Chicks and Weeds - Integrated Gardening blog

 OK - Chicken order mailed out - waiting to get their reply (all orders in writing, fully paid - snail mail only) - AND - if all goes well, chickens will be send April 24, that leaves a month to get ready.

On March 12 - I was given the ok to use a parcel of land and an old, delapidated greenhouse to start a project I lovingly call: Chicks and Weeds. It is an integrated gardening project. The folks living on this property have an acre of gardenspace, but are no longer able to work there. It is pretty back-breaking work, even if you love it, and then  you have a full schedule on top of it.
I am using "The small scale Poultry Flock as a guide, some online information and in 2 days I will be going to check out how someone here in the community has handled various issues about keeping chickens.

Why keep chickens:
to get eggs from truly free ranging chickens,
to get the soil worked by them as well as fertilized,
to keep the bugs out of the orchard.

to potentially have a well functioning healthy animal/plant unit that can feed a family independent of being on the net.

Here is what now needs to be accomplished

Use the existing structure to construct a chicken house.
Have a space where the birde and be outside safely.
Build a chicken brooder

Get help
Check out my friend's chicken house
Find suppliers - equipment, feed etc

This is the old greenhouse - to be made into an area where the chickens will live