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This shape will
fit perfectly over
your rectangular
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Rectangular Chicken Tractor

 


Would you like to cook wood fired pizza's, bake bread, cook puddings and much more ,in your own hand crafted wood fired adobe pizza oven? This workshop is a hands on course showing you how, step by step, you can easily make a pizza oven out of easily found, inexpensive materials. The only bought materials you need are fire bricks.

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Green courses » keeping chickens and other Poultry in Town

Keeping Chickens and other Poultry in Town


Would you like fresh, daily organic eggs and willing workers to do all the hard labour in your vegetable garden?

Keeping  chickens in the city is becoming very popular as people seek out ways to live more healthily and more lightly on the Planet.

 

Topics Covered Include:-                                                                       
-Local Council regulations regarding keeping poultry in urban areas
-Where to buy chickens
-What breeds are best
-Hatching chicks from eggs
-What to feed them.
-Diseases and aliments and what to do
-Chicken tractoring (how to use chickens constructively in the garden)
-Building a permaculture chicken dome
-keeping Japanese Quail
-Keeping ducks


my happy chickens
  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


During this workshop we will discuss ways to keep chooks . You can see my chicken dome
which can house your chickens year round. These chicken domes are quick and cheap to build, easy to move and can be made out of recycled materials. This is  what I use to house my chickens in year round.

Cost: - $70 ($55 per person if you bring a friend) Course notes and morning tea provided.

Payment is due in advance with no refund or cancellation, but you can send an alternative attendee.

Course Location:-12 Emerald Hill, Havelock North, Hawkes Bay,
click herefor location

Time: - 1pm -3:30pm (approx)

Next Course Date: 

9th June, Saturday, 2012

1pm - 3:30pm


Email Janet to register. Numbers are limited so please book early. 

Chicken dome 

My chickens in their dome