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[VAN DELL JORDAN <vdjor AT yahoo.com>]

Gene,
How does the chicken scratching result in terracing?
Van Dell

--- Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com> wrote:

> 
> >I'm not a big fan of immobile chicken houses
> anyway, because 
> >chickens are very hard on plants. What they don't
> eat, they scratch 
> >up and dust in.
> >Moving their house periodically gives the old area
> a rest, and the birds new
> >pasture to work on. Modern electric netting is a
> real boon to chicken
> >farmers.
> 
> You are correct on all counts, Karen. But you do
> chickens 
> commercially. If I were doing likewise I would have
> movables in a 
> pasture. I use my hens to do work for me. The
> permanent yard slopes 
> toward one corner. We throw scraps and garden waste
> in at the top 
> end. By the time the stalks and poop make it down to
> the lower corner 
> it has been thoroughly processed and can go directly
> into garden 
> beds. The other way I used them for awhile was to do
> terracing across 
> an old pasture. All that scratching is a large
> amount of work energy. 
> It can be used.
> 
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