
Pasture progress
The new chicken
pasture is one step closer to completion with the final stretch of
fence going up today.
Next up is to fabricate a
light gate for easy access to the pasture and coop.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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What square footage is the pen and how many chickens will be there?
I might try this sometime... and am curious what you think the area requirements are per hen?
People used to raise chickens primarily on forage, but I've found very little data about space requirements (with numbers on the internet ranging from 10 to 100 chickens per acre.) So we're very much in the experimental stages right now, trying to figure out the best way to go. Here's our plan:
Which is all to say --- I have no clue what we're doing, but we're sure having fun!
If you know anyone who has successfully raised chickens on forage alone, I'd appreciate it if you sent them to our chicken foraging poll. I keep begging people to give me information about raising chickens on forage, and no one does!