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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: FiB on April 29, 2014, 01:22:18 pm

Title: Reseeding with chickens - perfect for run reseeding if you don't free range
Post by: FiB on April 29, 2014, 01:22:18 pm

Lovely article and great ' recipe' for nutritious seed mix.  http://www.suchandsuchfarm.com/re-seeding-the-chicken-run/ (http://www.suchandsuchfarm.com/re-seeding-the-chicken-run/) apologies if it's already been posted on the forum, fi xx

Title: Re: Reseeding with chickens - perfect for run reseeding if you don't free range
Post by: plumseverywhere on April 29, 2014, 01:24:11 pm

Brilliant  :thumbsup: thank you

Title: Re: Reseeding with chickens - perfect for run reseeding if you don't free range
Post by: twizzel on April 29, 2014, 02:19:46 pm

I've been scratching my head how to reseed my rather large pen and that's ideal! Thanks... something to get OH to make on a rainy day :)

Title: Re: Reseeding with chickens - perfect for run reseeding if you don't free range
Post by: chrismahon on April 29, 2014, 02:31:32 pm

Thanks FiB. That's a great idea and one we may employ in the future. At the moment we are lucky enough to have enough good ground for sustainable enclosures. The traditional alternative is to divide the enclosure into two and only let them run on half of it at a time, with the other half recovering. But that's easier said than done.

Title: Re: Reseeding with chickens - perfect for run reseeding if you don't free range
Post by: Mammyshaz on April 29, 2014, 06:04:02 pm

We tried this with spare lawn grass last year and grass seed the year before. Both times it didn't do well and eventually died.
I don't know if it's the chicken droppings burning the new growth  :thinking: or if we were just unlucky so if anybody has success let us know the secret.