Chicken Composting - Maximize Feeding AND Composting
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- Опубліковано 27 лют 2024
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Happy growing!
You do love chicken TV don't you? If I'm ever born as a chicken I'm going to fly to your farm to live out my life.
Come on over!
My only remaining bucket-list goal is to make a small group of chickens *this* happy. Excellent episode of Chicken TV!
:)
So relaxing - chicken meditation.
It feels like that sometimes
For whatever reason, I just love looking at compost in its various stages. So the Compost TV part of this was as satisfying as the Chicken TV aspect!
Chicken TV brings peace to me, after a challenging day in healthcare. Thank you!
So glad to be able to offer that. Thank you for working in providing healthcare support for folks!
How beautiful to see and hear your chickens.
Thumbs up. 👍
Thanks
This made my day, thank you.
Very happy to share this
Lucky chickens! ;)
We're lucky too
Well today I don't need a translation ...they speak the same language as here 😊 🤗🧡🐔🐔
:)
I’m going to go soak some grains right now
Go for it!
Best episode of Chicken TV yet. I'm telling you a 3 hour broadcast on Twitch would do well.
Perhaps, but someone else would have to set it up!
I guess I have a cat farm. I have a group that follows me to compost pile, the wood pile, the garden plot . . . that ride in the wheelbarrow. It makes me happy, as your chickens make you happy.
Sounds like it works for everyone!
I love the sounds chickens make, makes me smile 😊. We nearly got chickens a year ago but I've not got around to do anything about it 😕.👍💪🙏👌❤️
Always this year!
always love some good ol fashioned chicken TV. would love to get something like this going where I am but unfortunately no chickens allowed in my current area. ill just have to soak up every bawk when you tour the tunnel for us.
Happy to share our system in the meantime
I am glad you give them the credit they deserve for all the work they do--they have happy, fulfilled lives as payment!
They work quite hard with us!
Lovely start to the day.
So glad!
Perfect soundtrack and no human yabba. Loved this.
Awesome!
Building a new house and run this spring. So many methodologies to sort during the design; but, your methods seem to fit my style the best. Thank you!
Good luck and remember you get to pick and choose the bits that feel like a fit, no wholesale adoption necessary!
I needed this today. Thank you ❤!
Always our pleasure to share
forever appreciating Sean's impeccable form when shoveling/turning compost!!!!!!!!!!!
these are my favorite videos
Thats great. I enjoy sharing them once in a while
Love the combinations and diversity of foods stuffs seems to really peek their interest and almost dares them to scratch. The activity they get interacting with the substrate seems very interesting to them, enriching and nourishing on many levels, perhaps even therapeutic as evidenced by the plump Austrolorp getting a steam treatment on the compost sauna @4:36 If I was a hen, I would wish to be part of your team. Are you taking applications? 💖
So glad the system resonates with you as being a good one :)
I see the older hens standing on the steam piles all the time!
Those little bantams are so funny, especially in the middle of a bunch of full sized hens.
Have you ever thought about setting up a long-running chicken cam, like the rangers do in Denali Park so people can watch the bears catch salmon.
Ha! Could be fun but I'm not sure I have the desire to add more tech here
ENGAGEMENT! Take THAT algorithm! 😂
Smash that like, ha
@@edibleacres I smashed it! 😂
@@edibleacresi love to see that your channel is growing pretty fast. i think i remember when you had 30,000-50,000 subs back in 2019 (?)
So relaxing.
Great :)
I LOVE your chickens!
lovely!
I love the "uh oh" noise they make sometimes 😂😂😂
:)
The happiest chickens in upstate NY!
We like to believe our hands are having a decent life. It seems as though they are showing a sign of pleasure and health, but of course we can always be missing something.
So awesome and such happy chickens! Do you have a link to the most recent overviews of your composting system and outdoor feeding system?
Thank you!!! :D
Your chickens look very healthy and obviously their diet has a big impact on that. How you deal with parasites / infections / disease in your flock?
Thanks!
Thanks so much!
Do you ever use wood chips for the bulk of the chickens compost? I have a literal few tons of arborist chips here and was wondering what I would need to add to them to make it productive enough for it to provide enough nutrients for the chickens
I would add in chips but not in huge bulk. Maybe wheelbarrow loads here or there with some grain mixed in. Add in a forkfull of aged compost/manure/foodscraps to each wheelbarrow of straight chips to increase engagement
My compost piles are much smaller than yours and far more 'newbie' but the hens love to scratch around in it. Right now it's too cold for me to mix it but I'm hoping in another month we will get out of the freezing evenings so I can get it mixed up!
Great! How many chickens do you have, and how much chickenfood (grain/pellets) do you have to buy each month? Thank you!
We have ~70 hens and we buy a few bags of sunflower seed to add into our grain mix. The rest of the grain is free in trade and foodscraps, leaves, charcoal, woodchips, etc. are free so it isn't much
Dang, all those celery stalks someone threw out, those are EXPENSIVE where I live and hard to grow, our "civilisation" is so wasteful. I am glad that you are at least able to snag all this waste and get it back into a meaningful system.
Love Chicken TV. Hoping the milder weather will get some of my grains in the soil to sprout again. How do you get the chickens to stop standing on the forkful your trying to lift? Maybe I am too slow turning?
You just get used to them doing that. Sometimes you have to move slower to be safer!
Hi Sean. Will you be having your spring plant sale this March? We always look forward to it. Thanks, Steve
We sure will... Check the website now :)
Thank you.
I love your system and have been trying with less luck. I don't have the volume of stuff to put into it.
One question, I also have guinea pigs now and the produce poo and pee stained hay. Can I put those into my chicken compost?
I love chicken tv in the morning.❤😂 Do yours actually eat the celery? Mine seem to ignore it.
Always loving some Chicken TV. Btw, do you hace rodents issues with the outside food scraps?
They are around but haven't been an issue
QUESTION: I have only 9 in my run but it's uncovered so some days it's soup because of all the rain in Northern Ireland.
OMW I'm gonna turn it into my poly tunnel place! It's been going with wood chips and food scraps for 8 good months. Already on some decent soil so if I toss it and add more soil it should grow really well and it's already got wired walls, and a net roof for keeping the birds etc out.
Would it be advisable to cover it still?
if i throw freshly cut woodchips from arborist, will it hurt the chickens feet when they scratch at it? the woodchips have sharp edges too. thank you
Mine never had any foot trouble from them.
Nope, their feet are super tough
Your chickens are so much cleaner than mine... perhaps it's the way I'm feeding them or they don't get enough time in the yard.
Legend
:)
One of your chicks sounds like a creature from Star Wars! around 2:45 :)
neat!
For char could ashes from a wood stove be used?
What kind of grain are you using? Something that doesnt spread to garden id hope? Also how many hours a week are you spending managing a system like this?
We add a range of grains but winter wheat is quite often a baseline, some corn, ideally whole so it can sprout and sunflower seed since we can get it locally.
I thought avocado was poisonous to chickens and dogs? Maybe I'm wrong.
It's not good for them, but when there's an abundance of options, they'll typically avoid things that are bad for them in the compost. I have had zero issues with my birds turning compost and eating poisonous things. They're looking for bugs and sprouts mostly.
With enough options they avoid any and all things that aren't great for them.
Al last... Chicken tv!!!
Yup!
If I was a chicken, I'd wanna be part of this flock. Compost heaven. 😂
We'd fold you right in :)
@@edibleacres 😁 Thankyou.🐥
How do you keep rats and other opportunistic predators away from your flock with all those food scraps?
Once the chickens are very safely secured in the coop at night we are comfortable with other beings entering into the space to meet their needs. There are a fair number of cats that enjoy the scene as well and So a balance is struck
I'm sure you've been asked this many times before, but do you have any problem with rodents?
They exist in the system but certainly have not presented in a way I'd call a problem
Awesome! Thank you!@@edibleacres
chuksota yes