Partnering with chooks in the backyard

Are you interested in finding out how to partner with chooks in your backyard to help create and manage a sustainable garden / backyard farm? Topics in this workshop will include:

• Definitions of Free Range and what you can do in a backyard.
• Chook tractorings – what is it and how to use one in your garden.
• Chook tractors – design options.
• Re-claimed materials needed to make a chicken coop/tractor.
• Chook behaviour and habits and how to utilise them in the garden.
• What chooks eat and where they get it from.
• Chook feeding systems – fodder crops / slab culture / stick culture / sprouting grains.
• Using hay as a bedding medium.
• Managing weeds and running grasses with chooks.
• Using chooks to make fertiliser and compost.
• Predator protection.

Presenter: Drew Barr.