Chickens are an invaluable partner in farming, both rural and urban. As stated in the Wikipedia Permaculture entry: “Chickens can be used as a method of weed control and also as a producer of eggs, meat and fertilizer.”
In this article I want to share a few videos on how to incorporate chickens into your farm-garden in order to help produce more food for you and your community.
Chicken Coop
It is important to build your Chicken Coop so that it allows for your chickens to walk freely around any alloted area, that it is easy to clean, and that the eggs that are laid are easily accessible to you.
Chicken Tractor
Chicken Tractors allow a farmer to easily relocate their friendly fowl onto areas of their garden, or farm, that they wish to have prepped for gardening. The chickens will eat pests, scratch up the ground, and even lay fertilizer onto the soil, in the process getting their own food while producing some for you as well.
Killing, Plucking and Butchering for Meat
Even if you do not wish to eat your chickens they still provide a great deal of food for you through their eggs. However, if you do wish to get meat from your chickens when their egg laying days are over there are ethical and respectful ways in which to kill them.
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Thumbnail Image: By Ervín Pospíšil [GFDL, CC-BY-SA-3.0 or CC-BY-SA-2.5-2.0-1.0], via Wikimedia Commons
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