Day 230 (part 2)
Look at those good
chickens tractoring around, laying eggs in predictable spots, eating some bugs and some growies and plenty of kitchen scraps, pooping on the pastures, not pooping on the porch, and not even demulching or uprooting garden beds.
Matt finds moving their
tractor to a fresh spot a couple times a week works better for him than trying to build chicken-proof fences around his paddocks.
Sheep and dexter cows browse and graze on about nine acres, moving between five permanentish paddocks, two of which are seasonally subdivided into dozens more by modular temporary electric fences. While a living
fence is developing in parts, most of the fencing on the
land is field
fence or woven wire on cedar posts, shored up in spots by electric, and shored up in other spots by
firewood stacked under sheds. These woodsheds along the fenceline further stack functions by helping to keep the posts dry, and when stacked with cordwood serve as an especially effective barrier, even for escape artist livestock guardian dogs.
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