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  • From: "Kris Holstrom" <kholstrom@gmail.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] Chickens in the Garden
  • Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2007 08:35:32 -0700

We have high predator pressure on our place at 9000' in SW Colorado. Chickens have to be completely enclosed all the time due to neighbor dogs, coyotes, bobcats, hawks and owls. I use a "chicken tractor" in the garden - a mobile structure that allows the chickens to clean up the leftovers within the garden beds as we move them around.
 
 I also have a chicken run built along the inside edge of the garden fence. This gives them a safe space, out of the garden and acts like a "bug zapper". No grasshoppers make it through and we have an easy place to throw weeds that the chickens find tasty.

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Kris Holstrom
Tomten Farm

 
P.O. Box 1625
Telluride, CO 81435
970-728-1340



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