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Ammonia fumes?
Your chickens live so well. ❤
Beautiful work Sean D….😊
20:33 – are those two potatoes buried in the compost?
You offer beauty and dedication for free in a world run by fear and paywalls!
Your system ist amazing.
Liked, hyped and comment. Best my to help this channel.
Thank you for saying anyone, acknowledging they or individual beings.
Jealous of this set up. I was planning on covering my compost pile with cardboard and a tarp to try to insulate it for the cold, but my winter has been very mild until very recently and I haven't felt the need. It's amazing how even in subzero (C) temperatures the pile is still warm.
Don't you water the new compost to get it going?
Blessings and love!
thank you, keep the girls warm!
Your hens look so happy! Are they laying through winter with this system?😊
Thanks.
Lovely! Can't wait for your reports over the next 10 days… Not only composting but also how life goes in general with the weather flipping freezing!
I love your setup Sean. It's been a strange winter where I live. I'm just south of Reno, Nevada and it's supposed to be zone 7a where it typically gets down to about 5F, sometimes down to 0F. This winter the lowest temp has been about 17F but most days it's only gotten to the high 20's. The really weird part is how hot the daily highs have been. It's been getting up to 70F during the day and dropping to around 30F at night. Yesterday it was 74F! It hasn't been a typical winter at all.
I get so many great ideas from your channel! Thanks so much for all your tips and tricks. I’m going to try this. Thanks again. 😊
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We're in the Middle of January, how much volume of nearly finished material is there this year versus last and the year before? I think you might be a foot higher.
The screens were a fail in the last experiment, do you plan on retrying in the Spring?
Do you supplement the ladies with calcium? Do you give them back powdered eggshells?
I use a burlap sack full of leaves as a blankets for keeping things warm and a way from the scratching hens.
I really appreciate seeing your integrated systems and hearing how and why you do things as you do. And I was delighted by your little helper! Great memories being made.
Anyone with chickens appreciates this set up 100 fold. I am working on our own composting system
This was just GREAT! Sorry I missed the mid-winter sale- Will you be selling Jonheer Van Tets currants in the spring?
Also the elephant garlic you sent in the fall was HUGE! Can't wait to see how it does come spring!
Been really inspired by your stuff, planted mulberry, elderberry and some nanking cherry in my chickens outdoor run after watching some of your videos. I need to get on this outdoor run idea though. This winter has been tough on my hens, amazing what you can do with minimal financial input to keep the birds happy. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, ideas and experience!
Amazing system. I am a bit behind still but every time I see your winter setup I get more energy to go out the tweak mine. One thing I try to harvest from winter chicken life is their body heat. We built a greenhouse right by the chicken run and for winters, they have a chicken flap and an enclosed sleeping corner in there. I haven't measured it but it feels like they are keeping lettuce and others greens more active while all is snowy and frosty outside.
Glad I stayed for the end to see little Zelda feeding the henitos! I wish I did this when we had the thaw for our chickens all of my compost in the run is frozen:(
Another great video. I've seen a lot of questions elsewhere recently about what to do for chickens during colder weather, and I just keep pointing them this way, as you seem to have a lot of great information and examples, where you talk through all the thought process behind everything rather than just showing one example, making it much more valuable of a knowledge base.
I'm very curious to see follow up on measured temperatures to see how it works out in various places in practice.
I’d have to think you have some of the best cared for chickens especially in winter.
left side corner could have been better layered…
Thank you for the inspiration sorry for coppying you hopefully on a slightly larger scale still all man work Much respect and really appreciate everything you do
If I was you and in my spot it use cardboard against the pallets instead plastic change it out yearly I use it with my pig deep bedding I work at a cardboard factory tho so have paper and size and grade choices so I’m spoiled but I use fender washers on screws to retain the bedding/ compost
That's some dynamite compost, man. Those chickens do such a good job
Love this so much! An update on the temperature tests later would be super cool! (Or warm or hot or cold lol)
Your ways are so simple and effective. Thank you.
The chickens love it. They're very engaged and content. My favorites are the tiny white hen and her little Serama cross rooster husband. Great video, thank you for sharing!
Do y'all ever have problems with ammonia in your carport? Greenhouse chicken nug?
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How much do you spend on feed with them working your compost per month in the winter?