Close the loop in your garden with chooks
Let’s explore the benefits of keeping chickens and how they can help create a sustainable, closed-loop system at your place.
From feed to fertiliser, pest removal to eggs, chickens are the perfect productive pet and also great backyard warriors in the war on waste.
How chooks can work for you and the environment
- Chickens help manage kitchen and garden waste, reducing the amount sent to landfill.
- Chickens produce nutrient-rich manure, which, once composted, makes an excellent soil improver for healthy plant growth.
- Chickens are fantastic for pest control, eating insects and weeds that might otherwise damage your plants.
- As chickens scratch and forage, they naturally aerate the soil and can help encourage biodiversity in the garden.
- Caring for chickens can also promote mindfulness and a deeper connection to nature.
- And of course, happy, healthy chooks lay plenty of eggs. Pop a few in a carton for friends, family and neighbours to enjoy!
Top tips for your chicken keeping journey
- There can be limitations on how many chickens can be kept in a certain amount of space, so it is important to check your local council regulations.
- Provide predator and weatherproof housing that is the correct distance from neighbouring properties.
- Be sure to have appropriate vessels to hold fresh, clean drinking water and a balanced poultry feed.
- Keep pens clean to reduce the incidence of flies and smell. Use Rocky Point AniStraw or AniWood to provide odour and moisture absorbent bedding.
- To deter pests, store poultry feed in a sealed, vermin-proof container.
- Another of the key benefits of keeping chickens is their instinct to scratch and forage, so protect younger, still establishing gardens and new seedlings with fencing.
The benefits of keeping chickens for closing the loop with natural cycles
Chickens are the perfect addition for your closed loop gardening system, want to know more about how to establish a closed-loop system in your garden? find out more here
