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Re: [permaculture] new article: concerns about the way most people raise chickens
- From: Ben Martin Horst <ben.martinhorst@gmail.com>
- To: permaculture <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: Re: [permaculture] new article: concerns about the way most people raise chickens
- Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:04:45 -0700
Has anyone used a similar method for ducks? Or any other method that you've
found very satisfactory? I'm cognizant of the work done by Takao Furuno,
though I haven't read "The Power of Duck."
-Ben
On Tue, Aug 11, 2009 at 5:18 PM, paul wheaton <paul@richsoil.com> wrote:
> > How many chickens per acre for the paddock system to be effective?
>
> This is an excellent question. Because the answer is not simple ...
>
> The idea is that the land would be multi-use. Lot of different
> animals and lots of different kinds of things on the land. So your
> human consumption fruits, veggies and grains would be grown on the
> same land - just go in and harvest what you want just ahead of the
> chickens. The chickens will be your gleaners.
>
> That said, I would say 25 chickens per acre. Paddocks would be about
> 1/5 of an acre.
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[permaculture] new article: concerns about the way most people raise chickens,
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