Clarissa is off the nest!
FINALLY. I rewarded her with an armload of dead leaves and tasty young weeds to scratch through and find the delicacies.
I've been dumping dead leaves, pine needles (PINE NEEBLES!), etc into the run. The chooks shred them, and the floor level gradually rises as they mix with the dirt and chicken manure. At some point this should all become extremely fertile earth I can transfer to the garden; in the interim, hopefully the run will flood less next time it rains.
I've been dumping chicken manure in various places where I don't already have anything growing but plan to plant in spring; it should be rotted enough by then that it won't have enough nitrogen to burn the plants. I have a bale of hay that I need to start dumping in similar places ASAP, so it can sit there and meld with the earth a bit over winter, and then I can plant there in spring.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow and snow on Friday.
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I've been dumping dead leaves, pine needles (PINE NEEBLES!), etc into the run. The chooks shred them, and the floor level gradually rises as they mix with the dirt and chicken manure. At some point this should all become extremely fertile earth I can transfer to the garden; in the interim, hopefully the run will flood less next time it rains.
I've been dumping chicken manure in various places where I don't already have anything growing but plan to plant in spring; it should be rotted enough by then that it won't have enough nitrogen to burn the plants. I have a bale of hay that I need to start dumping in similar places ASAP, so it can sit there and meld with the earth a bit over winter, and then I can plant there in spring.
It's supposed to rain tomorrow and snow on Friday.
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