Garden Girl TV: Chicken Chase

hello. can you please make a video on only your chicken enclosure. i had some serious hawk/owl/eagle problems on my farm, so i want to make something just like you have. how many chickens do you have in one pen. do you have a coop they go into at night or in the winter. thank you

nice ass at 2:05

i have 8

Hopefully someone can help me, I am looking to have a very similar setup and was just wondering what a Fallow Bed is? When do you move the chickens and why? I need to know so that I dont make any mistakes - don't want to harm my chickens

A Fallow Bed is a raised bed garden that the garden plants have been harvested out of.

U move the chickens to keep them from OVER fertilizing the raised bed with there droppings.
Chicken manure is VERY high in nitrogen and can kill plants if too much is put into the soil.
U mix the chicken droppings into the soil after u move the chickens.

Will the chickens scratch up the seedlings/small plants? Or do you only set them to graze on a bed that is not currently in use?

Long often do you think she has to change, beds, before their poo makes the soil too nitrogen-filled?

It is a three week rotation.

Sorry luv, i cannot see what the advantage of the tractor thing is . In England during the spring and summer EVERY bed would have something growing in it and so no "fallow" beds available . Surely its just as easy to have a permanent site for the birds , clean em out regularly, and use the shit to make good compost?

o. sorry this is three month late, but just try googling fallow bed. i think its a raised bed. but, i do know that you move the chickens so there poop will fall on each of the places you put them, adding nutrients to the soil, and you move them about every month. you just pick up the coop or tractor and shift it next to where it was, or where ever you need to fertilize. good luck

Great idea to rotate the chickens from one growing bed to another like that. You should have your own show on HGTV!