tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post4242399154680656013..comments2024-03-26T10:01:18.135-04:00Comments on Living the Frugal Life: Poultry Schooner in ActionKatehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18017959421018964001noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-62702397958368147872018-04-17T18:45:31.476-04:002018-04-17T18:45:31.476-04:00Hope you're still using your schooner. I was w...Hope you're still using your schooner. I was wondering about the end with the bucket. Is there an opening or a door there? I would want to attach more sections in order to have an expandable section.<br /><br />Leahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02105626625722433319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-25750815365827670422017-03-21T06:32:46.519-04:002017-03-21T06:32:46.519-04:00Love this design. My hubby threw one together for ...Love this design. My hubby threw one together for us quickly a couple years ago and made it out of 2X6's and it's way to heavy to move around even with wheels. I've been looking for something very lightweight. Think we'll make a couple of these.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-32013781494616594422010-10-21T09:01:04.395-04:002010-10-21T09:01:04.395-04:00Jennifer, I'm pretty happy with it too. It is...Jennifer, I'm pretty happy with it too. It is light enough to move by myself if I have to. I prefer to have help though, particularly if I'm moving it more than a few yards. I think using poultry in rotation with garden crops is an idea worth playing with. I'm sure there is more to figure out on this topic. I'm thinking about planting any unused row of the garden next year with cover crops and allowing the hens to till it under for me from time to time. Hope the hens do good work for you in your veg patch.<br /><br />Hazel, I love the image of you trundling down to an allotment with hens in tow. They must be rather well behaved chickens. I'm sure ours would do their level best to escape from an uncovered pen. Ours have become real escape artists!<br /><br />Phoebe, thanks. I hope the idea works well for you if you try it out.Katehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18017959421018964001noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-83237770052865486432010-10-19T20:34:15.933-04:002010-10-19T20:34:15.933-04:00I love the idea of letting the chickens at the com...I love the idea of letting the chickens at the compost pile! Im in the process of setting up a permanant coop at the moment but I think the Schooner or Chicken Tractor (as they are known in Australia) is a great additional method to get them out in the garden without risk for free ranging obliteration! Great idea!Phoebehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15613979981355164437noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-55387529074704260182010-10-19T12:39:40.046-04:002010-10-19T12:39:40.046-04:00I do this, but in a more temporary fashion.
Most o...I do this, but in a more temporary fashion.<br />Most of my veg is grown on our allotment, on the other side of the village so our chickens can only be there whilst I am.<br />Last week they (or 3 of them at a time) came down twice to weed and de-slug one of the beds whilst I manured the rhubarb, next years potato patch and improvised a cold frame out of our old windows for a sowing of pac choi.<br />They are just contained with temporary netting- apart from the fact I am next to them, we don't have any air borne predators that would/could make off with a chicken.Hazelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05388175819512214533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237633934633144064.post-25320600886869890762010-10-19T11:23:27.841-04:002010-10-19T11:23:27.841-04:00I think the poultry schooner is a real winner! I&#...I think the poultry schooner is a real winner! I'm so impressed with the design and concept. And it looks light enough to move by yourself.<br /><br />I've just acquired a small polytunnel and I'm now tempted to put it into poultry production rather than plants, a la the schooner model (it's on skids).<br /><br />My small veg patch is netted and I'll chuck a henhouse and hens in there over the winter to weed, de-bug, and manure it too.Jennifer Monterohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10003650742439806128noreply@blogger.com