The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Purpletie3]

Wow, I just stumbled upon the thread I've been looking for lol!!


I'm so tired of getting picked on.... Lol I need to go back to page one and start from the beginning!

I'm 100% natural, organic, what have you.... Raised on the family ranch (mostly lol), we raise organic alfalfa, corn, and other crops, organic beef, sheep, obviously chickens... My passion is truly the soil, birds are my love

I don't worm, I don't vaccinate, I cull. I selectively breed for resistance in a closed herd. Or flock lol

Ultra excited to meet everybody over here, and I'm sure I have now found a group that won't make weird "glitter" comments whenever I mention DE or garlic

Cool another person who understands the importance of SOIL!!!! I will have to pick your brain on garlic...I believe it's greatly under-rated in US!

 

[lazy gardener]

I have a long haired German Shepherd he really is a great dog he knows the line that the coyotes can't cross he has killed a young loner before but I don't want to risk his life with a hole pack even though I know he would give it his best. I don't have the money for a gun right now so it looks like I'm gunna have to call in a few favors from the cousins and end this I can't take the risk with my animals or my self. They are just way to brazen this year it's unnerving.

Call in those favors ASAP. Take them out!

Wow, I just stumbled upon the thread I've been looking for lol!!


I'm so tired of getting picked on.... Lol I need to go back to page one and start from the beginning!

I'm 100% natural, organic, what have you.... Raised on the family ranch (mostly lol), we raise organic alfalfa, corn, and other crops, organic beef, sheep, obviously chickens... My passion is truly the soil, birds are my love

I don't worm, I don't vaccinate, I cull. I selectively breed for resistance in a closed herd. Or flock lol

Ultra excited to meet everybody over here, and I'm sure I have now found a group that won't make weird "glitter" comments whenever I mention DE or garlic

Gotta love someone who has an appreciation for the land and the plants/creatures that can be grown on it. Feed the soil, and it will feed you. Have you done any viewing of the BTE material? I'm putting in a BTE orchard (on a miserable clay/ rocky too wet piece of land, but it's all I have to work with.) Doing BTE, and it's amazing how the leaves of those trees have greened up, and things look like they're settling in nicely. Turning part of my garden into BTE this fall. Have been doing heavy mulch for 20+ years. Hate it when some one refers to garden soil as dirt. Dirt is what I sweep up off my kitchen floor!

Cool another person who understands the importance of SOIL!!!! I will have to pick your brain on garlic...I believe it's greatly under-rated in US!

I grow tons of garlic. It's a perennial in my garden, with clumps that are 8 - 10" in diameter. I harvest what I want, leave the rest to winter over, let the scapes stay and produce more young plants. Planting garlic and daffodils around my orchard plants, along with other plants to discourage pests/disease.

 

[shortgrass]

Wow I feel right at home already, toes in the SOIL and all!

BTE... I had to look that up lol.... After my ENTIRE life being devoted to my methods, I've looked at permaculture, bio-intensive, bioDYNAMICS... Everything under the sun lol... BTE would summarize EXACTLY what I do

 

[shortgrass]

Cool another person who understands the importance of SOIL!!!!  I will have to pick your brain on garlic...I believe it's greatly under-rated in US!

Call in those favors ASAP.  Take them out!  

Gotta love someone who has an appreciation for the land and the plants/creatures that can be grown on it.  Feed the soil, and it will feed you.  Have you done any viewing of the BTE material?  I'm putting in a BTE orchard (on a miserable clay/ rocky too wet piece of land, but it's all I have to work with.)  Doing BTE, and it's amazing how the leaves of those trees have greened up, and things look like they're settling in nicely.  Turning part of my garden into BTE this fall.  Have been doing heavy mulch for 20+ years.  Hate it when some one refers to garden soil as dirt.  Dirt is what I sweep up off my kitchen floor!

I grow tons of garlic.  It's a perennial in my garden, with clumps that are 8 - 10" in diameter.  I harvest what I want, leave the rest to winter over, let the scapes stay and produce more young plants.  Planting garlic and daffodils around my orchard plants, along with other plants to discourage pests/disease.

Garlic!!!! My grandma started me young on garlic; it started with a few clumps in my jars of pickles, and progressed to the point of getting a case of pickles, half of them without pickles, just the garlic


The health benefits of garlic are GROSSLY understated in all aspects.... Just wish it didn't make the DH smell like he's repelling vampires

 

[shortgrass]

@lazy gardener I dug this up, just for you!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/990759/chickens-in-permaculture

That's my method in a nutshell; you should have seen my beans after a microbe cocktail this spring!.... I had to buy a new deep freeze for them all

 

[lalaland]

I loved the pic of the strawberries - it looks like it would work in my chicken run under the welded wire fence top that provides hawk protection in the migratory seasons (pretty much now through Dec).

Garlic, you are lucky to live somewhere it can overwinter. I had to start new this fall with new seed since the stuff I've been growing and replanting for years and years either drowned this spring or was dug up by the chickens and eaten by moles. Thats ok, you have to have disasters now and then and this was doable.

It look

 

[EastNashChick]

I loved the pic of the strawberries - it looks like it would work in my chicken run under the welded wire fence top that provides hawk protection in the migratory seasons (pretty much now through Dec). Garlic, you are lucky to live somewhere it can overwinter. I had to start new this fall with new seed since the stuff I've been growing and replanting for years and years either drowned this spring or was dug up by the chickens and eaten by moles. Thats ok, you have to have disasters now and then and this was doable.

It look

How does this work?

 

[shortgrass]

How does this work?

Those are rain gutters suspended on rebar with strawberry plants in them! Lol I had a duck/strawberry problem so we had shared ideas on growing them where my ducks couldn't reach

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quote: @hellbender

How far does the .22 travel? I had thought about one but in our area I may be too close to neighbors, even w/ 12 acres.

 

[hellbender]

@hellbender

How far does the .22 travel? I had thought about one but in our area I may be too close to neighbors, even w/ 12 acres.

A .22 ca. bullet fired by a rifle is deadly up to a mile.