We have two roosters and we really don't like getting woken up at 4:30 every morning so we are thinking about having our first foray into slaughter. We have to learn eventually and it might be best to start with a batch of 2 before doing a whole group of 8 or more.
We are in the process of making the third deep mulch bed. I will post pictures later today. It gets a bit stinky and fly-infested, but since this tractor is too hard to move every day, we are stuck with this system for now. It is good to be making the beds as well. We plan to convert the whole area inside the chain-link fence into vegetable and herb gardens, and creating them with straw and manure is much less labor intensive than removing sod. The next bed we do we are going to put down a layer of cardboard after they eat the grass for a couple days, just before putting in the first layer of straw. We add a thin layer of straw each day. We also need to put a door in the bottom of the tractor because it is too hard to get them in and out to free range with the current design. We were using hay, but we switched to straw because it has fewer seeds and less irritating dust.
We plan to build another tractor soon with a much lighter, more portable and more highly-featured design.
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