Chicken Run Greens Experiment - More Explorations!

[@bearnaff9387]

It's so... edifying to watch you work. There is a mindset that you see in certain kinds of people. Some fiction writers have it for ideas and facts, Makers have it for skills and engineering knowledge, and then there's you. You have, in your mind, a giant model of your soil and your animals and all the plants you work with. It's there, implicit and watching, and it's constantly ready to recombine the things it knows to be true to direct you towards right action for the circumstances. If you were into computing and information systems, you would make an excellent computer security hacker and would be a real power-house when it comes to helping developers make secure software. But, you're a farmer, so you have the interactions of countless living things and their environment ticking over in the back of your head. It's beautiful to watch.

[@dfeak2622]

I threw a pile of hay in the coop and said you girls can make your own bed. When I got home, it was perfectly laid out. 😃🐓❤🤗

[@NHamel123]

Same but with pine shavings

[@FastGardeningMichigan]

I love these videos. Keep them coming. Your channel is my favorite. You are a permaculture inspiration

[@ponypetedm]

I’ve been using access seed collected last year lettuce, basil, parsley, carrots ecs leaning a grill from a fridge or old BBQ against a fence in their run throw a handful of seeds behind it add a cover of semi ready compost which contains its own seeds as well now they have pockets of green around the outskirts of their run that they can peck through but not dig up.

[@theallotmentkitchengarden3694]

I had a couple of parsnips go mouldy so I roughly planted them back in January and they are looking lovely right now, despite getting nibbled by wildlife over winter - not good for chickens but I will leave them to flower and seed, they are beautiful statement plants when left to flower and pollinators love them 👍

[@gillsmoke]

Love the ladies following you,, "What are you doing back here giant friend? What treats are you exposing for us?"

[@flatsville9343]

Consider growing lovage from seed or divided root transplants & adjusting the height of the 2×4 in wire to allow the hens to eat the tops as they grow through. It's a hardy perennial, so if you can keep the hens from the roots, it will come back every year. Super easy.

[@allonesame6467]

Animals can contribute so much energy and work into a system if allowed, or we can see the pattern and merge our efforts and patterns with theirs, the result can be so much more than we might imagine! Love what you do and share! Thank you!

[@PhenoDaddy]

So beautiful watching your Army of Feathered Workers. Is it wrong I kind of wish I was one of your hens? They are so, so well looked after.

[@myenchantedlife5262]

I love your fun and experimental brain 💜

[@christineortmann359]

It will be fun to see the outcome.

[@sploit_hashtag_100]

I'm rotating my chickens over pasture right now and have a nice pile of compost waiting for them in their coop for when they're done working the field.

[@BeFree-BeFrugal]

Love chicken tv…so relaxing

[@GrowCookPreserveWithKellyDawn]

You have very lucky chickens!

[@tinyapothecarykitchen]

I'm trying a very basic experiment where I threw some seed down in the chicken yard, watered it in and covered it with a kiddie pool. I lifted it up the other day to check it and the seeds are sprouting under there. Hoping to keep that rotating around so my chickens always have something green to peck. 🤞

[@racebiketuner]

Looking forward to the follow up.

[@julie-annepineau4022]

Chicken are so much help, lol. I spend so much time waiting for someone to move when I am adding fertility in. Give me joy and an understanding of why children are not for me! Great experiment. looking forward to seeing the results.

[@edibleacres]

We'll have to see how it unfolds!

[@peterellis4262]

If it's ridiculous and it works - it's not ridiculous ;) I'm loving these experiments.

[@peterellis4262]

They can. I just took the green tops off a bag of store bought carrots I was prepping for tonight's dinner and stuck them into some unseeded cells in my seed flats. If they root, I'll plant them out into the garden.

[@almostoily7541]

I cut the tops off turnips and replant. They bolt and send up a flower stalk for the pollinators and I usually get a few seeds to replant. I'm sure carrots, parsnips and other biennial roots would be the same.

[@Daisy-Hey-Hello]

Your chickens look very healthy. Do you do anything special to prevent red mite or other lice?

[@sharonknorr1106]

Love me a garden experiment..............

[@niamhfox9559]

With our chooks we had pots with weeds and grass we dragged in to be cleaned out. I'd like to try a small wire arch to keep the girls off but let things grow under, looks like a good idea.

[@catsplitter]

Mow a yard and catch the cuttings and start a pile of grass cuttings and it will produce food for them besides the grass itself.

[@johnshawngrubb4675]

More great ideas! Question: how does the water flow through your compost/yard design? In other words, does the water follow your slope through the chicken yard? i’m thinking to start the compost (where the natural flow of the water comes in) at the top of slope with different bays for compost finishing, pass through the chicken yard, then through a high tunnel on its way to the pond at the bottom of the slope. How would you incorporate the inflow of water (sometimes massive) through the system?

[@cliffpalermo]

Worlds largest worm bin:) a new record!

[@misterdubity3073]

Curious to find out how it works

[@trumpetingangel]

So many helpers! ♥

[@edibleacres]

They are really a delight :)

[@claytonleal7947]

excited to see the followup on this!

[@higheriam]

A log would grow in that soil. 🌱

[@mattmackewich9699]

Going to try that. Thanks for making this vid.

[@GrowWithGordon.JamesPanyan]

Really cool project...the carrots will re-grow??

[@debbiewood7718]

Carrots are biannual. They produce seed on top in their second year of life.

[@Grow-all-year]

Like the "experiment" statement. Im always trying different things

[@flatsville9343]

There's some real potential & merit in using the old 2×4 wire to keep the hens off the planted area. I can see using several wire sections to rotate a growing covercrop blend feast. Just strow out the seeds, rake in, tamp down & water in. Replace wire. Let grow to a few or several inches tall. Replanting weeds or iffy veg seems a bit fussy...and this bending over crap must stop. Trust me. You'll understand in a few years.

[@DragonKnightRyue]

I'm interested what you're filming with and what you use to cut and put together the clips you take, do you see yourself upgrading to 2k or 4k video anytime soon?

[@sixeses]

Chickens enjoying Sean TV

[@rochellegarcia4849]

you can sprout chicken scratch ❤

[@jillolds4162]

During one of the accelerated footage moments, a vehicle went by as you were walking!!

[@MyBearhugger]

Awesome!

[@lucschoonen]

red russian kale would probably work, grows like a weed

[@ronk4073]

lol, those carrots are fine. peel/cut off the bad bits and they are ok to eat. same with the turnips. the amount of food waste in the USA is ridiculous.

[@Mark_Linford]

🙂

[@jackowen6929]

first, love your channel

[@LahiriTube]

Genius

[@Tri2Bhipp]

I’m a fanboy.

[@gilichu]

No one wants premadonna chickens!