[Sca-cooks] Re: [Sca-cooks]Chicken tractors

[A F Murphy]

Actually, I do know. I knew what a chicken tractor was before this
conversation started, though I've never seen one - someone someplace
else had mentioned having one, and explained. And it does, indeed,
spread manure...  though not with chickens pulling it, and not as well
as the thread! LOL!

Anne

Stefan li Rous wrote:

>Anne said:
>
>>Now, I may be a naive little city girl, but... I know when I'm being
>>sold a bridge! I like the idea of using this for a manure spreader,
>>though... *G*
>>
>
>Actually you are closer to the truth than you may know. Now that I;ve
>heard the term described I recognise this portable chicken coop as
>being what one of my fellow engineers uses at home.
>
>By moving the coop around the yard, not only do the chickens eat the
>various bugs and such in different sections, but they also fertilize
>that area of the yard while they are there.
>
>We have talked previously on this list about how period chickens
>didn't lay eggs constantly the whole year round. Well, niether do
>his chickens. His chicken production went way down this past winter.
>He didn't have enough for his family's uses much less to sell any
>extra to the rest of us. Of course the fact that some "wild" dogs
>got into one of the coops on a few occasions also had an impact.
>He lost turkeys because the turkeys would stick their heads through
>the fence and the dogs would grab the head and rip it off.
>
>The chicken raising is supposed to be done by his children with
>any money going toward their college fund. I think dad is still
>having to do a lot of the work though. Maybe the main thing it
>teaches though is that they don't want to grow up to raise chickens,
>so they better make the best of their schooling.
>
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