It’s Good For The Soul || Composting With Chickens
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- Our goal this year is to minimize our inputs by not buying in compost but creating our own through better systems, and at the same time reducing our animal feed costs. Ben is explaining his entire composting-with-chickens system that accomplishes all of those things.
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Being an older city gal, I found this great teaching video very informative! Isn’t it amazing that all the things you need to build your compost week after week God has provided and you in turn make your garden beds and grow the food for your family! Our God is truly amazing! Ben, this was such a great teaching video…thank you for your time and effort! I truly love your family and may God continually bless your beautiful family💜.
I really enjoy this I'm 65 and I think even I can do this in my backyard and I live in the city but I've got enough room to grow my own food now I see how to make compose very easy
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Amen!
As a Chicago girl I agree. I'm not sure if I could dispatch a chicken as I'm very fond of birds but I have no animosity to others than can.
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I'm 66 and have had some minor success growing food for hubby and I. I live in the desert and no amount of watering let's my summer plants to survive Winter....no proclem!
Compost for a gardener is like wood clamps for a carpenter. You never have enough.
True!
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I'm doing both. SMH
I'm sure you have thought of it, but those corn stalks are gold! cow feed, pig feed, shredded up for silage and chipped up for compost....great stuff, would love to see how you use them!
Yep my main compost filler at the end of harvest. Shredded they make awesome compost and so much of it.
Leaf mound is such a beautiful compost, or as we up here in Canada call it composted shredded leaves. Lawn mower works great to shred those leaves. Then we dump them on the garden beds so the worms stay busy all winter. We also have contained areas for piles more of it. Makes awesome soil
This cycle of the land is fascinating.
Ben, this is a fantastic video and your composting skills are off the charts. Thanks for showing us your hands-on and step by step method. Your family farm is a real working homestead. 💪
Take care and God Bless
Love chickens, love compost and love watching/hearing you talk about chickens and compost. 🥰
BEN , I LOVE THIS VIDEO! So simple! So effective! So money-saving, soul-improving, waste-reducing, inflation-proofing, self-helping video! Thank you! Love it!
Another really good project!!! God Bless.
Compost is my thing too. I love making it. Its my favorite smell, new earth~
"Compost is my love language" I would so wear that on a shirt!❤
I've got the most amazing soil because I feed the worms!!! After digging or harvesting all my plants I use the hole that was made to put greens back in it. Then I go to my chicken coop compost pile and top all of my garden area with the compost. Then I COVER FOR THE WINTER. OMGosh guys/gals....if you want plants on steroids...trust me it's awesome!!! This was only my second year on my new homestead and the results I had for a new garden was amazing!!! In spring....Just plant.
Also I am in Wisconsin zone 4. When I plant my tomatoes I do add calcium and bone meal and blood meal only because they are such heavy feeders. You should see my tomatoes this year. 7 plants and so far 125 big tomatoes so far.
The smaller the pieces in a compost pile the faster it breaks down. Charles Dowding has good videos on compost. Having a closed loop system is beneficial to any garden.
That chipper is worth it’s weight in gold , you will never regret it !
Such hard workers are you all. I wish I’d married a homesteader minded guy. I try to do what I can in a small way but hard work being good for the soul is bad on my back 😞. Still, watching y’all inspires me 🤗
It is amazing how many places you can find material to compost. We intend to give our number to people with fall decorations on their porches (pumpkins, straw) and will go pick it up at the beginning of winter. Our chickens will eat the pumpkins and the straw will go in a thick layer in their coop to keep them warm during the winter while it is composting below them. In the spring we will dig out the compost and cover the garden.
We also pick up bags of leaves and grass clippings from our little city dump. Local coffee shops give us their used coffee grounds. Lots of free resources!
You keep doing what you are doing free compost and not free because you are putting the work in and man isn't there something special about a labor of loving what you are doing. Congratulations 👏 👏 👏 our friend
"Chicken compost for the soul!" Thank you for the tutorial. 😊
My chicken compost is out of pallet - works great and the garden loves it. Beautiful Family you have!
💚 Hurray for woodchips and chickens making compost gold! 💚
Can not wait for the next spring to see your hard work paid off 😍👍🏼
Good Job ya'll. You are a great family. I love watching your channel.
Look at those happy chickens🐔🐔
Chicken coop for the soul! 😊
Compost is also my love language 💕 and the fact it correlates to my other love language: food 💕
One man and his compost - lovely to see
If y'all get enough compost together, you'll be able to feed a plot of corn that's large enough to make more than one batch of tamales!! Lol.
I sheet compost, mostly, with my chickens because I am able to let them range. They still love kitchen scraps and I have some girls that love to garden along with me. No matter what, all weeds go to the chickens. In fact, I don;t think we've thrown away anything that was the least bit biodegradable in years!
Even when we had a "plumbing issue" and a case of TP got soaked, that went into the compost pile and got churned up by the chickens.
We've never been able to source good, quality compost here. The stuff we've bought in the past has not made good soil the first year or so after putting it down. Making our own is something I've been experimenting with for the last several years now and I'm finally starting to be successful with it. I love your methods and plan on trying your chicken piles
Hey Ben. I’m surprised you don’t have your boys doing this. That would be a great project for them.
You need 6 inches of compost to start a no-dig (raised) bed, but the next years you only need to top dress with 1 inch of compost. Moreover: no-dig beds increase in fertility during the years, my oldest beds (6 yrs) produce tennisball sized hardneck garlic, and my most recent beds only show pingpong ball sized bulbs. So once you stop expanding, you will need less compost.
Blessings on the Hollar family and homestead!🥰🌻🐛🌼
The little chicken swarm! 🥰
I love your enthusiasm Ben. Your personal way of sharing information on composting is a win, win, win, thanks.
That was a great teaching of how chickens can get food and make excellent soil to boot, Blessings to y'all.
I love your videos and admire the way you are learning to be self sufficient! What a great way of life and wonderful way to raise children. Plus, I learn from your experiences.
Your one smart farmer / compose the best I’ve seen yet!
Another 'win-win' is you have very content chickens. They are busy and less likely to pick on each other.
love all your videos and have been following for years, keep up the good work!!!!! we just got 1.2 acres 8 chickens and today we are starting our compost pile !!!! thanks for the motivation!!!
Woohoo!!
5 years after my static chicken run off the coop was built, I am still mad at my husband and neighbor for ignoring me when I said to make the door wider! It is 1 1'2" smaller than my narrowest wheelbarrow. It is at least twice the size of yours and impossible to fill with chips or remove the finished compost except for a shovel at a time. I am still after him to dig up the 4 x 4 post that they put 2' in the ground and enlarge to opening! There are yards and yards of finished compost I need on the garden just sitting there. Add to the fact that the new chips have to be put in a shovel full at a time while our tractor and bucket sit by idle. LOL He should have just listened to me!😊😊
Really informative. I enjoyed seeing all three stages at once. You got the timing perfect for this video. Sounds like there is need for good compost; so, if you have more than you need, sell it. Another income stream is always a good thing. 😉
At over 100 bucks a yard around here I've gotta be on my compost game. Deep bedding under the chickens helps quite a bit.
Great video Ben. Y’all are so resourceful!! Inspiring family! God bless!
Awesome video of show/tell,and it all makes sense and ty for sharing this imformation 👍 😊...
Way to go best stuff for next years garden.👍🏻😊
This fall ask landscapers if they need a place to dump leaves? Just a thought. Love learning from your videos!❤
That is amazing. Have a blessed weekend. Thanks.
I'm getting excited that it's almost the season for leaves! Didn't collect any last yr because I was busy moving out of my house so I'm really itching to rebuild my pile!
That was really interesting and educational, thank you!
Great video today about composting. I learned so much! Thank you.
You learned so much, are you trying to do one?
@@collinssouth3761 not this summer but next. I’m trying to learn all I can this year.
Sooooooooo interesting and you guys are great teachers! Love your more frequent videos!
Your composting work is great. You need to make a how to video for newcomers and put it in your store so they can order it and have it in their home reference library. You guys rock.!!!
Thank you! This was the best explanation of making compost I’ve watched. And I’ve watched a lot. You answered all of my questions!
Hey Ben. Add gypsum to the surface of the ground before you compost,, it will help break down the clay, and make it easier to change into soil with the addition of the compost your making
Keep up the great work guys your awesome
For the love of compost; black gold. 🥰👍
That is the coolest things I've ever seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I love the process. Excellent work. You definitely gave me something to think about. And you are giving back to the earth 🌍, I have seen sooo many taking from the earth 🌍 and not many putting back to the earth. So Thank you 😊 and many blessings… love and light. ✌🏼🐝🫙♻️☺️🌻
Hello beautiful people!
Would you consider doing a new farm and animal tour for the newer views like myself?Everything has changed so much since the last one!! Great content
Welcome to the chicken composting guild!!♥️
Great idea! Thanks for sharing your work progress! I'm needing this for next spring idea!
Feeding the compost to feed the soil to feed the crops to feed the family.
this grandma learns something BIG every time I watch your videos!!! Tell Buggy we wish her a very big blessed birthday!!! She is so beautiful, just like mommy and daddy!
Who knew compost could be so interesting!😀
Make a big gate on your chicken pen. So to save yourself some steps. You could use your tractor to pull out your compost or stir up with your bucket.
Love those chickens. They are happy and having a good time making compost. ♡
My son passed his first driving test today, yay! He worked hard and did a good job. I'm so happy and proud. Compost with chickens, cool! Nice system Ben. Not having the bits of plastic in your compost is another great by-product of making your own compost. We have bits of plastic in everything we buy in bags to use in the garden. It's disappointing. Your soul must be feeling really good right now! Thanks for this Ben.
This is a very great opportunity for so many people - put those chickens to work! So glad you are video-ing and sharing and keeping us up to date with progress. So cool producing good from just waste. Now just invent three portable compost bins that can be installed over a slightly raised bed hooked to a chicken tractor and instead of moving the piles, just fork them into the next bin and the next until you have to move them up the slightly raised bed. Mulch in place for a future garden bed and moving the chickens along the production disassembly line. Whoa! what a concept.
Ben a great video!! One of those I come back to again. Great job!
Dont forget you can use your grass clippings. Whatever the cow doesnt eat. Thats the base of my compost & its black gold! I ❤️ compost too lol. Nice vid!!
The only thing I do different in compost piles is that I save some good rich completed compost soil around, and whenever I add anything new to a compost pile I shake a layer of completed compost on top of it and water it in. The reason I do that is that completed compost already has the ideal assortment of microorganisms to break down the new stuff most quickly. If you did one stack with and one without you'd be amazed. Just adding some completed compost on top lessens the time to full compost by more than half. It gives it the best chance. You'll get high temps in a pile you would have thought too new to heat up like that.
You got some happy chickens.
Would love to see more cooking videos by Meg
That's awesome deal! 52 cubic yards per year!!!! Magnificent! Thanks for sharing! 🤗💗🤗💗🤗
You’re The Compost Connoisseur, Ben! 🤓
Wow! I would have thought those wood chips, even with the chickens helping, would have taken two years to breakdown, not two weeks!
Good stuff right here. I do direct fertilization in my flower beds. Plastic coffee can, put holes in the bottom, bury in soil, put in kitchen vegetable and fruit scraps, put on the lid, check once in a while to refill. It doesn't smell, because any opening is under the dirt.
Wonderful idea and execution
Chipping the corn stalks worked well for us.
Made me laugh out loud when you said, "rinse and repeat" which is instructions from shampoo bottles. I'd just seen you soaking the bottom of the new compost pile and when you said that I immediately imagined you putting shampoo on everything, sudzing it all up, then rinsing and repeating:) Thanks, it really cheered me up:)
Starting my second this weekend. Digging thetrree line creek beds out chickens have been in that area two weeks. Leaves sticks weeds. Building it where their coop is and winter run will be incase poison ivy grows in it
Excellent teaching video!
BEAUTIFUL!!
Great blog Ben I would put woodchip on the floor too
Fantastic how-to video! loved it. I've got a chunk of hardware cloth and chickens to get started
Great video! We've been doing compost for a bit but always learn something from you folks! Great idea to do 3 piles!
Awesome!
Such a great system, learned a lot from this vlog, thanks.
Amazing.
Love you guys videos.
Such an awesome compost pile you have
enjoyed the video, and the information of the compost piles.
lol even in the city you loved composting its a true love hugssss
Great compost system Ben. I'm sure you'll have a ton of it come next spring when garden planting comes around. Leaves are great to build up compost piles. Go around town and collect bags and bags of them in the fall. You can also use them for chicken bedding and then put them on your compost pile. Works like magic!
Your doing great! And you are so right. You never know what you are getting when you bring in compost. But making it yourself… you know exactly what is in it. Plus your chickens benefit from it. 🥰
R E S P E C T ! I am a dirt lover from way back. I have been composting for gardens for 30 years. My latest goal….. I call ‘my compostable life’
I want everything I own to be compostable. I am working on it. Ashes to ashes…..
Awesomeness 👌 👏 👍 😍
No chickens, no trees. I bury kitchen scraps in my planting beds. It doesn't work well, but it's something.
Very educational Keep up the good work be safe and God bless
I'm glad you are making use of kudzu. There is certainly enough of it in the South!!!
Awesome much love