Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Chickens in the greenhouse

  

 We have 11 chickens in one of our greenhouses.  They're fertilizing the greenhouse and disposing of kitchen scraps and providing 3 or 4 eggs a day (though one day we got an egg out of every one of the nine hens).  We're planning on moving them to a different greenhouse soon, probably this weekend.  I have plans for a broody box that can house four hens with clutches at a time (with dividers between each nest, of course).  We'll see how it works, if we get around to getting it made.  Otherwise we'll probably have to use a pet crate for each hen when they start going broody.

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