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Amazing Gardening Chickens
By Suzi Franks
Someone commented on my profile picture, me and my chickens in my Kitchen Garden. I love my chickens, a sad but true fact!!
When we first moved into our piece of paradise, our dogs were exploring the new territory, while we were doing the hard work of emptying the removal truck. As we worked, we kept coming across fresh egg shells dotted about the floor, we were in the midst of investigating this strange happening when Sam one of our beautiful pack came in the house. I think it was the way she moved that told us she had something she didn’t want the others to see. I knelt down and asked her to show me what she had, and she duly opened her mouth and showed me her treasure...an egg It was then all hell broke loose as the chicken who laid the egg was unearthed from under the house...we managed to catch her before our dogs did and she was one of my beautiful girls who laid every day, so we called her Doris after Doris Day!! That was the start of our chicken collecting.Way back then, the chickens and I would work in the Kitchen garden together, they are FANTASTIC for preparing new garden beds and they are tireless workers. Give them a job and believe me they are quick to jump in and scratch, dig and till the soil until it looks like you have sieved it...perfect, except when it’s your newly planted seedling bed!! This was the problem that drove me to building them a coop and one they cannot get out of!! Now I get them to sieve my kitchen scraps, eat weed seeds out of the manure I collect and of course I collect their bedding and compost it for six months then use this gold dust on my vegetables and fruit trees! So if you want a ‘no dig’ garden invest in some chickens and let them prepare the ground for you, believe me it doesn’t take them long! And remember to compost their manure, it is high in nitrogen, potassium and phosphates and because of this if used fresh it will burn the tender plant stems. Leave it out in the open for the winter and it will be good to go come spring. |
Me and the working 'Girls'
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Boy. I can just picture this on the Discovery Channel. Definitely interesting intel.
Haha, love it! Good tip about the fresh manure burning the plants, I see a lot of people and books promoting the use of chicken manure, but they never tell you that important little fact.
very interesting!
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