How to EASILY Make Your Own BONE MEAL! (Week 47)

[@LovinofftheLand]

Here is the update on our Facebook page facebook.com/102861001515665/posts/361645642303865/

[@DeanaESayles]

Are feeding the chicken chicken meat and making carnivore out of them????? Eating there own kind is not like eating bugs that is sick!

[@brittanyash8340]

Found you all from the exploring alternatives channel, and I'm so happy I did! Just left veganism after 7yrs and it took me that long to find a more balanced perspective on animal products and living more sustainably, for us, the animals, and the earth. My spouse and I will be joining the KZbin community within the next year, and I would love to meet other people doing similar things. I wish you all the best, and thanks a lot for sharing your experience. Can't wait to explore your channel more. 💖

[@reneevanlith3557]

I have binge watched all of your video since last night. I’m so intrigued with y’all’s story! Can y’all do a video daily? Lol

[@RicardoBravo]

It's great to be able to recycle without wasting anything! Great Job! Love your merchandising!

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks Ricardo ❤

[@vlera9095]

Wowww so interesting. It's the first time I see how to prepare the bone meal. Thanks a lot for sharing.

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks vlera

[@Ramiz422]

I started burying them in my garden beds without processing. I'll see if it works

[@amandadavis5367]

Out of curiosity, it's 8 months later since this comment, have you noticed any success or problems with other animals trying to access the bones?

[@sunnybizz4857]

why are there bones scattered all over the yard?

[@LivingHistorySchool]

You can save them till fall and burn them in your slash pile and You get bio char with bone meal. Also can use feathers. Feather meal

[@Inubaye.]

I cooked cow bones to make bonemeal but it's still as hard as stone despite cooking for over 8 hours. All the fat oil came out just like vegetable oil. What do I do to make the bones soft or do i go ahead to crush them and blend? Your response will be highly appreciated.

[@CreedmoorFury]

Much respect to you. This is already great content and Im not even finished watching. You are a credit to humanity. Not even joking about that. Stay blessed.

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks so much. Appreciate that very much. Glad you are enjoying following along

[@penrithomas115]

Just a thought would it be better to make a concentrated stock from the bones rather than giving them to chickens? Loving bone meal idea btw never occurred to me to make my own.

[@MrDawnHU]

Well for first glance it seems good but I think you are missing something....the key is: How much energy do I use to create something....entropy... If you create more CO2 and other emissions along the process than you get at the end, it's a waste.... I think if you want to create some fertilizers for plants, it's way more economical if you are just collect the manure of your animals or fallen leafs or mulch and put it to your plants. For bones, I think its best to leave them there for nature. However, nice video, and I am eager to see the results. Keep up!

[@LovinofftheLand]

Totally agree. We are hoping to be on solar by next year to make tasks like this even better. Fortunately we are in fairly clean energy already in BC where our power comes from hydro

[@MrDawnHU]

@@LovinofftheLand You are doing well! Sadly so many people are in a stucked state because they cannot afford to be greener, more self sustained including me and my wife....we want to install solar too but it isn't cheap...I hate this that the main barrier for sustainability is our socio-economic system itself named capitalism....but we have to try at least. I don't know if you read my previous comment on a previous video, I suggested to conserve food for winter. You can conserve even cooked food in jars so it's easier to eat varied at winter. Funny that you and your wife are so similar to us. We are at the same age and have a similar thinking and mindset. Keep up, I can't wait for the next video. :) Regards,

[@tiagobjesus]

You can still simply dry them in the sun and then hammer them into thin powder. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@kateritapia1812]

Was your blender ok after that? I'm scared to even do ice in mine.

[@rondachristy8048]

There has to be a way to do this in a pressure cooker

[@suzycowan5072]

I have looked through your vlogs to find the update on these tomato plants and can't seem to find them. Can you please tell me what week to look at so I can see how your experiment worked? Thank you

[@bonitadouglas5140]

You two are awesome!!! Amazing to see young people, without any previous experience doing all you are doing!

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks so much. It has been quite a challenge but we are really loving it.

[@Mo_Taser]

I wasn't sure your blender would survive that.

[@VOTE4TAJ]

I could not find update on tomatoes

[@virtuehealthcare]

Did you feed the chicken bones to the chickens raw?

[@tantalisinglabrat]

Should one feed chicken boneless to chickens? Kinder sounds like feeding beef products to beef that causes prion disease...

[@wildharma936]

Genius idea. Some think that bon meal is just a minecraft thing hahaha

[@LovinofftheLand]

Haha

[@rough-hewnhomestead5737]

New sub here! Loved watching your 1 year challenge. I think it's great that you're living more sustainably and using all parts of the animals that you butcher. We do similarly and I thought I'd mention how I incorporate our poultry bones into garden fertilizer: When I've cooked a chicken or turkey, then made bone broth from the bones, I put the spent bones, skin, etc. into our wood burning stove. We burn hard woods in it and use the ashes on the garden, so the bones end up in the ash. I haven't watched enough of your videos to know if you burn wood for heat, but it's an idea for incorporating the bone meal into wood ash. We've never dumped the butcher blood onto our garden, but we may just do that this late fall when we butcher our meat poultry. The garden will be finished by then, so it would work. God bless!

[@bethschultz2286]

I thought you COOK BONES FOR 12-48HRS. .20 MINUTES 🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@brandyburgess8267]

Can the bones be expired? My power went out for 4 days due to storm Helene and I don't know if the bones went bad. Can they still be used for making bone meal?

[@bethschultz2286]

The poor chickens just walking around their own dead😢

[@TruthAndLight4995]

I put a bucket under the culling cone to capture all blood, then add water to the bucket and pour the mixture around my fruit trees. 👍🏽

[@SilverSkyCloud]

How well does it work?

[@TruthAndLight4995]

@@SilverSkyCloud good & cheaper than buying Blood Meal fertilizer at the store

[@moneydozen]

Any updates on this?

[@DiscipleSteven]

I was also super worried about the blender haha. They might have a second hand blender just for blending up bones. I've never thought about what bone meal really was I guess but this is it basically. Maybe we should give this a try in our backyard garden!

[@LovinofftheLand]

Let us know if you give it a go. Just make sure the bones are baked enough and nice and brittle and in small pieces before going in the blender :)

[@ohvnaq]

love it! is the result video out? i searched the channel but couldn't find it

[@ThatBritishHomestead]

This is something I have always wanted to do for my garden! Thanks

[@williamburdis9225]

Where is the update?

[@LovinofftheLand]

Hey William, sorry we posted the update on our Facebook and you can find it here facebook.com/102861001515665/posts/361645642303865/

[@newmexicoluchalibre4149]

Have you tried to compost the scraps from butchering? Six weeks covered in green matter breaks down my chicken bones into great compost.

[@LovinofftheLand]

I havent no. Even the bones break down that fast?

[@newmexicoluchalibre4149]

@@LovinofftheLand they break pretty fast. Also have you ever grown sorghum?

[@cy8905]

What other options would there be for grinding the bones if you don't have a blender you can use?

[@LovinofftheLand]

It would take a lot more work but you could continue to do it manually with a hammer

[@mattsteele2078]

Wow. That's super cool. Thanks for sharing

[@thegreenviking1422]

Glad i found your channel.. Liked and subbed. will be following your progress as we are planning the same move in the near future. :)

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks so much and welcome to the channel!

[@imperpekto12ify]

Thats amazing!!!! Thank you for sharing!!!! ❤❤❤

[@JohnAmerisun]

Would love to see that update video on how they are doing! :-)

[@farmerfieldmouse3098]

Thank you so much for posting this! What a great idea, will definitely be trying this. Can’t wait to see the follow up video to see how the tomatoes did.

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks for the message. Let us know how it works out. We'll probably do a video update in about a month. We'll also post regular photo updates on our Instagram/Facebook as well

[@farmerfieldmouse3098]

@@LovinofftheLand oh perfect, we will definitely follow along on Facebook! thank you 😊 Would love to see how you grow and harvest your wheat! Thought that was really neat that you were growing your own grain and I’m sure the chickens really enjoy it to.

[@gavinh1449]

How did the experiment go?

[@joannak4640]

Good idea but I'd prefer a video update on the gardens and chickens 😁❤️😁

[@LovinofftheLand]

Lots more or that coming soon. Edible Hostas, Harvesting Wheat and our New Quail all the near future.

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

What about steak bones?

[@allyrussoottman4469]

Great instruction on this thanks for sharing! I am wondering if you know if you can use a chicken carcass after pressure cooking it in water with salt to make bone broth? Are the nutrients still there or have they been removed into the water? I make a lot of broth with my chicken bones so I wonder if I can reuse afterward to make a bone meal.

[@LovinofftheLand]

Yes. You can definitely still use the bones after. Many people pressure cook the bones just to get the remaining cartilage and mest off. This would be a great thing to do if you have lots of extra bones

[@chinfung5510]

Welcome

[@TwinsJawaCanada]

Morning Chris great New idea

[@amandadavis5367]

Thanks for the video. I've been saving my bones from cooking to try this very thing.

[@jels1740]

This is my favourite video of yours so far! I can't wait to try this :)

[@LovinofftheLand]

Thanks so much. Let us know how it works out. Make sure the bones are ni enough and brittle before putting them in the blender

[@jels1740]

@@LovinofftheLand ok thanks for the recommendation. I have a woodchipper so i think i may try that to save my blender blades!

[@nizon8800]

So we have to use so much energy to make bone meal.

[@cometravelwithus1696]

Are you guys still continuing since your year is nearly up?

[@LovinofftheLand]

Oh ya. We are loving it so will keep going and keep making videos. Maybe just not quite as strict. Looking forward to coffee and bread. Lol

[@MsRoadtoRiches]

Thank you, very informative video.

[@LovinofftheLand]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@juliewatson1068]

Do think you can use the bones left-over from making bone broth to do this?

[@LovinofftheLand]

Yes. Will be even better as it will be easy to remove any leftover meat or cartilage

[@juliewatson1068]

@@LovinofftheLand SWEET! I'm really excited! Thank you!

[@ricos1497]

You feed chicken bones to chickens? Is that normal? Obviously cow bones to cows is definitely bad, I assumed the same for chickens.

[@LovinofftheLand]

You'll get mixed responses to this. We are ok with it and only do it if the chicken has been cooked.

[@ricos1497]

@@LovinofftheLand I assume that you don't tell the chickens either....

[@trucid2]

With cows the issue is prion diseases, which can even survive cooking at high temperatures. Dunno if chickens are susceptible.

[@GUYGUYGUYREE]

Bone meal are for plants

[@nidasiddiqui9167]

Used chiken bone ?

[@LovinofftheLand]

Chicken and pork

[@regurgitatedmaggots]

Can you please make a video about making blood meal as well?

[@suciourbano872]

Am I the only one that noticed he grabbed the bones from a deceased chicken thats been dead for a looong time since it was kust bones and feathers.... I wonder if he left it to die just for the sake of this video 🤔🥲

[@LovinofftheLand]

😂 No, it wasn't left in there to die. Sometimes we put the cooked carcasses in there for the chickens to clean off

[@skinnyWHITEgoyim]

I bet a small wire brush would expedite the cleaning of the cartilage from the bones. Especially if you are doing a large batch

[@LovinofftheLand]

This is the Ninja we used for the Bone Meal www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B018A57MVG/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=15121&creative=330641&creativeASIN=B018A57MVG&linkCode=as2&tag=lovinoffthela-20&linkId=6aec153de4d91b3a1e223e6ad56cc271