REMOVE ALL the PIG POOP!!! / Vlog
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ส.ค. 2020
- starting the process of removing all the wood chips from our pig shelter. If we want MORE PIGS Soon we need to clean it up. Thanks for watching!
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Hi..... Jason, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🌱🎥👍👍👍
Penelope she's growing like a beautiful Flower. She's so adorable. Hi Penelope sweetheart. JASON AND LORRAINE Congrats on 100K subs.
I would definitely vote for dumping those wood chips in the garden and letting the birds do their part. The pigs likely didn’t produce enough nitrogen to break down the high carbon in those wood chips so the birds would go a very long way in doing that. By the time spring rolls around you won’t believe the kind of soil you have underneath those chips!
I absolutely think you are doing the right thing by putting the wood chips right on the garden then letting the chickens have at it!!! Smart
Cooler weather is a good time for raising pigs!
The “chicken garden miracle “...from what I’ve seen it will work! Get the pigs!😂🐷♥️👍🙏🤓
Yes! Wood chips & chickens to the garden!! Chickens work it over. Great soil next Spring! Win-win!
Use the wood chips in tandem with no dig beds👍
The chickens would love it and your garden would jam in the spring
Absolutely put in gardens. Let chickens do the work. 🐓 You had trouble getting compost this year. Let nature work for you this Fall and Winter.
Compost in the garden with the chickens. By spring you will have GOLD.
I hope you are happy, this is the meaning of life
Sounds great let the chickens do the hard work and just bring them more poopy chips and bugs. Keeps their little chicken brains active.
The chickens would do all the work of tearing those wood chips up. Ben Hollar does his garden space with his chickens. If it works for him, it should work for you. The chickens would love it and next spring your garden space will be composted and ready to grow food.
I think it is a great idea putting the wood chips and manure over there and putting the chickens on it
Wood chips and chickens in the garden sound great. Do it!!!
Put them in the garden like Justin does and put the chickens to work. I think that's what he did. Have a Blessed day.
I would do a 3 way combination. 1. Build the pallet compost system put 1/3 of the wood chips in there. 2. Put 1/3 wood chips in the garden and let the chickens till it up 3. Leave the final 1/3 in the Bacon Bro’s pen and put your meat chickens in there. Then evaluate which does better.
ooh I like it. maybe!
I would do this! Spread the love.
That’s a lot of wood chips. I like this idea the best of 1/3rds. When I had my garden I used wood chips a ton to keep down weeds and save on watering, yet they would take awhile to breakdown. I didn’t have chickens through. 😂
I like that idea... Every farm/animal/climate is different so this would give a good way to evaluate to see what works best for you situation.
I second this. It'd be an excellent way for you to make a direct comparison while also sharing the experience you gain along the way with us. Win-win.
You need a small tractor with a bucket and rework the back side of hog pen to open up like barn doors etc to run tractor in to clean out pen while pigs or outside on front half and or after you send them to freezer camp.
Great idea.. wood chips, pig poop and let the chickens do their thing! Good for next years garden!
Absolutely put those chickens to use!!!
Your doing the right thing..get your new loads of chips ready for what ever you decide
I think that is a great idea to get the woodchips and have the chickens prep the soil in the garden for the spring and get the pig pen ready for the piggies..have the farm multi task 😊👍🏼
Yes,yes more piggies!
Pigs are good in the winter 😀
good idea!!!l good for the chickens also help your garden for next season WIN WIN.!!!
Excellent idea to put chickens into the garden area to clean out and fertilize 🐓 at the same time
Living Traditions' weed fabric worked great in their garden!
I think it is a great idea - it would make a great garden for next year....the chickens would love it.
Enjoy watching your family progress with your farm yes put them there on your garden
It is an awesome idea by putting the chickens in the garden area.
Sounds great about putting the pig chips I the garden then let the chickens have fun...good job
Move all of the wood chips to the garden it will break down over the winter and help your garden immensely!
Move it once! A good motto. Wood chips out to garden area! 👍🏻🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻
That's a great idea. Put the wood ship in the garden.
That's a great way to help the garden improve for next spring!
Good idea, putting the chicks in that part of the garden.When you put the wood chips in the garden, put green matter and a little soil in there too so the composting process can start faster. When you put fresh chips in the hog pen, don't start with such a deep layer, and put some al[ over every day. in the garden, put green sand, lime and rock phosphate, it will take until next spring to blend with compost and it shouldn't hurt the chickens. Test your soil in the spring to see if it needs any other minerals.
I think you are on the right track, shovel away, yes work now, but think of the benefit later, more food for your family!
Awesome video and God bless
it's a good idea. all the plants, grass, weeds are all organic. smothering them with wood chips will die them out and break them down. the rains and snow will help leach it into the soil. you probably will have some healthy soil next year for a better productive garden. mho...
Great idea, lots of work, but well worth the benefits...
I think it is a great idea and uses what you have with the space.
I had a couple of ducks roaming my growing garden for a few years . they were funny and the best pest exterminator you could ask for.
yes, I think that is a great idea!
I love this idea!
Do it! It’s all a great experiment 😎
I like the chips in garden idea.
Jason, concerning the pig poop wood chips...move it to a close place to process. The pallets could be placed near the pig pen. Moving the chips to the garden might be farther to move but the chickens will add to the pig poop and help turn and process for your garden, in the garden. In the pallets, you move chips twice and would need to turn and keep it wet. In the garden you move once & your chickens process for you. Blessings brother
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Putting the wood chips and chickens in the garden area seems like a great idea to me. It will be quite fertile by next spring's planting time. Go for the gusto!
Spot on Jason, chickens loves to scratch manure and any bugs that might be in with the wood chips. After there finished or during them scratching they will leave their own manure which helps the soil become enriched, then till the garden and cover until spring and you'll have some great garden dirt for the next years planting. Good luck and stay safe, all 3 of you. God Bless>
Perfect for the cabbage next year 👍
Chickens like to be busy scratching and turning the land. I think keeping them in the future garden spot is a great idea.
I think it's a great idea.
Love the idea of putting the wood chips into the garden since you do no till. If you bury the wood chips they will sequester nitrogen from your soil to break down. The chicken poop will be high in nitrogen so that will help offset that. There is still time to plant some fall crops if you care to do so. I enjoyed the video as always.
I think it’s a great idea.
Good luck Jason, hope you get some good suggestions. 👍🤗🧡
Put some in with the layers. Keeps the flies down. Put a bunch of small piles in garden put chickens on it. Till it in after they are done. Cover for the winter. Put chickens in pig pin to keep it breaking down. Then put it in pallet box to compost. As you know red clay gets very hard the more organic material you get in it the better you are.
Excellent idea!
It’s all new Jason, I think pilling it up in the garden and letting the chickens do the spreading is best. The Hollars did that and work great for them.
I think it's a great idea to improve your soil.
Sounds like a good idea to me give it a try. I believe the chickens would be a good help my wood chips get broken down easy with my ducks and chickens working at it I'm very happy with the progress they're doing.
This year, I have 'volunteer mini pumpkin plants growing where I use to keep my chickens. One plant is the width of a double door garage with dozens of pumpkins on it. I think you should let those chickens do their job, and see what it gives you next planting season.
I think it's a great idea!
i would put the wood chips in the garden and let the chickens have fun. Then in the spring cover to eliminate and weeds. Doing that will make the soil very rich for growing next year.
spread the chips where you will have a garden for next year.....you need them for your garden. ..we do this every year and after about 3 yrs., we seldom (never this summer) have to water anything in the garden......You got it RIGHT!...Larry @ Scoot's Organic
I like what your doing with the wood chips, you could also pig proof the other end put pigs in there and chicken where the pigs used to live
Sounds like a plan and it’s not too far to cart the chips, freeing up the pen
Yes it a good idea .
I would probably save some of the woodchip/manure to use in the spaces between the rows you will plant next year. Placing the woodchips in the garden for the chickens to spread is an excellent idea
Green mixed in gets it cooking. Compost green , brown and some charcoal from the burn pile. A large pile works fine no need for pallets. On hot days black plastic overlay helps generate heat.
Yes it will make the garden do well for next year and u should put a border around the garden to keep the grass out
Very good idea
Hey! may be you can disassemble one wall of the pig shelter, and ask for your neighbour's tractor. With the shovel of the tractor you can move all the woodchips with one or two hours : )
I would put in garden for chickens to work....also build bins with pallets to put the next round of poop in when you get more pigs.
For moving all those wood chips, you are ready to graduate to a large 4-wheeled or 2-wheeled cart! Like a Gorilla cart or from Amazon (Agri-Fab 45-0101 750-Pound Max Utility Tow Behind Dump Cart, Black) Or a bucket on your tractor? And some helping hands to make the project go a little faster and more fun. I liked the idea of 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 from a sub below. Chickens are your work crew for now. More pigs in the near future. Love your story!!!
Meat chickens in the pig shelter and the others in the garden by splitting the pig poop in half. Have fun watching the crews doing cleanup. Less moving more fun watching.
You need a bigger door so the tractor can get in there, then you can bring some over to the garden and to the chickens.
Definitely need to have chickens working on it. Why not? - and more pigs! Pigs for Everyone!! Big job ahead no matter what you do.
Sounds like an amazing idea!
Put the compost in garden now, where the beds are done for the season; cover with black tarps to kill weeds, and be ready for next year?
Good idea
Dumping on the garden and using chickens is a great idea.
Yes yes and YES add that poo power to your garden lol that soil is going to be beautiful next season less work for you and time will do the rest. I cover deep with leaves and loose straw... Happy growing 🤗
I use woodchips regularly..about 5 truckloads in the spring and once a month I throw more through the rows. Since I started doing it, it has increased my harvests..reduced weeds amazingly plus the soil is just beautiful underneath. I also compost my pig manure and chicken manure in pallet bins and by the end of summer I have a ton of beautiful compost for spring and some for fall crops.
I want to do the same system once I work up to having pigs also. I say go for it.
In the garden with the chickens. Chickens like the action also. Then of course the wood chips are where they'd be anyway. Blesssings
I like the plan of putting all the chips in the garden & letting the Chicken's do the work for you. Maybe you can have some friends come help you with the chips, I have a BBQ adter.
It makes sense to move it to the garden area and let the chickens pick at it. Have you thought about getting turkeys and adding them to the pig shelter? Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner.
Wood chips in garden then chickens then tarp for winter or no tarp. It would be an AWESOME garden
great idea.
Put the chickens to work on the garden to till & fertilise & add pig poop wood chips as you go along with garden waste from. Veg patch xxx and put the top wood chips on your path ways now to combat the current weeds xxx
put the pallets against the pig port and let chicken work the sawdust and it will insulate the pig port from the cold on that side toward the trees.
We only hand weed around plant stalks, just far enough back that we can get the rest with the propane burner once a week while they're in the heavy growth stages. Also drip watering (opposed to broadcast or large soaker hose) helps a lot. We have found ducks also eat weeds but leave most of our veggies alone.
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Also if your mower has a pull behind cart that will dump..I recommend that over the wheelbarrow lol..back breaking stuff unless you have a lot of helpers
I like option 3.
I was going to suggest that you do exactly what you thought you might before you said it. I think it will be a huge help to your spring garden next year. The chickens will love it, the garden will love it, there is no downside to this since you have to remove it anyway.
Put it in the garden area and fence it in with the chickens. Best options. I've been using a lot of wood chips for that past 6 years and I have way less weeds and the soil is so loamy that the weeds come out easily.
I propose putting the pig poop/chips in the garden, turn the chickens in the garden and let in rip it all up. Lots of good compost should turn up" that way. Ha. Lots of work on the homestead. Hope you can rest in the winter. 😺💖
Good idea
However, use the truck.
Put the chips on a tarp and drag them with truck to the garden.
Decrease the number trips with the wheel barrel.
:) :)
I vote for making the pile in the garden area and letting the chickens go to town. Reducing the amount of times your handling resources is just the better way to go.