Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy SoilA chicken tractor is a bottomless portable pen that fits over your garden beds. Just set it wherever you need help in your garden. The chickens peck and scratch the soil to clean your beds, eat pest bugs and weed seeds, and fertilize the beds with their manure. Best of all, they provide eggs and meat with that old-fashioned flavor and homegrown goodness. This is a revolutionary practical book for gardeners and poultry growers. it has already helped thousands of gardeners have better gardens and has literally changed the lives of millions of chickens all over the world.--COVER. |
Contents
Recipe for a Chicken Tractor | 14 |
What is a Chicken Tractor Anyway? | 31 |
Why Chicken Tractors Belong in Your | 37 |
Copyright | |
12 other sections not shown
Common terms and phrases
acre American Livestock Breeds Andy Lee animal bale house batch Bill Mollison birds braces broilers brooder build chicken feed chicken tractor chicken tractor system chicken wire chicks cold frame comfrey compost pile cost cover crop Debeaking Deep Mulch System door earthworms equipment farm farmers feathers feeder fence fertility flock foraging freezer fresh garden beds Gene Logsdon grain grass grazing greenhouse grow growers guineas harvest Hatchery hay bales hybrid inches install Joel Salatin keep kelp land laying hens materials meat birds move the chicken nest boxes nitrogen nutrients organic matter panels Pastured Poultry pecking percent permaculture pheasants plants plastic portable pen pounds predators problem processing production pullets roof roost rooster rotation scratch screws seeds sell sheet mulch shelter-pen side soil square feet straw bale tomatoes turkeys vegetables Vermont vitamins weeds winter