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A Salad Bar for Chickens (That Actually Works)

 
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I made a video about How to build a salad bar for chickens that actually works!
 
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That's a cool system. Just yesterday I took some old firewood that was rotten and full of termites and ants and put it in the chicken run. Free protein and the chickens love hunting the bugs.
 
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Jeremy VanGelder wrote:That's a cool system. Just yesterday I took some old firewood that was rotten and full of termites and ants and put it in the chicken run. Free protein and the chickens love hunting the bugs.



Thanks...yeah I was recently splitting firewood that was loaded with bark beetle larva...same thing, chickens had a party!
 
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