PDC LESSON 9.0 LIVESTOCK GARDENING WITH CHOOKS

 

PERMACULTURE COURSE

AGRO-ECONOMY PDC LESSON 9.0

LIVESTOCK GARDENING WITH CHOOKS

Gardening with Chooks (chickens)

The chook run, as mentioned before, is best placed uphill from the garden to catch the nutrient flow from heavy rains. If you plan to use a deep litter system, can you grow enough forage and mulch for the chooks? Remember the food you can grow for the chooks will not only save you money but will give your chooks optimum health. Chooks need lots of greens and legumes such as pigeon pea. This will give them more protein so they will keep laying more eggs for you.

Several runs can be constructed, and the chooks can have access to this one at a time. The other runs remain closed to the chooks as you plant into them. The main vegetable garden can be constructed this way. This means minimum work and cartage all round!

Chooks do what they do best, and that is to scratch. A chook that can’t scratch is not a happy chook.

All that scratching power is often an untapped source of labour.

Text from the roots, Elisabeth Ferkonia (Aus.) PDC studied with Bill Mollison,



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