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9 March 2021: Chicken Tractors
9 March 2021 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Join Matt Heffernan for our first evening back in the Oatley Community Hall since March 2020. He will give a general background on building or purchasing a chicken tractor as well as a detailed report of his personal experience in running this system from his own garden.
Chicken Tractors are designed to make your chicken keeping experience simple for you, and safe for your chickens. While you are providing your chickens with a safe and delicious habitat, they will repay you by becoming an integral part of your garden maintenance and pest management system.
Chicken tractors can be a fantastic way to prepare a vegetable garden for planting.
- They can be incorporated into a rotation system over a number of beds, moving from one to the other as required
- They can also be moved under fruit trees
- Chickens will fertilize and till the soil, remove weeds (to a point) and eliminate pests like fruit fly eggs
- Visitors are welcome for a casual attendance fee of $10. There is no charge for financial members.