Ask a Master Gardener: Chickens in the garden

There’s more to consider than fresh eggs when raising chickens at home. For gardeners, that includes keeping both chickens and plants safe and productive.

I knew our hen Monique was different from other birds. But if you had told me when we got her two years ago that she would one day start coming into the house every morning to lay an egg, I would have laughed and said, “Yeah, right. Don’t be ridiculous.”

There are quite a few people in Addison County who raise chickens for both eggs and meat, but not many are involved in the Poultry judging circuit.

Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time, small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species of wildlife like the taste of chicken as much as we do.

If you raise chickens, then you know that while they are laying baskets of farm fresh eggs and amusing you with their antics, they are also generating a lot of manure.Coop litter contains manure, feathers, undigested food and bedding material. A single ch … (read more)

Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species of wildlife like the taste of chicken as much as we do. The Vermont Fi … (read more)

This will likely be a short column, because we are in the midst of putting in our garden. I have a complex relationship with my garden — as, I suspect, do many. Starting around March, a feeling that has lain dormant throughout the winter begins to stir in … (read more)

UNDERHILL — Keeping a small flock of chickens at home to provide eggs and meat has become increasingly popular, but many first-time small-scale poultry farmers are discovering that several species of wildlife like the taste of chicken as much as we do. Th … (read more)