Simplest Trick for Free Chicken Feed
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- PVC pipes and complex BSF larvae traps? Ain't nobody got time for that! I set up the super stupid simplest black soldier fly bin I could find and it works great. Permanently better chicken nutrition for $9.
HT to Carol Broman who had the original idea for this bin. • The Easiest DIY Black ...
Idea- same setup as what you have, but after the jump into the goodie bin, there's a declination and an opening and the worms can fall out onto the ground. Place with the chickens and then it's an auto feeder.
At a remote fisheries research station, in Manitoba, we did something similar.
Dead fish were put on top of chicken wire. The maggots fell down into tubs. We fed hundreds of hatchery pickerel that way. It was incredibly productive.
The only downsides were the smell (minor issue), and we had to put down a bear that became a nuisance.
One of my best memories was collecting the spawning pickerel eggs and milt.
Best summer job EVER!
I had thought this too but chickens being smart things would just sit there pigging out and the other chickens lower on the pecking order would miss out...if you added a windmill style gizmo with cup that flicked them around that could be fun
@@patrickbutler1715 lol... endless possibilities for creative/inventive constructive types.... God bless
@@patrickbutler1715 would make sense then to put up a couple extras to give them all options
Make some drawings and I bet people would make them.
thank you for your "stupid simple" methods. one thing I've learned in my 59 yrs is that there's a whole lot of people that love to make things difficult/complicated. I'm all about the simplest, easiest, fastest and cheapest way of doing everything, while getting the same or better results than any of the complicated methods. lol that's how I roll. when you're raising/homeschooling 8 children on a shoestring budget you learn these things lol. I'm very happy I found your channel
I’m proud of you for being a mother who homeschools and homestead. If no one has told you, you’re doing a great job
Agree 👍
Your children are the future of this country.
Thank you for you service.
I honestly think some people build these elaborate systems just because they like to tinker and that's fine but some of us have to much to do to spend time tinkering on little projects. Running farms and acreages is nothing but constant work.
I love how genuine this guy is literally only watched 2 videos this one and the one on how to get tall ryegrass in your pastures and I’m subbed now
you're not the one who thinks like that :) and yes I'm subbed and tryıng to watch all the videos :))
yea me too. Those are the exact videos I watched and subscribed for.
Thanks, Jeff! Really appreciate you sharing this. I’ve always wanted to do this but like you, felt like it was a tad tedious/expensive for the supplies. Gonna have to get one of these setup this year
planted rye in a back 40 plot last year, bastardo rats got all the sprouts, will watch vid. God bless
Can you post the link to the ryegrass video? I'm not seeing it on his listing.
I hope you did find the easiest way to ferment feed. Again, people try to make it so damn hard and it doesn't have to be.
Get a food grade 5 gallon bucket from tractor supply. Put in equal parts feed and water and leave some space at the top of the bucket so it can expand. Stir it all around real good add a dash of apple cider vinegar if you want to, but you don't have to. Stir it every day for three days. Then start feeding it. When the bucket gets a little low, add water and feed again it will ferment overnight because of what was left in the bucket to begin with. It is a never ending bucket. And you only need one bucket. A couple times a year. I completely rinse out the bucket and start new but you don't have to. Keep it stirred and you will do fine. it should be about the consistency of oatmeal. You don't need to leave water on top etc. etc. It is the easiest thing ever.
"equal parts feed and water.."
What feed can be fermented? Kitchen scraps?
@@aronbalabs9389 I wouldn't put kitchen scraps in there. Just toss them to the chickens and let them eat it. I have fermented all kinds of chicken feed, including a grower, which is what I feed all my chickens all the time now. In the past I fermented layer feed. I have fermented, pellets or granules. also feed that is more whole ingredients. it's really good for this time of year when it is so damn hot. The chickens get more moisture from their feed.
I have been doing this for 3 yrs... I make a big bucket of feed and water ... and my chickens go to it before dry feed... I started noticing my chickens would eat feed ( dry) if I spilled water in it.
Thus started me soaking it.
I accidentally made an earwig farm by stacking some old roof tiles, now I use them all the time, every month or so I pick up the pile of 4 tiles and brush off the earwigs into a container and place the tiles back down, I have 5 traps/nests around the garden keeping them off my veggies without Poison and best my chickens love them 😀
I love the simple setup of your black soldier fly bin. Thanks for sharing.
Fermentation made simple.
1) Put rain or dechlorinated water in a 5 gallons food grade bucket.
2) Put your whole grains in the bucket of water. The water level must be several inches above the grains for absorption. Cover the bucket with a lid that has holes/ or slightly lift the lid for ventilation.
~ I ferment enough grains for an entire week, and I ferment a new batch in the middle of the week.
3) Sock the grains for three days and stir throughout so that all the grains are fully absorbed.
4) After the fermentation process, store the grains with the liquid in the refrigerator so that it will not spoil.
5) Each day drain the water off a portion and serve it to the chickens.
~Each morning I put a portion of the fermented grains with the chicken feed plus a dash of the DE. The wet grains slightly soften the feed and the chickens love it.
What is the point of this I've never heared this I own 10 chickens please explain
We had a Big back yard (really big); in the big city, had a garden covering about half the yard. We had lots of chickens (76 at the highest count). We bought lots of feed and other things (like crushed oyster shells) but supplemented that in other ways.
We let the birds roam through the garden during the day. The garden plants were helped by many bugs being eaten plus the birds did eat certain plants but not too much. The bird poop helped too.
We also got old veggies from a local market since they would otherwise toss them out when they are too old to sell. Some stores refused that option saying corporate would never allow it. Seemed silly to me - but whatever…
I love your videos! @jeffgray
Question about the fly larvae bin.. I'm new to this stuff, and was wondering how the worms go to the smaller larvae catcher bin. Do they just end up in there naturally for easy removal? Also, do some larvae make it to fly form before harvest? I'd rather them not reach adulthood since I live in a suburban area. I'm thinking about doing this for our chickens but am curious about these two things. Thanks so much!
The worms crawl upwards out of the muck when they’ve reached maturity (ie, ready to pupate). Hence the reason for the slope of the inner tub. When the crawl up, they eventually fall into the hole that’s been cut in the inner tub and they’re caught by the small bin.
They can’t pupate and turn into flies until they reach soil. Which they can never do with this system.
Thanks for the tip.
My chicks are about 8 weeks old now and I'm sure they'd love this idea.
QUESTION: How do you keep the raccoons/skunks/possums etc., from tearing apart your grub farm every night?
didn't you see the rock? 😄
@@youtubeKathy
Yes. 🙂
Do you know how determined wild animals are?
dogs, at least a big one to bite and a small one to make noise.
raccoons , skunks, and possums are an issue for me too. my solution is i put out a trap every night with easy foods.
easy foods like a handfull of cat food will be choice over a more difficult to get at souce.
but i keep my soilder fly bin in the coop.
I never considered closing the loop on this circle of life by collecting larvae for my hens instead of trapping the flies and throwing them away. Great idea.
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Excellent “simple” presentation! Loved it! For years, I’ve been feeding maggots to my chickens right from one of my compost heaps that will grow thousands and thousands of maggots in the warm weather. But I love this bucket method. Never thought of it before lol thank you for this info Jeff!
Our black soldier flies breed in an old bath that we use as a scrap/compost bin. It is elevated about a foot off the ground and there's no plug in the drain hole(for drainage): the liquid from this drain goes straight in a bucket and from there goes onto the garden.
The fermented seed process is "super stupid simple 🤗
I have two dozen chickens( 2 rosters included) and feed them around five cups of fermented grain per day (without fermenting, I was feeding them up to eight-nine cups) along with garden timings and their crops are always full.
Fermenting process:
Five cups of grain/cracked corn, wheat, sorghum, a little black sunflower seed, etc in a bucket and cover X2 with water. To start I did this three days in a row and started feeding the first lot on the third day. Nb; drain the liquid from the first batch and reuse in the fourth batch( this liquid is the culture for the lactic acid process to continue your ferment).
After you've established the culture, you can cut the batches back to only two, (giving you a forty eight hour ferment) and continually strain and reuse the liquid in the next batch topping up with fresh water to maintain the level of the first batch.
I'm in Western Queensland; Australia and our climate never gets really cold; if you're in a colder region, you may need to have three batches to allow for fermentation.
It's not rocket science, just give it a go🙏👍
Thanks for this! I ferment my chicken feed and often wondered if I could reuse the liquid. I didn't want it to go to waste so I've just been diluting it and feeding the plants. I'm going to try this instead.
I'm sure you do this anyway but I have 3 buckets with holes drilled in the bottom and they fit into 3 buckets without holes. To drain, I simply lift out the inside bucket with the grains and all the water falls into the outside bucket.
Starting with KNF LAB would be a nice way to speed all this up and keep the “mother” concept going
Jus find some road kill stick it in mesh wire and hang on a tree or stick and the maggots fall of for the chickies , we also did this for feeding fish by hanging road kill from bridges
This is awesome! I have been drawing out plans for a BSF farm and this is perfectly simple and effective!!
If it were stupid simple, you would not have to bring them the larva, the larva would migrate to where the chickens can harvest them all by themselves, I mean seriously, you already have the chickens harvest their own grain, RIGHT?
Just suspend the main tub above the ground at the same angle, but instead of a huge hole, make a slit the chickens can't get through, then put the catch tub underneath the slit and have it open to the chickens so they can see one fall and snatch it up, and if the chickens are elsewhere, they will collect until they return!
Exactly what I was looking fir!!! Thanks a bunch.
I love fermenting my feed. I just take a couple scoops, throw it in a jar, put water in and wait a few days. Sometimes I cover it, sometimes I don't. I've had flies lay eggs and it turns into a little larvae snack too. It looks gross but the girls go bananas for it.
Dude. I love your videos. They're informative and hilarious. Its like listening to Jack Black discuss homesteading. Awesome!
Thank you for making this project super easy. I hadn’t given this project a go because you have to spend money getting the sifting equipment,containers and crap that takes money. We’re old and having to tighten the already tightened belt like every one else. Again thank you for making it simple. You just gained a Follower
I am thinking, just the bin set up at a slight slant to drain any water to bottom of slant with a few small holes if needed, a 2-4" hole in the top for black soldier fly access, a horizontal slot at the high end a few inches up from bottom, for the larvae to crawl out, a piece of flat wood like a 1"x4" that would fit in the slot, the larvae would crawl up and just fall in the floor of the chicken coop if it was inside the coop and all you would have to do is put left overs, animal manure, kitchen scraps in it, the rest would be automatic. The wood slanting up extra would be so it would keep above the food for a while. Subbed, like, and black belled. I may put a video of this up on my channel.
When I was a kid we raised chickens and sold eggs. I remember my dad telling me about a certain kind of maggot that can get in a chickens crop and eat the crop and go up the neck. He called it "limber neck". How do you know if any of the maggots you are raising are "bad" maggots? That was a long time ago, 60 years. Maybe I remember wrong.
Eat the crop?
@@ogadlogadl490 its some organ chickens have
@@nunyabiznes33 TY
Such a specialised insect probably doesn't eat kitchen scraps. But it's worth checking for sure.
Thank You for this information and very simple way to grow larve. Yeah, it drives me crazy to see all those complicated ways that are out there and supposed to be simple. Your way is just what I’ve been looking for
Do you know another thing i saw......when ever there is a dead animal on your farm, place the carcass in a bucket with some holes around the bottom......and the maggots will fall out onto the ground as the carcass rots.
I like this idea also....gonna try this for sure.
So if that's the amount you give them every or every couple of days, how would it reduce food costs? It seems just like a treat or desert rather than lowering the cost to feed them.
I’ve seen more intensive BSF action, I like how straight forward it is but that’s not enough of an impact on the feed bill.
Fermenting is more simple than your bin.
5 gallon bucket with lid
Place scratch inside.
Put a yeast packet in.
Full with water to the top of grain
Let it sit
Add water as needed
Never use all the soured grain so it will jump start the next batch.
So you only need year the first go round
very good! We don`t have those fat ones, but the chicken like it. Thank you! And it`s natural food . The fermented wheat is wonderful I make that since I heard that on " chickenlandia" years ago. The chicken get so much nutrition out of it.
I think we can say super smart simple. Love Jeff’s approach to nature. Much respect.
Yes, work smart so you don't have to work hard!
I have no respect for someone who doesn't provide shade for their animals....
@@kathrynletchford5114burrrrhurrrrr
How do you keep raccoon, possums, and mice from getting in through the opening?
Zip ties?
Finally, someone with the same definition of "simple" as me
Bro 🎉stop being stupid simple , in fact what you have done n teaching sharing is super simple intelligent. Btw u r not stupid simple😂❤
Great video! HEY another guy said to just put some wide slits in the bin filled with scraps. A few drainage holes in the bottom. He claims the larvae crawl up the side and fall out for the chickens to harvest all by themselves.
There is no such thing like stupid simple
It’s like saying eat shit & food ? Would u say that? 😂
wow you need some bushes or trees to keep them cool. You wouldn't like being out in high temps with no shade, the inside of that tiny house has no air blowing through it.
Jeff. could you build 5 raised beds and fence them off. Then put scraps in all 5 and rotate the birds to a different bed each day?
Oh my goodness I just tried to watch a video just before this one and had to stop because it was so complicated!!!! Thank you, I prefer stupidly simple!
yes your damn right!!! i don’t need BSFL mega condo
I literally use the food from my quails poop trays. I don't like to try to pick out the good bits of food they fling out. I also don't want to waste the food. So I literally gather a big pile of it, poop and all, and put it in a bin like you do with your food remnants. I mix in some wood shavings or dead leaves and I get tons of larvae. Like you I don't give a crap about what kind they are. The chickens love eating any of them. Lol
Thank you for making a stupid simple set up and showing people they don't need to make things complicated!
nice job. I'm going to make one this year
My brain says the time to harvest ratio is wholly inadequate..
Love how not stupid but simple this is! Thanks.
I've been using this method for a few weeks, since I saw your genius video. Lots of larvae, but none are crawling up the ramp to the top hole. Instead they were wriggling out through (and getting stuck in) my drainage holes. So I just enlarged my drainage holes so they're slightly larger than the BSF larvae, kept the bin at its normal tilt, and put another small bin below the drainage holes. I now have a big pan of squirming gold for my fluffy butts! Any tips on getting them to crawl up instead of down? I'm happy with the way things are working now, just curious if I'm missing something.
Super simple video, thanks! I just came across your channel and hope you've already posted fermented feed too. Super simple to make as well.
Y did a great job showing the people's past it's important to do this saves a lot of the new people into thinking they have to go buy feed all the time.
👋as a new person, I can attest that you've saved me a lot of time! Thank you, subbed 🥳
Thank you Jeff. I think I have almost everything on hand to do this! I appreciate you sharing this for us simple folks out here with limited resources!
Thank you for this, two years later this is still the most simple way that I've seen to harvest fly larvae
So the worms crawl up and fall into the shoebox container?
Yep.
Dude, that is stupidly simple. I will definitely try this method. My neighbor wants to do a compost as well and I have chickens so I could get double out of there
Ummm where i live they are called maggots
Unfornutately, all you get here in Utah is house flies, which are extra stinky. It's too dry in Utah for BSF natural harvesting. But it can be done here if you are determined.
Hi!
Thank you for the "easy video".
I would like to see the set up for your chickens. I currently have chickens, but looking to remodel their area. Would like ideas for a way to move them around in the pasture.
I'm in SC also :)
Thanks!
Renee. You may want to put them in a chicken tractor & move them around and help fertilize the ground beneath. They will harvest all of the bugs and weed seeds.
I bought a screenhouse from Costco. Birdfeeder pole to hang food and water buckets on sunk into dirt. Cardboard box with one nest box in it . Chickens follow me (and bucket of grubs) to chicken camp in morning and back to coop in evening. Fairly easy to move to new spot after a couple of days of use
I hate hyped stuff and I’m incredibly practical not wanting any fluff or spending an arm and a leg on frivolous unnecessary stuff. I just subscribed to your channel because THANK YOU!! Common sense is lacking so finding someone capable of thinking this way is highly refreshing!
How do you stop you chickens from flying over that little fence?
It’s electrified, for one. But we also trim their feathers once a year and all but three have learned to stay within it.
You have given very honest information.I agree with you.Thanks!
you could just give all those kitchen scrap to your chickens instead no?
I’ve got a super simple way to ferment feed. Works for us. One container. Overnight fermentation. We use a stainless steel pot with a lid. At night we leave a little bit of previous fermented food behind and mix in 1 part feed to 1.5 part water. When pouring in water rinse the sides. Ferments overnight perfectly ready for next morning. Once in a while reserve some food and wash out the pot well. Maybe every two weeks.
You could also put the container in the chook area with a hole in the bottom so the maggots fell straight into the coop ?
A man after my own heart...operating according to the K.I.S.S. principle. Thanks brother! Sub'd :)
Just found your video in my search for growing chicken feed. Great video! Funny, strait to the point and stupid simple. 😆👍
Just subscribed 🥰🌱🐥
I get a lot in the compost by leaving the food scraps in plastic bags for a while then tip it in the pile. This would be nice to manage them thanks
Great video, thanks
I have a similar chicken run! I have 2 coops, because I have a few rooster, head rooster(a bantam), runs our tiny coop, with his little ladies, and then the bachelors and a few younger hens, live in the other.
I can't wait to try this, thanx for adding this video!
I took a bucket, made some holes, bucket inside a big sack and then filled up to bucket with kitchen scraps. Close the bucket.
Somehow the big sack gets filled with larvae, a lot of them
I love this, I am going to do this. Thanks for sharing, I have just subscribed.
And I thought worm holes were for time travelling lol
Red Worms also multiply like crazy
Yep and then I'm so glad you brought it up man you alright there so many videos on UA-cam unbelievable I started reading about it 10 years ago I'm doing it now I dispose of everything into that container they break it down for me I have another container just so I can use that for my chickens..
I love, love, love stupidly simple!!!!! You just came up on my feed, and I am kicking myself for not finding your channel earlier. Thank you so much!!!!!! I tried the other "stupid" ways with BSF, 😑
We saw the video about the grasses, now, this one. Wow! THANK YOU!!! Yes... we just subscribed. Why isn’t anyone else posting these GREAT ideas. We’re very glad we found yours!!!
LMBO. Maggots wriggling "That is just beautiful." Just try something Stuper Stimple? Stupefied? .......Easy!!
KISS…. Keep it simple stupid but it really should be Keep it simple SMARTY in your case! Thank you so much!!
Brilliant! I've never seen a comparment underneath the compost. Absolutely brilliant! Thank you
What you are doing is cruel. You should be jailed for cruelty. You 💩
Put up some SHADE, for those POOR CREATURES.....
Dang just found this video, YOU ROCK!!!
I'm a new subscriber! I MacGyver the heck out of everything I can... Love this.
It was so stupid that it was simple. Or it was so simple that any stupid can .....you know what I mean!! I LIKE IT!!!😅 GREAT VIDEO!!
I loved the outro! HAHAHA good stuff! If i ever get chickens i will also try to come up with stupid ways to do this....well....just simply stupid ways.....not....ok byd
You should rename your channel "stupid simple." People are too busy for time consuming complicated projects and are always on the look for stupid simple alternatives. I'm definitely going with this one. You were wrong about one thing: there are actually 9,591,521 videos on UA-cam about how to make a BSFL bin.
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Very simple: Admit that you're not Innocent, you're guilty and ask for mercy.
How to know if you're guilty or not?
Simply: Compare your life to the Ten Commandments God gave you in the Bible.
Everyone agrees that if people followed the ten commandments there would be no need for governments or police.
Do not lie.
Do not steal.
Do not commit adultery.
Do not insult God by using his name as a cuss word.
There are six more but let's just leave it at that.
How many lies have you told in your life?
Have you ever taken anything that didn't belong to you?
Jesus said, if you look at a women lustfully you've already committed adultery in your heart with that woman.
How many times a day do you do that?
Do you use God's name as a cuss word?
Would you do that with your own mother's name?
If you answer these questions honestly you know that you're guilty.
God can justly punish you and send you to hell.
Ask him for mercy.
His name is Jesus.
It's as simple as this, The Ten Commandments are called the moral law. You and I broke God's laws. Jesus paid the fine.
The fine is death.
Ezekiel 18:20 -
"The soul who sins shall die.
That's why Jesus had to die on the cross for our sins. This is why God is able to give us Mercy.
Option A.
You die for your own sins.
Option B.
Ask for mercy and accept that Jesus died on the cross for you.❤❤
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"I want something genuinely super stupidly easy" That's American right there brother...Rock on.,
You feed black soldier fly larvae to your chickens. I feed black soldier fly MEN to my chickens. We are not the same.
I had left a box with small card board boxes outside They got wet and all . maybe out there in the yard for awhile because I knew if I lifted the box everything was going to come undone so when I decided to clean it up I realized there was worms . I was like only if I had chickens 🐔 they'd have a field day!
I never knew something so stupid could be so simple and cool. Thanks for this stupid idea 😀
#EcoBSF #BSF #Blacksoldierfly
I'm the BSF, the black soldier fly
I'm the king of compost, the lord of the sky.
With our powerful jaws and digestive might, we can eat almost anything, it's quite a sight.
We turn waste into protein, oil, and fertilizer too
Our magic brings new life from what once was through.
Thannnnk God for this vid... ours got rain in it and just became sludge. Top was not sealed properly so this is insane genius. Thank ya.
Get a rabbit. Put a bin under the hutch to catch poop. Soldier fly larvae will be huge.
Throw larvae to birds, throw poop on garden or compost.
If you have a regular chicken run in a permanent place you can put the rabbit hutch in it and the chickens will eat the hay, weeds, grain, pellets... anything that falls through the cage. Plus the larvae.
Unless your run has wire on the bottom, don't just let the rabbits run free in the run.
You're gonna wake up one morning with no rabbits and small chickens coming out of the holes.
Or so I've heard 😂
I might be telling on myself. I have the stupid part covered 😂😂😂
Okay now this is my kind of BSFL farming.
Thank you.
Subscribed!!
Great Job Man!! Love the video and how simple it is. First video I have watched of your Now SubScribed!!
BSF larvae hatched right in the poop trays of my quail pen. Easy peasy. 😂
Aw shit. I just watched this video. Cool vid by the way. But now I get the 8 million black soldier fly larvae vids in my video feeds. Thanks. LOL Aw shit
I bought an old wooden toybox for $5 with the fly bin in mind. I just slid the plastics inside & it sits under a shady tree looking all cute.
We've raised thousands of chickens, rabbits, ducks, etc...and you are so correct. Most things can be done so simply. That's honestly how we are designed to function. Man makes things complicated. Thank you for the morning dose of stupid sanity!!❤
Throw some rabbits in a hutch and make a box around the bottom of the cage on the ground with 2x4's to catch the pooh. You'll have billions of BSF in no time. Talk about a compost pile. Throw your kitchen scraps on top at night, they'll be gone the next morning. Amazing eating machines.
You got a sub from me. Keep it stupid simple. I like the way to explain things! Second video i watched and im coming back for more!!
Ok! After 45543 videos I'm doing it! Oh oh... the only thing stopping me though is MICE!
So like that didn't look like much for fly larvae. Why not just food the chickens the table scrap directly? Like the scrap is obviously way more feed Than the fly larvae.
But how can the flies survive and reproduce without a complex system, using multiple containers and lots of PVC pipe? Sure, they do it in the wild, but..
Thanks for this. QUESTION: Is it not better to just give the chickens your scraps
Please America, stop saying "super" in every sentence, PLEASE. It's become a disease!!
Meal worms would provide you with a WHOLE lot more protein for all 45 chickens.
You could name your format "Stupid simple" It might make you and your channel even more recognizable!
Chicken coop made of Tin sitting in the hot sun-that one way of cooking chicken-get their coop under a tree for God's sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
LOL, great simple not stupid way to do it. Black fly larva at the feed store are so expensive.
28 dollars for a bag at tractor supply!