Great video! Always glad to see evidence based homesteading insights in an age where it's so easy to peddle pseudoscientific nonsense for likes, clicks and sales. Never thought I'd see a succinct breakdown of what a peer reviewed article is in a video about chickens! Keep it up :)
You commented people are getting snotty with you for talking too much lol. I definitely don't feel that way, but I do think the content is very much focussed on audio. Have you considered making a podcast? I think that would be a great format - Just chatting together and working through a peer reviewed paper with some homesteading implications with an informal not too technical way that a lay person can understand. I think most journal articles have so much esoteric lingo and jargon in them they are not often not really accessible to non-scientists. Even this video I listened to the majority of it with only audio while out doing farm chores myself. Even the processing acorns part could be explained on a podcast if you described in more detail some of the visual elements (i.e. the colour of the acorns). Anyway, just wanted to send that idea along, I see you haven't made a video in a while so not sure if you're still at it, but If you make a podcast I would definitely subscribe and tell all my friends too as well. Hope all is well and thanks for the great video and channel!
We handle them lots. We move them to our vegie patch 3 days a week to eat bugs/pests. Since they are then caught and put back in their coop for night they have learnt to ignore us as we are no longer considered a threat. Thanks for the comment, Sofia and Grant
I'm in the midwest united states. I have quail hunted all my 72 years. We have bobwhite quail here. I have killed many quail with full acorns in their Gullit, but we do only hunt the pin oaks in wet weather so I am assuming the rains and ponded water in the oak groves make the acorns edible, or the quail have the ability to remove the tannins on their own.
Oh, and BTW, I should mention that those acorns were still in the hull! It is difficult to understand that such a small bird could swallow acorns of that size!
Thanks Wade, I appreciate the sharing of knowledge. There is so much we can learn for the hunting community in regards to ecology and the wellbeing of our environment. This further adds to my argument that it is a viable and sustainable food source. Thanks again
Thanks, it is a second hand electric Bosh. It was about $50 (australian) on Facebook marketplace. Apart from chopping up acorns it is pretty useless to be honest. I would not recommend it. However for this application it is fine. Thanks again.
Hi! Great video! I am listening as I am harvesting acorns off the ground for my two chicken potentially that are a few months old. They have been through a lot of raining days here in California in the USA. I notice that many are cracked open and even rooting. Wondering if those are okay or if the root is not a good idea or if they still need soaking. Any thoughts on this?
How about test feeding chickens, turkeys, ducks and cornish hens green tea powder, cooked meat fats, cooking used oils? Have a friend in korea that does this as well as feeding them vegetable scraps, grass clippings, garden discarded items. His fowls get huge!! His fowl have had less issues with diseases since he started adding green tea powder to their feed. For a 1 gallon of feed he uses 1 tablespoon of green tea powder and 1/2 cup of lard, tallow or used cooking oils. I do not have any animals yet and wondering how these all work. He has a lot of fowl. Just wondering the science behind what he does.
Hi K Lee, thanks for the comment. We actually feed our chooks all old oils too, but not in those quantities measured. After frying, we put dried oats in our pans overnight. The oats soak up the oil and we feed it to the chooks the next day. Same with old meat and fish. All other table scraps are composted. There is very little information on this topic because it is Illegal to do this in the UK and some states of america. This is really hard to believe but true. Luckily, we live in Australia, and we can feed our chickens anything.
@@futurefarmers8554 During the great depression the unreasonable cooking fats my grandmother mixed it with what she fed her laying hens in Idaho. It was something done by many during that time and have no clue as to when some states made it illegal. I am nearing 60. Something I have said since I was 15 is: "There are laws made are utterly to profit corporations rather than for the benefit of the citizens. Laws that have been made solely for the benefits of corporations that cause issues with farmers and homesteaders ned to be obolished if there is no scientific evidence that it causes health issues as per the FDA. More rights and ways to be productive as farmers or homesteaders gave been little by little stripped away. It is time to have those in office to serve the people and not corporations."
@@IamKyuTee I agree totally with your comment. We have similar moves by the government here to force citizens to become more reliant on the cooperation and less sustainable and self reliant. The government uses fear and threats. For example this year our government changed fines regarding excess poultry. As you are only allowed 5 birds per household (quails and ducks are included in this) they added a $180 fine PER bird over the limit - to add to this council inspectors can enter your property without warning or warrant. Then they changed the fruit tree netting - if the diameter of the net is more than 1/4 inch you can be fined $3000 per tree netted. As we have 140 fruit trees it takes a long time to upgrade out nets and the council has asked urged residents to report their neighbours. So as we become more less reliant our community values erode away.
@@futurefarmers8554 What these government officials do in supporting of CORPORATE FARMERS or Government owned farms that during the Great depression it was not those that saved humans from starvation. IT WAS THE NON-CORPORATE farmers with farms even as small USA sized 5 acres that fed their country. Victory Gardens were such farmers. I see the eliminating of small farmers as a serious detrimental act should any country face a depression again. Lobbying with money in the USA needs to become illegal as a felony with all voting rights taken away as well as the loss of their political office who accept lobby money with a fine of no less than $1 million for each act. Unions should have nothing to do with voting or pressuring employees of any corporation or union member to vote a certain way. That all voting should be 100% private and it illegal to ask a union member or employee how they voted and penalize them fir not voting a certain way. Any corporation or union who does this should face felony charges and lose all tax deductible rights and pay a fine of no less than $10 million and all officials in the union, investors of that corporation, high status employees, owners all losing the right to vote. Doing the tough love to insure that the rights and needs of the citizens are met need to be enforced more. All the millions in fines after paying restitution and court costs should go to pay the deficit to benefit all citizens. That is my opinion on what should be done and has been my opinion for the past 40+ years from the age of 15 when they still taught about the constitutional rights, constitution and the government structure of the USA. It is also my opinion that CONGRESS should no longer be able to govern themselves but be faced with a tribunal of all Supreme court judges and the presidential cabinet. Too many criminals in the house of representatives in the USA who need to be removed.
@@IamKyuTee I agree totally. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and wisdom with me. If only we had more forward thinking people like yourself in politics. Enjoy your day. Thanks again for the comments. Grant 😇
