The chicken house that was built and will be coated with an organic termite protection soon.
I have tried small chicken tractors, which on their own were ok, but due to the underdevelopment of existing trees and the size of the newly planted one's, there isn't enough shade to offer the chickens.
Also, a 1 rai garden with young vegetables growing is not suitable for free ranging as they will go for the young seedlings, regardless of how much grain you feed them extra.
So I have opted for a chicken coop with natural bedding of rice husk and katin(Leucaena sp.) leaves.
No rice straw as this attracts bugs. As the bedding gets enriched with chicken manure, this will be cleaned and used for the garden, refilling the new one at the same time.
This is the result of the chicken tractor coops. They were the traditional thai bamboo hoops covered with shade cloth. As you can see the grass has been taken out by the chickens, the soil enriched and loosened. The remnants of the grain mix I fed them is now growing wild, which will lead to more free food for them. Pretty close to the ideal and original idea of chicken (c/p)oop gardening, I love it!!!
A raised, mulched bed that is starting to produce and look good. Chinese spinach on the bed with pumpkins in the back, interplanted with a local marigold for pest control. We have harvested this bed of seedlings several times already. Every time we take out the biggest plants and eat them, the surrounding smaller plants gain a bit of size and are ready to harvest again. We'll let some of them go to seed and see if they spontaneously reseed themselves.
I had to show some beauty as well, in the form of a lotus flower.
A little hope for the future, young papaya seedling doing well!!!
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