Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil

Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil | Andy Lee, Pat Foreman | Great information poorly written

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	Chicken Tractor: The Permaculture Guide to Happy Hens and Healthy Soil Andy Lee, Pat Foreman Good Earth Publications, 1998 - 324 pages average customer review:based on 21 reviews view larger image
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Chickens are EXCITING !!!!!!!!!!

I could not put this book down. It was excellent. Very exciting and inspiring. Written in a very easy to read style with lots of very helpful details to get you started. A must read for any responsible gardener.

Great information poorly written

This is a great idea. I built a chicken tractor and recommend it to anyone interested in raising poultry for fun or profit. The authors are experts on raising chickens but could use a good editor and advice from a technical writer. The book rambles in places, is repetitive in places, and is in places not very "user friendly". For example, there is not a single clear photograph or a detailed drawing of a chicken tractor! Anyone who really wants to build one can figure it out, but the instructions and drawings could be much better.

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The subtitle of this book is misleading; where are the hens?

As would-be Permaculturalists, what a great idea to raise a few chickens for eggs, occasionally throw one in the pot, in the meantime fertilizing gardens and orchard. We bought "Chicken Tractor" on the promise that everything we would need to know was contained therein. We are very disappointed. The authors do a good job with the chickens' abilities to fertilize. However, their focus is on raising chickens for slaughter and sale. Although they refer to "eggmobiles", one is referred elsewhere for plans. We wish we had foregone this book, and started elsewhere.

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