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How do you stop your chickens from scratching your plants to bits? I have only 2 chickens, and I am free ranging them, but they are scratching up almost all new plants/seedlings I plant. Any tips?
Do you have actual experience with chemically treated wood for compost walls? Does it have an impact on the process? I follow the idea but am curious to any experience you might have had?
Let's talk about how BEAUTIFUL that oak branch is that is in the beginning of the video!!!!
I do a similar design in my greenhouse for my chickens. The best way I've found to attach any wood to the metal frame is the metal strips with holes that you use to hang plumbing pipes. I don't think I can't post a picture here, but it made it very easy for when I was building my greenhouse out of a carport frame and when attaching pallets to the inside to protect the plastic from the chickens while they used it in winter as a snow free run
Stapling layers of cardboard over the poly would be protective, and could be renewed yearly.
Ventilation is under-rated 😂
bit of an aside, but where do you find those plastic totes that fold on the top (the ones you put compost and stratify seeds in)? I keep asking different businesses in town if they would give/sell me them at a discount and they consistently return them back to the person who ships them to them
Would love to know where to jump in at the right point in the waste stream to start grabbing some of these!
I don’t think the first iteration was a failure. It simply came to the end of its life.
Made a winter chicken run this year… 4 cattle panels 200" long and 93 inches wide leaving about 6'2 center height. Wrapped the outside in 4' chicken wire long enough to wrap upward on the interior wall. I will have to look for a used carport and I really like the pallet idea for protection. Maybe upgrade next year and move what I have now out for a greenhouse. Thanks again Sean for another great idea.
Thank you so much for taking the time to put out these videos.❤ You are my hero Sean!
Love that you have adopted the cut first, measure later system! So much more efficient than measuring twice! LOL
Great video Shawn.