The chooks are back to work in their clock. I think they're happy to be there. It's closer to the house so it's far more likely a passing child will notice them and throw them some seeds and there's good tucker to be had from the spent vegetable plants that were left to go to seed. It really does not take them long to transform a used bed to a fresh one ready to plant. Three weeks ago they started work in section 6 when it looked like this:
Today the chooks have been moved off this section and they have left it like this:
All I did was let them out each day, cut off the vegetable stalks at their base and left them lying on the ground and throw them extra straw, grass clippings, weeds and kitchen scraps. Now I just need to rake the path, lay out the dripper hose again, turn on the taps and plant the next lot of Summer vegetable seedlings that are ready and waiting to go.
Before letting the chooks out into section 8 I pulled these last beetroot, carrots & spring onions, the final harvest from a guild planting that also provided us with snow peas, lettuce, kale, parsley, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, silver beet and an attempt at celery which wasn't really successful - the celery grew plenty but I never worked out when to pick it and it went almost straight to seed.
Those chooks are pretty good at their job....and they produce great eggs too!
