Chickens are the unsung heroes of the farm. I love mine…

Do you show fermentation process on your channel? More chicken content please Curtis

I forget to feed the chickens first thing in the morning as well :)

Chickens are the gateway drug for homesteading. We appreciate your insights, Curtis. By the way, your rooster crowing in the background made me panic a minute wondering if we had another layer turn cock-a-doodle-do here. :)

12 degrees and sunny down in Windsor today feels like spring in February

what does she do with the feathers?

ive been saying for more than a dcade that chickens are employees, manage them correctly and the benefits far exceed the cost

I enjoyed this a bunch! "the annoying guy you didn't invite"... lol

QUESTION:. What does your wife use feathers for?

I love my wee composting team!

when you move the hose lines, the chickens will scramble to that spot for the grubs & worms. The same will happen if you put log waste or slash. When you roll it over the chickens can get "free" food. The love the decomposers of the woods.

What does wifey like using the feathers for?

Another great video, thanks Curtis. What does your wife use the feathers for?

For what does your wife use the feathers?

Good stuff Curtis ... the rooster you don't invite to the party!

Followed you for years. You were an early influence in transforming my veg growing methods. So SO glad to see you doing well and leveraging your hard work into such an awesome looking place to live and thrive. Thanks for continuing to share with us. please more chickens from you. p.s. you have come a long way from your continental bicycle journey to your current mountain paradise haven't you 🥰 Im sincerely happy to see you doing well, it really does make me happy.

We do what you are suggesting but we do it with a timed deer feeder. Every time we fill it we move it around our garden. We set it to run a very short spirt every couple of hours and when the chickens hear it they come running. A plus to this method is that they stay near the feeder waiting on the next dispersement and away from our house and other buildings, concentrating their poop on the garden rather than our yard and porch. You’ll love it.

When you proses your birds the waist product feathers and everything else. Is great to put deep in a compost pile. The most productive garden I had last year was top dressed with compost made from the previous years meat birds cleaning grass clippings and wood chips.

The house is looking good already! Let's get a house build tour.

I let my chickens run in my garden a couple years in a row. And I discovered that this creates A LOT of weeding next growing season. Because chickens are eating all weeds seeds and just spreading them around through poop :-( We are doing portable eclectic fencing now and chickens are not allowed in the veggie patch anymore. Weeds pressure drastically came down. After aging manure is not too bad speaking about weeds, and then it goes to the garden.

quickest way to get up and running with your own food production?.. chickens 🐓🍗🐣🥚

I like sprouting the grain before I feed it.

For some who only deal with vegetables, his life got a major upgrade with the animals

You can use them in the winter when snow in similar ways, put your compost you have collected over the summer in their poly tunnel and make Mountain of it and move it around every 2 days back on the mountain or from one side to the other so the keep interested in it! When season starts sift the compost and make a liquid fertiliser/ tea and you can serve a larger area or more often or heavier for hungry crops

This may be a duplicate. My first message does not appear to have made it. Please show us your Chicken feed sprouting. If you have a compost pile with chickens on it, please show us that also. Chickens are the Shmoo, of the self sufficient homestead. They produce breakfast eggs, fried chicken dinners, and the most wonderful soup. They are mobile manure spreaders. They work the ground, eat the little weeds till in the big weeds. They control the insects, particularly the ones you don't want. They will balance your compost, turn, aerate it, and make it usable faster. If you let them follow your cattle after 2 or 3 days when the dung beetles have done their work, they will tear up the manure pats. Eat the maggots/flies. Keep you from having the little dead spots in your pasture next year where the mature pats are, and your grass will grow so much better. They are also so good for you to watch and listen to. Last year in the USA, there were more than eighty thousand chickens destroyed because the government tested some and said that they had Bird flu. The farmers who owned them thought they were healthy. The same thing happened to our cattle. It is as if someone is getting rid of farmers and is going to control all of the food supply. Now maybe the time to get your breeding stock and share breeding animals with your neighbors.

Thank you

I've done chickens on high feeder crops, but i use that patch the winter before for winter bedding under a movable greenhouse. But the crops do amazing. Havent done tomatoe or pepper thoufh. Just corn and winter and summer squash.

I use to hang hey with baler twine ( just high enough for them to jump on and go under)from the top of my greenhouse and they loved eating some of it and would keep there floor cleaner! After a week of icing accumulation I'd chuck it over to pigs! Party 🎉! Pigs would eat hey and all! No wast and happy everybody!

Great info about the chickens; thanks for sharing!

This unseasonal warm break is triggering off early blooming in Portugal. If there is a cold break again with frost, there will disastrous results for the fruit trees.

Yeah Curtis, I'm in the SF Bay Area and we've had a wet but warm winter. No hard frosts yet (Feb 9), so many plants like my peppers and Mexican Bush Sage haven't died back like they do after a hard frost, generally in December and for sure January.

Love this. Im just setting up a big compost in the corner using all my grass clippings, leaves etc i get from my gardening job. Id like to run a drain pipe through it connected to a solar powered fan to heat a polytunnel which i plan on builidng for winter once my summer and autumn crops are done. Also want a copper coil through it to get hot water. Theres a root right next to the pile too so i plan on collecting the water from that and running an irritation through the polytunnel. Bit by bit i want to get as "offgrid" and self sufficient as i can where i am with what i have. Ride that upwards spiral! That compost can then go back into my beds in summer or my customers beds.

Wow, the snow is almost gone and it's second week of Feb.

good old weather modification... 90% cull rate, I'am on board.

Anybody have any experience with Guinea Hens for tick control? Are they good meat birds? How are the eggs? Thanks!

Hey Curtis, Are you growing anything in the passive solar greenhouse yet? Chickens are spectacular in so many ways!

Great content! I just cant watch videos with swinging camera shots as I get motion sickness.

I always feed mine in the evening... this way they eat as much off the land as possible, encourages them to come back to the coop and keeps them warmer at night. If they seem crazy for the feed, I give them a little more, If they don't seem that interested I feed them a little less.

What about the male and female meatbirds you kept ?

I'm interested ... what does your wife use the feathers for?

Is that fog or are they spraying the same crap there as they are here in mi

lol … you started to whisper when you talked about the meat bird going to block 😅😅😅 you may upset him 😅

Hey Curtis ! Have you ever given any thought to having some sort of cattle on your land ?

Hey Curtis, What's your opinion about the Bell layoffs today? Sandra

Wouldn't it be better to allow the manure to be "digested" by soil bacteria and a cover crop and THEN months later plant your veggies into it? Seems like planting directly into a manure loaded patch is only half a step better than spreading 10-10-10. Nature intended for manures to be microbially "digested" before going directly into plants

Hey Curtis, are you calling that Rooster as useless eater? lol I kinda like hearing him but it would wear thin after a couple of days. Thanks for the chicken update.

Have you considered caponising roosters? Breeders around here virtually give away roosters, but I just don't have the stomach for doing the procedure.

Chickens are great, we love our chickens for our homestead, farm but to be honest there is zero money in having them. It’s pretty much a wash financially but we get very nice eggs and the blessing of having our chickens. But make no mistake, zero money in selling eggs, I don’t even sell ours anymore, it’s not worth it. Also we use our chicken manure for fertilizing our gardens and fruit orchards so that’s probably where the best savings in $ is.

Grrreat

Random question - can free range chickens pass Lyme disease, etc from them eating infected ticks? JW

Wow, when did you get into intersectionality? 🙂

LMAO .. they guy ya didn't invite to the party ;-]

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Hahahaha, tell us how you really feel about your Beta Rooster. That was a hilarious talk about him.

Meat birds need food. They’re only present for a short period of time. During this time you feed them a lot so you can put them in your freezer asap.

What does your wife do with the chicken feathers??

Hilarious that they started streaming out of the greenhouse after you've started describing it! Kinda like you've planned it...They must be fake. Lol

Sharing this one... But I'm a bit concerned about the 2024 REBORN logo - after what happened with antifa during the covid wars?? Does that A in flames represent them? I hope not 😲

Curtis, why aren’t you vegan yet?

The garden would be even more productive without the killing of the birds. yahsua messiah was a vegetarian that's why he came. To do away with the killing of flesh.