Animal Housing
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Building a Chicken Coop: 11 Cheap Ways
The chicken coop is almost certainly going to be your biggest expense when you’re preparing for your first flock. Building…
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Designed Soil Disturbance with Chickens
We’re moving the Chicken Caravan 30, aka ‘The Chickenator,’ into the main crop system which is a lovely new playground…
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Goats and Permaculture
Bill Mollison once wrote that goats in any large number are incompatible with permaculture. Goats when overstocked can quickly turn…
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Backyard Chickens, and the Interconnectedness of all things. Part 2
This article is Part 2 of a series that is mostly about chickens – not how to care for them,…
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Permaculture chickens – 6 practical lessons from the evolution of chickens
One of the fundamentals of permaculture design is to observe, understand and work with natural ecosystems. It sounds simple enough…
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5 Key Stages of Designing a Chicken Tractor
If you’ve kept chickens for any length of time I’m sure you’ll be familiar with chicken tractors; also known as…
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Closed-Loop Farming in Costa Rica
I woke up to the sound and smell of a chicken coop. It was a mild March morning in La…
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Raising Rabbits: My Source of Manure
I love raising rabbits, mainly because of rabbit pellets also known as rabbit manure. When people ask me why I…
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A Fowl Arrangement Between Us All
Every morning I get out of bed to the sound of turkeys and chickens parading around my cabin en route…
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The Definitive Guide To Keeping Chickens In Winter
Welcome to The Definitive Guide To Keeping Chickens In Winter. Raising chickens during winter can be a challenging time for…
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Facts that Expound more on what Constitutes of Bamboo
Photo: Bambusa vulgaris at the PRI Zaytuna Farm Bamboo Bamboo is a resource that over the ages was not tapped.…
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Stationary Chook Tractor
Volunteers and students, together with Tom Kendall, have constructed a stationary chook tractor to enable chickens to prepare their own…
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