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[ChickLover98]

Great Symphony! Chicken poo on the garden is great! I love the "horse mower" idea!

 

[Symphony]

Thanks!

 

[NixNoodleNumbat]

I put fresh chook poo on the garden once....that didn't go too well!
But, its good to get rid of weeds if its fresh!

 

[Symphony]

Alot of times it depends on what your chickens eat.

 

[chubbydog811]

I'll join too!
Though I agree with awesomefowl and symphony - not so much green as just more self sufficient/more efficient.

Some things we are doing:
The special light bulbs, turning lights off that aren't being used, recycle, hang dry laundry (when it isn't freezing), the updated/efficient appliances. Heat in the main house stays at 60* in the winter, upstairs stays on 55*. Gardens, compost, and also have started working on passive solar water buckets for the animals in the winter....
The goats get grazed on any lawn we have (I have portable electric fencing, so I move it every 1-2 weeks depending on the size, and let them graze instead of mowing! If there is mowing, it is only the short wispy stuff that the goats won't eat) You would really be amazed at how much grain/hay is saved by grazing them even just a few hours a day!
Also use the animals manure for fertilizer.
I "process" my own animals for meat. Have animals to produce milk and eggs for us, and enough to sell to help pay for the herd's grain.

Definitely on a good path to being relatively self sufficient!

 

[Symphony]

We never feed them hay in the summer, a little grain so we can milk them though, milk goats need some, mostly to keep them calm so we can get clean milk.

 

[Q9]

I normally make fun of "going green," but most of this stuff is quite reasonable - in fact, we were doing some of it just to save cash and get better food.

 

[Symphony]

Yes, about two years ago, if we didnt have chickens, I wouldnt be talking to you. We ate eggs for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but made it in different ways, they where our lifesource for about two months, AMAZING, each day I think of the more I want to hug my chickens.

 

[ChickLover98]

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Yay! Great job! Ill add you!

 

[ChickLover98]

Hi everyone! I'm making a banner for our club!