What Happened to the Chicken Compost Making Ring 3 Months Later?
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2024
- In this video, I show you what has happened to the chicken compost making ring 3 months after its first use and how the kitchen scraps have broken down.
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G'day Everyone, just a quick note about Plastic Forests (who make the material for my compost ring) their website is plasticforests.com.au/ (not sponsored) I just like the recycling concept and their growing list of products. I (like many others and probably you too) think reusing/recycling soft plastics (such as plastic bags) is one way to help clean up the waste and pollution on our planet caused by discarded plastics. Cheers :)
Is this item sold in the US?
Hey, just a quick heads up - not sure if you knew that Plastic Forests (who seem like they make awesome products) is using images from your videos in their product pictures? Just thought I'd make sure you were cool with them doing that, considering you're not sponsored :)
You should be sponsored if they're using your photos and video to promote their product! Looks excellent though, I've also really liked the metal versions you have in so many of your videos.
@@isabeldixon2611 that would be just awful if they did that and didn't compensate him. I am waiting for a response to see if he is cool with it before I buy anything.
Question about Chicken/Poultry Manure, I was told that chickens produce a "Hot" manure that isnt the best manure, but a good trick was to combine them with rabbits who have a "Cold" manure that the chickens will scratch & spread out for you and ideally you'd rotate the chicken enclosure to spread the rabbit manure around and then plant that area a season later. Do you have any tips or ideas on "Hot" & "Cold" Manure? I think its a reference to the microbes/composition of the manure. I haven't watched ALL of your videos yet but if you've covered this let me know!
Mark, as a fellow Australian I just want to say thank you. For being such a bloody top bloke, a role model for us all looking to improve our lives and gardens. Cheers
Nyaaaaa! Bonzastrewthbeaudy!!!!!!
Well said 👍
Second that!
@BennyLad...@3:24, what is that cute little creature?
@@3umphbywill313 that's a possum
I like the comments on this channel, people exchange ideas in a civil manner.
Yes, I personally learn a lot and get heaps of tips from the comments under my videos. Cheers :)
Gardening is a task often chosen by civil- minded, peaceful folks 😃.
Refreshing isn't it
Healthy comment section :)))
Chickens are one of the most underrated garden helpers ever. As long as you keep them away from small plants and seedlings.
I let my chooks wander around in the parts of my garden with older plants and they do a bloody good job of keeping insect populations down.
@@alcrusader1004 Easy garden hacks!
So true.
@@alcrusader1004 don’t the chickens eat or destroy the plants?
@@melle7505 Yes, for most plants they will. There are things in my experience that chickens wont ruin. They stay right away from my garlic, chives, onions, leeks, climbing beans once they are big enough, as in the plant is big enough that the chickens cant get them. I wouldn't suggest just letting them in your garden with any old vegie, herb or flower though. Just the stuff they aren't gonna ruin
A friend of mine did a similar thing and planted their fruit trees in the spot of the ring. Every time they wanted to plant another tree they would move the ring and the chickens prepared the ground for them. A great idea!
I wish I found this channel a lot sooner. Before the covid thing, my priorities are to find a house in a sub-urban subdivision for my family and continue with my life as an employee to buy things and pay my mortgage until I'm 70. Now I got my mortgaged house but when I came across this channel during quarantine, I realized how important and fulfilling it is to be a farmer just what my father and I used to be. Back then we had vegetables and chooks, we eat healthy. Now my own family is stuck in a corporation-supplied consumerism. All are bought, the only thing reminding me of self-sufficiency is my 4 sqm garden in front of my house. But I know it's not too late. I am now pursuing to buy even a 1 acre property to start my long forgotten passion. Thank you Mark, from the bottom of my heart!
Don't wait. Live your dreams. It ll be the best thing you ever do. 😊
I wonder if I can do something similar in Croatia... the soil is very different, but chickens are chickens and kitchen scraps are kitchen scraps... hmm
I am so curious about where this works around the world. The great compost could increase crop yeilds and ideas are like gold.
Will probably work. Its rather dry i croatia, perhaps adding more leaves/water will be needed.
Compost work everywhere. Its just a matter of time, and adjusting water.
Try it!
I think the idea would work, you may need to adjust or tweak it for your location, but the main idea is sound.
Beautiful Croatia! I was lucky enough to spend some time there on holidays in Aug 2019 and I'm sure you can create a similar system to use chickens for compost making over there on the amazing Adriatic Sea. Cheers :)
No, this obviously only works in a super specific area in Australia.
And on a serious note: Did you really just ask that? Why wouldn't that work in croatia? :D
Love the chicken hanging around at the back, probably thinking hurry up, I want a good feed
That's exactly what she's thinking alright! Cheers :)
A great way to use the chickens to compost Mark. That soil is going to be awesome as time goes on. Great video
Hey Tony! Yes mate, I'm looking forward to using this soil/compost mix in the garden. Cheers :)
Request: On your second channel, put a 1 hour video of compost ring chicken action. Footage that you're not present for.
More content on SSM2 coming soon Anthony - thanks for the feedback! I've been biting off heaps over the past 12 months and not chewing hard enough but I'm getting closer to squaring away the "admin" so I can deliver on my projects. Cheers :)
Yes! 😃🤟
WAIT there's a second channel? OH crap I'm missing out
This makes me want chickens. Look how helpful they are.
I do recommend chickens they are so smart and at times very funny! Always good workers :)
The more I learn about gardening, the more I see chickens in my future.
Me too!
Chickens are the best! Food - Friends & Fertilizer
I got chickens after watching Self Sufficient Me and no regrets :) wonderful little garden helpers
Mark, you have no idea how comforting your videos are. I wish you the best in all of your experiments and life!
"I'm actually really 'digging' it," he says. 😆😀
another Mark dad joke -- HAHA
😆
good morning brother. for the first time ever I put up raised beds this week - 12 total raised beds. I used your method from your other video - wood stumps, branches etc, layers of dirt and old turf before finally topping off with 400mm of lovely manure soil. I learn a great deal here about providing organic foods for my family. cheers mate.
I have my beds up too. Waiting game now for my starts.
There is no feeling in the world like making an entire salad out of the delicious 100% organic veggies that you have grown and nurtured from seed, and healthy, happy eggs laid by happy chickens. And no food ever tasted so good. 🥗😍🥚
One of things not mentioned about burying wood - is it a potential termite attractor? I don't have a lot of distance from the garden to the house. I'm probably going to do a bunch of cypress mulch to discourage them.
Great to hear! Congrats on your raised beds (12 is a top effort) and all the best with your garden! Cheers :)
Mark is the type of guy you want as your neighbour
Definitely!!!
Especially if it means I have a few acres to call my own as well.
Lovely part of the world where Mark is.
Man...that would be soooo cool...for me anyways....after a while I imagine he'd be like...."ahhh not this bloody yank again" 😅😅😅😅😆😆😆
or, your neighbor
I’d love to buy him a beer
Here in California USA a new law was passed for home owners to compost! Love it!
I wasn't trying to make life hard for you, but as an environmental teacher I would like to show my interest to my children and students. I love your videos and am an avid follower! Keep it coming!
Thank you! All the best :)
It’s rare to see animals living their best life while helping humans at the same time. Love this idea!!
When you get some grass clippings put some in there. The chickens will love it and it will heat and create more moisture in there. The eggs you get from those chickens will be awesome!
Top tip Teresa! Thank you :)
Newbie gardener here. Learning so much!
Good stuff Shirley! :)
Thank you for your service...both as a soldier and as an environmentalist...land and country!
Will you plant a fruit tree there when the ring is filled with that beautiful compost? It would be a very tempting ready made planting situation...and you could do that on repeat 😊 Great idea by the way 👍🏻
Mark: I know what you’re thinking. Why you sweating so much. It’s a hot day and I’m looking to the sun!
Me: mark, I’ve always come to you for wholesome content now please move to literally anywhere else but that tiny sun spot and keep making these awesome videos.
You often make the comment "I know what you're thinking," but I don't believe you do know what I am thinking. When watching your videos I most often think about you standing upside down on Earth. Yeah, I know about gravity and such, but I still think about the people living far south of the equator that are, in my book, really upside down. A ridiculous thought that has stayed with me since childhood...and I am 73 years old. Oh, your videos are excellent, and you are always so positive...and oddly calm, like when a large venomous snake visited the chicken coop.
"Gravity" is not what they say it is. It is closer to density, buoyancy, and incoherent dielectric magnetism. And Mark isn't standing upside down because the spinning globe heliocentric model of our "flat" plane is transparent nonsense...
You're right, it is ridiculous
How can ya tell if we are upside down or he is upside down? Lol, we must both be crazy...because I wondered the same.
@@phineusphineas LOL! We are upside down to him but it doesn't matter as we all go about our lives.
The only reason 'we ' are on top of the earth is because ' we' made the maps.
That ring is a great idea, Mark! It keeps the chickens from scattering it everywhere. Looks like you may be transforming your dead dirt too.
Thanks for another great idea! 💜
that worm is so metal! living right in the feeding ring of chickens.
yeah..i was hoping that Mark would put that worm deeper in the pile.. but i would've been living in a perfect world then :)
We use big truck tires. We cut around the ring on both ends and turn it inside out. They are sturdy and tall enough for the chickens to keep the stuff they turn in. It's about the same size as yours. I know, it has chemicals and what not, but they are free here and the compost the chickens make goes to a cliff we have on the side of the house where we grow deep rooting grass in order to help stop soil erosion (landslides are a thing here).
For our garden compost we use a different area. We use our goat, chickens (a different set) and the compost bin.
Our goat eats some of the organic hay, but some always falls on the floor. We let that hay get pretty gnarly under the goat (for about a month) and then move it to the chicken area. Before moving it to the chicken area, we spread crushed corn and other grains on the chicken area and add the gnarly hay on top, we leave it there for a good month and a half or so. They have to scratch the hay to find the feed. They poop on the hay and it breaks down even more. Then it's moved to the compost bin, along with the goat poop pellets we collected, where it "cooks" for 3 months or so. We get a good 10 gallons of compost for the garden every 6 months.
I'll likely never get chickens for my yard, yet here I am.
Hey Mark - tried this with an old colorbond raised bed inside chicken run - it worked ok but went gangbusters after I put old tarp over it for a few days out of each week - earthworms galore appeared - chickens got the ones near top but couldn’t get to lower ones - after about 8 weeks it was a great addition to compost heap (started with weeds, tree pruning, scraps and some wood chips). Love your willingness to experiment !
I need to try this out, I will build a compost bed in the chicken pen.
I love how the chickens were just hanging out waiting for you to put those scraps in.. lol
I'm a huge fan of composting but we also use it for heating
If I ever get to own a garden, keeping chickens would be one of the first priorities.
I have a similar size box in the chicken pen shade/greenhouse I do pile it up every couple of days adding presoaked corn and sunflower seeds in layers they love it and tear through it in a couple of hours, also in there main run I have another uncontrolled compost pile for large amounts of weeds, leaves and citrus fruits and anything else they don’t really like eating directly once the citrus fruits have finished for the season I will then start to turn it and pile it once a week so they can get to the grubs and bugs, compost will be ready by spring and I’ve cut my feed bill by half. Great video ❤
We do this same thing here in Florida, but we do not shy away from putting meat in there. It is the first thing that goes when he chicks dig in. They love it. I wish we could get that plastic stuff that you are using though, it looks great for a variety of things on the homestead! Thanks Mark, we love watching your videos.
Who the hell gives a thumbs down to a composting segment. Wackos. Mark, another 3 months until the heat comes to south Florida. Planting and harvesting now. Keep up the great content!
So happy to see this! I didn't make a ring, but have handled my kitchen scraps the same way for 5 years now. My husband thought I was wasting my time because I didn't "cook" it and turn, etc. All my garden weeds and spent plants go there too. We had to move the pile last year to a different spot that had more sunlight.... oh my! Veggie volunteers of every description. I guess I would need to cook it to kill off the weed seeds to add to our garden beds, but even if it just enriches the area where it is, it's far better than organic produce going to a landfill!
Mark your so funny. “When you said your in the sun on a hot day”. The video looks like your in the only non shaded area.
😅At first when i read the title i thought "wow what are those crazy cartels up to these days?!" (thinking it was some illegal underground chicken-meat compost-making ring)
But then i saw the thumbnail and realized it wasn't so bad, i am just imaginative...i am glad people are normal. i had a good laugh at that.
Love the idea that this is also enrichment for the chickens - gives them something else to do! This is a cool idea. Thanks!
He's got very happy chickens creating healthy compost.
The chickens I find are not really into netflix 😜😜
Chickens with a purpose.
Really cool compost ring! Idea> maybe a water drinking point on the edge of the ring pointing in. So the birds naturally go into the ring, have a drink, snack, scratch and poop. So you don't have to shovel it?
He's a big composting thumbs up for ya Mark. Thanks for the video.
Hey Mark from Tennessee, USA. Perfect timing! I love this concept! My teens & I just finished rebuilding our garden fence yesterday to keep the chickens out of it & the compost. We felt guilty because they really enjoy the compost & they work it for me. We're going to tweak your ring with old boards...square...rectangle shapes. I stopped breathing when I heard you say rice then meats, but I know my flock will eat it which will save on the feed bill. Thanks for this great idea!
the material is like day and night compared to what is outside the ring :)
Dee, everything I learned about raised bed gardening and chicken raising, I learned from Self Sufficient Me. And the amazing results speak for themselves!
🥗😄👍🐓
Chickens and turkeys are the best turners I’ve ever found, Mark was the guy who got us into in composting originally.
You know what, I just built a raised garden bed and threw chicken scraps in there and noticed my chicken pecking there. I didn't realize the chicken was helping me compost.
So great!! I got to use my 1st made at home compost in my new veg bed. Only us gardeners can u stand how happy I am! Thanks Mark you're the best!!!
Shared in NC. While I'm wear my "self sufficient tee".
NC here too
Thank you!!! All the best Teresa, cheers :)
It's my pleasure. I'm learning alot
I have basically been doing the same thing for about a year now. I was tired of just dumping kitchen scraps on the ground for my chickens because it looked ugly and anything they didn't eat was left there drying instead of composting. So I made a box inside my chicken pen and that's where I dump the leftovers now. I haven't dug in yet to see what it looks like, but I imagine it's composting nicely.
When I was younger we would dump the scraps right on the ground in the chicken pen, then a couple times a week I would rake them all into a pile. Granted my chicken pen was much bigger than yours.
If you keen the compost a little moist it attracts bugs for the chickens to snack on.
I just dump things into my chicken pen, but never thought to rake it up. Good idea
I've recently started this lifestyle and have started to just pop the kitchen compost in the coop and then 'recycle' it onto my garden. Hoping it works just as well
We are basically doing this but in our chicken run. We live on a 10th acre. we turned our carport into chicken run. I think I will have to add this idea of containing to one spot though. we actually spend very little on food but I really wanted it to build up faster but the whole run is now 5 inches or so in places. We are also going to be doing bean sprout fodder and maggot feed by the end of summer.
Loving this videos!!! You showed life style of small towns and villages in western Ukraine where I grew up before moving to USA …. 30 years later and I have nostalgia for a first time in my lifetime… You remind me my late father (electrical engineer) and fishermen by hobby , gardener by nature…
My chooks get meat and seafood put in the compost too. They LOVE shrimp tails. They will even eat chicken. It's all protein to them, they don't care. Same as slurping up a broken egg. Grains, greens, protein. I'm amazed at how alike our soils are. We have loamy, sandy soil here in the rolling piney woods of SW AR. It's hot and humid here too. We cook alive in summer. Temps in 90 - 100 plus and doesn't cool much at night. I make my own nutrient rich soil using the same methods you do. I love it.
I still remember your fish-head tomato plant experiment. Love your channel.
I use this concept in my gardens in Alaska, works great.
You are the Bob Ross of farming.
sir as an american i love learning from you ONE cause youre a bit hippy dippy like myself and two its awesome to hear about the other struggles you have compared to my own yard
This is brilliant!! Not only will it make great compost but it will entertain the chickens. We love to have our chickens (12) roam around the yard all day, eating what looks good to them and having a good time. They usually made three trips around our property in a day, saying "hi" as they passed by. But since we live within a large wooded area (200 acres) our chickens were one by one falling prey to coyotes etc. So we had to fence them in. Although we made it as big as we could, it still is somewhat boring. (I'm considering a swing and/or vegetable tether ball!) This ring would be great in so many ways! Thanks, Mark! Love your videos. Greetings from southern Ohio.
G'day Mark, so happy to see an update. Great job!
thanks for update. love the creative ways you use scraps to make soil. work with the earth.
I live in an area with black bears and I haven't had a single one ever get in my compost bin. But I have had a wild pig and lots of turtles get into it through.
For all those wondering if it works in other places around the globe, I’m doing it in France and it works perfectly
Mark I have finally figured out who you remind me of.......good old Aussie Icon Peter Russell Clark!!! Thanks for the video mate!!
You probably know: you mentioned tea bags; best to avoid teabag strings and small staples which can cause problems in their digestion.
Really enjoy your info! Keep up the great work💜✝️🛐
I woke up delighted about a new video from SSM!!!! Thank you !!!!!
There's a red chicken standing in the background going, "when is this guy gonna be done?" Chickens are chickens everywhere
Love your videos. I live in Canada so we obviously can't grow all year round outdoors so I'm just waiting for spring to be able to use all the info I've gotten from you. I could listen to your voice all day just talking about your garden. Keep up the good work :)
I really want to know why people click unlike button, as this guy is so fantastic. Are they scared to show their faces or at least say why they don't like it.
Found your channel some time ago, I love revisiting some of the older videos, now that I've bought an acre property to farm self sufficiently. I found a large metal ring laying around the backyard yesterday.
It now has a purpose. LOL
Chickens are high on the list, once we get fencing and containment sorted for them.
I was waiting on this! Thanks for sharing Mark! Never let inputs leave your property if you don't have to! ;)
Love the content Mark. I do not have the space to tackle the project you do but I really enjoy watching you self-sufficient projects.
I appreciate when a grown man isn't afraid to use the word "yucky." 😁👍
Oh good a new video! I was beginning to fear that the kangaroos might have carried you off Mark! Good to see that you're still vertical and breathing. It looks like you made a productive composting pile, especially given that it was so broken down after such a short period of time. I can "dig" that.
Excellent audio of chickens and ducks. My cat spent the second half of the video on his hind legs, batting at the screen every time Mark moved.
Hi from Maryland USA... I totally geek out on all things compost!!! Chickens are going to love me even more now 🌱
Absolutely beautiful. Mate, please keep on keeping on
Lovely Cumpust :) Not been online much through the cold. Happy to hear your reassuring and encouraging voice again.
Thank you! I've been doing this in a half of a five gallon bucket, but omitted stuff chickens won't eat. Now I will just do all my scraps!
Love your content, Mark! Always useful information!
Man, your videos just really lift my spirits.
Glad to see a fresh post. 🌺
Good to see I'm not the only one. I used an unused square raised garden bed frame and its about the same height and it keeps it all in there just like yours. Makes a really nice dirt.
Yay! So exited for another video! Thank you, Mark.🌌🙏🏾💖
I really love this. So intuitive. Using what you have and making something of it. It's a win for me and, for you.
I love it that the little cute wild birds understand what I’m doing in the garden.
When I plant or sow stuff they watch me do it, to then check the area out when I’m gone, and they poop only in that area.
It is like they understand that the plants give them food as well, since it attracts insects. This way I dont have to fertilize as much since the top gets covered with poop. These birds eat seeds and insects only, so quite nutritious poop as well
Love it!! Your videos are helping me gather ideas to take back to my home country, Cuba. There is so much food insecurity and lack of access to information, amongst all the systemic issues with the government. When I go back, I plan on helping them learn to be a little more self sustainable.
I feed my chickens kitchen scraps but it never occurred to me to put them in a confined area so I could easily gather the compost. Definitely trying this! It looks like the sides are too high for ducks, but ducks are great in the garden too. They love cleaning up bugs and last years leftovers!
Great job as usual Mark! we love utilizing the chickens in our compost and gardens.
A new video!!! I love these videos. I always learn something new. Great job! 👍
Learning wonderful things from you and I really appreciate that since I'm starting a very modest herb and pollinator garden in the backyard.
Also wanted to say that I love the ending audio of the chickens and nature. So relaxing and refreshing. I hope you consider continuing something like this in all your videos.
Anyway, thanks from Texas.
I don't live where I can do half the stuff you do, but your energy is so compelling! Keep it up my man!
Great Mark,I’ve been waiting for a follow up with that ring 👍🤣
G'day Mark, I must say that you are an absolute genius in the garden. I follow your tips and now I am going to make a compst ring with my own chooks. Thanks for the lovely videos that we can follow.
I love the idea of the ring for this. We inherited chickens a few years back and they love to dig in the compost pile but they throw it all over. This is a fantastic solution. I'll be giving this a go this spring. Thanks!
Ive always enjoyed your enthusiasm and well put together videos. Once again good job
Great job Mark. The kitchen comes full circle.
I love it....I always throw scraps to my chickens, but I never thought about doing it this way. I will have to look into it....thanks for the tip.
What a fabulous idea......Mark you have aced it again.....
Thx Mark...I like gardening ...its relaxing and watching your vids over current events is helping to keep me sane LOL... so thanks again and cheers from "Up Over"
Thank you Steve! Yes, I think we all need some respite from the events over the past 18 months. Cheers :)
From an Irishman in Georgia, USA, thanks for the awesome videos Mark. I'm about to get into chickens and growing my own. Researching the bejaysus outta everything. Are you still a fan of your invention, no waste feed bucket from years ago?
That is amazing use of scraps, dry soil, twigs, leafs , and duck and chicken poop mate. Kudos! Continue on farming.👊👍
It makes me happy seeing how happy you get✌️ love from England, UK
Getting chickens soon, I'll definitely be using them to help do some garden chores like this. Very smart. Thanks for the idea.