I had chickens for quite a few years in my last home. The best thing about chickens is their poo. I had quite the fertile ground in that place. Here, I have to work hard to get fertility going.
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I had chickens for quite a few years in my last home. The best thing about chickens is their poo. I had quite the fertile ground in that place. Here, I have to work hard to get fertility going.
Chickens for fertilizer - and for pest contol!
They eat bugs!
Our earthworms, I'm told, are not native to North America, but we now rely on them to aerate soil in every state on the continent.
New, now: a lookalike worm, NOT the earthworm, which is destroying forests.
Asian jumping worms: a threat to gardens and woodlands (has good close-up photos) | Ohio State University, 2020
Bring on the chickens! Let them eat worms!
There was acid rain. then gypsy moths. loosestrife. Bad weather. Now lanternflies, worms, and knotweed. Always something in nature we should be battling, and never in the entities that insist we do battle. Usually government supported in some way, so we do battle with ourselves. Nifty little trick called slavery. Question everything! It's much more interesting than unthinking belief.
We had chickens when young, poo cleared added to compost heap then turned for the fruit trees and veg gardens no waste.
Young farmer of chickens, we met through friends. Turned poo into full time business, he was a millionaire within a couple of years, something not done here in 1970s large scale.
I wish he were operating here! I would love to buy some.