Monthly Archives: February 2009

Chicken Tractors

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I want one! Here is the design I’m planning to build:

Deluxe Chicken TractorCourtesy of the Deliberate Agrarian my favorite design so far.

With the ability to grow 40 meat chickens in one, and 30 or so egg layers in another possibly larger chicken tractor, I’ll be able to add eggs to our CSA baskets this year and eat homegrown organic chicken all year. Yum.

The biggest benefit (IMO) of the chicken tractor, is not having to shovel the chicken manure out of the chicken coop, with the added bonus of having the ability to offer your little feathered friends all the fresh green grass & bugs they could possibly want or need.  The chickens weed and cultivate while fertilizing the soil they’re on, and with the ease of moving them to fresh grass, they’re a veritible fertilizing factory on wheels :)

I can hardly wait for the snow to melt!

***See the latest issue of Mother Earth News for more information on the almight chicken tractor!

Oh NO you didn’t.

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Yep. Precisely the kind of day that makes me thankful I wrote down why I was thankful for him on his birthday.

“Hey if you do any laundry please DO NOT DRY my NEW NORTH FACE FLEECE HOODIES. PERIOD. The PINK one and the BROWN one. Thank you so much for helping me with the laundry, but PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE don’t DRY them.

Incidentally, we’ve had this happen before. MANY times. He ruined my rhinestone encrusted And Cake $64 Cupcake Tank last time. Wanted to strangle him with my bare hands… but I’d let it fall into the laundry mountain, and he was only trying to help. He had no idea or warning not to dry the magnificent cupcake (that now fits Isabelle) tank that I’d bought myself for my birthday.

But this time he had a warning. A plea… a desperate request from a woman desperate to believe he occasionally listens.

No dice.

Grrrrr….