Raising Chickens and Homestead Animals with paddock shift p01
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(part 1 of 16) This is my "concerns about the way most people raise chickens" presentation that later grew up to be my "Animals in the Landscape" segment that I would teach at permaculture design courses. At some point I mashed a lot of this into an article:
https://richsoil.com/raising-chickens.jsp
Thanks to Kai Duby for writing this description:
In this video, Paul Wheaton discusses the various benefits of animals in the landscape at the 2016 Wheaton Labs Permaculture Design Course. He talks about how, through a paddock shift system, one can increase biomass production and thereby create a lush garden ecosystem. He claims that this technique is capable of increasing the productivity of a plot of land by five times. There is also brief discussion of veganism, vegetarianism, and veganic permaculture as an alternative, albeit less productive means of cultivating land. The Weston A. Price Foundation is cited as a source of information on nutrition and Michael Pollan's book The Omnivores Dilemma in mentioned. Alan Savory's work with elephants and moving ruminants across land with pulse or mob grazing is discussed in depth. Tim Barker chimes in by saying that the biodiversity of a plot of land with animals pulsing through will increase alongside biomass and will tend to increase the rate of succession from annual to perennial plants. The amount of supplemental feed may also be reduced by using a paddock shift system with pigs, cattle, chickens, sheep or goats. Ben Falk, the film Inhabit, and Gabe Brown are cited as inspiration and sources of more information.
Relevant stuff at permies:
https://permies.com/t/34499/Alan-Savory-PV-role-livestock
https://permies.com/c/critters
music by Jimmy Pardo
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Edited by Jason Smith
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