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[Lickey]

My chicken tractor, well, its a moveable run with chickens and a small house for the egg layers, it will be built from bamboo and shade netting, covering 2 10 mtr salad beds at a time, now these beds were oversprayed with herbicides last November and nothing grows there anymore, although weve had a few hours rain in the last day or so, perhaps something will,
No problem with kitchen waste, 4 work in mrs salon so ok there, but what other things do they like?or do i rough up the ground and let them get on with it, plenty of ants ect,
  Thanks for any views on this, Lickey..

[Lickey]

Sorry posters, i shou;d explain a little more, the fact that the beds were overspayed has prevented me from planting anything in the last cooler months, hence all chemicals have removed and banned from the farm, the idea of the chicken tractor is to re-vitalise the soil by natural means, and get eggs into the bargain, other than kitchen waste, what else would keep them going till fresh shoots appear?  
        Thanks, Lickey.

[IsaanAussie]

Lickey, on 2009-03-24 02:56:20, said:

Sorry posters, i shou;d explain a little more, the fact that the beds were overspayed has prevented me from planting anything in the last cooler months, hence all chemicals have removed and banned from the farm, the idea of the chicken tractor is to re-vitalise the soil by natural means, and get eggs into the bargain, other than kitchen waste, what else would keep them going till fresh shoots appear?
Thanks, Lickey.

Chickens make great lawn mowers and insect controllers. Pick up the handles and drive the tractor over to the house garden, the excrement will not hurt with a bit of rain to wash it in.

[jandtaa]

Hi Lickey

here's a link to a PDF on small-scale chicken/egg production in the tropics Jandtaas docs - chickens in the tropics 

hope it's useful 

J