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How to grow chickens without buying grain: Geoff Lawton
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8 Dec ’13 - 11:15 am
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the full vid can be seen on his site, the compost pile is my birds favorite spot in the yard

http://www.youtube.c.....W_WPMm8Bxw

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Carp... I'd love to watch all these videos you put up but just can't do it with satellite limits on downloads... Can you give a brief overview?

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Very interesting...He is a farmer in VT. He collects food waste from restaurants and allows the chickens to browse the compost pile. The pile contains not only food waste but equine manure and bovine manure. The pile needs to be hot enough to melt snow and ice in winter. He also provides bark and hay to the chickens. He did say that he has gotten to where he feeds no grain other than what they find in the compost pile.

I know my chickens love our pile but it has way more goat droppings and wasted hay than food scraps.

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yeah, we just throw in weeds, grass from mowing, straw and poop from the pigs and the chickens tear it up

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