AboutHarvest.com A for profit social enterprise, all about food. Poly Pipe Chicken Tractor | Spiral Ridge Permaculture Well… We have built several Chicken Tractors now and the latest version has been inspired by all our past tractors, needs and tractors we have seen online. Our newest version can be used for rabbits, weeder geese, meat chickens, and ducks. This tractor was designed to move from one zone of use to another without the need to remove the flock. The parts for this are all local and recycled. Like what you see? Join our free mailing list.Learn how to apply permaculture designReceive tips on living sustainablityFind out ways to reduce your carbon footprintGet special offers and discounts on coursesBe part of an emerging solution-focused movement About Cliff Davis Owner/Director at New Agrarian Design and Co-Director at Spiral Ridge Permaculture Farmer, Designer, and Educator Find more about me on:
Soil and Health Library Travail du sol par un tracteur à poules : l'arpent nourricier Rappel des épisodes précédents J’ai construit un poulailler nomade sans plancher qu’on appelle un tracteur à poules. J’y ai mis quatre poules naines de race Orpington. Je leur ai donné les restes de cuisine et du grain bio. Et elles m’ont donné des oeufs. Mais pas seulement. Désherbage Effectivement, après un mois sur place, les poules ont grignoté chaque plante et chaque brin d’herbe jusqu’à la racine. Contrôle des nuisibles Je n’ai pas été regarder de très près, mais je ne crois pas qu’un insecte ou qu’une limace aient pu survivre à un mois de traque, surtout à mesure que disparaissait tout couvert végétal. Compostage des déchets de cuisine Depuis l’arrivée des poules, nous avons un récipient de plus pour le tri des déchets : la gamelle des poules. Les poules ont semble-t-il apprécié ce régime, et le déversement quotidien de déchets de cuisine n’a pas transformé le poulailler en une décharge insalubre. Incorporation du compost
Hunter Angler Gardener Cook Stress Free Chicken Tractor Plans | Chicken tractors make pastured poultry happy! Are you looking for a functional yet practical way to raise chickens on pasture? Having trouble finding detailed information on chicken tractor plans and designs? Are you looking to get into pastured poultry but want to take some of the guess work out of raising chickens? Then you’re in luck! In addition to detailed drafting and materials lists, I have compiled thousands of hours of research, both in the field (literally) and out, to bring you a detailed guide on how to build a chicken tractor that you are actually going to be happy using. Believe it or not there are a lot of things to consider when building a chicken tractor. “Stress Free Chicken Tractor Plans” is meant to save you those thousands of hours so you can get right into raising a flock of your own. You will have a chicken tractor that stands up to being moved around pasture every day. My design has the potential for more than one use. Troy Bishopp “The Grass Whisperer” of Bishopp Family Farms Margaret Hopkins of Local Farm
Farmers markets move online It isn’t always easy finding fresh, high-quality food in this country. Supermarkets with their long, complex supply chains usually offer unripe or subpar produce that leaves a lot to be desired. But the usual alternative methods of provision have distinct limitations. Only local farms can deliver the very freshest produce. CSAs require a large up-front cash layout and lock you into eating whatever happens to be delivered. For quality-minded consumers who would like to support local agriculture, it can be a struggle to obtain the freshest food on a consistent basis. But as I discovered in researching my new book on good news in sustainable food, small producers have one magical ace up their sleeve, a tool that could provide a far greater advantage to locally oriented growers than to big nationally focused ones: the Internet. “We’re not foodies,” Tim Will, executive director of Foothills Connect and the brains behind the project, told me. Katherine Gustafson wrote this article for YES!
4. Poo - The Chicken Keeper's Guide - The Poultry Pages - Allotment and Vegetable Gardening Below are pictures of Chicken Droppings kindly donated by our members (the pictures not the poo). Normal Picture taken by Catsmuvva These last three pictures have shed intestinal lining in them - quite normal, not a cause for concern. Coral coloured Urates These are frequently deposited overnight and are quite normal Oily and Foamy The range of "Normal" is huge :shock: Ceacal These are produced from the caecum of the chicken and are mustard to dark brown froth. Fly Maggots (picture curtesy of Vember) Flies will lay their eggs on moist chicken poo and in warm weather they will very quickly hatch into small maggots. Watery Watery droppings can be produced by hens which are too hot. Abnormal poos Coccidiosis produces blood in faeces. Above is from a chicken suffering with Clostridium perfringens.see: The hen who produced this specimen was about 25 weeks old. Worms picture taken by smiler43 picture taken by Lindeggs Broody Poo Thanks to ANHBUC for this picture