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 plants – trees, shrubs and warm-season grasses – help capture dust, noise and odor from chicken houses. Also, these VEBs can absorb nutrients in the soil and water around chicken houses. Buffers can also help chicken growers conserve resources by shading tunnel fan areas in summer, which helps keep houses cool, and serving as windbreaks in winter, reducing propane consumption to keep houses warm.