Partnering with chooks in the backyard
When:
October 22, 2017 @ 13:00 – 15:30
2017-10-22T13:00:00+11:00
2017-10-22T15:30:00+11:00
Where:
Templestowe College
7 Cypress Ave
Templestowe Lower VIC 3107
Australia
7 Cypress Ave
Templestowe Lower VIC 3107
Australia
Cost:
$47
Contact:
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.