If I may suggest, we use to be major grain producers and if there was one thing I I did not enjoy at the end of the season was cleaning up the grains left over in the bins that couldn’t get augured out.. so my suggestion is, if you live near a grain farmer go and ask them if they have bins that they would like clean out in exchange that you get to keep the grain😉 I bet you they would be happy to have the extra help getting that cleaned out! Do a good job and go the extra distance by cleaning up the area around the grain storage and “you” will be getting called to go back!😊hope this helps someone with their feed costs!
We do happen to have a food grain place near us - I get the chicken food and scratch from there - with meat birds on their way, I may have to have a word next time :) thank you for that idea :)
Wow learning so much from y’all…the dogs have been a concern and love the kelp plug…beautiful shy smile on that lady of yours…thanking you again for all of this information…stay blessed…
I have added keeping a mealworm colony to my free chicken food methods as a protein source for them. They are really low maintenance, easy to keep and a good option for those who don’t have some other steady protein source for their flock.
@@TheRainHarvester I am in North Central Texas and agree the heat would be too much here to keep them outside. I have them in an old plastic storage system with sliding drawers and I keep it inside the house in an out of the way spot. The worms don’t make noise or smell. There’s a small amount of dust from the bedding, but it’s not enough to make me think twice about having them. I hope if you give them another shot you have a better experience!
@@TheRainHarvester They need some sort of grain like oats or wheat bran. You can get large bags of oats sold for horses at the feed store for a lot less per a lb than the little cans on grocery store shelves (at least you could a couple of weeks ago). Just put a couple of inches of the oats or bran in a smooth sided container, add worms and a slice of potato for moisture. Lids are optional because they can’t climb. That’s it. Just add more potatoes and oats every now and then. After a few weeks the worms will start to pupate and then turn into bugs who then make more worms. Chickens like the bugs too. This sounds mean and gross but if I end up with too many worms I put a bunch in an old butter bowl and freeze them. The birds love frozen worms in the summer. You can also dehydrate them and it’s exactly like the dried mealworm treats they now sell marketed to chickens for outrageous prices.
I enjoy your videos and your knowledge I'm one year out from retiring from the military started homesteading already I just hope Society holds together but it is a good feeling being prepared
@@jksatte lots of comfrey and sunchock greens for the rabbits. Also tree hay and wild greens. I kill weeds with cardboard which promotes earthworm populations then free range the chickens. Grow sunflowers also
We are on 33 acres. We have only been here 5 months. We let all our animals free range. Our 150 chickens live pretty much on grass and sweet potatoes. We get seconds sweet potatoes $20 for half a ton. They also have a compost heap. Our pigs , ducks , geese , guinea fowl also eat sweet potatoes and grass. Sheep and cows grass only.Plus we have started a 3 acre food forest. So hopefully the pigeon peas etc will give another option for feed. Thanks for your encouragement, will consider some of these ideas.
I have found that if I put some thing wood or large tile on the ground and within 10 days if you move it there will be a large amount of bugs under it. The chickens love it and gives them protein.
Thank you for this video !!! We haven't gone to the Chicken Tractor ' YET ' ~ but for months & months, I have tried to convince my husband to start fermenting our chicken feed after seeing Justin Rhodes & other homesteaders do it - or to @ least switch to pellets . I was constantly reminding him of the waste with the crumbles - not to mention it's a lot of crap in it . Finally after seeing the cost of feed keep going up & up ~ he agreed to let me try it . So all of that crumbles we had already purchased is being fermented & from the 1st day every speck of it is being devoured by our approximately 60 chickens- plus they are getting a good amount of moisture automatically !!! I set up a 3 bucket system , where each morning I feed them the oldest the 3 day old bucket & then just keep rotating it . I am using a FRACTION of the amount I was before !!! Slowly I am cutting that amount back & feeding them a few pellets . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT TIPS !
I recently started fermenting feed for my chickens and it really cuts down on the amount of feed I use. I am in a Northern climate so I don't usually ferment feed during the winter. With the price increases we are seeing in feed, I'm pretty sure I'll be fermenting feed inside my house next winter.
@@bitcoincountry8623 , me too ! I am in central Virginia & it still gets cold here in the Winter . I have been fermenting mine in the basement . We have too many critters roaming around to do it outside . It is amazing how much it has cut our feed bill .
People thought I was crazy switching my dogs to a raw food, but they are thriving. I don't produce enough myself yet, but the small local butcher is happy to give me the offal and saw scraps.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 We just moved from the city 2 months ago and bought 5 acres, living in an RV right now, but once I get some infrastructure in, I plan to raise rabbit and quail just for the dogs. Quick, cheap and easy to reproduce!
Good overview of each farm animal and how it blesses the others in permaculture. As always I love your teaching style and enthusiasm. Way to stay positive in very pessimistic times.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I agree. But I'm thinking more on the line of there are no antibiotics or chemicals inputted in your animals that you don't know about. Kudos to you
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I was going to say the same thing. Not only does it bring up the nutrients, it also increases the volume. A pound of grain can be multiplied many times by sprouting it into greens and feeding the whole small sprouted plant. Also, in a more confined system where people might not have the acreage for chicken tractors, they can plant grain in a box with a screen suspended above the box, the grain grass will come up through the screen and the chickens can trim off the fresh greens at the screen level but not kill the plants, so it's perpetual food. Several of these in a small space, and all a person has to do is raise the screens in succession, and water a bit, thus allowing the greens to grow, while one screen is lowered for them to feed on highly nutritious oat, barley, rye, wheat etc grass, as a supplement. Love yer channel, Billy. Hi from the Canadian Rockies.
@@TheRainHarvester I would say that you are correct that water is the factor that promotes the growth, but what is present is much more than water. What happens is that the plant seed takes on the water in order to build itself, building, generally in the case of grain seed, a root and then a green leaf. The water is transmuted or biochelated into nutrient by the action of this initial growth. Most seeds have an incredible amount of growth potential from their germ, and they can grow and expand from seeds into young monocot or dicot plants sending out a tap root with no nutrient imputs because of the genetic potential of the entire plant which is contained within the seed. That is why one can start seedlings in intert material or mediums that are sterile. There is indeed a massive increase in water content, but even that is full of nutrients and living energy, through the chelation process, and is a great boon to the critter ingesting it.
@@Leeofthestorm I am trying to visualize this system. Is there a resource that I can go to that explains this in detail, ie: what grains and how to obtain them and shows pics?
I’ve already started my chickens on your ring compost system. Next weekend I pick up my first 2 piglets of the season and will be feeding them for free on scraps as well. Cattle still have 2 months before they can go on grass and I’m looking at getting a couple sheep then as well to put on grass too. This is my year to implement all the food costs I can following your techniques. Thank you for sharing. 💝
Thanks for more great info! I'm in my second year of homesteading. Started long ago with emergency preparedness and it evolved into homesteading. I've been learning about herbs and drought-resistant plants. I live in northwest Georgia and raise chickens and rabbits. I've started using the chicken and rabbit excrement as fertilizer for my gardens. I use table scraps for the chickens, but much of their diet comes from foraging plants with which the good Lord has blessed my yard. Curly Dock is a drought- and cold-resistant plant. Chickens and rabbits both love it and eat it readily. Purple Dead Nettle, a member of the mint family, is another favorite. Goldenrod, mentioned briefly in your video, can be fed as much as 1/3 of the rabbits' total diets. Thanks for the great info and keep up the good work! God bless!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 , Billy you have some of the best subscribers I have seen on any homesteading channel ! WOW, between the ideas you & they come with ~ it is a WEALTH OF VALUABLE INFO !!! 🥰
I let my chickens out to free range sometimes to cut food cost. We also fry eggs for our dogs, they love em. I cook scrapes from wild game that they get also. Mom always said. "Where there's a will there's a way."
How many eggs per pound of dog a day? And what to feed for other nutrients they need? Im currently buying Purina Pro Plan for 4 dogs. It is $66 dollars for 24 pounds. 2 large dogs and 2 medium. The cost is about $200 per month.
Woah woah woah, I don't know how we are just now finding you guys......I can tell by this video and the titles of your others that we will be binge watching you guys!
Y'all I just got to think that have no idea how I started watching your videos but I sure am glad that I did. I do love the information that you give on this channel. Thank you for sharing. Have fun take care
Hang an old metal bucket with holes in it above the chickens area and put meat scraps and other protein in it. Have a really big lid on it with a whole in the middle so you can slip it over the rope that you are hanging the bucket with. Birds will stay off it if the lid is huge. You will get maggots (YUK) and they will drop out and the bok boks will eat them. Barf!!
It works well but I had to stop doing this because incidents of fly strike majorly increased in my flock especially in my older hens. Doesn't mean it can't work just keep a close eye on your flock especially the old girls. Fly strike can sneak up on you and it is NASTY🤮
@@retiquefarms8210 That works. They love garden worms. I have some in a bucket of dirt in my basement and I throw veggie scraps in it about every 8 days. Do not add water to it or the worms will drown. The dirt is really good for growing lettuce after a full winter of raising worms.
As far as pigs go ... I I have found the pink commercial pig stock is a weak breed. I have Yorksbire Drott crosses, and have had Spots too. They never need wormed and are VERY durable. I do feed pumpkins in fall from local Townies at end of Halloween and Thanksgiving. They leave them at the end of the drive in a mesh lined tote. Sign reads "Pumpkin for Piggies" people LOVE it.
I enjoy the educational content of your channel. Keep it up! I wore the Maxiflex gloves in a college construction class on 'how to' breakup a concrete slab into pieces and remove it. The gloves Saved my hands from abrasions and cuts! The right gear for outside jobs.
Thank you that’s an amazing tip I appreciate that starting the new Homestead in Tennessee Central Tennessee we moved from Oregon where we had a tiny Homestead but it’s great to find out new ways to feed your animals God bless
I buy 50lb bags of horse oats and sprout it for 3 days. This doubles the mass of the grain and the available protein IN the grain. I might be overfeeding.. I have 7 turkeys and 21 hens and half a dozen roosters and they get 3 feed scoops a day between them. oops forgot the 16 guineas. So I go through 250lb of oats a month. That's around $80 now, but with costs rising, I need to work on reducing that.
Great idea! I grew oats and collected the seed. I have lots of seed now. I'm wanting to make it sustainable but my soil is rocky white limestone& clay . I'm turning it to soil with leaves, but water is the limitation. Check out my garden/pasture in progress.
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 I don't have the room or equipment to grow fodder properly, so I battle mold if I try. I soak the grain for 24 hours, then I drain it in a 2ft planter with no tray, where it sits for another day. Then I dump it into a 5 gallon bucket for a further 24 hours. By this time it has usually grown root/sprouted. Then I feed it. If I had the system AND the water to spare, I could grow fodder and multiply the feed by up to 10 x. I do the best I can with what I have to work with.
@@HeatherNaturaly oh this is awesome. You soak 1 day, rinse and set 1 day, and rinse and set another day. A 3 bucket job, and rinse buckets. I suspect you are saying the rinse water is good for plants. This is so doable! Thank you for taking the time to explain!
Loved this video. Permaculture is also my passion! Have heard several people talk about the milk cow being the heart and center of the farm. The milk can feed critters as well as people.
Great info ! I 1st got into permaculture due to searching online for info on growing plants/veg that for our chickens, esp. perennials. I have been in between homesteads and dealing with health issues a lot, so, haven't put it into practice a whole lot yet, but I did grow plenty of winter squash and would cook an extra one for them when did one for us. Also, of course, as they go bad over the winter they can get mushy enough for them to be able to eat ( or pigs can handle them raw probably ). My friends also taught us to throw our deer carcass in their pen and they'll pick it over. Up here in northern WI esp. , it matters for them to have more fat going into and during winter, I think, and u can save slabs of trimmed tallow from butchering deer ( tastes very gamey, we don't eat it, we trim it off the meat well ) in a cold outbuilding ( out of reach of wild animals) or if u have extra freezer space. If u know others who hunt who have it to spare, u can get these things for free even if u don't hunt, too. I def. can't wait to put into practice your chicken compost systems and more ! God bless y'all, hello from Dunn co. , WI !
Excellent video 👍 👍, been having more conversations with other folks on the subject of self reliant feeding and renewable animal usage. Perfect timing 👌
Hi Billy, enjoyed the chuckles. Wondering if you have a view on geese? They're beautiful and intelligent, great land managers and self sufficient. They seem to cycle/extract nutrients really quickly.
Short true story - on my land and I'm lost in what I'm doing and a friend arrives without me noticing. He's wearing a high vis jacket. The turkey's form a square and start to bark. The geese form a rectangle tight behind the turkey's and back him out of the yard. I'm not talking something looking like a square, these guys were legionnaires.
I really agree that God meant for us to live alongside and utilize the other creatures He has made, and doing it responsibly. Agreed on being a blessing and encouragement in these times. Thank you Billy!
Definitely loved this video we want to get our dogs on farm meat so bad we have a boar pig right now who’s done with his job you inspired me to get on with it 🤙🏻
I am glad I found u here on utube. Other wise I would not have know chickens can work for for u. I was raised city now my hands are callus from working hands on. Thank u for reasonings
Im new to this channel, but I love what I am seeing so far. A lot of what you are saying is making good common sense here. I raise chickens, and never heard of permaculture, but I have a diploma in HORTICULTURE, which isn't the same.
We drove 6 hours yesterday to visit and tour a regenerative farm and buy some Pasture grazed beef. Where we are it is hard to come by these types of farms. We bought our land this past August. We've been planning to Homestead for years. I would love to do a consult and wish we were close enough for a visit. We are in tbe process of buying more chickens and getting sheep. We want cattle as well but trying to work with the land we have. Most of it is wooded. Advice would be welcomed and appreciated. Thanks again for all the valuable information and your time. Blessings to you and your family !!
God actually commanded man to work the ground by the sweat of his brow from the beginning. Awesome video I have twenty chickens and man it cost quite a bit to feed em.
Great advice I’m on only two acres but I might be able to do some of your ideas and we are currently sharing our extra eggs to share with my neighbors and community God has blessed us with a abundance of eggs and share that blessing with others
Love your channel & just had to comment. While your wife was plucking all that wool off the lambs, all I as a crochetter could think of was how much I'd love to have that wool. LOL
Many of the small operations in our area do it old school. Simple things like fermenting whole grain mixes for the chickens. Mix 2 parts non-chlorinated water to 1 part whole grain chicken feed mixture in a clean container stirring twice a day and stored with a loose cover in a cool shaded place. Sprouts are also a big help filling their little tummies. Much Better nutritional value and they eat LESS as a result.
One other thing I'll be trying soon is mixing diastatic malt powder, normally used for baking, in with my commercial chicken feed. It's essentially sprouted roasted and ground wheat but it breaks down fiber into easily fermentable sugars when mixed at 1% by weight. Figure it will be more bioavailable nutrients and more bacterial protein and if it seems to work well I'll start sprouting and roasting my own.
Great video you guys ! A word to the wise… bird flu in Arkansas! Our birds are fine and healthy. But!!! State wide you cannot buy, sell or barter chickens until late June I believe! Uhh I better not say much more than this… country folks can survive!!!
Yep sure do guys! But we know with the grace of Christ we can handle it! Just talked with a friend and I believe my situation is great!! Keep on marching y’all !
We ferment a small amount of feed and have a Maggot feeder bucket. We also scrape our rabbit poop catchers into a wheel barrow each week and leave it sitting in the coop. They eat all of the bugs and larvae out of it for protein. Then we scoop what they’ve scratched and pecked down into feed sacks and use them in the garden and compost. Just started a worm bin or two (it hasn’t been as successful as I’d like in the past, but giving it another go). Hoping to grow meal worms at some point. When we dress out our rabbits, we feed the “guts and scraps” to the dogs and chicks and put some in the mag bucket. We still aren’t grain free, though. I’d like to get to that point
I'm on 2 acres in Choctaw OK I work with a Mr Dustin Lea who turned me on to your channel good stuff.. We just got some chickens and hopefully pigs will be next.
Good ideas. I grow barley seeds inside and the chickens love the microgreens each day. I just built a box to grow them in so I won't have to keep regrowing the seeds from each batch.
I look forward to your videos Billy! Thank you so much. Your channel is helping me immensely getting off the ground with my own self sufficient operation 👍👍🙏🙏
This is really that most important video for our current inflationary times. Only thing is we might send you a few more animals, just to see how you feed the ones we got.
We love your videos!! I keep hearing you say “the system” and I’m wondering if you have a series we can watch that explains the system from beginning to end? Blessings from Nova Scotia
Do you always have leftover beans and rice or do you cook extra? My dogs eat all of the rice I cook. They love eggs, too. They don’t even care for dog food. I put kelp in their rice.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 We have one Chinese place in town but they won’t give out waste because of health department concerns. Im going to try the schools.
6:28 wife FINALLY smiled. She's a dog person. Got it. I like the Subaru wagon. We've owned 18 of them (pre-2005 when Fuji HI was sold to Toyota) that Forrester is one of the last REALLY good ones, new ones are ok, just not as good.....work horses.
I have ABSOLUTELY crazy pics of things I have hauled on the roofs and interiors of those little rigs. So much weight I was down on the spring bumpers. Drove across the country in 1991 after college with all my belongings on the bump stops of a 1985 Loyal .... kinda like loading a moped in Vietnam...if the wheels will still roll , we GO! I put an F550 insignia on the back of one of my last ones..lol. git'er dun.
You covered a lot in this video. It was very informative but I was just wondering why no goats? I dont have anything but a black lab but I'm interested in gaining some animals soon. Thanks
Goats aren't really grazers, they're foragers. They want to eat trees and brush mostly. I love goats but daaang, get a good milk breed-- or they're not worth it
One thing I do to is .if you have lots of ant hills around your place .take a shovel and take off the top or sides of the ant hills. They are full of little ant eggs. If you are feeding outside. Chickens love them.
Airborne, I’m trying to find where you talk about feeding your dogs? Do you feed them kibble from the store or solely from your property? If so how? Rabbits? Eggs? Recent road kill? Thanks for all of your videos. I scrolled through close to a hundred of them and wasn’t sure which video.
I wish I could find that video myself. It’s back there somewhere. You can feed them dog food and supplement it with this other stuff but we try to give them just eggs, fat and guts.
Thanks for the reply. We feed them gentle giants for now and I give them an egg or 2 at each feeding. When were you at Bragg? 04-05 for me, then I was restationed in Alaska. Served from 03-10 altogether. Thanks for your service! Thanks again for all of your content!
I have respect for you like I have respect for a father. You definitely are carrying "the heart of a father," which comes from The Heart of Our Heavenly Father.
Thank you! I've been trying to research this exact thing because we're all about natural and not wanting to have to buy feed for the animals we're going to get. I've been growing but wondering about how to feed all of my animals sustainably without relying on stores. This gave me a ton of ideas and insight and motivation. Amazing video 😇😊
Freedom Rangers should be arriving soon - I've asked around the cafes, but here in NM they all have things already set up for their scraps, so going to ask neighbours .... but also sourcing a bag of barley so I can grow forage as we don't have pasture here (high desert ;) ) - hopefully we can source more in the future... and hoping Freedom rangers will work with the chicken tractor set up :)
Great ideas! How many eggs per Great Pyrenees? We have three here. I’ve been planning to plant pumpkin to mix with eggs for the dogs’ food. Just started fermenting chicken feed yesterday! Love permaculture lifestyle.
Great video! I’ve heard you guys mentioned the book kick the hay habit in another video. Wondering if that would be a good book for me living in southern California? Here it’s the summer and even the fall months that we have no rain and no growth 😬 have been looking into fodder trees that will do well here with no irrigation (so far I have mesquite, loquats, guaje, and also got some mulberries hybrid willows and hybrid poplars). Hoping this will help minimize our hay costs for our sheep and cows as well as for our cows and pigs.
My dogs love farm eggs and will eat shell and all. The shell is calcium, so it is good for them. The funny thing is, they will beg for fresh eggs and will sometimes steal them, but they not take a store-bought egg if you offer it and will literally back away from it. How telling is that?
@@tristaperkins7112 store bought eggs have the natural bloom removed by washing then they add a type of wax to seal them " so they stay fresh ". Yeah right. That's probably why your dogs turn their noses up at them. I wish I would have known that they can eat shell and all. I tossed out over 1000 quail eggs( when I'd made so many pickled eggs that I couldn't stand to see anymore eggs) over a year. I tried to give the damn things away but no one wanted them ( until I got rid of them) then of course my son in law wanted eggs to pickled and bought 4 quail ( dressed out) for 20$. I told him I offered him 50 of them for free if he'd bring his butt over to get them. But nope. I sold 40 of them and dressed out the other 60 and gave them to my neighbor. He cooked them when he had a big BBQ at his place. Said everyone loved them. Though some asked where he got chicks to grill. Lol
@@reneebrown2968 Isn't that always the way?! I don't what my dogs eat mini shell on eggs at one time, because too many causes disruption if you will in the poop. But 2-3 in one sitting works out fine for mine.
My hens do eat off of free range and it is the best way. The issue is the bird flu, and they are all in a netted area for prevention. Protect your livestock as best you can. Have a great day.
I am thinking about getting a goat and just moving him each day to try to keep the grass down on this one acre I live on you think it's a good idea or not
If I may suggest, we use to be major grain producers and if there was one thing I I did not enjoy at the end of the season was cleaning up the grains left over in the bins that couldn’t get augured out.. so my suggestion is, if you live near a grain farmer go and ask them if they have bins that they would like clean out in exchange that you get to keep the grain😉 I bet you they would be happy to have the extra help getting that cleaned out! Do a good job and go the extra distance by cleaning up the area around the grain storage and “you” will be getting called to go back!😊hope this helps someone with their feed costs!
Excellent ideas my friend!
That's a wonderful idea!
Unfortunately, Tennessee doesn't grow much in the way of grain and not in my area, but others could benefit from this idea.
We do happen to have a food grain place near us - I get the chicken food and scratch from there - with meat birds on their way, I may have to have a word next time :) thank you for that idea :)
Sounds like a great barter system to me.
Isn't rotton grain poisonous?
Hi!! I just found your channel. I don't have a ton of free time to watch. But I'm thankful to have found you guys.
Wow learning so much from y’all…the dogs have been a concern and love the kelp plug…beautiful shy smile on that lady of yours…thanking you again for all of this information…stay blessed…
I have added keeping a mealworm colony to my free chicken food methods as a protein source for them. They are really low maintenance, easy to keep and a good option for those who don’t have some other steady protein source for their flock.
I tried meal worms. But the heat in central Texas killed them. But I had no previous experience. Maybe I should try again.
@@TheRainHarvester I am in North Central Texas and agree the heat would be too much here to keep them outside. I have them in an old plastic storage system with sliding drawers and I keep it inside the house in an out of the way spot. The worms don’t make noise or smell. There’s a small amount of dust from the bedding, but it’s not enough to make me think twice about having them. I hope if you give them another shot you have a better experience!
@@LeaC816 Oh I didn't realize inside was an option. What do you put in the drawers as bedding?
I need to find info on this! Thanks!
@@TheRainHarvester They need some sort of grain like oats or wheat bran. You can get large bags of oats sold for horses at the feed store for a lot less per a lb than the little cans on grocery store shelves (at least you could a couple of weeks ago). Just put a couple of inches of the oats or bran in a smooth sided container, add worms and a slice of potato for moisture. Lids are optional because they can’t climb. That’s it. Just add more potatoes and oats every now and then. After a few weeks the worms will start to pupate and then turn into bugs who then make more worms. Chickens like the bugs too. This sounds mean and gross but if I end up with too many worms I put a bunch in an old butter bowl and freeze them. The birds love frozen worms in the summer. You can also dehydrate them and it’s exactly like the dried mealworm treats they now sell marketed to chickens for outrageous prices.
New worms are fantastic idea
I enjoy your videos and your knowledge I'm one year out from retiring from the military started homesteading already I just hope Society holds together but it is a good feeling being prepared
I truly hope it does my friend!
Enjoy your retirement, you've earned it. I have been at it for 25 years. This fella^^^ is great. Your in the right place.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you
@@frenchfryfarmer436 thank you
Will pray for you!
Yes, a very important video. I've been trying to feed my animals from within the boundaries of our 23 acres for 10 years
It’s definitely a journey and it does require a bit more work.
What are some of the methods you use?
@@jksatte lots of comfrey and sunchock greens for the rabbits. Also tree hay and wild greens. I kill weeds with cardboard which promotes earthworm populations then free range the chickens. Grow sunflowers also
We are on 33 acres. We have only been here 5 months. We let all our animals free range. Our 150 chickens live pretty much on grass and sweet potatoes. We get seconds sweet potatoes $20 for half a ton. They also have a compost heap.
Our pigs , ducks , geese , guinea fowl also eat sweet potatoes and grass. Sheep and cows grass only.Plus we have started a 3 acre food forest. So hopefully the pigeon peas etc will give another option for feed. Thanks for your encouragement, will consider some of these ideas.
I have found that if I put some thing wood or large tile on the ground and within 10 days if you move it there will be a large amount of bugs under it. The chickens love it and gives them protein.
Thank you for this video !!! We haven't gone to the Chicken Tractor ' YET ' ~ but for months & months, I have tried to convince my husband to start fermenting our chicken feed after seeing Justin Rhodes & other homesteaders do it - or to @ least switch to pellets . I was constantly reminding him of the waste with the crumbles - not to mention it's a lot of crap in it .
Finally after seeing the cost of feed keep going up & up ~ he agreed to let me try it . So all of that crumbles we had already purchased is being fermented & from the 1st day every speck of it is being devoured by our approximately 60 chickens- plus they are getting a good amount of moisture automatically !!! I set up a 3 bucket system , where each morning I feed them the oldest the 3 day old bucket & then just keep rotating it . I am using a FRACTION of the amount I was before !!! Slowly I am cutting that amount back & feeding them a few pellets . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT TIPS !
I’m glad the stuff helps Ellen
I recently started fermenting feed for my chickens and it really cuts down on the amount of feed I use. I am in a Northern climate so I don't usually ferment feed during the winter. With the price increases we are seeing in feed, I'm pretty sure I'll be fermenting feed inside my house next winter.
@@bitcoincountry8623 , me too ! I am in central Virginia & it still gets cold here in the Winter . I have been fermenting mine in the basement . We have too many critters roaming around to do it outside . It is amazing how much it has cut our feed bill .
People thought I was crazy switching my dogs to a raw food, but they are thriving. I don't produce enough myself yet, but the small local butcher is happy to give me the offal and saw scraps.
The best part that I didn’t even cover is that it’s actually cheaper than conventional dog food.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 We just moved from the city 2 months ago and bought 5 acres, living in an RV right now, but once I get some infrastructure in, I plan to raise rabbit and quail just for the dogs. Quick, cheap and easy to reproduce!
Good to follow raw food vet recommendation for best diet. Homemade needs to have all nutrients.
@@carolyncarlon9870 yes, we have a holistic vet that has guided us.
Great tips with a hefty dose of enthusiasm. You left out the doom and gloom and showed real things a person can do now to save money. 💕from Ky.
We are definitely trying to stay away from the collective doom and gloom for sure!
Good overview of each farm animal and how it blesses the others in permaculture. As always I love your teaching style and enthusiasm. Way to stay positive in very pessimistic times.
It is definitely difficult to stay positive these days Dwight.
Bless You Billy. Good luck in the coming years. Gonna get rough soon. Thanks for doing what you do!
I couldn’t agree more Jake. Hard times are definitely on the way.
I love to see people raising animals and gardens the natural way.
It’s our best option these days!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I agree. But I'm thinking more on the line of there are no antibiotics or chemicals inputted in your animals that you don't know about. Kudos to you
Even if you give your chickens whole seed and grain if you sprout them before you feed it to them it raises the protein and other vitamins.
That’s what I’m talking about!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 I was going to say the same thing. Not only does it bring up the nutrients, it also increases the volume. A pound of grain can be multiplied many times by sprouting it into greens and feeding the whole small sprouted plant. Also, in a more confined system where people might not have the acreage for chicken tractors, they can plant grain in a box with a screen suspended above the box, the grain grass will come up through the screen and the chickens can trim off the fresh greens at the screen level but not kill the plants, so it's perpetual food. Several of these in a small space, and all a person has to do is raise the screens in succession, and water a bit, thus allowing the greens to grow, while one screen is lowered for them to feed on highly nutritious oat, barley, rye, wheat etc grass, as a supplement. Love yer channel, Billy. Hi from the Canadian Rockies.
@@Leeofthestorm But aren't sprouts just more water in the extra volume?
Good idea with the screen. I multiplied oats by collecting the seed!
@@TheRainHarvester I would say that you are correct that water is the factor that promotes the growth, but what is present is much more than water. What happens is that the plant seed takes on the water in order to build itself, building, generally in the case of grain seed, a root and then a green leaf. The water is transmuted or biochelated into nutrient by the action of this initial growth. Most seeds have an incredible amount of growth potential from their germ, and they can grow and expand from seeds into young monocot or dicot plants sending out a tap root with no nutrient imputs because of the genetic potential of the entire plant which is contained within the seed. That is why one can start seedlings in intert material or mediums that are sterile. There is indeed a massive increase in water content, but even that is full of nutrients and living energy, through the chelation process, and is a great boon to the critter ingesting it.
@@Leeofthestorm I am trying to visualize this system. Is there a resource that I can go to that explains this in detail, ie: what grains and how to obtain them and shows pics?
I’ve already started my chickens on your ring compost system. Next weekend I pick up my first 2 piglets of the season and will be feeding them for free on scraps as well. Cattle still have 2 months before they can go on grass and I’m looking at getting a couple sheep then as well to put on grass too. This is my year to implement all the food costs I can following your techniques. Thank you for sharing. 💝
Right on
Thanks for more great info! I'm in my second year of homesteading. Started long ago with emergency preparedness and it evolved into homesteading. I've been learning about herbs and drought-resistant plants. I live in northwest Georgia and raise chickens and rabbits. I've started using the chicken and rabbit excrement as fertilizer for my gardens. I use table scraps for the chickens, but much of their diet comes from foraging plants with which the good Lord has blessed my yard. Curly Dock is a drought- and cold-resistant plant. Chickens and rabbits both love it and eat it readily. Purple Dead Nettle, a member of the mint family, is another favorite. Goldenrod, mentioned briefly in your video, can be fed as much as 1/3 of the rabbits' total diets. Thanks for the great info and keep up the good work! God bless!
This is some really great advise!
I never knew rabbits would and could eat goldenrod ...
Thanks a million my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 , Billy you have some of the best subscribers I have seen on any homesteading channel ! WOW, between the ideas you & they come with ~ it is a WEALTH OF VALUABLE INFO !!! 🥰
Wood sorrel,chickweed,stinging nettles,lavender,mornings,and basil all improve chicken egg laying as well as good chicken health.
@@simplethymes1202 , yes ~ my chickens go crazy over sorrel & chickweed - which there is no shortage of here !
Perfect video..saved it to watch again and again ,take notes. SO that how the oltimers fed their dogs before commercial dog food. Great video !!
I let my chickens out to free range sometimes to cut food cost.
We also fry eggs for our dogs, they love em. I cook scrapes from
wild game that they get also. Mom always said. "Where there's a will
there's a way."
I am in 100% agreement with Mom!
@Karalevsky Borzoi Thx noted..
How many eggs per pound of dog a day? And what to feed for other nutrients they need? Im currently buying Purina Pro Plan for 4 dogs. It is $66 dollars for 24 pounds. 2 large dogs and 2 medium. The cost is about $200 per month.
It was so sweet to see how your sheep respond to your wife ❤️ By the tail wags/raising their heads, you can tellbthey love to have their neck rubs 😊
They are definitely spoiled rotten
Woah woah woah, I don't know how we are just now finding you guys......I can tell by this video and the titles of your others that we will be binge watching you guys!
Thank you so much my friend!
Y'all I just got to think that have no idea how I started watching your videos but I sure am glad that I did. I do love the information that you give on this channel. Thank you for sharing. Have fun take care
Thank you so much my friend!
Hang an old metal bucket with holes in it above the chickens area and put meat scraps and other protein in it. Have a really big lid on it with a whole in the middle so you can slip it over the rope that you are hanging the bucket with. Birds will stay off it if the lid is huge. You will get maggots (YUK) and they will drop out and the bok boks will eat them. Barf!!
That’s what I’m talking about
It works well but I had to stop doing this because incidents of fly strike majorly increased in my flock especially in my older hens. Doesn't mean it can't work just keep a close eye on your flock especially the old girls. Fly strike can sneak up on you and it is NASTY🤮
I made one last year and call it a chicken protein bar because my mom hated the name magot bucket. Lol
Im thinking of making a bucket and filling it with mealie worms instead.
@@retiquefarms8210 That works. They love garden worms. I have some in a bucket of dirt in my basement and I throw veggie scraps in it about every 8 days. Do not add water to it or the worms will drown. The dirt is really good for growing lettuce after a full winter of raising worms.
I found you guys when researching tree hay. Love this video and how you are encouraging people to do things more natural.
Thank you so much Brittany!
As far as pigs go ... I I have found the pink commercial pig stock is a weak breed. I have Yorksbire Drott crosses, and have had Spots too. They never need wormed and are VERY durable. I do feed pumpkins in fall from local Townies at end of Halloween and Thanksgiving. They leave them at the end of the drive in a mesh lined tote. Sign reads "Pumpkin for Piggies" people LOVE it.
My gang is pumpkin seeds every day
I enjoy the educational content of your channel. Keep it up! I wore the Maxiflex gloves in a college construction class on 'how to' breakup a concrete slab into pieces and remove it. The gloves Saved my hands from abrasions and cuts! The right gear for outside jobs.
Those are the only gloves I wear!
Thank you that’s an amazing tip I appreciate that starting the new Homestead in Tennessee Central Tennessee we moved from Oregon where we had a tiny Homestead but it’s great to find out new ways to feed your animals God bless
Thank you and blessings to you and yours my friend
We get food from shelters and grocery stores! We also get ferment mash from breweries too.
Now that’s what I’m talking about!
Please tell me more about the diet for your dog and the doctor y’all were mentioning that recommends it. I want to try it out with our dog
In a nutshell, we feed them eggs, fat and guts.
You made 50,000 subscribers! You're growing! Yippie! Thank you Jesus!
I buy 50lb bags of horse oats and sprout it for 3 days. This doubles the mass of the grain and the available protein IN the grain. I might be overfeeding.. I have 7 turkeys and 21 hens and half a dozen roosters and they get 3 feed scoops a day between them. oops forgot the 16 guineas. So I go through 250lb of oats a month. That's around $80 now, but with costs rising, I need to work on reducing that.
That sounds like a winner my friend!
Great idea! I grew oats and collected the seed. I have lots of seed now. I'm wanting to make it sustainable but my soil is rocky white limestone& clay . I'm turning it to soil with leaves, but water is the limitation. Check out my garden/pasture in progress.
Heaseba, do you sprout as you would alfalfa sprouts, or ferment in 5 gal buckets? Can you explain a bit please?
@@grumpygrannysgoatsngardens3185 I don't have the room or equipment to grow fodder properly, so I battle mold if I try.
I soak the grain for 24 hours, then I drain it in a 2ft planter with no tray, where it sits for another day. Then I dump it into a 5 gallon bucket for a further 24 hours. By this time it has usually grown root/sprouted. Then I feed it. If I had the system AND the water to spare, I could grow fodder and multiply the feed by up to 10 x. I do the best I can with what I have to work with.
@@HeatherNaturaly oh this is awesome. You soak 1 day, rinse and set 1 day, and rinse and set another day. A 3 bucket job, and rinse buckets.
I suspect you are saying the rinse water is good for plants. This is so doable! Thank you for taking the time to explain!
Loved this video. Permaculture is also my passion! Have heard several people talk about the milk cow being the heart and center of the farm. The milk can feed critters as well as people.
That is definitely the model I ultimately want to achieve. I will call what we are doing the midway point.
Great info !
I 1st got into permaculture due to searching online for info on growing plants/veg that for our chickens, esp. perennials. I have been in between homesteads and dealing with health issues a lot, so, haven't put it into practice a whole lot yet, but I did grow plenty of winter squash and would cook an extra one for them when did one for us. Also, of course, as they go bad over the winter they can get mushy enough for them to be able to eat ( or pigs can handle them raw probably ). My friends also taught us to throw our deer carcass in their pen and they'll pick it over. Up here in northern WI esp. , it matters for them to have more fat going into and during winter, I think, and u can save slabs of trimmed tallow from butchering deer ( tastes very gamey, we don't eat it, we trim it off the meat well ) in a cold outbuilding ( out of reach of wild animals) or if u have extra freezer space. If u know others who hunt who have it to spare, u can get these things for free even if u don't hunt, too.
I def. can't wait to put into practice your chicken compost systems and more ! God bless y'all, hello from Dunn co. , WI !
Thank you so much my friend and blessings to you and yours!
I love y'all's enthusiasm for the love of the soil and animals.
Thank you so much Linda!
Ellen- thanks! Question: by "crumbles" do you mean like egg-maker, or cracked corn?
Excellent video 👍 👍, been having more conversations with other folks on the subject of self reliant feeding and renewable animal usage. Perfect timing 👌
Thank you so much My friend!
Hi Billy, enjoyed the chuckles. Wondering if you have a view on geese? They're beautiful and intelligent, great land managers and self sufficient. They seem to cycle/extract nutrients really quickly.
I have a two hurdles to jump but I’m thinking about getting a few in the future.
Short true story - on my land and I'm lost in what I'm doing and a friend arrives without me noticing. He's wearing a high vis jacket. The turkey's form a square and start to bark. The geese form a rectangle tight behind the turkey's and back him out of the yard. I'm not talking something looking like a square, these guys were legionnaires.
Another video with great information 👍 Our dog LOVES eggs. We’re looking at using pigs to clear some land…let em work while they eat.
Those pigs get it done!
I really agree that God meant for us to live alongside and utilize the other creatures He has made, and doing it responsibly. Agreed on being a blessing and encouragement in these times. Thank you Billy!
Many thanks to you Erik!
Hey I'm headed to Asheville right now a little north of Mars. Anyway I can get a hold of you stop by and get some comfrey
Sorry bro. I’m just now seeing this
Definitely loved this video we want to get our dogs on farm meat so bad we have a boar pig right now who’s done with his job you inspired me to get on with it 🤙🏻
That is so awesome my friend!
I am glad I found u here on utube. Other wise I would not have know chickens can work for for u. I was raised city now my hands are callus from working hands on. Thank u for reasonings
Thanks a million Sharin!
Thank you for all the info. Always looking to cut cost’s. God Bless
Thank you so much and blessings to you and yours!
The PIMP Daddy does it again.....Thanks for your passion..
Thank you so much John
Always excited when I see you have uploaded a video. Thank you. :)
Thank you so much Sharon
Im new to this channel, but I love what I am seeing so far. A lot of what you are saying is making good common sense here. I raise chickens, and never heard of permaculture, but I have a diploma in HORTICULTURE, which isn't the same.
We drove 6 hours yesterday to visit and tour a regenerative farm and buy some Pasture grazed beef. Where we are it is hard to come by these types of farms. We bought our land this past August. We've been planning to Homestead for years. I would love to do a consult and wish we were close enough for a visit. We are in tbe process of buying more chickens and getting sheep.
We want cattle as well but trying to work with the land we have. Most of it is wooded. Advice would be welcomed and appreciated. Thanks again for all the valuable information and your time.
Blessings to you and your family !!
God actually commanded man to work the ground by the sweat of his brow from the beginning. Awesome video I have twenty chickens and man it cost quite a bit to feed em.
I’m hoping everybody starts looking through some really good options out there.
I need to know what exactly you were doing for the chickens ?????
Great advice I’m on only two acres but I might be able to do some of your ideas and we are currently sharing our extra eggs to share with my neighbors and community God has blessed us with a abundance of eggs and share that blessing with others
Great video and great ideas. I need to get serious about that; especially with feeding my chickens.
We are all going to have to get serious about alternatives.
Love your channel & just had to comment. While your wife was plucking all that wool off the lambs, all I as a crochetter could think of was how much I'd love to have that wool. LOL
She was pretending to remove the hair. She was really hugging them.
Go help her wash the lanolin off of it....
Your videos seem to get better every week.
Thank you so much Charles
I'm on 26th East now
You know what I just realized? Your channel has grown by leaps and bounds!! Praise Jesus 🙏😘
Tractor supply in Suffolk, Virginia is charging $9 for a bale of straw now.
That is unbelievable!
Many of the small operations in our area do it old school. Simple things like fermenting whole grain mixes for the chickens. Mix 2 parts non-chlorinated water to
1 part whole grain chicken feed mixture in a clean container stirring twice a day and stored with a loose cover in a cool shaded place. Sprouts are also a big help
filling their little tummies. Much Better nutritional value and they eat LESS as a result.
The DC comment made me a subscriber 🤣❤️ Excellent info, thank you!
Thanks for all you do to help your fellow man! We need this😉🙏🏻😇
Thank you so much
One other thing I'll be trying soon is mixing diastatic malt powder, normally used for baking, in with my commercial chicken feed. It's essentially sprouted roasted and ground wheat but it breaks down fiber into easily fermentable sugars when mixed at 1% by weight. Figure it will be more bioavailable nutrients and more bacterial protein and if it seems to work well I'll start sprouting and roasting my own.
Sounds like a wonderful idea david
Great video you guys ! A word to the wise… bird flu in Arkansas! Our birds are fine and healthy. But!!! State wide you cannot buy, sell or barter chickens until late June I believe! Uhh I better not say much more than this… country folks can survive!!!
I keep hitting us with plague after plague.
Yep sure do guys! But we know with the grace of Christ we can handle it! Just talked with a friend and I believe my situation is great!! Keep on marching y’all !
We ferment a small amount of feed and have a Maggot feeder bucket. We also scrape our rabbit poop catchers into a wheel barrow each week and leave it sitting in the coop. They eat all of the bugs and larvae out of it for protein. Then we scoop what they’ve scratched and pecked down into feed sacks and use them in the garden and compost. Just started a worm bin or two (it hasn’t been as successful as I’d like in the past, but giving it another go). Hoping to grow meal worms at some point.
When we dress out our rabbits, we feed the “guts and scraps” to the dogs and chicks and put some in the mag bucket. We still aren’t grain free, though. I’d like to get to that point
I'm on 2 acres in Choctaw OK I work with a Mr Dustin Lea who turned me on to your channel good stuff.. We just got some chickens and hopefully pigs will be next.
That’s awesome bro! Dustin is family!
Good ideas. I grow barley seeds inside and the chickens love the microgreens each day. I just built a box to grow them in so I won't have to keep regrowing the seeds from each batch.
I look forward to your videos Billy! Thank you so much. Your channel is helping me immensely getting off the ground with my own self sufficient operation 👍👍🙏🙏
That made my day Anthony!
This is really that most important video for our current inflationary times. Only thing is we might send you a few more animals, just to see how you feed the ones we got.
Ha ha! I’ve never been told that before!
You should write a book on Perma Culture
If I could ever get some time together I would like to put together a Permaculture book from a soldier’s standpoint.
No grass at my place, worm farms, food scraps n plants are what I do to thin down the bought feed
Do everything you can my friend.
We love your videos!! I keep hearing you say “the system” and I’m wondering if you have a series we can watch that explains the system from beginning to end? Blessings from Nova Scotia
Yes indeed! We linked a playlist in the video my friend.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 great, I’ll go back. Must have been a kid interruption (those happen a lot, we have 5!). Thanks guys!!
Do you always have leftover beans and rice or do you cook extra? My dogs eat all of the rice I cook.
They love eggs, too. They don’t even care for dog food. I put kelp in their rice.
We never have to cook extra. I will get plenty from our local partners.
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 We have one Chinese place in town but they won’t give out waste because of health department concerns. Im going to try the schools.
any excess milk (goat, sheep, cow) used as an addition in the fermentation process adds extra nutrientents for the animals..
I like the way you roll my friend
6:28 wife FINALLY smiled. She's a dog person. Got it. I like the Subaru wagon. We've owned 18 of them (pre-2005 when Fuji HI was sold to Toyota) that Forrester is one of the last REALLY good ones, new ones are ok, just not as good.....work horses.
I never thought I would love those cars so much… but they get it done!
I have ABSOLUTELY crazy pics of things I have hauled on the roofs and interiors of those little rigs. So much weight I was down on the spring bumpers. Drove across the country in 1991 after college with all my belongings on the bump stops of a 1985 Loyal .... kinda like loading a moped in Vietnam...if the wheels will still roll , we GO! I put an F550 insignia on the back of one of my last ones..lol. git'er dun.
You have some great ideas Billy!
Thank you so much Michael!
You covered a lot in this video. It was very informative but I was just wondering why no goats? I dont have anything but a black lab but I'm interested in gaining some animals soon. Thanks
They’ve always been a management nightmare for us.
Goats aren't really grazers, they're foragers. They want to eat trees and brush mostly. I love goats but daaang, get a good milk breed-- or they're not worth it
Appreciate your videos I am really learning a lot!
It makes my day Gary!
Good thorough video sir! Thinking I have to get into a breeding pair of pigs maybe to have a little more security
I plan on doing the same thing in the future
One thing I do to is .if you have lots of ant hills around your place .take a shovel and take off the top or sides of the ant hills. They are full of little ant eggs. If you are feeding outside. Chickens love them.
Now that sounds like a wonderful idea Murray!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 they love it and they eat the ants to.
Airborne, I’m trying to find where you talk about feeding your dogs?
Do you feed them kibble from the store or solely from your property? If so how? Rabbits? Eggs? Recent road kill?
Thanks for all of your videos. I scrolled through close to a hundred of them and wasn’t sure which video.
I wish I could find that video myself. It’s back there somewhere. You can feed them dog food and supplement it with this other stuff but we try to give them just eggs, fat and guts.
Thanks for the reply. We feed them gentle giants for now and I give them an egg or 2 at each feeding.
When were you at Bragg? 04-05 for me, then I was restationed in Alaska. Served from 03-10 altogether. Thanks for your service!
Thanks again for all of your content!
I have respect for you like I have respect for a father. You definitely are carrying "the heart of a father," which comes from The Heart of Our Heavenly Father.
Thank you! I've been trying to research this exact thing because we're all about natural and not wanting to have to buy feed for the animals we're going to get. I've been growing but wondering about how to feed all of my animals sustainably without relying on stores. This gave me a ton of ideas and insight and motivation. Amazing video 😇😊
Do you have a video on your dog food mixture? Great feed video.
We do but it’s way back there.
You can take rabbit poo and attract black soldier fly larvae. They have all kinds of black soldier fly raising systems. Chicken poop works too.
It doesn’t do Jon!
Freedom Rangers should be arriving soon - I've asked around the cafes, but here in NM they all have things already set up for their scraps, so going to ask neighbours .... but also sourcing a bag of barley so I can grow forage as we don't have pasture here (high desert ;) ) - hopefully we can source more in the future... and hoping Freedom rangers will work with the chicken tractor set up :)
They definitely work within the system. We did videos on it my friend.
Well said Billie! Dogs and animals should be fed scraps of the table! 🤗🤗💜
Love 💓 your practical advice. Thanks
Thank you so much Deborah!
Great ideas! How many eggs per Great Pyrenees? We have three here. I’ve been planning to plant pumpkin to mix with eggs for the dogs’ food. Just started fermenting chicken feed yesterday! Love permaculture lifestyle.
Great video! I’ve heard you guys mentioned the book kick the hay habit in another video. Wondering if that would be a good book for me living in southern California? Here it’s the summer and even the fall months that we have no rain and no growth 😬 have been looking into fodder trees that will do well here with no irrigation (so far I have mesquite, loquats, guaje, and also got some mulberries hybrid willows and hybrid poplars). Hoping this will help minimize our hay costs for our sheep and cows as well as for our cows and pigs.
It is definitely a book you should read my friend!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 ordering right now! Might have to join patreon (not really sure how it all works) to get that book list you mentioned! Thanks!
Did you give the dogs shells and all or just the egg
Just raw eggs without the shells.
My dogs love farm eggs and will eat shell and all. The shell is calcium, so it is good for them. The funny thing is, they will beg for fresh eggs and will sometimes steal them, but they not take a store-bought egg if you offer it and will literally back away from it. How telling is that?
@@tristaperkins7112 store bought eggs have the natural bloom removed by washing then they add a type of wax to seal them " so they stay fresh ". Yeah right. That's probably why your dogs turn their noses up at them. I wish I would have known that they can eat shell and all. I tossed out over 1000 quail eggs( when I'd made so many pickled eggs that I couldn't stand to see anymore eggs) over a year. I tried to give the damn things away but no one wanted them ( until I got rid of them) then of course my son in law wanted eggs to pickled and bought 4 quail ( dressed out) for 20$. I told him I offered him 50 of them for free if he'd bring his butt over to get them. But nope. I sold 40 of them and dressed out the other 60 and gave them to my neighbor. He cooked them when he had a big BBQ at his place. Said everyone loved them. Though some asked where he got chicks to grill. Lol
@@reneebrown2968 Isn't that always the way?!
I don't what my dogs eat mini shell on eggs at one time, because too many causes disruption if you will in the poop. But 2-3 in one sitting works out fine for mine.
Great stuff. Thank you!
Thank you so much Rachel
Been watching your material for a while and I finally subbed. Working towards the same thing.much love from TN.
Thank you so much William!
Unfortunately I don't have enough land to have rummanents. Wish I did
Chickens can do everything you need
Good video, have you ever done city living small farming ?
Not personally but I have helped out others doing it.
Thanks for the egg dog food tip.
Love your rooster!
I’m about to love him with some rice in the kitchen if he doesn’t straighten up.
My hens do eat off of free range and it is the best way. The issue is the bird flu, and they are all in a netted area for prevention. Protect your livestock as best you can. Have a great day.
Have a great day my friend
That’s what I’m talking about!
Thank you so much my brother
I am thinking about getting a goat and just moving him each day to try to keep the grass down on this one acre I live on you think it's a good idea or not
That is likely a great idea Guy!
@@PermaPasturesFarm21 thank you very much Billy I really learn a lot from your videos you're a great American
How deep of a bed would I need for comfry to prevent it from spreading?
The variety we have doesn’t spread.
Need to figure a way to grow feed all year long: pill bugs, snails, duck weed, termites. All can be grown...But quantity is the trick.
Figuring out the quantity is definitely the hard part.
See, that's what I really wanted to know: where the cool tshirts come from! 😆 But I better get to cutting some feed costs so I can afford a few.
We are all going to have to tighten our belts in the coming days.
Pretty hills in the back! Can I ask where it is