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  • From: boyd manges <bmanges@yahoo.com>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] shrubs for chicken yard?
  • Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2008 09:54:50 -0800 (PST)

siberian peashrub is pretty tough, and provides a good
food source for the birds, I use it as a windbreak.
boyd NW lower MI
--- Matt Demmon <mdemmon@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've been thinking about the flip side of an issue
> that's been
> floating around lately. There's been a lot of
> interesting talk about
> which animals may mesh well in an orchard
> environment. I'm wondering
> if any one has opinions on fruiting shrubs that may
> benefit from being
> in a chicken yard. Something that would handle the
> high nitrogen
> fertilizer on thrive on it, and provide the chickens
> with food, and
> leave some higher up fruits for us. We have a fairly
> large chicken
> run, and only a dozen or two birds at any one time,
> so it's not like
> it's a manure lagoon, but it is about 40% bare
> ground right now. They
> yard is shady in the north and full sun in the
> south. We're in zone 5,
> southeast michigan. I guess I'm mostly curious about
> what effect the
> chicken manure would have on various plants. In my
> mind I thought
> something like elderberries or some brambles might
> make most effective
> use of the nitrogen. I know that different plants
> react differently to
> soils, and while some may be able to utilize it
> effectively, others
> might produce way too much green growth at the
> expense of health and
> fruiting.
>
> -matt demmon
>
> --
> -matt
> www.flickr.com/photos/farmerdemmon
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