HOW TO - Make a "Chicken Moat"

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Lower the drawbridge! Build your own chicken moat. Surround your veggie garden with a moat full of hungry chickens ready to eat bad bugs and protect your garden [via] Link.


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Posted by: jbond on February 27, 2006 at 9:55 AM

Um. If you live in Europe or Asia, you might want to keep those chickens indoors.

As an aside. Why doesn't Japan have problems with bird flu yet, or do they? And at what point do infected wild birds get to Alaska and then down in to the Americas?


Posted by: Doom_Goat on February 27, 2006 at 9:38 PM

chin is most likely vstly understting the number of bird flu infectionds as a cover up. remember the benzin spill that just got completely overlooked?


Posted by: Milsom on June 11, 2007 at 7:04 PM

the link above no longer works. this one does:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/Homesteading-and-Self-Reliance/1988-05-01/The-Chicken-Moat.aspx


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