Keeping ducks and chickens on
fresh pastures is a major challenge in the Winter.
We’ve been having good luck
letting our merged flock forage in the woods.
They sometimes want to circle
back into our perimeter where the garden is, but that’s easily fixed by
remembering to shut the gate.
What’s the best way to keep duck
eggs clean?
Fix the nest box so they
gently roll into a hardware wire cage.
Secure some fake
grass to the floor at an angle to make rolling slow and smooth. We
have not tried this method yet, still in the research stage, but it
seems like the best low budget way of making sure your eggs stay clean.
We grew some sorghum this year to see if our chickens
would eat it.
They gave it the old sniff
and scratch, but didn’t seem even remotely interested.
On a plus note our new goats
seem to enjoy eating the leaves.