Chickens in the Sun
Solar powered mobile chicken coop provides a sustainable and comfortable environment for free-range poultry, promoting animal welfare and reducing energy costs.
to move. With the ARC, the birds see and hear the coop start to move, prompting them to walk towards the front of the structure.”
Regenerative Agriculture From a regenerative agriculture perspective, solar powered coops provide chickens with nature-like living conditions.
“ Instead of the animals sleeping where they eat and poop, now you’ re putting the manure down onto the crop or farmland, and then moving them every day,” Greive said.“ With this approach, the manure is actually fertilizing the field.”
At Pasturebird, chickens are generally running on old, dilapidated corn, soybean, cotton and peanut fields that have very low fertility and organic matter present.
“ We put the chickens on the pasture and rotate them
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