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Day: 5 August 2016

Lablab beans for getting chickens back into lay

August 5, 2016November 9, 2016 Stephen Carlin

Using lablab beans for chicken feed is one of those happy coincidences of production and need that perfectly fits a subtropical smallholding. In this post I will outline how lablab beans neatly fit the season and can nudge chickens back into egg production. This year I tried the strategy out properly, and the hens have started laying a month earlier.

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Stephen Carlin was born in Perth and lived in Sydney for 20 years before moving to Northern NSW to explore a lifestyle with a lighter footprint.

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