How To Compost With Chickens: Work Smarter Not Harder for Faster Compost & Happier Chickens

By Leigh Tate

Working smarter not harder on the homestead means learning how to partner with one's animals and resources. How To Compost With Chickens discusses why chickens are well-suited for compost making and how to accommodate that. Offers a simple, economical, chicken-friendly composting system, with guidelines for breed selection and what can and can't be composted safely. Includes ideas for adapting the concept to your homestead situation.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leigh Tate
• Release date: Nov 30, 2016
• ISBN: 9781370853625

Leigh Tate

Leigh Tate has always loved living close to the land. From the back-to-the-land movement to the modern homesteading movement, the agrarian lifestyle is the one she says feels like home. She and her husband currently homestead five acres in the foothills of the Southern Appalachians. Their vision is to become as self-sustaining as possible by stewarding their land, animals, and resources. Leigh's homesteading activities include gardening, food preservation, foraging, raising goats, chickens, and guinea fowl, herbs, cheese making, permaculture landscaping, spinning, weaving, knitting, sewing, quilting, natural dying, soapmaking, wood cookstove cookery, and renovating their old 1920s farmhouse.

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The Little Series of Homestead How-Tos

from 5 Acres & A Dream

How To Compost

With Chickens

Work smarter not harder for faster

compost & happier chickens.

by Leigh Tate

Kikobian Books

www.kikobian.com

Text & photos © 2011-2021 by Leigh Tate.

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Published November 30, 2016

Revised March 10, 2021

Contents

Preface

On The Nature of Chickens

Basic Principles of Feeding Chickens

Basic Principles of Making Compost

What Can Go Into the Chickens' Compost Pile? What Can't?

A Simple Chicken Yard Composting System

Which Breeds Are Best?

Adapting Your System to Your Circumstances

Resources

Glossary

Bibliography

About The Author

Preface

When I published 5 Acres & A Dream The Book: The Challenges of Establishing a Self-Sufficient Homestead, I described it as neither a how-to nor a why-to book. Although it contains quite a bit of practical advice about many homesteading skills, it is mostly

Reviews for How To Compost With Chickens

[Kivumbi William · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Brief and easy to put into practice without any formal education. a must read