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Posted by SG1 on August 21, 2008, 9:44 pm
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> On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 21:20:23 -0700, Gas Bag wrote:
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>> sci.agriculture.poultry, alt.cooking-chat, alt.permaculture,
>> rec.gardens, aus.gardens
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>> Chickens supplementing their grain diet?
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> I think it was Earth Garden that had a chook pen design that consisted of
> central hen house with two attached pens. Basically you dumped all the
> vegetable matter that you could (AMY vege matter in small pieces) into one
> pen whilst they had the run of the other pen. Then you swapped. it might
> have been a week about, it might have been longer (probably).
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> The idea ws that the worms built up in the pen and created compost safe
> from the hens, then you'd allow the chooks into tractor it and eat the
> worms, whilst boosting the worm population inthe other.
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> Personally, I'd also throw out all meat scraps as well as that brings
> maggots,which the chooks will eat.
Forget the maggots the chooks will eat the meat b4 the flies get a chance.
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