Chicken coop tour in the agricultural benefit Goss - Seacoast Online

Rye - To help its bid to raise funds for the restoration of the barn of the farm of Goss, the city turned to the birds on Sunday.

Chickens, to be precise.

The Conservation Commission of rye held a chicken coop tour to give participants an inside look of various barns around the city. Volunteers provided maps detailing homes in the people of the city must visit the tour.

Among the larger coops were Joe and Julie Tucker House on the way to Washington, where the husband and wife raise animals for fun and take and rehabilitate others.

The property of Tucker is home to countless chickens, ducks, pigeons, pheasants and other poultry. Many types of chickens, including multicolored bantams and silkies fluffy, Japanese, pavanait and its round the property. The Tuckers also help wild animals injured or abandoned, including squirrels and the marmots.

"We like," said Julie Tucker. "We care about animals.".

While Julie Tucker said she was a little surprised to hear there is interest that other tour of its barns, she and her husband agreed that it was a good way to educate the community and those interested in raising chickens in their backyard.

Joe Tucker said much work will take care of livestock and that he was ready and willing to trade for advice on appropriate housing, food and livestock.

"Many people think that you can just throw them in a crate," he said.

At the farm of Goss on Harbor Road, coordinators gave tours of the farm showing the progress made in the past year. There are now community and patches of garden of the school field, but there is a lot of work to do, they said.

Tracy Degnan, specialist in conservation with Rockingham Conservation District, pointed out several species of invasive plants to eradicate, and the damage to the structure of the barn itself. Sunday event was a way to raise funds for the restoration of the barn, as well as $ 170,000 cost rated.

"It is an ancient structure." "It takes much work," Degnan said. "We want to make it usable for the small community events."

Jim Raynes, president of the Conservation Commission, said 100 tickets sold in advance and most people ran for throughout the day chicken coop tour, it appeared that the group is about to lift the necessary funds for the project.

"This seems to be taking off well", he said. "If we are going to do, we might as well do right, so it lasts for another 100 years."

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