Friday 26 August 2011

Brewery Chickens

Just a few yards from the Brewery is the home of the Lucas chicken flock. The girls of the flock are a key part of the domestic economy here. They provide a fairly steady supply of superior quality eggs, and keep the vegetable garden supplied with manure. In addition to their basic diet of layer's pellets, they get all the green waste, be it weeds, vegetable trimmings, gone to seed lettuces, whatever. They also get all the spent grain from the brewery, and they go mad for it. I see the brewery, the poultry, the garden all as part of the same system. Poultry and brewing are a good fit.

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