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GCV, do your little Chickies have this?
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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 271118" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Janet, make sure it's not your roosters killing each other. We've had to cull our spare roosters, to prevent this. A neighbour of ours didn't do this, he came home to carnage but it was all contained in the chook pen, no dogs could have got in.</p><p></p><p>And on the subject of chooks and spirituality - </p><p></p><p>I kid you not, we have labelled our large chook enclosure, where our chickens spend the bulk of their days in quiet contemplation, "CHOOK-Pori", after the home of Tibetan Buddhism, in Lhasa.</p><p>Ours isn't a chicken tractor, we instead have a 3m x 4m deep litter henhouse. The scraps, grass clippings, prunings, mulch etc all goes into the chookhouse and composts down. It's about a metre deep or more, it keeps them warm in winter and every so often we kick down some of the loose-laid bricks and shovel out clean-smelling compost and plan our vegetables straight into it. or we used to, before the drought. Now we find that even though it's well composted, we need to dilute it or it's just too strong for the plants. So now, 50:50 with local (nutrition-free) sand, and the vegetables almost leap out of the pot.</p><p>But it needs to be kept dry, or it stinks. So if/when it gets wet and smelly, we throw in garden lime, that fixes it.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 271118, member: 1991"] Janet, make sure it's not your roosters killing each other. We've had to cull our spare roosters, to prevent this. A neighbour of ours didn't do this, he came home to carnage but it was all contained in the chook pen, no dogs could have got in. And on the subject of chooks and spirituality - I kid you not, we have labelled our large chook enclosure, where our chickens spend the bulk of their days in quiet contemplation, "CHOOK-Pori", after the home of Tibetan Buddhism, in Lhasa. Ours isn't a chicken tractor, we instead have a 3m x 4m deep litter henhouse. The scraps, grass clippings, prunings, mulch etc all goes into the chookhouse and composts down. It's about a metre deep or more, it keeps them warm in winter and every so often we kick down some of the loose-laid bricks and shovel out clean-smelling compost and plan our vegetables straight into it. or we used to, before the drought. Now we find that even though it's well composted, we need to dilute it or it's just too strong for the plants. So now, 50:50 with local (nutrition-free) sand, and the vegetables almost leap out of the pot. But it needs to be kept dry, or it stinks. So if/when it gets wet and smelly, we throw in garden lime, that fixes it. Marg [/QUOTE]
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