In this video I show some chicken coop updates and how to use fresh chicken manure in your garden or fruit orchard. 5 qt over the fence feeder: amzn.to/2VX8iia Check out our Amazon store and help support our channel www.amazon.com...
Last fall I moved a 3 yr old pecan tree to a new location in my yard because it was too close to power lines. I have kept watching it this spring and no signs of life even though my other 2 pecan trees had already budded out. After seeing this video about using fresh chicken manure I thought what could it hurt. Maybe I could shock it out of it's dormant state. Two days after using the fresh chicken manure I saw the first signs of a little green budding out. I think it will survive. Thanks for the post!
Good information! I keep all my old "Lowes" buckets, they are junk and crack after about 4 months. But the cracked buckets are great to keep manure in. I put them in areas of my garden. Fill with water, let them leak out, move them to the next set of plants. No mixing, no time, great plants!
These must be the happiest chickens in the world. I'll bet their eggs taste great. No stress = happy chickens and extremely tasty food. You look after them like they are your kids and that says a lot about you my friend. Animal welfare should be top priority for anyone who keeps them but unfortunately not all people care. Take a bow my friend, you are a top bloke. Thanks for the information. I will use my pigeon manure just like you have used your chicken manure. Greetings from Scotland.
@@greg80331He! He! He! It'll taste just like those cheap battery hens eggs, you know the wishy washy, peely wally ones where the hens are in a tiny cage and definitely not happy. Have you ever tasted a smallholders freshly culled guaranteed free range chicken that has had access to fresh greens and good quality feed and spent it's life as free as possible without endangering its life? The welfare of our domestic animals or any creature for that matter is of top priority and not just to benefit them as it also benefits us greatly. You are what you eat! Happy munching my friend.
Pete, I’d call the mixture “manure tea”. The chickens are looking great! You have done an excellent job with the infrastructure on the farm/homestead. I always look forward to your videos.
My tangerine tree sat there fruitless and about 3ft tall for several years. After pouring this brew around, it took off and immediately started producing. :)
Love your videos. I was told from an old farmer that oyster shell is good for the shell of the egg too. Love your fur babies, my favorite breed for sure. My Gretchen was my pride and joy, she been gone over 28 yrs. best dog ever...
We always used a golf ball to keep in the nest which stimulated the hens to use the nest box vs a random corner or spot on the ground to lay eggs. Also, it you want to get a hen broody just put a few golfballs in a nest box and leave them. Eventually one of the hen’s maternal instincts will kick in and she’ll claim the nest and try to hatch whatever she’s settin on. It’s an instinctual trait. If you have a rooster in the pen he’ll breed with the hens and their eggs will be fertilized. Then if you want to propagate your flock you can let a bunch of eggs accumulate and one of the motherly hens will go broody and hatch the eggs. You can add more fertilized eggs and she’ll keep setting until all the eggs hatch out. Sometimes hens go broody and if the eggs aren’t fertilized they won’t hatch so eventually the hen gives up and goes off brood. By then the eggs are rotten inside so be careful you don’t break one - they stink something terrible! (They’re the ones to throw at people you don’t like - ha ha😂
I can think of some targets immediately!! Haha. Love the golf ball tip. My grandma used porcelain eggs. I don’t have any readily available. But Golf balls??? A ton!!!
You should wear a mask when cleaning up manure. It’s contains pathogens (histoplasma capsulatum) that cause histoplasmosis, a lung disease that will be dormant in your lung until you get old and the it will become active, especially if you get stressed. It can be fatal if left untreated.
Don`t put the mixture so close to the tree,itself,keep it to the outer rim of your chipped bark circle ,this will make the feeder roots spread out more making the tree root system stronger and also feeds the micro elements in the soil
@@Samuel-ik5wp It's not going to hurt anything if you put it close to the tree a few times, especially when the tree is young. But overall I agree that is better to feed out around the tree so the roots spread out.
I was looking for videos that used chicken poop for fertilizer and chose yours. I'm really impressed with your chicken coop and layout. I'm subscribing to your channel. Thanks for the information 👍.
Great chicken coop we just purchased a shed and plan on modifying it to make our roosting. Scooper reminds me of cleaning up kitty 🐱 poop...great ideas and above ground composting great ideas ✊🏾❤️❤️❤️✊🏾.
Hi Pete any time you feel like popping over to England I'm in need of a new coop your chickens look great and if people think your crule they should take a look at more things on utube, keep it up from one mad chicken lover to another
Shereen Lawford; some folks just like to troll and play the smart alec. When you check closely, they're the ones who got noth'n going on.. Pete B. is doing great! Cheers.
@@joan-lisa-smith @Jo Pearson you planning on eating the chicken manure or rolling around naked in it? Probably not huh... So the chances of getting salmonella from a natural organic fertilizer is close to none. You're most likely to get that from cross contamination or eating raw chicken. As the person above previously stated... Been using chicken manure for 20 years! If people worry about bacteria in compost or manure or gardening itself and getting dirty... Then maybe gardening isn't for ya!
Great information, thank you for sharing. I have composted chicken manure and then wondered if if was still too hot. I have ruined radishes and carrots. Now I know why. God bless America.
If you let your chickens free range for at least part of the day, they can get the weeds on their own. Also they eat bugs and grubs which also makes the eggs highly nutritious. They will return to the coop on their own in the evening. Or you can train them to come running by giving them a treat in the run. I give my chickens raw organic sunflower seeds for a treat and they go crazy - that is also good for adding Omega 3 to your egg yolks. They come flying from all over the place for those seeds. Thats a good way to get them back in the run. We have trained our dogs to hang with the chickens and keep guard over them in a pretty large back yard. The chickens jump the fence and leave the back yard for further exploration throughout the day. I have 19 chickens and have not lost any to a coyote or hawk because they know dogs are around, Your area has lots of trees which is also good. I love how you arranged your roosting post over a platform for poop collecting. Great video ! I am a fellow Texan in Mckinney TX (DFW area)
Very nice and helpful! I've learned a lot from your video. I didn't know that fresh chicken manure can right away be used to nourish fruit bearing trees. We will do the same to our young fruit bearing trees. Thank you so much! 😊Gem from Phils
Beautiful coop and fantastic wood work! Really inspirational. Just a quickie, I have heard that it is better to ferment the manure mixture and sit it for about to weeks after the foam gathers on top and then pour it into the ground. What do you think about it?
My momma was just telling me about this! 💞 I don't have sand in my coop it's all wood chips. But we are still gonna try! I'm gonna save her some for her gardens and I have root crops in almost every veggy bed so I'm just gonna try on my fruit trees and bushes this year! 💞
I did this but I put hinges on my roosting bars where they meet the wall. I put 2 clips in the bottom of the roosting bars so I can clip the roosting bars to the ceiling where I put 2 eyelet screws. Makes life way easier to have the roosting bars out of the way when cleaning
I’ve raised chickens for about 20 years. I have only bought oyster shells once. When I first started out. One thing I’ve learned, it you use a good quality layer feed, you don’t need anything else. We have never had a single issue with egg shells being soft or anything else. Just my 2 cents, take it or leave it.
We used to do the eggshell thing too, because hey, it’s free. But again, we just haven’t had any issues. I guess if times got tough and I had to buy cheap feed, then we would do eggshells again.
My Grandparents and later my parents had a chicken house and kept about fifty layers at anyone Time the roost area was about 8 x 16 feet the area under the roost had a sloped floor And was raised about the height of a wheel barrel at lowest point against back wall of the house. Where the doors were. You raised the door and took a rake and pulled the manure down from the inside sloped floor under the roost right into the wheelbarrow and then to the garden compost pile. A wheelbarrow full of manure will will shrink to about 10 percent volume after composting.
I wish I still had 14 hens I’m down to 10 it’s been around 2 years since I’ve had them I’ve lost 2 to predators and 2 to illness I’m pretty sure. I was also getting around 11-14 eggs in there peak of production. Great video btw.
If you plant a tree, you should be planting a 3 inch PVC pipe with holes drilled in it as well. Leave a few inches above ground and cap it. When you water your trees, uncap the PVC and pour in your slurry, water, liquid fertilizer, medicines, whatever. It should not be right at the root ball. Putting one on each side of the tree would work too. This method will conserve a lot more water, and will allow the tree to get more water to the roots. Yes, eventually the trees will crush the pvc pipe, but by that time, you won't be watering it often or at all.
@@swbuckmaster that’s exactly what this is for but applies it directly to the roots. I move outward as the tree grows if i want more root growth. The point is to not water the surface. Where I’m from, I’ve it’s established, the tree can get all the water it wants. My other property in the mountains, i would have to water it for a longer period of time since the soil and annual rainfall is totally different.
Very nice video. I came across this because I have chickens and want to use poop soup for my dragonfruit plants. I like to use artificial grass in my nesting boxes as it's super easy to clean.
Your coop is great glad you shared. I am going to modify the roost, incorporate the sand and kitty letter scoop and most of all I love that feeder, I think you said you built it. Again thanks for sharing.
I am here in Missouri I was planning on using fresh chicken poop to put in the garden and then till it under before planting I've been worrying about the chicken poop being too hot I have a 30 by 30 Garden I'm trying to cover thanks for the video
Also is awesome for breaking down hay bales for planting. But I would mix it stronger for that. Maybe 4 to 1 to start the breaking down of the hay. Should be an awesome way to get compost piles heating up and breaking down.
vinyl tile there landing works alot better than sand also 10 pounds of grit mixed in with 50 of feed workss great and you know they are getting there grit
Your hen coop and the fencing around your orchard are really enviable. It looks great and all thriving so nicely. I will use my chicken poop like you said. Thank you.
You could have some sort of thick mulch and replace it less often. Straw or woodchips. What about a tray that could slide out and dump instead of sifting? I mean, do what works - you've got a system. Just seemed to take awhile. Nice coop, you've built and nice fully enclosed area. Nice if you can tractor them too - if you want them to weed a garden, say, or work on some lawn or something.
Should make a screen and frame to go over the whole base. Shimmy it into the sand and shimmy as you bring it up to get it all at once. Thanks for the screening idea though it will be the next thing I do
Top video thanks for sharing mate.When I was young 10 I had chickens 🐓 very good with eggs 🥚 did like when dad killed them for meat now I am an old man 68 I would love to get some chickens again. Like your yard mate
Exelent video. I use a technique similar to yours, important to add the reason why shoul not be espreaded on the the fruits, because the bacteria that cause salmonella. But is importan to add that the fruits we harvest from our trees and vegetables are the most delicious you ever tasted!!!!! Awesome video brother!!!
🅲🅰🅻🅲🅸🆄🅼 - so oyster shell are simple and convenient to buy but if your looking for a SUSTAINING way to get calcium for shell/bone strength... literally as you use your eggs set the shells to the side... fill a bowl with warm/hot water and sit for 5 mins... then you can easily peel the membrane out of the shell. this is important to do because leaving the membrane in will result in catabolism (BAD) then once the membrane is out simple crack the shells very fine and bake for 20 mins at 450 degrees. after that simply throw the shells out inside the pen or a bowl for them. rinse n repeat....
I use sweet pdz instead of sand in the same way. The pdz absorbs ammonia and lowers the nitrogen release rate during composting. Basically, I take and mix with the wood shavings from the nesting boxes and it goes into my garden after sitting for a month or so.
I would start a compost pile with leaves, grass clippings and anything else from around the house and garden and mix in the chicken manure in the compost pile and let it compost for 6 months or longer and you'll have a wonderful compost to add to your garden.
