permaculture

["roxann" <roxann@ancientearthwisdom.com>]

I never did like the idea of the moveable pens, they cram them full of 
chickens just like the factory houses. My chickens are true free range right 
now, and predation has been low due to the dog who guards them. but i do plan 
to move my chickens into the garden rotation when all the fences are built 
and use them as garden tillers, fertilizers, and de-seed and de-buggers. 
they'll still get the afternoons to free range outside the garden, but will 
come in to the henhouse at night. these will not be the production broilers, 
but most one of the hardier breeds suited for forage. people will have to be 
ready for a stronger, tougher bird, though - not the anemic (sp?) mushy kind 
of the grocery store. and it may not work for that reason alone as a small 
scale commercial endeavor. but i do have a few ready customers who requested 
exactly this so, it may work, but never to the scale of Tyson.

roxann, nw ar