Chicken farming manual published in Vietnamese, Korean and Urdu
Delmarva Chicken Association’s Jim Passwaters checks on the progress of a pollinator-friendly vegetative environmental buffer between two chicken houses on a Sussex County farm. SUBMITTED PHOTO May 4, 2021
Delmarva Chicken Association is publishing its reference manual for vegetative environmental buffers on chicken farms, the VEB Tool-Kit, in three new languages – Vietnamese, Korean, and Urdu – for an increasingly diverse audience of chicken growers on Delmarva who share a common goal of protecting natural resources and being good neighbors.
The VEB Tool-Kit, a free resource at dcachicken.com, is a widely used guide to planning, installing and maintaining ‘living fences’ of evergreen trees, shrubs, and tall grasses around chicken houses and chicken farms. Planting these buffers has both air quality and water quality benefits. Properly designed vegetative environmental buffers with farm-specific