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  • From: anna Lorrai <cactusandquail@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?
  • Date: Tue, 25 May 2010 12:09:50 -0700 (PDT)

I'm also wondering if I could put kids/goats in the chicken yard? Anybody
tried that? Anna

--- On Mon, 5/24/10, Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us> wrote:

> From: Harvey Ussery <harvey@themodernhomestead.us>
> Subject: [Livingontheland] Multi-species housing with poultry?
> To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing"
> <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Monday, May 24, 2010, 12:49 PM
> 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
>
> --
> 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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