If I may suggest, we use to be major grain producers and if there was one thing I I did not enjoy at the end of the season was cleaning up the grains left over in the bins that couldn’t get augured out.. so my suggestion is, if you live near a grain farmer go and ask them if they have bins that they would like clean out in exchange that you get to keep the grain😉 I bet you they would be happy to have the extra help getting that cleaned out! Do a good job and go the extra distance by cleaning up the area around the grain storage and “you” will be getting called to go back!😊hope this helps someone with their feed costs!

We are on 33 acres. We have only been here 5 months. We let all our animals free range. Our 150 chickens live pretty much on grass and sweet potatoes. We get seconds sweet potatoes $20 for half a ton. They also have a compost heap. Our pigs , ducks , geese , guinea fowl also eat sweet potatoes and grass. Sheep and cows grass only.Plus we have started a 3 acre food forest. So hopefully the pigeon peas etc will give another option for feed. Thanks for your encouragement, will consider some of these ideas.

I have found that if I put some thing wood or large tile on the ground and within 10 days if you move it there will be a large amount of bugs under it. The chickens love it and gives them protein.

I love to see people raising animals and gardens the natural way.

People thought I was crazy switching my dogs to a raw food, but they are thriving. I don't produce enough myself yet, but the small local butcher is happy to give me the offal and saw scraps.

I enjoy your videos and your knowledge I'm one year out from retiring from the military started homesteading already I just hope Society holds together but it is a good feeling being prepared

I have added keeping a mealworm colony to my free chicken food methods as a protein source for them. They are really low maintenance, easy to keep and a good option for those who don’t have some other steady protein source for their flock.

Yes, a very important video. I've been trying to feed my animals from within the boundaries of our 23 acres for 10 years

Wow learning so much from y’all…the dogs have been a concern and love the kelp plug…beautiful shy smile on that lady of yours…thanking you again for all of this information…stay blessed…

Hi!! I just found your channel. I don't have a ton of free time to watch. But I'm thankful to have found you guys.

Great tips with a hefty dose of enthusiasm. You left out the doom and gloom and showed real things a person can do now to save money. 💕from Ky.

Thank you for this video !!! We haven't gone to the Chicken Tractor ' YET ' ~ but for months & months, I have tried to convince my husband to start fermenting our chicken feed after seeing Justin Rhodes & other homesteaders do it - or to @ least switch to pellets . I was constantly reminding him of the waste with the crumbles - not to mention it's a lot of crap in it . Finally after seeing the cost of feed keep going up & up ~ he agreed to let me try it . So all of that crumbles we had already purchased is being fermented & from the 1st day every speck of it is being devoured by our approximately 60 chickens- plus they are getting a good amount of moisture automatically !!! I set up a 3 bucket system , where each morning I feed them the oldest the 3 day old bucket & then just keep rotating it . I am using a FRACTION of the amount I was before !!! Slowly I am cutting that amount back & feeding them a few pellets . THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR GREAT TIPS !

Good overview of each farm animal and how it blesses the others in permaculture. As always I love your teaching style and enthusiasm. Way to stay positive in very pessimistic times.

Bless You Billy. Good luck in the coming years. Gonna get rough soon. Thanks for doing what you do!

It was so sweet to see how your sheep respond to your wife ❤️ By the tail wags/raising their heads, you can tellbthey love to have their neck rubs 😊

Perfect video..saved it to watch again and again ,take notes. SO that how the oltimers fed their dogs before commercial dog food. Great video !!

I’ve already started my chickens on your ring compost system. Next weekend I pick up my first 2 piglets of the season and will be feeding them for free on scraps as well. Cattle still have 2 months before they can go on grass and I’m looking at getting a couple sheep then as well to put on grass too. This is my year to implement all the food costs I can following your techniques. Thank you for sharing. 💝

Woah woah woah, I don't know how we are just now finding you guys......I can tell by this video and the titles of your others that we will be binge watching you guys!

As far as pigs go ... I I have found the pink commercial pig stock is a weak breed. I have Yorksbire Drott crosses, and have had Spots too. They never need wormed and are VERY durable. I do feed pumpkins in fall from local Townies at end of Halloween and Thanksgiving. They leave them at the end of the drive in a mesh lined tote. Sign reads "Pumpkin for Piggies" people LOVE it.

I really agree that God meant for us to live alongside and utilize the other creatures He has made, and doing it responsibly. Agreed on being a blessing and encouragement in these times. Thank you Billy!

I let my chickens out to free range sometimes to cut food cost. We also fry eggs for our dogs, they love em. I cook scrapes from wild game that they get also. Mom always said. "Where there's a will there's a way."

Even if you give your chickens whole seed and grain if you sprout them before you feed it to them it raises the protein and other vitamins.

I found you guys when researching tree hay. Love this video and how you are encouraging people to do things more natural.

I look forward to your videos Billy! Thank you so much. Your channel is helping me immensely getting off the ground with my own self sufficient operation 👍👍🙏🙏

Y'all I just got to think that have no idea how I started watching your videos but I sure am glad that I did. I do love the information that you give on this channel. Thank you for sharing. Have fun take care

Thanks for all you do to help your fellow man! We need this😉🙏🏻😇

Hang an old metal bucket with holes in it above the chickens area and put meat scraps and other protein in it. Have a really big lid on it with a whole in the middle so you can slip it over the rope that you are hanging the bucket with. Birds will stay off it if the lid is huge. You will get maggots (YUK) and they will drop out and the bok boks will eat them. Barf!!

You made 50,000 subscribers! You're growing! Yippie! Thank you Jesus!

Definitely loved this video we want to get our dogs on farm meat so bad we have a boar pig right now who’s done with his job you inspired me to get on with it 🤙🏻

I enjoy the educational content of your channel. Keep it up! I wore the Maxiflex gloves in a college construction class on 'how to' breakup a concrete slab into pieces and remove it. The gloves Saved my hands from abrasions and cuts! The right gear for outside jobs.

Always excited when I see you have uploaded a video. Thank you. :)

Excellent video 👍 👍, been having more conversations with other folks on the subject of self reliant feeding and renewable animal usage. Perfect timing 👌

You know what I just realized? Your channel has grown by leaps and bounds!! Praise Jesus 🙏😘

Thank you! I've been trying to research this exact thing because we're all about natural and not wanting to have to buy feed for the animals we're going to get. I've been growing but wondering about how to feed all of my animals sustainably without relying on stores. This gave me a ton of ideas and insight and motivation. Amazing video 😇😊

Thanks for more great info! I'm in my second year of homesteading. Started long ago with emergency preparedness and it evolved into homesteading. I've been learning about herbs and drought-resistant plants. I live in northwest Georgia and raise chickens and rabbits. I've started using the chicken and rabbit excrement as fertilizer for my gardens. I use table scraps for the chickens, but much of their diet comes from foraging plants with which the good Lord has blessed my yard. Curly Dock is a drought- and cold-resistant plant. Chickens and rabbits both love it and eat it readily. Purple Dead Nettle, a member of the mint family, is another favorite. Goldenrod, mentioned briefly in your video, can be fed as much as 1/3 of the rabbits' total diets. Thanks for the great info and keep up the good work! God bless!

God actually commanded man to work the ground by the sweat of his brow from the beginning. Awesome video I have twenty chickens and man it cost quite a bit to feed em.

I love y'all's enthusiasm for the love of the soil and animals.

Thank you that’s an amazing tip I appreciate that starting the new Homestead in Tennessee Central Tennessee we moved from Oregon where we had a tiny Homestead but it’s great to find out new ways to feed your animals God bless

Another video with great information 👍 Our dog LOVES eggs. We’re looking at using pigs to clear some land…let em work while they eat.

Great advice I’m on only two acres but I might be able to do some of your ideas and we are currently sharing our extra eggs to share with my neighbors and community God has blessed us with a abundance of eggs and share that blessing with others

Just recently found you. This is great! Thank you!

Im new to this channel, but I love what I am seeing so far. A lot of what you are saying is making good common sense here. I raise chickens, and never heard of permaculture, but I have a diploma in HORTICULTURE, which isn't the same.

Thank you for all the info. Always looking to cut cost’s. God Bless

Thx for the ideas. Great video

Loved this video. Permaculture is also my passion! Have heard several people talk about the milk cow being the heart and center of the farm. The milk can feed critters as well as people.

The DC comment made me a subscriber 🤣❤️ Excellent info, thank you!

Love 💓 your practical advice. Thanks

The PIMP Daddy does it again.....Thanks for your passion..

Appreciate your videos I am really learning a lot!

I have respect for you like I have respect for a father. You definitely are carrying "the heart of a father," which comes from The Heart of Our Heavenly Father.

We get food from shelters and grocery stores! We also get ferment mash from breweries too.

I am glad I found u here on utube. Other wise I would not have know chickens can work for for u. I was raised city now my hands are callus from working hands on. Thank u for reasonings

Great info ! I 1st got into permaculture due to searching online for info on growing plants/veg that for our chickens, esp. perennials. I have been in between homesteads and dealing with health issues a lot, so, haven't put it into practice a whole lot yet, but I did grow plenty of winter squash and would cook an extra one for them when did one for us. Also, of course, as they go bad over the winter they can get mushy enough for them to be able to eat ( or pigs can handle them raw probably ). My friends also taught us to throw our deer carcass in their pen and they'll pick it over. Up here in northern WI esp. , it matters for them to have more fat going into and during winter, I think, and u can save slabs of trimmed tallow from butchering deer ( tastes very gamey, we don't eat it, we trim it off the meat well ) in a cold outbuilding ( out of reach of wild animals) or if u have extra freezer space. If u know others who hunt who have it to spare, u can get these things for free even if u don't hunt, too. I def. can't wait to put into practice your chicken compost systems and more ! God bless y'all, hello from Dunn co. , WI !

Great video and great ideas. I need to get serious about that; especially with feeding my chickens.

Many of the small operations in our area do it old school. Simple things like fermenting whole grain mixes for the chickens. Mix 2 parts non-chlorinated water to 1 part whole grain chicken feed mixture in a clean container stirring twice a day and stored with a loose cover in a cool shaded place. Sprouts are also a big help filling their little tummies. Much Better nutritional value and they eat LESS as a result.

You have some great ideas Billy!

Great stuff. Thank you!

Well said Billie! Dogs and animals should be fed scraps of the table! 🤗🤗💜

We drove 6 hours yesterday to visit and tour a regenerative farm and buy some Pasture grazed beef. Where we are it is hard to come by these types of farms. We bought our land this past August. We've been planning to Homestead for years. I would love to do a consult and wish we were close enough for a visit. We are in tbe process of buying more chickens and getting sheep. We want cattle as well but trying to work with the land we have. Most of it is wooded. Advice would be welcomed and appreciated. Thanks again for all the valuable information and your time. Blessings to you and your family !!

Wow... another great video! Thank you!

Good ideas. I grow barley seeds inside and the chickens love the microgreens each day. I just built a box to grow them in so I won't have to keep regrowing the seeds from each batch.

Your videos seem to get better every week.

We ferment a small amount of feed and have a Maggot feeder bucket. We also scrape our rabbit poop catchers into a wheel barrow each week and leave it sitting in the coop. They eat all of the bugs and larvae out of it for protein. Then we scoop what they’ve scratched and pecked down into feed sacks and use them in the garden and compost. Just started a worm bin or two (it hasn’t been as successful as I’d like in the past, but giving it another go). Hoping to grow meal worms at some point. When we dress out our rabbits, we feed the “guts and scraps” to the dogs and chicks and put some in the mag bucket. We still aren’t grain free, though. I’d like to get to that point

Great video you guys ! A word to the wise… bird flu in Arkansas! Our birds are fine and healthy. But!!! State wide you cannot buy, sell or barter chickens until late June I believe! Uhh I better not say much more than this… country folks can survive!!!

I buy 50lb bags of horse oats and sprout it for 3 days. This doubles the mass of the grain and the available protein IN the grain. I might be overfeeding.. I have 7 turkeys and 21 hens and half a dozen roosters and they get 3 feed scoops a day between them. oops forgot the 16 guineas. So I go through 250lb of oats a month. That's around $80 now, but with costs rising, I need to work on reducing that.

Been watching your material for a while and I finally subbed. Working towards the same thing.much love from TN.

Love your rooster!

Thanks for the egg dog food tip.

This is really that most important video for our current inflationary times. Only thing is we might send you a few more animals, just to see how you feed the ones we got.

Good information video, Thank you for sharing.

She wants everybody fat, but her… too funny. Mom is looking fit & trim. She’s blessed!

That’s what I’m talking about!

I'm on 2 acres in Choctaw OK I work with a Mr Dustin Lea who turned me on to your channel good stuff.. We just got some chickens and hopefully pigs will be next.

good content!

Love your channel & just had to comment. While your wife was plucking all that wool off the lambs, all I as a crochetter could think of was how much I'd love to have that wool. LOL

6:28 wife FINALLY smiled. She's a dog person. Got it. I like the Subaru wagon. We've owned 18 of them (pre-2005 when Fuji HI was sold to Toyota) that Forrester is one of the last REALLY good ones, new ones are ok, just not as good.....work horses.

One other thing I'll be trying soon is mixing diastatic malt powder, normally used for baking, in with my commercial chicken feed. It's essentially sprouted roasted and ground wheat but it breaks down fiber into easily fermentable sugars when mixed at 1% by weight. Figure it will be more bioavailable nutrients and more bacterial protein and if it seems to work well I'll start sprouting and roasting my own.

You should write a book on Perma Culture

You should give Persimmon Phil his own segment. Apparently, he has a lot to say 😂

Working my way to a complete perma culture within 5 years.

Please tell me more about the diet for your dog and the doctor y’all were mentioning that recommends it. I want to try it out with our dog

Grocery stores throw out so much food. If they'd give it up that's a hell of a free source to feed pigs and chickens. Free food making better inexpensive food. Sounds like a win win.

We love your videos!! I keep hearing you say “the system” and I’m wondering if you have a series we can watch that explains the system from beginning to end? Blessings from Nova Scotia

Hi Billy, enjoyed the chuckles. Wondering if you have a view on geese? They're beautiful and intelligent, great land managers and self sufficient. They seem to cycle/extract nutrients really quickly.

One thing I do to is .if you have lots of ant hills around your place .take a shovel and take off the top or sides of the ant hills. They are full of little ant eggs. If you are feeding outside. Chickens love them.

Nice job

Good thorough video sir! Thinking I have to get into a breeding pair of pigs maybe to have a little more security

No grass at my place, worm farms, food scraps n plants are what I do to thin down the bought feed

I'm on 26th East now

My husband says the exact same thing. I don't want everyone fat, just well fed.

love my anatolian!

Hey I'm headed to Asheville right now a little north of Mars. Anyway I can get a hold of you stop by and get some comfrey

Thank you for your knowledge. Just the way god intended the earth to be.😇

I need to know what exactly you were doing for the chickens ?????

Freedom Rangers should be arriving soon - I've asked around the cafes, but here in NM they all have things already set up for their scraps, so going to ask neighbours .... but also sourcing a bag of barley so I can grow forage as we don't have pasture here (high desert ;) ) - hopefully we can source more in the future... and hoping Freedom rangers will work with the chicken tractor set up :)

Great ideas! How many eggs per Great Pyrenees? We have three here. I’ve been planning to plant pumpkin to mix with eggs for the dogs’ food. Just started fermenting chicken feed yesterday! Love permaculture lifestyle.

You can take rabbit poo and attract black soldier fly larvae. They have all kinds of black soldier fly raising systems. Chicken poop works too.

The deer I've harvest during season, helped feed my dog. I don't like deer burger or deer sausage, so, whatever the grind, is saved for dog food. The roasts, steaks, etc... Are mine! LoL

Tractor supply in Suffolk, Virginia is charging $9 for a bale of straw now.

See, that's what I really wanted to know: where the cool tshirts come from! 😆 But I better get to cutting some feed costs so I can afford a few.