You can tell they have not been there very long, because there is lot of grass. Grass is the first to go, followed by every bug they can find. Then they will dig for the worms. :)
You can tell they have not been there very long, because there is lot of grass. Grass is the first to go, followed by every bug they can find. Then they will dig for the worms. :)
We plan on rotating them quite a bit, and changing the pen locations, then, eventually just free ranging them. I don't want exposed soil to be swept away by wind erosion.
Joel Salatin has an interesting method with a portable chicken coop. We don't have the space. We are just inside city limits, so we can't have a rooster either :( In addition to our thirteen laying hens, we also raise chickens for meat. Since there is only wooded area behind us, nobody knows, and it takes very little space to raise all the chickens we need for ourselves. We raise three batches of twenty five per year, and we will be starting another batch within the next couple weeks. Maybe I will do a post about it?
Do a post!
We use a smaller version of basically what Salatin does.
For both the chickens and rabbits.