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Chicken Compost – HUGE leaf upgrade!



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29 Comments

  5. SGT Spaulding

    I lucked out this year and have been able to bring dump trailer loads of shredded leaves home from the landscaping company I work for. I’m filling the chicken run and making some more rings and fencing areas to stack the leaves high. I guess I’ll also use them in the chicken roost as a deep mulch this winter. I have so many my wife told me to stop bringing them home. Anyway if anyone has other ideas on what to do with tons of leaves I’m all ears!

  6. cris robin

    Sean, can you share a map of the layout of your property, especially the chicken "facilities"? Just a simple sketch of an overhead viee would help so much in visualizing the intricacies of the chicken compost procedure…❤

  7. vonries

    With as much food waste as you are able to get from what I only assume are semi local vendors, you should consider raising pigs. That is especially true if you have plenty of excess nut trees. I know you harvest a lot of nuts for personal use each year, but for all I know that could only be the tip of the iceberg. Point is I don't know your situation like you do, but you may want to consider it. My main reason for commenting is so other commenters can judge their situation. You could even do that as a winter video idea. What things to consider when adding an animal to a homestead. You could run through the pros and cons of adding pigs to your homestead, but the basics are true for any animal. As a winter video you don't have to be outsidejust run through the logic and data.

  8. Gabi

    No chicken but also in love with leaves. Unfortunaley no leaves bags in my part of Germany. But enough for my little garden. Greetings

  11. Family On The Brain

    Thank you. Do you have a video you can recommend where you address mold? We prefer to compost inside the chicken yard but have seen a number of poisoning concerns online in regards to chickens eating molded foods. Thank you.

  12. Brian Palmer

    An alternative name for your channel could be "Fertility Acres".

    I'm struck, although maybe it shouldn't be surprising, how much of your work is fertility management.

  14. Pinche Guarito

    Thanks for giving (pun intended) this much needed "eye bleach." I love watching this kind of stuff before bed, makes my dreams much nicer!

    Now that the hens are semi-retired, how are you supplementing the protein requirements for George, Lenny and especially Stanley? I'm assuming egg production is down.

  19. HoboGardenerBen

    So simple and infinitely deep at the same time. Just had a whole episode of The Magic Schoolbus flash through my head where they fly into the compost of one of those rings and the center of that pile. The big exciting moment when you pick them up with the fork and the chicken come in looking for tasty wrigglies. This thing is writing itself lol 🙂

  20. HoboGardenerBen

    This fall I noticed the mowers naturally gathered a lot of mowed leaves on the sloped dirt road leading to a pretty old cemetary. Below the end of the road is a slope I am slowly reclaiming as a garden space for mostly decorative shrubs and perennial flowers for the owner of the property. It had been let go for years and I made some headway with a weed whacker and wood chips, but a lot of weedy space remained. I was able to rake enough beautiful dense mowed and unmowed leaves down the slope or gathered in my favorite big gray rubbermaid rugged trash can to reclaim and huge section on the end that is most easily seen from the house and road, one of the primary visual spaces on the property turned back into a lovely garden for next year in 30 minutes of fun work. Gardening is just the best, I am going to keep trying to get everyone into it for the rest of my life, everyone can find the way of gardening that works for them while still working with natural principles. Gotta figure out what showy plant to put at the tip of that garden, asiatic lillies haven't done well in that spot, thinking a tidy shrub of some kind, or a dwarf fruit tree for the spring flowers. That spot is too close to a busy road to consume the food unless there's a shortage, nice backup for that while being pretty 🙂

  21. yLeprechaun

    I thought I finally had you. I get all the wood chips from a tree service delivered to a back corner of my property, so I thought I was one up on you, as I have about 70 loads of chips in reserve. So how is it that I'm still jealous?! I wish our town used bags. No leaves for me. 🙁 they just vacuum them up where I am. So, I'm still chasing you Mr. Jones. 😉

  26. From the Hutt

    I’ll be collecting more leaf bags on Tuesday, can never seem to have too many, so versatile. I was able to collect a substantial amount of seaweed this fall for garden beds. So much abundance to be had if you are willing to put in a little work. Proud as a wee rooster as they say.

  27. C K

    The 3D creates windbreaks too. Giving hens a place to escape any cold blasts moving in soon

  28. Ronyon

    My blue heeler loves leaf bags, but only when she thinks something is living in them!

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