Six Chicken House and integrated run

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You have to eat more eggs - make cakes, Spanish tortilla, omelettes, Yorkshire puddings and so on. I keep mine in a large run, directly on the earth. After the horse manure and bedding I bring in along with neighbours green waste has gone through its first heat, it gets put in the run. Chickens mix it and forage in it for weed seeds, red worms, insect larvae and the like.

Means the chickens need much less bought in food, are happy and strong and I get top quality compost in a little over 6 weeks in summer.