Using chickens to graze behind cows is a new way to improve soil fertility and pasture management. At the Permaculture Research Institute there’s a couple of neat looking chicken tractors standing in the center of the cow paddock. What exactly are they doing there? According to Geoff...

One of the great tips in the Permaculture Soils DVD is how to use chickens to do a lot of the composting for you. We all know chickens like to scratch and break the pest cycle but did you know how to harness chickens to direct their scratching to create compost for you? One of the little...

Tony Coote believes his chickens lay the best eggs on the planet and he's got the proof to prove it. The eggs from his 12,000 chicken farm located at Mulloon Creek Natural Farms near Canberra were independently analysed by the Government CSIRO laboratories and found to contain twice the amount of Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids that are found in conventional chicken farm eggs.