Chickens for Pest Control

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Choose chickens for pest control around the homestead.
Choose chickens for pest control around the homestead.
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Chickens and turkeys are used to eat grasshoppers attracted to new gardens.
Chickens and turkeys are used to eat grasshoppers attracted to new gardens.
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Chickens clean up the grains left by horses that attract rats and mice.
Chickens clean up the grains left by horses that attract rats and mice.

Readers share how they use chickens for pest control around the homestead.

There are lots of grasshoppers around here, but my hens patrol the garden
perimeter fence and really reduce the numbers of insects in
the garden. Before I got the hens, some crops were totally
destroyed by the ‘hoppers. The hens also have helped

  • Published on Feb 1, 2003
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