Re: Protected beds to supply chickens with greens year round; an in-place chicken tractor.

my variation: construction steel mesh, bent to long-A-shaped things - see http://parlow.at/pk/texte/huhn/gif/schutz.gif

> Am 18.02.2018 um 02:20 schrieb Lawrence London <[email protected]>:
> 
> Protected beds to supply chickens with greens year round; an in-place
> chicken tractor.
> 
> My Facebook friend Keith writes: "grazing wire top barrels with Proso
> millet, to give full season green munchies"
> 
> This gives me an interesting idea. How about a fixed-in-place chicken
> tractor. Take two 12 foot pieces of 6 foot galvanized mesh fence wire
> (something more durable than dog wire). Lay out two beds 6'X12' each side
> by side with 6"X6" nontoxic treated beams. Fertilize the soil with rock
> dusts, greensand, rock phosphate, biochar, compost and manure -
> fork/spade/hoe or rototill that in. Then attach the 2 fence wire pieces to
> the beams with the wire about 4-6 from the ground. Use metal T posts laid
> across the beams to keep the fencewire from sagging. Seed the fertilized,
> tilled soil with a succession of greens for the chickens. They will eat
> what grows through the fence wire and it will continue to regrow
> (cut-and-come-again greens) and provide food for them most of the year. The
> wire will keep them from scratching the ground and uprooting all the plants
> and they in turn will provide continuous fertilizer for the greens. This
> could become a permanent fixture in the chicken yard and not require any
> maintenance until the wire rusts and has holes.
> 
> -- 
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