Bird Life
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How To Build an Automatic Chicken Feeder For Free
Here is a simple and clever idea presented in the short video above. It’s the easiest DIY automatic chicken feeder.…
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Why Silkies Are the Perfect Hens for Small Gardens
I started my journey with chickens with two lovely ex-battery hens who were so friendly and were real pets. However,…
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Ducks in a Permaculture System (Scotland)
by James Reid, PRI Tap o’ Noth You don’t have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency. — Bill…
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Where Have All the Barnyard Breeds Gone? (And a Sustainable Poultry Workshop with Jim Adkins, August 5-7, 2014, NSW, Australia)
Instructor Jim Adkins teaching the Hogan Principles of Production at Heritage Creek Farm With the industrialization of agriculture, dual purpose…
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Building the Chicken Tractor on Steroids
"Who can weld?" Geoff asks. Keen to impress, my hand goes up. “I will see you at the shed after…
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Keeping Chickens
The scientific name for chickens is Gallus domesticus for domesticated chickens. Domesticated chickens have been bred by humans from Asian…
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Keeping Chickens on Contaminated Soil
by Good Life Permaculture Despite having lead contaminated soils, Margaret has been able to apply good design to integrate chickens…
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How to Grow Chickens Without Buying Grain – by Only Feeding Them Compost
Whilst on a tour of the US, Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton was giving a talk at Montpelier, Vermont, when a…
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A Worm Farm in Your Duck Coop! (Alaska)
In my last article I discussed the challenges of keeping ducks in backyard permaculture. There are two primary problems, at…
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Ducks in Backyard Permaculture (Alaska)
Here in the northernmost tip of North America’s temperate rainforest, Alaska’s infamous cold meets some of the wettest weather in…
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Geoff Lawton’s Zaytuna Farm Video Tour – Part II
Last year I took some time out to make a Zaytuna Farm Video Tour for you all (embedded here, with…
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Poo-Free Self-Filling Duck Waterer
If any of you have had any experience with ducks, you’ll know that they produce and deposit enormous amounts of…
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