Chicken Compost

Thanks to the blister bugs taking down the foliage on a large number of our tomato plants leaving tomatoes to scorch in the sun before ripening, the chickens are eating well right now.  These are a few pictures of the compost pile in the chicken yard.

The goats and the chickens have really played an important role this year in cleaning up our garden.  While the goats have been busy taking care of the dying squash plants, all of the tomato debris has been given to the chickens.  We didn’t realize what a good job the critters were doing for us until we left a pile of plants in an area not frequented by goats or chickens.  Despite being far from the garden, it took two days for the blister bugs to find that pile of debris and move in.  We won’t make that mistake again!