Chickens & Compost: How to feed chickens without grains, and making compost at the same time!

In this video, learn how to feed chickens without grains and make compost at the same time! This sustainable method not only benefits your feathered friends, but also creates nutrient-rich compost for your garden. Watch now to discover this eco-friendly approach to chicken care.
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[@krzysztofrudnicki5841]

I collected fallen leaves from neighbours and made a big pile inside my chicken pen. Before winter I also added chicken bedding with manure. In winter compost heap was hot inside, and when I turned it every other day or so, there were living worms. I also added soaked wheat the compost, so my chickens ate sprouts, worms, kitchen scraps, and cooked potatoes.

[@Great_Wilbert]

Great video!

[@1voluntaryist]

I have been composting since 1955 without stink. I used lots of greenery, e.g., grass clippings. My piles finished in 2 weeks if turned every 3 days, minimum. Chickens get more out of grain if sprouted.

[@SGM97B]

Those were fly maggots, not worms. But chickens eat them too.

[@FreeTea4Me]

yeah, black soldier flies are beasts for composting and chickens.

[@John-pk8lr]

Black soldier fly larva are my best friends for compost and chicken feed. House flies, blow flies etc and the resulting maggots are not. Regular flies love laying on rotten meat and the like. BSF will also but in my experience they definitely prefer a 'clean' environment. A plus is that BSFL will eat regular maggots if they show up. End of the day chickens don't care if it's either or both. They will eat anything including each other if given the chance.

[@HolyFamilyHomesteadWV]

What I cant give to the chickens or traditional compost is going in the black soldier fly bins. Then my chickens get the larvae. I’m just not sure how to manage during the winter when BSF aren’t active.

[@HolyFamilyHomesteadWV]

And be careful hauling waste from grain eating animals. Some hay/straw producers use an herbicide that won’t break down for YEARS. So it could basically sterilize tour garden for up to 5 years if you add it to your compost and that compost is applied to your garden.

[@keylanoslokj1806]

How do you get, reproduce, and insert the earthworms? Can it even happen sustainably?

[@kurtdowney1489]

I saw a guy feed his chickens beans cooked for 24 hours and macaroni pasta for winter months and claims they kept up egg production

[@jjbryan11]

But was it good for the chickens?

[@kurtdowney1489]

@@jjbryan11 IDK but they looked healthy and he claimed they kept up on egg production in the winter. This was when people claimed the feed was tainted and it was cheaper than the feed.

[@sunbeltliving]

Single stomached animals eating corn/soy cannot break them down, passing these harmful inflammatory oils down to us who eat them (chicken, pork). We eat pastured eggs as much as possible or the meat of multi stomached animals (beef, venison, elk, bison, goat, lamb).

[@supereight9221]

Chicken carcasses flying off launch pad

[@sweaterdoll]

First of all, I can't believe anyone makes enough kitchen waste to keep a compost pile going for chickens. We just don't throw out that much food. We eat our food. And our schools and restaurants won't give anyone their food waste. "Liability" and in the case of the schools, the waste belongs to the USDA and my kitchen lady friends at the schools are afraid of losing their jobs if they give it away. Second of all, I'm having a heck of a time keeping a warm, not even hot, compost pile going for the chickens. They eat every bit of what I throw on top of it. They don't scratch it in, and turn the pile and it ends up freezing. If I turn it, then any warm inside freezes. And this is in a corner of a pen that we wrapped in plastic for winter. How on earth do I keep a compost pile going for the chickens if it just turns into cold soil?

[@sewnonny2721]

There is no warning on this video

[@edlecomte3695]

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