Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[Carrie Shepard <carrieshepard@yahoo.com>]

I'm still figuring this out, but chickens were what I started with for livestock when we first got our own place.

 

Since we've lived here, I've increased the amount of shrubs, vines, and flowers each year and noticed that my place will sustain more and more chickens each year.  I coop them in the winter and put a bale of hay or straw any time I notice the coop getting to just bare soil again.   The first year we lost baby chicks to the coop flooding and that's never happened again since  I started thinking in terms of building soil and the amount of rain has lessened with the climate changing.  

 

The soil has 'uppened' and continues to do so and right now is growing sunflowers while the chickens are free-ranging.   I throw them a little whole grain such as milo each day, and I am getting several dozen eggs a day and growing and have about 50 mixed breed juvenile birds.

 

They've definitely helped keep the tick population down as well.  Love my raw egg supply!

Carrie

 

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