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[Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?
- From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
- To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?
- Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 15:49:49 -0400
Is anyone practicing multi-species housing of poultry and other livestock? Joel Salatin's "raken" house (rabbit cages suspended over layer hens on 12-inch wood chip litter) comes to mind. Or allowing chickens free range in a big traditional barn, cleaning up feed from horses/cows/pigs while "sanitizing" the poops for fly larvae and parasites.
I'd especially like to know if anyone manages a pigeon loft over chickens at floor level. My main poultry house has a lot of "head room," and I've thought about fitting that space out as a pigeon loft (with the chooks taking care of "incoming" from the pigeons by working it into the litter).
Whether housing them over chickens or not: Does anyone keeping pigeons manage them so they feed themselves *entirely* from what they forage themselves, free-flying during the day and returning to the pigeoncote at night?
Again, pictures are great if you have them to share. Thanks.
~Harvey
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Harvey in northern Va
www.themodernhomestead.us
My book, THE MODERN HOMESTEAD POULTRY FLOCK, will be published next year by
Chelsea Green Publishing.
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[Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?,
Harvey Ussery, 05/24/2010
- Re: [Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?, anna Lorrai, 05/25/2010
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- Re: [Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?, Dianne Palmer-Quay, 05/26/2010
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