Like cooking an egg, timing is everything with poultry manure, a Vermont master gardener warns this week. First-timers in the world of small-scale poultry might be tempted to shovel a week's worth of ...

Chickens peck at food scraps in a compost pile at Black Dirt Farm, a chicken farm that uses food waste as feed. Photo by Justin Trombly/VTDigger Chicken farmers who also run compost operations say a ...

Whether you are a Louisiana poultry farmer or just keep chickens in your back yard, there may soon be a solution to the vexing problem of disposing of chicken waste, thanks to a research project ...

For folks who don’t farm or garden, a malodorous pile of manure is usually a fly-attracting eyesore to be avoided. But most farmers and gardeners won’t turn up their noses at such a deposit; where ...

[W]hen is a chicken farm not a chicken farm? When it is a composting facility, which according to an Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets memo from March also should be considered a solid waste ...

Are you thinking about raising chickens in your backyard? This presentation will cover the basics of setting up your own backyard flock, including local ordinances, coop designs, feed and watering ...

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