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| The chicks are now five days old and doing great! |
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| They live in this brooder. Cost to build: $0 |
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| Modest exterior |
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| We have not lost one yet. |
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| These hens have been getting moved on our native drylands pasture at least twice a day ,,,,sometimes four or five! |
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| Hens on a diet of leafy greens, sprouted wheat berries and barley, and organic scratch, no soy whatsoever. |
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| These three hen tractors can on a good day produce three eggs each! |
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| Right now we have nine hens pasturing in three of these tractors. |
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| A planting of rye and buckwheat where we grew a bed of greens and carrots last year. This fall we will plant garlic here after the chickens scratch through a few plantings like this. |
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| Mike came out early this morning to load up ten hens and our 10 x 7 ft. tractor to take to a neighboring farm at the Real Food Nation property. |
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| Hens waiting for better pastures. |
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| Just two miles down the road, these ten hens will have plenty of pasture for weeks to come, eating up and tilling 70 sq. feet per day. We are attempting a cooperative relationship with other small farmers in ways like this that can benefit everyone and the land and animals bugs etc. |
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| We thought we could salvage some seedlings we planted in this bed in Feb. but the aphids were just everywhere...so hens to the rescue! |
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| It is so great to see chickens living in this environment and as farmers we have such great control of what they eat and how they impact the land by being able to move them on and off areas. |
three sisters test pot
