Cute chick roost training
I installed a small roost
training limb in the chicken
pasture coop today.
Folks around here speak of a
mysterious benefit from using cedar in chicken coops.
Someday I'll try to figure
out the logic behind that Appalachianism. In the meantime I'll keep
using cedar in future chicken
tractors and coops just because it looks so good and feels very natural.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Cedar is a pest repellent. Keeps the bugs off chickens as well as moths out of closets.
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Errol
— Tue Apr 13 17:24:47 2010
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comment 2
That makes a lot of sense (and sounds vaguely familiar.) I wonder how much cedar you'd have to have in a chicken coop for it to make a difference?
Comment by
anna
— Tue Apr 13 20:19:11 2010
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cedar rules
my mom was telling me she heard it helps to decrease the mites that can sometimes be a problem for some chickens.
Comment by
mark
— Wed Apr 14 19:58:06 2010
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