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You know, FIRST.
Good stuff, thanks.
@2:08 when you’re talking about caching the corn cobs to continue breaking down, on the fence row in the background I see what looks like bamboo canes or river cane or something hanging. Are you drying them for future use or do they serve a purpose there? Just something I noticed and thought “What’s going on there?”
Thanks again Sean.
Your Family is so beautiful.
Straw tastes yum Dad! haha
Do the bones turn to charcoal in a normal biochar pit? Never really thought about doing this, but I'm intrigued. Thanks for the inspiration ✨️
So cute seeing the baby shake the hay.
That compost looks happy. I think its so cool that Zelda gets to participate in her own way…
Your chickens like to talk😂😂
Lovely, interesting catch up 🙂 Thank you
Bricks sticks and bones sounds like a bad 90's boyband lol. Love the content as always =)
Sasha is one strong momma! And Zelda is so adorable!
Great face Zelda made when surprised by the hay in her mouth!
Let's take a vote; I vote that shirt becomes the official Edible Acres uniform! Anyone second that? That's a cool shirt!
A great video, I picked up a few tips that I’ll implement in my system, thanks Chris
When you throw weeds in, do you care if their seeds get in the pile?
is there any food that you don't put in the compost or weed??
It just feels right for kids to grow up in fertile gardens like this 🙂
Great tee shirt!
Love this , Zelda learning chicken chores young 😊
So good! I just love y’all!
That kid is going to have the strongest immune system imaginable! 👍
Will Zelda take over chicken tv? She's so big now.
She's growing so fast, beautiful Zelda
I had some black rubberized dustbins that I had been attempting to grow potatoes in (failing miserably) I’ve started using them around the chickens run as rapid start to the composting system usually filled when I clean out a coup and add the household vegetable scraps to it, leave for at least a couple of weeks and empty into the run for them, full of worms and good stuff. It’s usually destroyed within a couple of hours. 😂love the shirt! ❤
I move our chicken pins around every couple of months. This makes for a good garden every year.
Multi species mechanically engineered com(post) Capitalist workshop.
Looks like you’ve gotten a nice system going. Now I’m gonna go back and search out all your other chicken composting videos, and sprouting videos. Well done!
I learn visually, and I really really really appreciate videos like this. Just wondering what the vermin pressure is like in this kind of a system I live in town and the rats and mice love a hot compost.
Watching this guy with his chickens is like watching Jeffery Dahmer in a gay club or Gacey in an all boys school. How many kills did you have this year?
I thought I've heard Zelda in the background. Was happy to see her simply enjoying being there with you two.
They grow so fast.
I guess it's about time to get this system like yours going. If I remember well my daughter was 2 years and she's almost 5…
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Do you clip their wings so they dont fly over the fence?
Can you explain how to start a compost system for chickens? I have tried using a deer fence ring about 1 foot high. I've tried containing it in a pic inside 3 walls about 2 feet high using old baby gate. I throw shredded leaves, some composted soil, food scraps in and then it just keeps compacting and gets lower and lower even as I add things until the rain just washes it down to ground level. I can't seem to keep it growing. Plus I have a hard time with my back to turn it. Once the chickens get to it, how often do you turn it? After even a couple of days, it's so hard, I can't manage it.
What do you actually give the chickens? Finished compost and dump good and seed on it? Piles of leaves and dump food on that? I've tried but can't figure it out. It all just compacts and runs off or they don't turn it and is just a pile of layered straw, leaves, and rotting food. Do you have a video on how to actually start a pile for chickens and the care of that pile the first month? Like a "compost-along" series. LOL If we give them an actual pile without boundaries, they flatten it completely before we can do anything about it. I have 13 hens.