Grain-Free Chicken Raising: How to Save Big and Keep It Natural!

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There are ingenious techniques to raise chickens without relying on expensive grain. In this video, Curtis Stone delves into the secrets of raising chickens the cheap and natural way. Discover sustainable alternatives to grain feeding that will save you money while providing your flock with a healthier and more nutritious diet!
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About Curtis Stone:
Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
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[@pauliewalnuts4351]

video starts at 1:18

[@ThePeasantsDaughter]

Awesome video. My family in Croatia raise poultry without grains/special feed. There is no money for buying that stuff and no room to grow supplemental grains. Instead, they have access to the compost pile, whatever else they can forage (like lizards), but also their own little kale and lettuce gardens that are planted for them and cheap to do so.

[@jonb8000]

He does get a lot of external food waste trucked in for them, so you would need to see that into account if you wanted to emulate this.

[@LoganberryForest]

exactly. I've never seen this sucessfully done with decent egg production without being integrated with a commercial facility. Its a nice side benefit for the composting facility but for someone trying to do both composting and keeping chickens on a small scale within a closed system it just doesn't seem that doable. Probably easier for meat chickens. Geoff Lawnton on his farm has found that same - they reduce the amount of chicken feed required with compost and get the chickens to help do the compost turnover but they are still fed grain.

[@terraint3697]

Soldier Fly Larvae Bin is the best thing we've ever done.

[@regenerativeagriculture]

I think I’ll make a video response soon to clarify some things...

[@derschafer4200]

I would be interested in this. I'm looking to raise a flock of several hundred off the resources of my land alone

[@redfoxone3674]

@@derschafer4200 Here is the video response: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aabGeoWwdtyNhJY

[@saintelijahsfarm]

One of my favorite KZbinrs vlogs a video on one of my favorite animals. I think I died and went to heaven XD Thank you so much for putting this out!!! Karl Hammer is an awesome dude!!!

[@BonnieBlue2A]

Signed up for your 5 week micro greens online course. Looking forward to it.

[@patrickgrimes8964]

Vermont has very cold, long winters and it's amazing he is able to sustain 800 chickens on compost only. I wonder if he has had any trouble with Monsantos Roundup in his compost piles. I have heard it pollutes ground for years but maybe compost destroys it, I hope.

[@RoseThistleArtworks]

I love that photo bomb Muscovy Duck on a stump. Well done, duck, well done.

[@Rm-ks8gg]

Exactly what I want to do! Natural feeding Thanks

[@shaibuvictor2984]

What's you percentage lay?

[@Interestingworld4567]

You can give to ducks chicks, turkeys, etz CORN as long as is 100% ORGANIC. No that conventional poisonous GMO corn that they sell everywhere here in the usa.

[@HansQuistorff]

I want chickens for garden cultivation. An occasional egg is desirable but not urgent. so I keep asking around for retired laying hens; usually get them free. I give them a scoop of soaked wheat in the evening when I move them to fresh ground to make sure they sleep with a full crop. they always plant some so the next summer they get what they planted.

[@justingilbert4778]

Thanks a lot!

[@gregorytoddsmith9744]

At 0:23 the chicken disappears. 😳 Time traveled!!🐔

[@phoenixrising323susanburnl8]

Lol...true 😊

[@twinboymomma]

About to have chickens & quails 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻

[@vaasuc6465]

It was very nice 😊

[@qualqui]

lol....exactly what they told Karl, "You can't do that" they told to my friend Paul in Thailand, ya see Paul wanted to raise his own catfish in tanks of water, of course he established a homemade filter system to filter the grudge from the water but his type of fish, the walking catfish doesn't need aeration in the water, they breathe just like us, from the air, 13 years later his project is a total success, if he'd a listened to the trolls saying "You can't do that", just think of all the fillet of catfish his wife and he would've missed out on!

[@muhammadkallouj5638]

How did your friend Paul achieve that? Thank you

[@qualqui]

@@muhammadkallouj5638 I guess just putting forth the effort, if you'd like to watch his videos, his channel here on KZbin is lifeinthailand.

[@p3ggz49]

SO COOL!!

[@OttawaOldFart]

There is a guy on KZbin that takes out wasps nests and what he does with the nests he captures chemical free is feed the larvae to his chickens. He puts the nest on the ground and they peck the grubs out of it.

[@andrewbeach1685]

What is the perennial at the beginning that he mentioned? I didn't catch it.

[@honkymonkey9568]

What does he feed them in the winter

[@steponroach]

New to chickens. when i put (cooked for now) hamburger meat out for the chicks, they go crazy. I cover with the chicken feed and they peck around it to get to the meat. I lay fruit and veg scraps, and they are thrown all over and around yet not one tiny bit of meat can be found at the end of the day. yeah, compost in process. just left the democity for the freecountry.

[@jeffersontbraga]

So do they purely forage for their food? Or does he just drop tons of 2nd or 3rd grade crop in that area?

[@TheSilverlady1980]

My dads chicken pen was movable drag to a new spot ever week. Yes compost worms crickets bugs etc. there are rooster collars to stop the cock crowing if your in town near town.

[@AnOhioPatriot]

What about Raptors ? We have Hawks and Great Horned Owls? Can't let'em run loose ?

[@yotagerlie]

Love Jerusalem artichoke tubers

[@ideoformsun5806]

I like your hat.

[@bantiechick2966]

Where do the birds lay their eggs?

[@WISSPORTS16]

Where's the rest of the video bro? :)

[@jdbjoshua]

On the member site, Curtis gave directions to that in the video

[@selfreliantb2363]

I just realized my notifications are turned off SOAB

[@droptozro]

Now I just need someone to dump compost. And this wouldn't be considered organic most likely due to the dump from what I remember him saying years back since they get it from schools. But I would love to get away from grain. I heavily limit the amount of grain I give my chickens but they're still heavily picky eaters when I throw them specific garden leftovers.

[@Andy_Holmes]

How about fodder or fly larvae?

[@droptozro]

@@Andy_Holmes I've used dead animals in drilled out 5 gallon buckets for maggots to feed, but that's not a constant thing.

[@whatthefunction9140]

how did it smell?

[@pokeweed10k15]

With enough dry carbon(straw, wood chips, etc)on the floor chickens have almost zero smell. Same applies to compost

[@yahwehsonren]

Eli Johnson thank you

[@Jkirk3279]

Has he considered building ten smaller bird houses on skids? Or directly on farm wagons so they can be rotated into fields with cattle?

[@MistressOP]

not sure there's a point to this. you need to watch a longer karl video. The birds are basically compost birds. There system fuction is to eat waste and bugs. They get feed tip pickled waste. then the birds turn the pile for them. mix it around. they get full chicken diet from the pile.

[@thesilence6543]

that would be less effective then what he is doing right now , tractoring chickens on really good paddocks will only cover at beast 50% of their food intake. paul hammers compost deal is 100%

[@thesilence6543]

@Goetmhmiac fairchild wtf you can't feed your birds kitchen scraps in the UK ? i thought being stuck in the EU was bad holy

[@Jubijish]

Usually I like your videos but this could have been a 20-30 second clip and given the same information.

[@offgridcurtisstone]

Cry me a river ;)

[@jamesfarr5341]

I wonder if this guy knows the alexanders or the farrs #grandsolarminimum #billitary #jimminycrypto

[@janetnorris2255]

Didn’t give any info...... aside from Jerusalem artichokes and compost

[@Denkono]

I see good in depth content on structing a farm and techniques for crop growing, however raising animals for slaughter is very concerning so I ask: What is true of trait-equalized animals that if true of trait equalized humans would justify the slaughter of those humans for a meal?

[@janetcalvert3959]

Denkono, you are only able to ask such a thing because God allows humans to cosume animals when necessary.

[@philippelacaille4382]

I didn't knew that Fidel Castro was raising chickens!

[@shabanafelix449]

😂😂😂

[@thefamily2707]

Chickens dont naturally eat “grain” 😂 thanks for exposing

[@b-rad3937]

He needs a doctor because that breathing dosent sound to good

[@BrianBerriosOne]

"Raising Chickens Without Grain!" 3:10 cut away the evidence

[@demcomp]

However, in the middle of this climate crisis, do we really want to add MORE domesticated animals in this world? I mean, we have 70+ Billion worldwide already and are growing food to FEED those animals (with less than an 18% calorie return).. I just find it incredibly wasteful to grow food for an animal, when we could just grow food for ourselves instead, no?

[@timothydoyle373]

How do you grow your own food? Is your food production system better? I doubt you do. Most critics of people who grow food are people who never have grown food. Im not a pro athlete but if I was a quarterback in the super bowl I would throw a touchdown on every play. Idealism is easy, reality is tough.

[@chrislangdell117]

The animals being raised are not the problem. The way it is done on an industrial scale is the problem. Animals can be raised in perfect harmony with nature. Supporting and even improving the entire eco system. Its Called regenerative agriculture. When done properly with a few simple systems in place It copies mother natures patterns. It actually heals the earth. It builds back the top soil. Yes I said builds topsoil. Its really simple. Low to no Carbon footprint and 98% of farming this way does not require industrial machines. Unless your making 100 yards of your own compost each year. I have seen examples that build over 8 inches of topsoil in a 3 year period. Lush green fields in record breaking droughts and even in the middle of deserts all over the world. Overfarming an area and destruction of soils is all you get from industrial farming. You just need to do a little research and the things you can find are amazing.

[@eieio-mn9pm]

There is no climate crisis ....youve been duped

[@GreysonChanceWolfLuv]

The animals droppings are wonderful for fertilizing food. Also, chickens help keep the bugs down that would otherwise end up eating your crops and destroying them. It would be better if more people raised their own animals so we could get rid of industrial farming which is ruining the environment with the amount of crops and land that is used to farm and feed them

[@horaciogonzalez4070]

Chris Langdell but people are so sheep like they always prefer quantity then quality. Just to save 2 bucks more.