It's nice that you help the food pantry and in return they help feed the chickens. Lots of good veggies for your chickens. Those are some happy chicks!!
The timeliness of this video is just so welcome. After work today, I popped onto youtube to answer comments and for some reason the algorithm suggested another farming video to me. I clicked on it because I never saw the channel before. I don't want to say what channel it was because I don't want to shame anybody, but lets just say that I had to turn it off because I was disgusted at the life their chickens led. Prison or torture would be more accurate of a description, and they were almost kicking them as they were walking around (both because it was crowded and because that's how little they valued the life and experience of the living beings they chose to bring into their farmstead. Then 2 hours later you release a video and I click on it instantly (you and Happen Films are my 2 insta-clicks), and boy... what a contrast. Not just the life that these wonderful ladies are living, but the ... I want to say... spiritual (?) connection you have with them. The care towards another living life who shares our world with us but just happens to be in dinosaur form. The contrast couldn't be more stark. I wish the world had more Seans out there. Most chickens don't get to live like this, and it's wonderful what a great life they have in your front yard. There's also something that gets me so excited when I get free stuff. I don't know about you, but I almost get giddy sometimes when I find a sweet haul. It hits all my happy buttons... upcycling, reducing waste, saving money, and getting something of value when others don't see it. I suppose it's half the reason I pulled in 1600 leaf bags this year. It's addicting. The veggie haul. That's my kind of haul video!
First of all... 1600 leaf bags. You are a madman! Ha! Keith, this is really kind of you to share. I am honored that we're on your insta-click list :) With our chickens, we feel it is just so important to treat them with as much respect and care as we can. We get comments sometimes (in a kind way I think) that we're 'spoiling' them, but I think there is something deeper or more complex happening. We see our hens as creatures/allies/workers that we rely on to nourish ourselves. We feel a lot of respect for them, they work so very hard and are gentle and beautiful and play a key role in our lives. When we go out of our way to bring compost and evolve systems like this it is about having working conditions and living conditions for our feathered friends match the value of who they are. I think permaculture in nutshell is about seeing each living being as valuable and worthy of respect and a healthy life. Both Sasha and I have a hard time watching most videos about raising chickens, even in organic/regenerative contexts because they are still mainly considered a unit or a means to an end. A thing in service to a design or end goal. They are themselves and amazing and we love them and try to treat them as such. No spoiling, just respect. Yeah, free stuff is just the best. I have always enjoyed scavenging, it's so rewarding isn't it!
At our allotment in the UK we've found that sawdust is our number one carbon bulk material, adding it to any wet or anaerobic compost helps it to fluff up instantly. Instant sponge. We have a joiners yard near us and they create about 50-100kg a day so it's an highly valuable resource in terms of its availability. Great for paths too. Our soil is super sandy so bringing in (this year literally tonnes) of sawdust is helping our soil health massively. Mycelial networks becoming very visible within our interconnected chip/dust paths.
Wow, love watching your chickens. They are so clean, robust, very happy and productive. Happy chickens do not peck and injure each other, nor gang up on the small fry to kill them. Even their clucking sounds like they are humming with joy. You have so many great food ideas for them.😍. Plus all that exercise they get foraging. Makes me feel sorry for the prison-farm chickens and their grain based diets.
My cats love hearing the hens in chicken tv. Have you thought about teaching them a command word to stay out of your way? I conducted an interesting experiment with my own 2 cats because I love them both but they are always in my way. I started saying "watch out" which eventually just evolved to me saying "chout chout"... Took the one several months but they finally learned to back away when I say it, even when I'm carrying cat food. If the chickens could learn what a certain word means then you might be able to move about a bit quicker with more range of motion. Sounds silly but saying "choutchout" to my cats has saved my knees a bit, rather than trying to manuever around them all the time.
@@edibleacres and @Mandy Besek - if you ever get bored, you could start clickertraining those chicken ;) I heard, hens are way easier to train than humans :D th-cam.com/video/R2RfZs-IsiA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AnimalYes-MargheritaPescollderungg
i have some chickens and they dont really listen that much. if you imitate the roosters food call, they'll come running, it sounds like a 'dooc dooc dooc' sort of noise. if you simple say 'here chook chook' everytime you feed them, they'll come running if you say anything similar 🥰
We've had chickens for almost a year now. While I was in my yard with my little ones one of the hens grabbed a worm and the little ones thought its was hilarious.
Your hens speak the same language as mine - those contented/excited noises they make. In the UK we aren't allowed to feed kitchen, store or resturant scraps to domestic hens. Something to do with foot and mouth and other diseases. As treats or winter extras I buy seeds, oats, dried worms mix them up for them. I grow greens for them all year round yet inevitably run short around now.
So crazy you aren't allowed to feed them scraps. Seems like a controlling rule based on probably a few really bad actors ruining it for everyone else. Oh well...
@@edibleacres We have had a lot of outbreaks of notifiable diseases that then require mass slaughters. The UK is a small, densley populated place and, though food standards are high, occasionally outbreaks can get out of hand. At the moment there's Bird flu on the loose across Europe which means we can't let our birds out and should protect their pens from wild birds. BSE was a nightmare!
Love watching your videos. You’ve provided a lot of inspiration for us here in Zone 3. How do you protect your chickens from raccoons with this set up?
I love the sound of the chickens. It reminds me of when I was growing up on a ranch. We have just a few now - 3 chickens, 1 full grown rooster and 1 young rooster. What breed are the orange chickens? Thank you.
@@edibleacres I have been up most of the night watching your videos. you are a wise man my friend. I have a small homestead here on the river near Jamestown festival park Virginia. we are doing the best we can to be more self sufficient. God Bless you and yours from Tidewater Virginia USA
in your opinion, are vegetable-scrap dominant bins like these more valuable than "leftovers" of prepared human food from catering operations? i reckon the latter is more calorie dense, but also high in sodium
Ideally both would be available, maybe a bit more dominant on the fresh leafy greens when possible, but prepared food is OK to some extent. They definitely enjoy it but will over do it if they have huge access to it (just like people!)
Do you know what breed your dark brown one with the white earlobes and golden streaked neck is? center screen at 7:20. She's a real beauty. *brown leghorn?
would you ever leave some % of the veggies outside the hen yard to freeze for later or do the chickens usually process through that volume by the time the next cache comes in? thanks as always for putting the videos together
Great shout out to buying used plastic stuff! Seems people always forget the other two parts of recycling, Reduce and Reuse! Most plastic, if it's kept away from too much UV (too bad for us here in southern AZ) lasts forever! Why not reuse it so it doesn't end up in a landfill or burned?
We used to have rats come by, we miss them! THey would burrow down deep in the piles and really help aerate. Very welcome addition if they wanted to come visit again.
Lovely, do you ever feed their eggs back to them for the nutrient loss they experience? Granted they eat a lot of good veggies but it takes a lot out of them to be in constant ovulation!
They get all their egg shells back, and sometimes when it is super super cold we cook eggs with seaweed and other goodies for them to enjoy. They love it.
To be honest, I don't know if there is an answer for that, but I think they eat as much as they can and then relax for a while. Since there is a very wide diversity of food material here and minimal competition for it seems they eat reasonable amounts until they are satiated.
Do you pick out anything other than citrus? Do you worry about rubber bands or metal twist ties? Do you worry about predators? (A friend lost her entire flock to a weasel. We're in PA.)
We pick out plastic/trash/etc whenever we find it. We don't go crazy picking out other things... Predators haven't been an issue (luckily) mainly because we keep the coop pretty darn secure at night.
Have not been successful in getting business's to save said awesome chickenfood/compost material...any suggestions Sean....my 40 plus girls would flip over delivery's like that !!! Just cleaned the coop....6 inches of dry leaves with another 3 of wood shavings.....ready shredded a lot in one week going to add more shavings tomorrow for the cold snap.☺
I think more calls are in order. What about local butcher shops? Maybe reach out to local food banks / soup kitchens, what do they do with what is left over? Local small organic or otherwise farms, CSA farms in your area. Grain mills, local farmers, folks with horses/cows or larger animals. Maybe your neighborhood could be talked into dumping their compost at your spot... Just some ideas. I hope you find some amazing connections!
What is the temperature difference outside versus inside the polly tunnel? I live in Norway and we regularly get - 20c in the winter, wondering if this would be viable here.
I also have a poly tunnel for my chickens. The climate here in Missouri is not as cold as yours. But, I noticed that temperatures that would freeze the chickens water early I the winter would not cause a problem later. In mid December we had a temperature of - 10C. I had to break up and remove ice. We have had the same temperature in mid January with no ice. I attribute this to more chicken manure in the bedding leading to a heat source as the compost process begins.
I haven't measured it, but I will say that when a cold snap is coming we'll put their tray of milk or other liquids sitting on top of the compost in the tunnel and that keeps it from freezing. No formal measurement there but a qualitative idea. We haven't closed the front door yet this winter, but if both front and back are closed at night the temperatures can get very very balmy in there. I'd rather have a bit more air moving through and less warmth to keep air quality good for them...
Nice! I'd love to get food scraps like that where I live. Will have to ask around. I did ask the local Food Lion once and they said no, because they give it all to a local pig farmer.
I see a lot of food in there I have been advised not to feed my hens. I noticed you said you pick out the citrus. Any suggestions from you what NOT to feed my hens. Thanks.
If it's not a hassle, you'd want to avoid coffee grounds whenever possible, citrus peels, maybe very moldy foods. That said, if there is a diversity of options of mainly good things for them with a few bad things, they seem to avoid the bad. Almost 7 years of doing this and it hasn't been an issue...
They never seem to eat the peels and I have read once in the past that citrus isn't great for them. It's pretty easy to pluck them out early on so when I think of it I do it. I don't get crazy going for every fleck but when it's reasonable I do...
I'm not sure, there are times where we don't filter it out at all and no chicken has burst into flames yet :) That said, they don't seem to eat them and the peels are just a little suspiciously too colorful for comfort...
@@edibleacres that's what I figured. sometimes I dig a hot pocket of compost and use it to "cook" stuff that I know the chickens don't want. by the next time I turn that area of the compost, it's collapsed enough that it mixes into everything else effortlessly. I do this when I get sweet potatoes, because otherwise they get stuck in my fork.
Seriously, I think you could make a Chicken TV livestream on Twitch and I would probably watch it. A webcam in the winter run with sound. Those are some happy sounding ladies. What's the name of the speckled one that likes the leaf pile?
I think she's a barred rock. Doesn't have a name, but you are welcome to come up with one for her :) I don't know if we'll be doing live stuff, but I'll make videos whenever we've got some ideas to share.
Do you have a rat problem? Here in South West Ontario, we have plagues of the things and they would see this as a buffet, not to mention weasels taking off free range hens. Do you lock these birds up at night?
We could say spoiled or we could say they are incredibly hard working and critical parts of our food system and we treat them as super valuable and respected workers. Maybe it's both :)
They used to come all the time, and to be honest, they were an amazing asset when they did... They would tend to burrow down and into the compost, creating really excellent compost 'tunnels' that helped bring air deeper into the pile. They are gone now and I miss them!
Alittle tip i go to aunt millies & get 14 loafs of bread for 4$ i have dishes i tear the bread all of mix my scratch and veggie supplement. If you tear that bread to little pieces they will eat it up
They directly consume the vast majority of what we put in over the course of a few days, but there are also ample red wiggler worms inside this high tunnel now and soil life.... MANY hungry mouths so nothing gets wasted.
It's a pleasure watching how gently the two of you treat your chickens and how you recycle and use everything you can.
What a gardening staff y'all have! Born recyclers, cultivaters, givers of eggs & meat, nitrogen droppers, so relaxing watching them do God's work!
It's nice that you help the food pantry and in return they help feed the chickens. Lots of good veggies for your chickens. Those are some happy chicks!!
Really nice connection we have there, we look forward to providing more eggs in the summer when the hens pick up production again.
In this covid era, I find your content very soothing and relaxing.
I'm really glad it does that for you.
The timeliness of this video is just so welcome. After work today, I popped onto youtube to answer comments and for some reason the algorithm suggested another farming video to me. I clicked on it because I never saw the channel before. I don't want to say what channel it was because I don't want to shame anybody, but lets just say that I had to turn it off because I was disgusted at the life their chickens led. Prison or torture would be more accurate of a description, and they were almost kicking them as they were walking around (both because it was crowded and because that's how little they valued the life and experience of the living beings they chose to bring into their farmstead.
Then 2 hours later you release a video and I click on it instantly (you and Happen Films are my 2 insta-clicks), and boy... what a contrast. Not just the life that these wonderful ladies are living, but the ... I want to say... spiritual (?) connection you have with them. The care towards another living life who shares our world with us but just happens to be in dinosaur form.
The contrast couldn't be more stark. I wish the world had more Seans out there. Most chickens don't get to live like this, and it's wonderful what a great life they have in your front yard.
There's also something that gets me so excited when I get free stuff. I don't know about you, but I almost get giddy sometimes when I find a sweet haul. It hits all my happy buttons... upcycling, reducing waste, saving money, and getting something of value when others don't see it. I suppose it's half the reason I pulled in 1600 leaf bags this year. It's addicting. The veggie haul. That's my kind of haul video!
First of all... 1600 leaf bags. You are a madman! Ha!
Keith, this is really kind of you to share. I am honored that we're on your insta-click list :)
With our chickens, we feel it is just so important to treat them with as much respect and care as we can. We get comments sometimes (in a kind way I think) that we're 'spoiling' them, but I think there is something deeper or more complex happening. We see our hens as creatures/allies/workers that we rely on to nourish ourselves. We feel a lot of respect for them, they work so very hard and are gentle and beautiful and play a key role in our lives. When we go out of our way to bring compost and evolve systems like this it is about having working conditions and living conditions for our feathered friends match the value of who they are.
I think permaculture in nutshell is about seeing each living being as valuable and worthy of respect and a healthy life. Both Sasha and I have a hard time watching most videos about raising chickens, even in organic/regenerative contexts because they are still mainly considered a unit or a means to an end. A thing in service to a design or end goal. They are themselves and amazing and we love them and try to treat them as such. No spoiling, just respect.
Yeah, free stuff is just the best. I have always enjoyed scavenging, it's so rewarding isn't it!
I'm loving the happy noises the ladies are making :)
At our allotment in the UK we've found that sawdust is our number one carbon bulk material, adding it to any wet or anaerobic compost helps it to fluff up instantly. Instant sponge. We have a joiners yard near us and they create about 50-100kg a day so it's an highly valuable resource in terms of its availability. Great for paths too. Our soil is super sandy so bringing in (this year literally tonnes) of sawdust is helping our soil health massively. Mycelial networks becoming very visible within our interconnected chip/dust paths.
It's also VERY high carbon ratio.
Sounds like an incredibly good situation you are in there, and so glad to hear you are valuing their waste stream like that. Great work!
Your chicken tv is the very best. I can’t get enough of it. Please make more.
Happy to make chicken videos for sure.
Wow, love watching your chickens. They are so clean, robust, very happy and productive. Happy chickens do not peck and injure each other, nor gang up on the small fry to kill them. Even their clucking sounds like they are humming with joy. You have so many great food ideas for them.😍. Plus all that exercise they get foraging. Makes me feel sorry for the prison-farm chickens and their grain based diets.
We hope to inspire lots of folks to raise hens this way. They seem really happy annd healthy in this system AND it costs less to raise them!
I love how the captions of the hens eating are "laughter" and "applause"!
That is really wonderful!
Can I be one of your hens? They are living the life.
All chickens welcome!
🤣🤗🤗🤗❤🐔
That wet snapping sound of all of those green leafy fibres being snapped! wow!
I love that sounds, so contented.
It's quite amazing how hard chickens actually work!
They really do.
The captions for this video:
Cars - [Applause]
Clucking - [Music]
I ain't even mad.
LOL I know right?
Listen to those happy hens!!!! Never get too much of that.
I am loving the pile of baguettes they've saved for later to have with their afternoon espresso. ;)
The white bread loafs aren't their favorite but they seem to love them as a little 'snack' here or there.
Thumbs up 👍 for chicken tv!
My sweetie recommends a long handled brush for cleaning buckets.
Thank you for that :)
Awesome! Their very own GIANT buffet. Holy!!
That's quite the veggie haul! Are your birds on their way yet?
April....20 of them 😀
I've watched a bunch of your videos but I gotta say this is my favorite. Those are lucky chicken.
U 2 are awesome! Thanks for chicken TV
My cats love hearing the hens in chicken tv. Have you thought about teaching them a command word to stay out of your way? I conducted an interesting experiment with my own 2 cats because I love them both but they are always in my way. I started saying "watch out" which eventually just evolved to me saying "chout chout"... Took the one several months but they finally learned to back away when I say it, even when I'm carrying cat food. If the chickens could learn what a certain word means then you might be able to move about a bit quicker with more range of motion. Sounds silly but saying "choutchout" to my cats has saved my knees a bit, rather than trying to manuever around them all the time.
I love the idea but I truly can't imagine our chickens ever listening to us, ha!
@@edibleacres and @Mandy Besek - if you ever get bored, you could start clickertraining those chicken ;) I heard, hens are way easier to train than humans :D th-cam.com/video/R2RfZs-IsiA/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=AnimalYes-MargheritaPescollderungg
i have some chickens and they dont really listen that much. if you imitate the roosters food call, they'll come running, it sounds like a 'dooc dooc dooc' sort of noise. if you simple say 'here chook chook' everytime you feed them, they'll come running if you say anything similar 🥰
We've had chickens for almost a year now. While I was in my yard with my little ones one of the hens grabbed a worm and the little ones thought its was hilarious.
Those are some happy girls right there 😊
I love it. Standing room only at the all-you-can-eat salad bar.
Just enough room for them to all pack in.
We LOVE the ReUse Centers! Our idea of shopping lol
I'm undecided if I will be getting chickens or pheasants this year, but wow, I can't wait to do something like this! Great video as always.
Hoping you get some lovely birds to work with this upcoming year :)
Your hens speak the same language as mine - those contented/excited noises they make.
In the UK we aren't allowed to feed kitchen, store or resturant scraps to domestic hens. Something to do with foot and mouth and other diseases. As treats or winter extras I buy seeds, oats, dried worms mix them up for them. I grow greens for them all year round yet inevitably run short around now.
So crazy you aren't allowed to feed them scraps. Seems like a controlling rule based on probably a few really bad actors ruining it for everyone else. Oh well...
@@edibleacres We have had a lot of outbreaks of notifiable diseases that then require mass slaughters. The UK is a small, densley populated place and, though food standards are high, occasionally outbreaks can get out of hand. At the moment there's Bird flu on the loose across Europe which means we can't let our birds out and should protect their pens from wild birds. BSE was a nightmare!
Love watching your videos. You’ve provided a lot of inspiration for us here in Zone 3.
How do you protect your chickens from raccoons with this set up?
We have a pretty darn secure coop and they all go in at night. Seems to take care of it.
Man them are some happy ass chickens 🐓🐓🐓🦃🦃🦃
I liked how they helped Sasha with the wheelbarrow!
They are always 'helping' ha!
Yee-haw kids, that gol' dang chicken TV is back on the air!
I love the sound of the chickens. It reminds me of when I was growing up on a ranch. We have just a few now - 3 chickens, 1 full grown rooster and 1 young rooster. What breed are the orange chickens? Thank you.
We don't know! We don't know the details on a lot of our hens :)
really enjoyed this video friend. just got 10 clicks yesterday. subbed. much love out to you and yours from Tidewater Virginia USA
Welcome to our community.
@@edibleacres I have been up most of the night watching your videos. you are a wise man my friend. I have a small homestead here on the river near Jamestown festival park Virginia. we are doing the best we can to be more self sufficient. God Bless you and yours from Tidewater Virginia USA
in your opinion, are vegetable-scrap dominant bins like these more valuable than "leftovers" of prepared human food from catering operations? i reckon the latter is more calorie dense, but also high in sodium
Ideally both would be available, maybe a bit more dominant on the fresh leafy greens when possible, but prepared food is OK to some extent. They definitely enjoy it but will over do it if they have huge access to it (just like people!)
Happy Chicken 🐓 Dance!
Do you know what breed your dark brown one with the white earlobes and golden streaked neck is? center screen at 7:20. She's a real beauty.
*brown leghorn?
I don't know, maybe someone else will know? She is pretty skiddish and generally runs away from me, but yeah, super beautiful bird for sure.
@@edibleacres I found some pictures, and yes, definitely leghorn. Thanks! Personality matches too.
would you ever leave some % of the veggies outside the hen yard to freeze for later or do the chickens usually process through that volume by the time the next cache comes in? thanks as always for putting the videos together
Good question, it seems they generally can keep up with the material coming in.
I love all the food they have access to. How do you handle mice? Are they not a concern?
He has a video on that a few months ago.
Mice, voles and even rats are all welcome as they help aerate and tunnel into the compost to make it more aerobic and healthy...
Great shout out to buying used plastic stuff! Seems people always forget the other two parts of recycling, Reduce and Reuse! Most plastic, if it's kept away from too much UV (too bad for us here in southern AZ) lasts forever! Why not reuse it so it doesn't end up in a landfill or burned?
very inspiring the way you work with the chickens! no rats around, with this abundance of foods?
We used to have rats come by, we miss them! THey would burrow down deep in the piles and really help aerate. Very welcome addition if they wanted to come visit again.
@@edibleacres indeed embrace, part of the system. tnx
Hey Sean! Where do you source all that beautiful green kitchen waste from??
We have relationships with a few local stores where we can collect from. Isn't always reliable but averages out to be pretty good.
Do you ever dump some of the veggies around where the rabbits live? I wonder if that would discourage them from destroying your garden veggies.
Neat idea, I'll keep that one in mind.
Lovely, do you ever feed their eggs back to them for the nutrient loss they experience? Granted they eat a lot of good veggies but it takes a lot out of them to be in constant ovulation!
They get all their egg shells back, and sometimes when it is super super cold we cook eggs with seaweed and other goodies for them to enjoy. They love it.
Lovely to see. Do chickens over eat, is that a thing do you know?
To be honest, I don't know if there is an answer for that, but I think they eat as much as they can and then relax for a while. Since there is a very wide diversity of food material here and minimal competition for it seems they eat reasonable amounts until they are satiated.
has there ever been a more epic chicken feast?
This was top 10 for sure.
Do you pick out anything other than citrus? Do you worry about rubber bands or metal twist ties?
Do you worry about predators? (A friend lost her entire flock to a weasel. We're in PA.)
We pick out plastic/trash/etc whenever we find it. We don't go crazy picking out other things... Predators haven't been an issue (luckily) mainly because we keep the coop pretty darn secure at night.
Have not been successful in getting business's to save said awesome chickenfood/compost material...any suggestions Sean....my 40 plus girls would flip over delivery's like that !!! Just cleaned the coop....6 inches of dry leaves with another 3 of wood shavings.....ready shredded a lot in one week going to add more shavings tomorrow for the cold snap.☺
I think more calls are in order. What about local butcher shops? Maybe reach out to local food banks / soup kitchens, what do they do with what is left over? Local small organic or otherwise farms, CSA farms in your area. Grain mills, local farmers, folks with horses/cows or larger animals. Maybe your neighborhood could be talked into dumping their compost at your spot... Just some ideas. I hope you find some amazing connections!
What is the temperature difference outside versus inside the polly tunnel? I live in Norway and we regularly get - 20c in the winter, wondering if this would be viable here.
I also have a poly tunnel for my chickens. The climate here in Missouri is not as cold as yours. But, I noticed that temperatures that would freeze the chickens water early I the winter would not cause a problem later. In mid December we had a temperature of - 10C. I had to break up and remove ice. We have had the same temperature in mid January with no ice. I attribute this to more chicken manure in the bedding leading to a heat source as the compost process begins.
I haven't measured it, but I will say that when a cold snap is coming we'll put their tray of milk or other liquids sitting on top of the compost in the tunnel and that keeps it from freezing. No formal measurement there but a qualitative idea. We haven't closed the front door yet this winter, but if both front and back are closed at night the temperatures can get very very balmy in there. I'd rather have a bit more air moving through and less warmth to keep air quality good for them...
Nice! I'd love to get food scraps like that where I live. Will have to ask around. I did ask the local Food Lion once and they said no, because they give it all to a local pig farmer.
Definitely keep asking! Butcher shops, food banks, local farmers, grain mills, folks with livestock... many many places to ask around.
I see a lot of food in there I have been advised not to feed my hens. I noticed you said you pick out the citrus. Any suggestions from you what NOT to feed my hens. Thanks.
If it's not a hassle, you'd want to avoid coffee grounds whenever possible, citrus peels, maybe very moldy foods. That said, if there is a diversity of options of mainly good things for them with a few bad things, they seem to avoid the bad. Almost 7 years of doing this and it hasn't been an issue...
@@edibleacres Nice system you two have there, my thought is that the chickens will figure out themselves what to eat and what not to eat.
Ha! Love it, 'compost haul'.
not sure if this has been asked, but is there a problem with mice?
Nope! If mice show up, the chickens eat them. Problem solved.
Chicken paradise
Wonderful
Why do you pick out the citrus from the food scraps?
We don't always do that, or go crazy about it, but for the most part citrus isn't ideal for chickens so we try to compost it elsewhere.
Salad bar heaven
Hey Brother..Just curious.. Why take out the citrus..?
They never seem to eat the peels and I have read once in the past that citrus isn't great for them. It's pretty easy to pluck them out early on so when I think of it I do it. I don't get crazy going for every fleck but when it's reasonable I do...
what negative effects might occur, were you to have an excess of citrus?
I'm not sure, there are times where we don't filter it out at all and no chicken has burst into flames yet :)
That said, they don't seem to eat them and the peels are just a little suspiciously too colorful for comfort...
@@edibleacres that's what I figured. sometimes I dig a hot pocket of compost and use it to "cook" stuff that I know the chickens don't want. by the next time I turn that area of the compost, it's collapsed enough that it mixes into everything else effortlessly. I do this when I get sweet potatoes, because otherwise they get stuck in my fork.
Seriously, I think you could make a Chicken TV livestream on Twitch and I would probably watch it. A webcam in the winter run with sound. Those are some happy sounding ladies. What's the name of the speckled one that likes the leaf pile?
I think she's a barred rock. Doesn't have a name, but you are welcome to come up with one for her :) I don't know if we'll be doing live stuff, but I'll make videos whenever we've got some ideas to share.
Do you have a rat problem? Here in South West Ontario, we have plagues of the things and they would see this as a buffet, not to mention weasels taking off free range hens. Do you lock these birds up at night?
Birds all go into a very secure coop at night, no problems there.
Rats used to come and they were actually super helpful in aerating the compost!
@@edibleacres thank you, sir
Its a win, win, win situation . Those ladies are spoiled.
We could say spoiled or we could say they are incredibly hard working and critical parts of our food system and we treat them as super valuable and respected workers. Maybe it's both :)
Why do you pick out citrus?
Chickens don't love it and I don't think it's great for compost health.
don't you guys worry about the bread going mouldy in such humid conditions?
We would prefer it not to go moldy but it doesn't seem to be a big issue.
How do you deal with rats?
They used to come all the time, and to be honest, they were an amazing asset when they did... They would tend to burrow down and into the compost, creating really excellent compost 'tunnels' that helped bring air deeper into the pile. They are gone now and I miss them!
Alittle tip i go to aunt millies & get 14 loafs of bread for 4$ i have dishes i tear the bread all of mix my scratch and veggie supplement. If you tear that bread to little pieces they will eat it up
Nice!
Foodies :)
Don't you wonder what they're saying ? "who made the salad?".
THey are so used to this scene now that they just expect it each day!
Do they really eat all of that?? OAO
The chickens or the thermophyllic bacteria. Either way, it's free nutrient rich soil on the other end.
They directly consume the vast majority of what we put in over the course of a few days, but there are also ample red wiggler worms inside this high tunnel now and soil life.... MANY hungry mouths so nothing gets wasted.
Sounds like clucking, boring, old school typewriter typing 😂
chicken tv....tv
We've come full circle Ben :)
Ben Neb TV!
:D
wow they gonna give you lots of poo for your garden!