[permaculture-oceania] Re: Advice on Berry Site

[Russ Grayson]

Hi Dan...
On 11/8/06 12:22 PM, "Dan Palmer" <darnample at gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks to Russ, David and Anne for their replies,,
> 
> Russ and Anne, I take it in your cases the chickens could scratch and
> turn the ground only through the mesh (snake wire in Russ' case).

They couldn't scratch the soil through the wire so we released them to
browse part of the day. If they detected danger they hurried back to the
structure.

> This would decrease the effectiveness of the tractor, but I guess we could add
> a bottomless section accessed through a rat-proof sliding door.

Maybe an open section in the middle so that there remained a perimeter of
wire covering the ground that the rodents might have difficulty penetrating.

...Russ

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