Chicken Composting Ideas - Sticks and Stones can make great homes!

[@yLeprechaun]

Let's take a vote; I vote that shirt becomes the official Edible Acres uniform! Anyone second that? That's a cool shirt!

[@acsoul1]

It looks like a Four Direction batik shirt!

[@doublepenn5732]

Trump

[@edibleacres]

Sasha has collected a pretty robust number of tye die and batik shirts that I can wear, we may want to see em all before committing :)

[@Gabi-lt4mx]

​@@doublepenn5732 is dump?!

[@yLeprechaun]

@@edibleacres, I can value to that. :)

[@g.eeducation251]

So cute seeing the baby shake the hay.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

Copying mum! Babies make it all worth while.... then they grow up into resentful teens! Urgh, I cringe when I think of some of my teenage antics.

[@awakenacres]

Sasha is one strong momma! And Zelda is so adorable!

[@edibleacres]

She really is and we think so too :)

[@PhenoDaddy]

Your Family is so beautiful. Straw tastes yum Dad! haha

[@ryanmkeisling9089]

That compost looks happy. I think its so cool that Zelda gets to participate in her own way...

[@edibleacres]

She is really integrated into this system now

[@HoboGardenerBen]

It just feels right for kids to grow up in fertile gardens like this :)

[@edibleacres]

It seems incredibly healthy

[@HoboGardenerBen]

@@edibleacres Zelda is likely going to be powerhouse of garden knowledge without even having to try to learn, it's just her life. Great name choice too :)

[@BroadShouldersFarm]

OhMyGahd! Zelda helping Sasha to fill the nest boxes is pure joy. ❤❤❤

[@kcmgfarm2389]

She's growing so fast, beautiful Zelda

[@williambronson2935]

I attach fencing to bicycle wheels, forming a cylinder, with a spoked wheel at the bottom and a spokeless one up top. I mostly use mine for raised beds, but thy are filled with very similar material, and I grow in a central "core" of finished compost.

[@edibleacres]

Sounds like a great idea!

[@robyn147]

Bricks sticks and bones sounds like a bad 90's boyband lol. Love the content as always =)

[@edibleacres]

Ha! Arch nemesis band to Bones Thugs and Harmony perhaps?

[@robyn147]

@@edibleacres LOL Hey don't make me laugh out loud at work!

[@daiblaze1396]

I thought I've heard Zelda in the background. Was happy to see her simply enjoying being there with you two. They grow so fast. I guess it's about time to get this system like yours going. If I remember well my daughter was 2 years and she's almost 5...

[@hollydimig3998]

Looks like you’ve gotten a nice system going. Now I’m gonna go back and search out all your other chicken composting videos, and sprouting videos. Well done!

[@edibleacres]

Enjoy!

[@alison3276]

Lovely, interesting catch up :) Thank you

[@edibleacres]

Thank you too!

[@11UncleBooker22]

You know, FIRST. Good stuff, thanks.

[@edibleacres]

Hello first!

[@barrypetejr5655]

Love this , Zelda learning chicken chores young 😊

[@Cringeosaurus]

Do the bones turn to charcoal in a normal biochar pit? Never really thought about doing this, but I'm intrigued. Thanks for the inspiration ✨️

[@edibleacres]

We set them aside to dry out and then put them into our charcoal making retorts in our wood stove (search biochar in our video lists to see some videos on the woodstove technique if interested)

[@Gabi-lt4mx]

It works. I did it in my oven. Clean and dry.

[@trumpetingangel]

Great face Zelda made when surprised by the hay in her mouth!

[@allonesame6467]

Awesome Family!

[@ponypetedm]

I had some black rubberized dustbins that I had been attempting to grow potatoes in (failing miserably) I’ve started using them around the chickens run as rapid start to the composting system usually filled when I clean out a coup and add the household vegetable scraps to it, leave for at least a couple of weeks and empty into the run for them, full of worms and good stuff. It’s usually destroyed within a couple of hours. 😂love the shirt! ❤

[@edibleacres]

Nice idea on the mobile compost bin idea to load and dump. Glad you like the shirt :)

[@LittleZephyrFarm]

A great video, I picked up a few tips that I’ll implement in my system, thanks Chris

[@edibleacres]

Wonderful!

[@thatguychris5654]

That kid is going to have the strongest immune system imaginable! 👍

[@edibleacres]

Yeah, it'll be robust to be sure!

[@CharleyCarlson]

I move our chicken pins around every couple of months. This makes for a good garden every year.

[@edibleacres]

So great!

[@allysonvollmer7223]

I learn visually, and I really really really appreciate videos like this. Just wondering what the vermin pressure is like in this kind of a system I live in town and the rats and mice love a hot compost.

[@edibleacres]

It can be a pressure for sure, but it seems the predator pressure on them in our system balances things out nicely.

[@BackyardBerry]

@2:08 when you’re talking about caching the corn cobs to continue breaking down, on the fence row in the background I see what looks like bamboo canes or river cane or something hanging. Are you drying them for future use or do they serve a purpose there? Just something I noticed and thought “What’s going on there?” Thanks again Sean.

[@tcoxor52]

Pretty sure that is old miscanthus stalks. And looks like he’s just using it to start building a screened area around the fence.

[@VanderlyndenJengold]

Something is eating my sweetcorn - and everyone else's nearby - and everything we do fails. When I started growing sweetcorn 15 years ago this was not a problem. It's gotten really bad as the wildlife has learned to take it. I thought I'd cracked it by putting very prickly twigs around the cobs - seems even that won't stop the rats or squirrels now.

[@edibleacres]

The grasses are woven into the metal fence to create more visual barrier from anyone on the road as well as creating a sun trap that keeps fall through spring sun coming in reflected back into the compost and onto the hens. The light color is a great reflector and hider too!

[@BackyardBerry]

@@edibleacres awesome! Thanks.

[@Dirt-Fermer]

@@VanderlyndenJengold amaranth mixed with it? Grasshoppers might be more aggressive eaters with everything else being poisoned

[@frankiethefish73]

This gentleman reminds me of Beavis and Butthead's teacher, Mr. Van Driessen. Love the channel BTW.

[@summerhill_homestead]

So good! I just love y’all!

[@Greengoblin0481]

Your chickens like to talk😂😂

[@edibleacres]

They really do

[@s.kusmeti]

It's because they are happy chickens. They spend their entire waking life excited by all the compost action around them and all the different food they can find. Foraging is what chickens live for. I'm so impressed by this system.

[@Mamaculture]

This is such a great idea! I'm also wondering if chickens would eat sprouts from wild grains/grasses/"weeds" that's already in our are just as well?

[@edibleacres]

I think that is a very reasonable thing to experiment with.

[@Mamaculture]

@edibleacres for some reason I've become very aware of the grasses around my environment this year, unfortunately just about all of them are coined invasive on my plant I'd app, always looking for a way to use the weeds since they are here anyways, but eventually I'd like to start cultivating indeginous grasses to my area.

[@rosemariewatkins1478]

Great tee shirt!

[@sweaterdoll]

Can you explain how to start a compost system for chickens? I have tried using a deer fence ring about 1 foot high. I've tried containing it in a pic inside 3 walls about 2 feet high using old baby gate. I throw shredded leaves, some composted soil, food scraps in and then it just keeps compacting and gets lower and lower even as I add things until the rain just washes it down to ground level. I can't seem to keep it growing. Plus I have a hard time with my back to turn it. Once the chickens get to it, how often do you turn it? After even a couple of days, it's so hard, I can't manage it. What do you actually give the chickens? Finished compost and dump good and seed on it? Piles of leaves and dump food on that? I've tried but can't figure it out. It all just compacts and runs off or they don't turn it and is just a pile of layered straw, leaves, and rotting food. Do you have a video on how to actually start a pile for chickens and the care of that pile the first month? Like a "compost-along" series. LOL If we give them an actual pile without boundaries, they flatten it completely before we can do anything about it. I have 13 hens.

[@hollybaker9907]

When you throw weeds in, do you care if their seeds get in the pile?

[@edibleacres]

We don't worry about that at all

[@hollybaker9907]

@@edibleacres awesome! Thank you for replying and making my life easier now 😀

[@lindaholmes6411]

❤❤❤

[@thefirstc.j.582]

Do you clip their wings so they dont fly over the fence?

[@edibleacres]

We do not

[@cherylbertolini3140]

is there any food that you don't put in the compost or weed??

[@edibleacres]

If we get a full bucket of coffee grounds, or onions, or oil, things like that, we tend to put them in a different composting pipeline

[@GRPermie]

Do you use any deodorizers for your coop/run? Barn Lime/Zeolite/Biochar?

[@edibleacres]

Biochar sometimes and we used to use lime but I've forgotten about it. Need to revisit that! With enough hay it hasn't been a problem though

[@josebarboza7313]

Tem que traduzir seus vídeos em português

[@JasonEntine]

Will Zelda take over chicken tv? She's so big now.

[@edibleacres]

We'll see, so many options of what she can get into, we're hoping she'll enjoy a lot of what we enjoy.

[@sfn4702]

:) ty!

[@edibleacres]

Of course!

[@michaeltanis314]

As much as I love your videos, I can’t watch them! My dog hears your chickens and freaks out and races to the back door to check on his hens.

[@edibleacres]

Thats sweet!

[@shimilangagardens]

Multi species mechanically engineered com(post) Capitalist workshop.

[@edibleacres]

Can't tell if there are more bots generating random words if you are cryptically trying to convey something?

[@bethberry320]

How do you keep rats out of your compost piles or how do you keep from increasing rat population in your area?

[@edibleacres]

We have a resident mink that seems to take care of the rats and somehow hasn't hurt the chickens. Maybe we're just lucky or maybe they are interested in being supportive :)

[@justincase18]

I want to be a chicken in my other life ..they eat and eat and don't get fat , lol