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  • From: Xavier Dequaire <xavier@futurich.com>
  • To: permaculture <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Pasturing chickens
  • Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2001 14:42:16 +0100


> We have been totally free ranging our chickens on worn out pasture and
> just confining them at night for their own safety. They have been free to
> wander from the pasture to a wet wooded area of alders and willows and
> actually spend about half their time in the wooded area.

Naturally, chickens origiinal habitat is woodland:
I think you can still find some wild chicken somewhere in India
Chicken seek height for sleeping, into trees,
and they appreciate the canopy cover as a protection for prey birds






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