How Much LAND is Needed to Raise a YEAR'S WORTH of Chicken?? 

Using pigs for stump removal. Back in the 70's a friend started homesteading and needed to clear large trees. Since they didn't have equipment, for their stump removal they used pigs. They'd use a large steel shaft and pound it into the ground between the roots filling the holes with corn. The pigs would then do their digging for them.

Such GREAT information! Thanks for the time and energy you put into these videos. You are helping give WV a good name again. :)

Amado, gracias por toda la información tan valiosa. Dios lo bendiga 🙏 su esposa y su linda familia. Su hermana en Cristo y practicing 🏡 steaders. Rocío.

we live in the city just outside Pittsburgh pa. we have 1.4 acres we have a good bit of raised beds for gardens. we have 3 goats for milk, we raise about 100 quail at a time we have 6 breeder bunnies and multiple babies at a time. we raise the quail in 2-4 stack egg roll out cages that have a footprint of 2'x3', we have a 2'x3' brooder and a double stack 2'x3' grow out cage. we hatch about 30-60 each month have 40-50 eggs a day and butcher 30-60 a month. the rabbit setup consists of 3-3 stack cage setups. we sell the rabbits to help with feed costs and whatever we don't sell between 8-14 weeks old we butcher. we raise all the quail and bunnies year round in a room that's about 12x18 under our side porch the room in 80% underground so it stays warm in the winter and cool in the summer we clean the poop trays twice a week. Recently i built a butcher shop off the back of the house that has a 6'x4' cage for raising 15-20 meat birds at a time. it has a full kitchen setup with 10' 1 peice stainless top with double bowl sink for cutting and butchering. i also included a 4'x4' walk in cooler for hanging deer in the fall and would possible like to get a few pigs at auction and butcher ourselves. we are proving without a doubt that you don't need much land and the only thing visible to our neighbors is our 3 dwarf goats that you don't even know are there. no one has a clue that we have currently 20 Cornish cross chickens, 100+ quail and probably about 20 rabbits right now. We take pride and keeping everything clean and taken care of. lastly i turned our downstairs shower into a fodder system we get 2 -10x20 trays of fodder everyday for all the animals the system works great its gravity fed and the water if fully automatic with the excess water going down the shower drain. im looking forward to seeing your fodder system.

Thanks for your concise explanations. And good ideas too 😊

Great thoughts! I'm looking forward to seeing the garden chickens project 👍

You always have such great info full of great value. Thanks for sharing 😊

Love this kind of content! Exactly what we needed. Thank you!!

My Troy's Chicken Class notebook is filling up nicely. Thank you.

Thank you for the video

Edible Acres is indeed a great channel. I bought shagbark hickory because he praised the taste of that tree's nuts. Not easy to get here in Germany. Later I saw your video about shagbark hickory and was quite shocked that it takes up to 40 years to produce oO (Other sources talk about 10-15 years which is still a lot. I hope it produces before I retire :D)

To those who wish to raise chickens using the same methods as you, and many others as well, your land estimation is totally valid. However, in my planning for my future homestead it fails. There is one variable that you completely overlooked. I don't blame you for doing so. Every other youtuber I've seen regarding raising chickens does so too. The huge variable of which I speak is represented in your feed bucket. Suppose one prefers, as I do, to grow all of their chicken's feed and not rely on feed stores. How much land does your feed bucket represent? It did take up land somewhere. I've done a lot of reading and researching many different food sources for chickens and tried to determine how much land I need to grow their feed. And I'm expecting roughly an acre to grow everything I'd feed a self sustaining flock of 20 birds, which would provide me with meat and eggs. And that's not counting the actual land the flock occupies.

Very Interesting. Appreciate your insight!

TROY, Thanks for sharing all this information! I ain't no farmer, but you always have interesting stuff on your channel ! Thanks again!

Hello from Putnam co.,! I love our WV hills!!

Great information as always. Edible acres is definitely a good channel. I was thinking about using poultry/duclks behind pigs and or goats to help keep flies under control.

I gotta dm you somehow. I'm coming to WV, north of you, and I'm ready to model many portions of your homestead. Good teacher, 'ppreciate you.

I’m on 20 acres and can’t get anything done because I’m on the porch watching your channel. Hah

As always great info, thanks a bunch, God Bless!

I really like the idea of running the manure downhill to a compost/collection area.

Is it possible to run some kind of commercial aerator on the land after or before each use so , it would leave a 2" 4" duvet in the ground for the pool to get a head start decomposing

E T is back, lol.

What was the names of the 2 chicken tractor types?

How much land do you think you would need if you weren’t supplementing feed ?

Do you ever have back trouble? I was curious how those suspenders were for your back.

What if the pigs tilled the ground for you?

And if you do it in the city, you need to consider how many rats you want to deal with. Bird feeders, Chicken feeders.

1 factor that not brought ? When harvesting a yrs worth of chicken do you have storage for amount and remember that need room for beef or pork One thing to raise yrs worth another to store it

You got plenty of pipeline you can run tractors on. Have you ever done that.