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[@tomadd8165]

I personnally like this style of video a lot more than how it's been in the past. It's a lot more focused and informative. Easy to come back to in the future, etc. I remember looking through dozens of videos in order to finally see the inside of the chicken mobile and I can't even remember in which one I finally did see it. What you're doing is of great inspiration but it's often hard to understand most of it because until now the info has been dispersed here and there within hundred of videos. Thank you!

[@Eric998765]

I feel the same about regulators. I sent an email to DHEC two weeks ago (US citizens will know who that is) and the lady that emailed me back was very friendly and without asking for a tax number or proof I was a farmer or anything setup a conference call with six other people and yesterday we had a nice 45min conversation which was more me explaining how free range poultry works than it was them telling me what permits I need. For anyone in the US reading this, breath a sigh of relief as as long as you have under 8000lbs of livestock you basically don't need any permits to do anything IF YOU ARE FREE RANGE. All of the DHEC permits are for conventional/confined farming. The only thing I need to work out for this year now is my slaughtery because that's more of an FDA thing, but I think its easy as long as I do under 20,000 birds per year (I'm looking at around 4000)

[@CliffsideStables]

Eric Umbarger: What is DHEC?

[@ricos1497]

Department of Homeland Egg Control

[@wp4246]

I live in WA state and the REG's and laws are easy to meet for egg sales on or off farm or to farmers markets. I am also raising forest hogs, but sales are harder. I can do point of sale of the hogs live, but I would love to be able to sell them at a farmers market and that is a tricky issue.

[@MattShanahan]

​@@CliffsideStables : I think @ Eric Umbarger might be refering to the (South Carolina) Dept. of Health and Environmental Control. I think for most US citizens, the state Dept. of Agriculture regulates animal production.

[@storch1]

My brother and I bought an old camper. We want to transform it into a egg mobile too but are not shure what design to use .Thanks for the in-depth video.

[@TheApprenticeFarmer]

Thanks for a good video Richard. Hopefully next time you’ll show how the timber is attached to the metal frame of the trailer.

[@charliebecker2216]

have you thought about centering the structure on the trailer to balance the weight more?Thanks for the update and all the good pros and cons on that works and why they dont . Every little details matter.

[@regenerativeagriculture]

It's built offset to balance it...

[@HeliIsoAho]

Thank you for the great info Richard. Appreciate your time :-)

[@bjcilia8695]

11:41 onwards. check the chicken that is up in the rafters wondering how to get down haha 🤣

[@elisabethschmidt8519]

Thank you for the detailed video! I would like to switch to a wired-bottom-coop but am worried about harsh winters. The coldest it got here this winter was -18 (central Germany). Since we don`t have these tunnels I need a coop that works all year round. Could you share your experience with the cold etc.?

[@dobimarniebelschuetz9213]

And there are regulations on how many birds you can have per square meter of eg mobile. (it is 6 hens per m² if you are organic and have no winter garden.) A third of the flooring of the egg mobile has to be gflat so no mesh.

[@infolyckligafaret7168]

Great info, thanks!

[@ianbroom5618]

Looking at getting some land next year and doing the pastured eggs. I noticed another video where you had wintered them inside a poly tunnel . Was wondering what are the winter eggs classed as, not being on Pasture. Organic? Thanks

[@Silverado-is6zt]

Black color adds 35-40% heat to steel from sun

[@zorce]

Hi Richard, thanks for your informative videos! Live not to far away from you, and are about to build an eggmobil. Have been looking for the 40x40mm floor netting but can seem to find any good source. Might I ask you where you got it from for your eggmobiles?

[@Eric998765]

Richard, do you have a preference for that kind of boat/car trailer, or are they just cheap and easy to find for you? Here in the states we have things called running gears that people turn into other things like hay wagons and gravity wagons. They are a little bigger and heavier but also more stable and presumably put less soil compaction as the weight is more evenly distributed and they have bigger tires.

[@rolfschnaufi6480]

Hi, have you buildt one of onto a bigger trailer? Have you done some pics? Thank you very much.

[@csrb338]

Yep that’s the thumbnail I want

[@curtisbrown7946]

I've wondered for a while, what's your min temperature there Richard? Like you have your chickens in a hoophouse for the winter, I don't think we could do that as I woke up to -31*c this morning with a -40 wind chill...we built an insulated multiuse building for chickens in winter (an evidently a couple of mistimed farrowings!) I'm actually thinking of attaching a hoophouse on this building for days the chickens want to go outside, but without worrying of them getting caught outside at night?

[@rebeccaburnell9319]

Check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZqynpuGhLh3pZY ! This is Garden Hill Oji-Cree First Nation in north-eastern Manitoba, Canada. It has a climate roughly similar to that of Thompson, Manitoba where I was born en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson,_Manitoba . -30C happens a BUNCH and lower than -40C a few times each winter. The video details the Meechim Project's 2nd year expansion into layers (2012). The main coop is a shipping container, off which they built a south-facing greenhouse from lumber & greenhouse plastic. I can't tell what breed they're using, but the hens have more comb than I'd have guessed would be desirable to weather their long, severe winters?

[@rebeccaburnell9319]

I linked the wrong video - that one was the communities starting to get families to raise meat birds and 1 season layers (destined for the stewpot) in their yards. Here's better info about Meechim Farm and its chicken project including greenhouse: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b3TIiIWlh7aUkM0

[@Leffe192]

In Arvika, near his location average temperatures in january and february is -6°C. It seems to go down to -20°C at some occasions every winter, and record down to -35 to -40°C (I checked datasheets for jan, feb, mar 2017 here: data.smhi.se/met/climate/time_series/month/vov_pdf/).

[@curtisbrown7946]

Rebecca Burnell thanks Rebecca in SW Manitoba, so we have similar temps...I think with our winters we need a little more shelter than a hoophouse, but yes I want to build a greenhouse on the side of our insulated chicken house.

[@curtisbrown7946]

Leffe192 thanks Leffe yes so can get to our temps but our monthly averages are much cooler, we have cold snaps that can last week's of -25 to -40 (we're in one right now, and were in a long one around Christmas for like 2 weeks).

[@a_family1583]

Good morning. Do you have drawing of this devise?

[@jordandirom5996]

What is the reasoning for having a nest box that opens/closes. Why can it not just stay open?

[@bjcilia8695]

jordan dirom pretty sure it's because they can get broody and stay in there and even roost in there.

[@Gustav4]

Why not build it 8 times as big

[@CliffsideStables]

It’s appalling that any government would care about what size your chicken coop is!

[@MattShanahan]

Regs for animal welfare spring from some horrific examples of animal abuse on some farms. Even if you don't care about animal welfare - and I think you should - overcrowding and ill treatment can lead to diseases that can threaten entire industries, not to mention people (MRSA, E. coli, etc.).

[@surfdukeflorence]

I know, what we all need is more government regulation... I'm surprised they haven't regulated where the hens can take a crap and then not fine you for not training your hens to shit there. The US government is taking lessons from your country.

[@Ansset0]

Try to create a bond with regulator in Poland. You'd be asked to give a bribe, then give another one, then You'd be fined and/or arrested. Coded law is the law. But always some politically baptised moron CAN interpret the law in the area that he/she "rules"