack them around the pen as walls. They have a phenomenal...
I'm kinda partial to the infant mortality rate being what it is.
What else is fossil fuel good for but using? (Boy am I asking for it). The light idea is absolutely not a long term solution, it's not...
Maybe try giving them some extra light. In the winter here we keep a light bulb on a timer to lengthen the day-light hours that they go through....
I'm so ashamed! To think that I am a member of that evil cult of chookherds that has brought modern society to such a brink! How did the chicken...
Thanks sweetpea. My soil passes the sniff test and the worm test with flying colors. The glass jar test will have to wait, but I remember doing...
Could you describe your vetch a little more, I only have experience with overwintered hairy vetch which does indeed grow very well? Does it get...
On paper it seems like a great idea (don't they always). I had a place on our lawn where the clover is dominant (high foot traffic) even over...
They have to be. And at first I really watched for it with our girls especially since theyre so big and should have trouble sheding all that body...
Are your kids going to "help" with the chickens? I'd recommend trying to get some Black Australorp hen chicks. Their roosters are just about as...
Why not probes in both? I've wondered about this too, but until they find a box that can measure a cocktail of...
Has anyone here had experience with the technique of training deciduous vines up on the roof/wall as sketched out by Mollison and others? I've...
Hi Karen, You've come to the right place! I've been raising chickens for bout five years (three batches of about thirty each) on a backyard...
thanks paige, looks good.
Yes, thanks. I'd like to build one myself one day as a way to get in to s'bale construction.
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