How would you like a way of housing your chickens thats cheaper than the conventional hen house and run operation and will improve your land too? What if I told you it was also better for the chickens? Chicken tractors can offer all this and more, and are an alternative worth considering. Amber and Shannon just picked up their first chicken tractor and want to share with the audience what chicken tractors are all about.
Chicken tractors are a lightweight, low budget, intelligent way to manage your chickens grazing. With reasonable attention to planning, one can use chicken tractors to make sure that there will always be a supply of the best forage for your birds. They will always live on fresh ground. Using a chicken tractor allows for a grazing system that actually improves biodiversity and soil health. You can avoid “Hammered” land; Property that the birds have killed all the good plants on and compressed the soil. Additionally, with some planning you can design your chicken tractor with other elements of your property in mind. What if you could make your chickens weed the yard? Fertilize the garden? Chicken Tractors make it easy!
Its a good thing we did the episode on Breaking broody hens, because over the last week one of our hens went broody. Did the techniques we talked about on the show work? We had some unanticipated results, and we’ll talk about them for our weekly Chicken Update.
Were also going to cover some strange and unusual stories in Ambers Cabinet of Curiosities. Chickens see a completely different world than we humans do. You may think you can tell how your chicken sees things, but you’ll be blown away by what Amber has to tell you about what makes chicken eyesight unique; even among birds. Do chickens live in a psychedelic wonder world invisible to human eyes? Get the birds-eye view with Amber!
Over half a century ago, a man cut off a chickens head. And didn’t kill it. Friends, when circumstances such as these arrive, you know the players are going straight to stardom. You’ll want to hear Ambers story of the headless chicken, and the weirdest chicken festival in the world.
And if thats not enough chicken obscurity; if you are not yet entertained; stay tuned for the end of the show for the amazing talent of our one stringed guitar player and his song about chickens! Here on Twin Beaks Podcast, we bring you not any chicken festival, but the weirdest chicken festival imaginable- All this and we still make the chicken tractors run on time.
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