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It's been several years now since the backyard chicken craze hit Southern California. Well, it may not actually be a craze yet, but I assure you there are thousands more chickens in the county now than say in 2010. Though we don't have any yet at Wishing Tree Ranch, we love getting free eggs from our chicken-whispering friends.

A few reasons they are great: the lovely, soothing clucking songs, the organic pest control of nuisance bugs and the free fertilizer, of course. The down side seems to be finding out you got a rooster by accident and the way coyotes want to hang around when their food supply dries up in the late fall.

Bottom line is that we do have generally poor soils here and enriching them by the addition of chicken manure can do wonders for your trees' productivity. And anything else growing in your garden.

Bonnie Jo Manion is our local Vintage Garden Gal and she literally wrote the book on backyard chickens. Learn more by clicking here:

http://vintagegardengal.com/category/chickens/