Chickens Escape!!! (by design)
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It is definitely noticeable that your rescue hens from last year are molting into full and fresh plumage probably for the first time in their lives. It's beautiful thing!
So awesome that your neighbor is open to all of this ☺️
It's a great day to be a chicken at EdibleAcres.
I'm thinking the chickens will go broody and you will find little stashes of eggs here and there : ) Too much fun !
That’s some high quality chicken tv. It’s nice to see them enjoy their country estate next door.
Tripple C - Chicken Country Club! 😊
Very cool expansion of the chicken space. Lucky birds and lucky neighbours, too. You have 5 cats?! I'm sure it's not for everyone, but personally, I'd love to watch a mid-winter video getting to know your cat family:)
Yes, as a cat lover with chickens, I would love to see this also.
That sounds like a very sweet idea. We have some pretty fun characters in our midst with the cats so we'll keep this in mind. Thanks for the idea!
I love your chicken and am rooting for sheep to enter the equation!
My hens are totally not afraid of my cat. It´s more the other way around ;))
Same here
Aah mis adorables chickens 😍, ...Thanks for sharing !
Do you have new neighbors that are on board with your work? Or did it take them so many years of watching the progress to get on board?
So lovely to see the hens explore and experience the world in this way, thank you so much for bringing this kind of enrichment to their lives. I get so much joy watching them and I am excited to see how this space develops!
Lawn to food forest project? Heck yeah, I love it.
Kind of what I would like to do with chickens, I'd love to allow them to free range in my bee yard. They eat bugs that we beekeepers don't like very much. I'm also looking into hair sheep but only one plan at a time, honey bees came first. Ty for sharing your time, Blessed Days...
Thank you for this.
Despite having my own hens, nursery and garden, I haven't been able to enjoy them for over a week.
This was a nice respite in the middle of a work day.
Love this. Happy chickens. My yard has several paddocks set up for my chickens to have access to depending on planting/growing season. The flexibility is wonderful.
2 years?!! My gosh, this is indescribably encouraging.
Pretty amazing to us too...
This is so exciting! I like the idea of allowing the chickens into different sections of the new area. Like rotational grazing and allowing other blocked off areas to recover from their browse and reseed other areas with cover crops or chicken loving crops. It wound encourage you to keep on top of pruning/propagation of willows to allow enough light for these crops. Maybe use some sort of movable temporary fencing
Another awesome video. Always enjoy watching the chickens. Where I live I'm not allowed to have them. Sean you have some awesome neighbors.
Adding in some geese to the system might not be a bad idea. They seem like a good fit since you seem to get plenty of precipitation and have multiple areas with standing water. They could also act as a warning system for anything that might want to pick off any of the hens, and there seems to be plenty of grass for them to browse on in the newly opened area. Ducks might not be a bad addition as well.
Maybe not where the elderberry are planted...my geese peeled the bark off of almost all of my elder berries and killed them. I still adore my geese but It was quite the setback.
Love seeing the chickens in the green!
Am excited to see what you plant on the fencing as a cover, and to see how the chickens react to it.
Ooooh!!! Late to the party I see!! Hahaha I answered my question on yesterdays video about that corner being open!!! I'm home sick today with pneumonia, so I'm on an EdibleAcres marathon! haha
Very nice of your neighbors.
You are happy you don't have loads of hawks. I have to make quite the roof to be able to expand the chicken run. Lots of work, lots of costs. But it still brings me joy to see your chickens in such big and green areas. Happy little birds 🙂 and I'm getting lots of inspiration from you guys
I suspect the intense amount of shrub layer here is quite helpful
gotta love open areas for your chickens n stuff, feels more natural in a way 😊
also like the idea of using natural lawnmovers in the form of sheep/goats
I always look forward to chicken 🐓 updates
Awesome use of traditional design techniques.
If you decide to add sheep into the system, fencing needs, breed of sheep (for parasite resistance, resistance to hoof rot,etc.) rotational grazing models and “pasture” development as well as a plan to abort the idea if necessary, and having a solid agreement with your neighbor on possible outcomes. Thank you, great videos as always, you are one of the people that inspired us to get our own urban flock of hens of which we thoroughly enjoy 🍄🌈😃🤙
Would you please consider submitting the audio from your video to NPR. This content would do so well on public radio. You have an amazing voice and dictation for pubic radio. No video needed. The audio from your videos is enough to paint a wonderful picture in ones mind. Soothing voice , great content. Please consider it
Good to see happy chickens. Just watch out for the cats. They can be sneaky, and may stalk the chickens when you least expect it. I have that problem with my neighbors' cats, but my chickens are inside a fenced area with bird netting above.
Another wonderful layer added to the mix :) I always love seeing chickens roaming in the greens.
Looking forward to the follow-up to this video. It's fascinating seeing how the chickens interact with the various areas and I'm curious to see if their impact outside the gate will be overwhelmingly positive for both themselves and the plants or if there are unexpected consequences to learn from.
How great!!!!!!! I love this set up!!!
Awesome video!
Sooo fun!!! What a awesome space. What awesome community!!! How great!!!
This is great! Sooo happy for your chickens!
Us too!
Love all of your content so much 🍄
It's so interesting seeing how you deal with a much more prominent winter, it seems to always be in mind for your design strategies.
I'm in an almost cool temperate area (Victoria, Australia) and I can see out winters becoming more extreme.
I love seeing how resourceful you can be in periods of dormancy so you're far more productive come spring/summer and certainly autumn 🍂
The locust wood poles and slabs are a great resource.
I just recently found out that mulberry is considered to be nearly as rot resistant.
Mulberry grows very well for me and I have one mulberry coppice that I hope to use to as material for propagation.
I've heard that as well... Mulberry and Osage are quite similar so it makes sense. Work with what you have available!
Cool video Sean, can’t wait for an update on this new expansion.
Great addition space for the hens, they are definitely my favorite. Love what your about my kind of people, much respect my friend
Until sheep arrive, a temporary solution to willows could be to trim up lower branches, giving chickens another understory to wander, scratch, and rest in shade.
I think we'll do that, thanks!
Love it! We've just let our hens out into our food forest area, for the first time, as well 😀
Love your channel! We had an established Blackberry Patch at the bottom of the chicken run that the chickens love, but they were digging too much around the roots so I cut them all the way back last year and laid 2x4 fencing down to protect the roots. This Spring I planted Elderberries and Currants at the top of the run. Each plant is protected by a cage while they get established and heavy cardboard is topped w/ small logs to protect the woodchips, but the chickens have still managed to shred the cardboard and make a mess of things. Is there an easy solution?
Boy what a mini forrest the chickens have to play in. Blessings from Australia ❤️
Looking good!
Looks good. I think it’s a wonderful idea.
Just wondering if your cats use a litter box? Thanks for what you do.
Garden takeover!! Love it. Your neighbour's must be incredibly friendly. Hopefully in the next few years you can convince there neighbour's. 🤣🤣. I'm wondering how productive both properties could be and how many mouths you could feed. Goats would be an amazing addition...goat meat/milk and cheeses🤤🤤
5:28 fine looking mullein you got there.....
I wish that you could oversee 50 people working on 1000 acres. My sense is that your skills and experience are better spent designing and planning as opposed to hard or repetitive manual labor.
Rabbits love willow and add fertilizer that doesn't have to age to be used, or could be sold for a little extra income. Only need 4 or 5 as a colony and you could use as much willow as you want to chop and receive all those bunny berries.
A paradise for chickens 🐓🐓🐛🌱👍
FREEDOM!!! Those ladies looks pretty happy in the grass! 💖
The willow growth is exciting. We are looking forward to propagating the one we planted in the spring. We want to build a willow wall between us and our monocrop/glyphosate neighbour. My partner is very excited to try basket weaving. Perhaps if your neighbour doesn't want goats you can find someone who wants to weave? 🧺
Awesome ❤️
I love the idea of integrating the chickens into that space. It gives them a lot of new interesting things to explore and fertilize. I saw you were leaving partial or full harvests for them, but what about planting ground cover that could also be fodder for the hens. Plant anything you'd like them to get more of or things that would be more appealing to them than destroying your current plants. Just a thought.
I suspect they won't damage the current plants all that much, but that remains to be seen! We'll be seeding a lot of greens into this space for the hens, hoping some of it actually takes off!
Cafo livestock know 'the pasture is always greener ...' !! Edible Acres + Neighbors, Yes to sheep ! Imagine the fat & fiber! A dream, come true. I want for you to consult on a zone 3 mountainside someday in way Northern NY. Significant coppice/standard/orchard system in the works. Some of your hazelnut compliment the fringes. Experiment with a formal berry/fruit/fodder Layed Hedge along some boundaries (my suggestion). I layed my first 50' of hedge Fall 2021, and it is radical. Hope to manage miles more. Endless appreciation. .
Feel free to email sean @ edibleacres.org and we can chat options about consultation times. Seems like a neat system!
Sunflower if there is enough sun, tends to reseed itself too
Chicken is top !!!
How wonderful! Wool or meat sheep or both? Wool is so hard to come by and expensive.
Having sheep would be nice xDDD They have a lot to eat from here and they will get along with the birds pretty well. Maybe a few female sheep so can get both milk and wool from them too in some seasons?
Can maybe also consider bunnies? Their poop is very good fertilizer if you arent gonna raise them for meat.
Both of those types of animals would be lovely!
Just before you mentioned sheep, I was thinking goats would be perfect for the willow
All of my new hens and maybe especially the ones who were given to us from a more confined operation wander more. My suspicion was my old hens don’t make them feel welcome so they spread out
Interesting
This is great. We have our birds free range on 3 acres and it really spreads out the poo :)
It would be lovely to be able to spread that out like you do.
you need more mulberries. Even the leaves can be chopped up and feed off. It's like orka 100% edible. from root to tip.
I agree with you! We're working on it :)
Cats do not mess with adult chickens. They don't need hens dumping the speech on them one bit. :)
The broilers we're raising are complete dodos. They refuse to go outside. Too many chores have gotten in the way of taking the time to shoo them by brute force, but Monday I don't care what it takes - they'll be outside. Last year's at least had half a dozen that loved to greet me for a morning feed, though the rest were just lazy sods. Sheesh.
The laying hens rush to me whether just one spots me rounding the garage with feed and gets them all going, or I call out to them and everyone gets the same idea at once. Chickens are part puppy dogs. They can be voice trained. I never underestimate their intelligence.
Thats a nice range
You may have answered this somewhere but I am a new subscriber and haven’t watched or read everything yet. Do your chickens lay eggs everywhere? And if so, how do you find them all. Thanks in advance
Do you ever lose any hens to hawks? I used to let mine free range. It lost two last year to hawks. They have a huge chicken yard and a rooster now. We also have hawk netting that runs through the trees. However the other day a bra on hawk found a gap and flew through to cause chaos. I was outside with 2 others and 4 dogs and was amazed at this. The hawk got caught in the netting and we locked eyes. Really weird. It freed itself and found another gap out. The rooster did a good job alerting the ladies before the hawk even came through
That's a bold hawk. We've been fortunate to have some crow friends that chase hawks away for us at two different homestead locations. Maybe there is a way to encourage them to hang around if you don't already have them in your area? They have stollen a few eggs (including ceramic eggs!) when we had a very open coop design. Other than that they have been good neighbours.
Planning out a chicken pen next spring must I use “chicken wire”with smaller holes -or do you feel the 2 x 4 welded wire fence is sufficient?
Depends on where you live. In a more urban area the welded wire might be fine. But where I live, in the woody mountains, I certainly need the one with smaller holes. Lots of predators. Don't use the one called chicken wire though, it's too weak. I found that out the hard way. It might be called wired mesh in English. I also need a strong roof for all the hawks. I'm lucky to live in an area with abundant wildlife but said wildlife feels quite lucky too if I keep chickens with weak fencing 🙁 if you are unsure about predators, go with the safer option.
THe 2x4 here is meant to keep the chickens in, which it seems to absolutely do for the older hens... It would certainly let through small predators but we aren't designing to block that since the hens are secure at night. It is inexpensive and strong fencing of the options we can find...
@@edibleacres Good points. Should work decent even in my area if I worked from home more often.
So called "chicken wire" will not stop raccoons from reaching through, grabbing a chicken by the neck, and eating off only the head or breast. Everyone loves to eat chicken! Hardware cloth is what you need for night-time protection. The welded wire fence might do for daytime, depending on your local predator population, but definitely not for night time. Rats can also do a lot of damage, and hardware cloth is what you want for keeping them out.
Have you thought about adding Runner Ducks and Fish for the pond?
The idea is great but we don't have the bandwidth to add too much more for now.
Have you tried feeding the chicks hardy kiwi, if so, maybe that could be a perennial element on the fence?
That would be a really nice idea to add to the fence line
What resources/channels did you use to adopt/find your rescue hens? I was wanting to try something similar.
We spoke with a bunch of friends asking where to get inexpensive hens that still lay, and one person knew of an Amish place that had them. Took some following of leads a few different ways but it panned out... Ask around!!
Oh I’d love to be your neighbor!!
:)
how do you get the fencing material to be so unwavy with just tposts? usually pulling too much on the fencing material will cause the posts to angle towards the during in which they are pulled.
Any ideas or resources for the indication of bindweed? (as an indication plant) in the foodforest succesion?
You may find value in researching bindweed as an indicator of Calcium deficiency in the soil. We looked into that pathway and found it seemed to map out.
If they become too destructive, then it's "rotational grazing" by chickens. Will the chickens be in the food forest at night, or herded back to the original shelter for over night? Thanks
Do you clip their wings or have breeds that are so flighty? We would love to range our chickens on a bigger area, but they already fly up and over our 7ft fence. I'm worried that we'd need netting over the whole pasture, which I feel like defeats some of the purpose when trying to range them through a mini orchard
We don't clip, mostly these are older hens and somehow they haven't expressed much interest in flying over this fence (yet!)
I just lost my entire flock to raccoons, I didn't secure the coop tight. I was so looking forward to your system. But, I am obviously not capable.
Not true. You've learned a hard lesson, one that most of us have to learn. Try again.
Oh that's hard. It can happen to any one at any time. Don't give up.
What is it like living away from the city on a piece of property where you can grow your own food. I am not asking you to be God I'm just asking for your opinion based on your experience so far. There are many of us who are living in big cities but would like to move away from the city especially New York to places like Georgia, the Carolinas, and Florida just a few examples. Can you do a video sharing your opinion with the community of people who really want to leave the city living behind?
does the neighbor get pissed when you start gardening in his yard?
Nope! We have a really healthy and happy positive relationship with them.
Jerusalem artichoke how they trive vs chickens
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I had to get rid of what was left of my chickens.. raccoons figured out how to get in and went from 8 to 2 in 3 days it sucks.. I'm going to fix it so not even a fly can get in
Don't give up. Just learn. Keeping chickens is worth the work and you learn a lot of new skills. Jeff Trigg of Bobblehead homestead (Groovy eggs) youtube...lives backed up to a national forest in Arkansas..there's loads of raccoons in those woods and recently found out an elderly neighbor was feeding a huge group. His answer..electric poultry netting around his hoop coops placed in well weed wacked paths for the electric netting and live traps set out with eggs in them. He teaps raccoons and they dont get into his hoop coops surrounded by electric poultry fencing. Premier one has poultry fencing and the solar or electric charger to make the fence hot.. Also, having a guardian dog ..maybe a border collie.. putting the dog outside of the chicken enclosure or run can help.
@@veritatis7114 the weeds around the coop I think was strike one and 2 I didn't have the coop built good enough. I thought it was I went all winter no problems then one day last week the slaughter came. I've got 9acres and the chickens was like in the middle. I'm surprised bobcats didn't get them really.. funny thing tho I have ducks I let loose and most of them are doing good. But maybe they stay on my pond at night idk.. they used to sleep in the yard. I did learn coons are super smart and fast I'm going to fix the coop and try again. Gotta go to the small game auction and see if I can get more chickens.. the farm store is done for the yr. What made me the most mad is they wasn't earing them just like killing them for sport night after night
@@veritatis7114 and I recently moved my dog up to the house from down by the coop and I think that played a factor
The confined hens are much like people who came to America escaping communism,unlike us lazy Americans who take their freedom for granted,they know what its like to be without freedom and appreciate it and seek it out.