Tag: chickens

How to use a chicken tractor

Did you know you can use chickens as feathered gardeners? Using something called chicken tractors can mean no weeding, no digging, no spraying, and no worries. Brilliant, right? Janet Luke explains.

Pecks in the city

Keeping chooks is all the rage with city folk who want better eggs, hate battery farms, or just want to raise kids who know where food comes from. Ellie van Baaren scratches up what you need to know about raising chickens.

Chickens

Reader submitted

Hi, I'm quite keen on getting some rescued chickens – would love it if you could do an article in your magazine, about what I would be required to provide them (ie. how much space, best place to get food, and what sort of cover etc).... and maybe a DIY design