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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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Pasturing chickens,
Gerry Hawkes, 11/05/2001
- <Possible follow-up(s)>
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Foss _, 11/05/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Rex Teague, 11/05/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Xavier Dequaire, 11/06/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, georg parlow, 11/06/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Claude Genest, 11/06/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, akbabic, 11/06/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Gerry Hawkes, 11/06/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, georg parlow, 11/07/2001
- Re: Pasturing chickens, Xavier Dequaire, 11/08/2001
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