Review: Graze those chickens!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 26, 2013
This was actually a very detailed book on grazing your chickens.  I appreciate the honesty that grazing will allow you to reduce some of your feed costs but not eliminate all of it.  Learned a lot, I definitely recommend purchasing it if you want to allow your chickens to graze and hunt bugs.  However, the book is not tailored for the arid west.  We don't get summer rains in California as the area which the book talks about does.  We graze our chickens and got the dirt field she speaks about avoiding!  I've learned I can only graze in the spring after the summer rains brings up new growth and stop grazing when the grasses is half grazed down.  I especially like the grass comparison chart showing what season different varieties thrive in because I will be using that to see if I can make more year around forage with irrigation.  I will also be trying her suggestion to mow.