organic pasture for free range chickens

[klane444]

Do you have to use organic fertilizer on your pastures and lawns if you have organic free range chickens?

 

[Saltysteele]

ideally you would use nothing (hence, why organic products are more expensive)

but it's at least 3 years of using no pesticides or fertilizers, and they are not to be allowed to range onto any ground that is not also organic (for instance, your yard, your neighbors yard/field, etc.)

 

[dragonflydreamsfarm]

Like the previous poster said it is at least three years of no unauthorized chemicals. That is why our egg chickens are organic [inside the picket fenced yard], but the meat chicks, ducks, geese, and turkeys won't be for another year. My family has been using our main field for cows and has sprayed it heavily until we asked them to stop and has 1 more year in transition, but the actual yard part has been clear for at least 8 years.

It isn't that you must use X, but rather you can't use Y. So no you don't have to use organic fertilizer, but you definitely can't use a non-organic approved fertilizer.