deep chicken bedding with christmas trees in the chicken coop
http://www.permies.com Monica of At Wits End Homestead in Victor, Montana (a bit south of Missoula) talks about her deep bedding system for her chickens. Her…
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good info on chickens
David at
http://www.solarcells101.com
You could make a lot of biogas out of that chicken poop.
Great information, thank you!
How do you keep the hay in the buckets?…Everytime I put hay in the coop
nesting boxes, buckets the first thing they do is pull it out.
Like the bucket idea oh if you add crushed charcoal to the chicken feed the
smell is less of a problem as it reduces it before t even comes out haha
How big was the flock? How big was the building?
my question is what do you use after the holidays? can you use the needles
beneath living trees or do you trim a lot…?
Are the sides of the shed wood? Don’t they rot with the litter/poop against
it?
If you add charcoal to the chicken feed it will also reduce amonia
production
I like the bucket nesting idea. Are those the sort of soft feed-bucket type?
Cool. I have a Christmas tree farm down the road from my property.
Very good video! It makes a lot of sense – and so does using the plastic
buckets. Seems like the coop is about 8 ft. by 8 ft. and I like the way the
whole wall opens for cleaning out. How many chickens does she house there?
Thanks!
Awesome Paul,I’m all about taking it easy. Great technique. Deep beds seem
to work all around.
Brilliant, thanks for sharing.
Great stuff Paul! Thanks for putting these great videos out, makes me look
forward to having a hobby farm one day.
Thank you so much for sharing this Paul!
I love your video. We are in the process of getting a coop made and I like
your set up. We were going to get the nesting boxes built into the wall. I
need to know how big is your coop. We wanted 30 chickens so we figured a
ten by twelve would be good . I sure like the pail set up but how many do
you need for 30 chickens and how much floor space . I read 4 sq ft per
bird. We get up to minus 13 degrees celcius here .. We could insulate
also.. I would appreciate any help with questions i asked ty.
Our coop was similar, but was built off the ground on stilts, so that
chickens could hang out underneath the coop in the heat of the summer to
stay cool & instead of big doors opening up, just a 2′ horizontal door
opened upwards–just big enough to scoop/sweep the litter out the door and
straight into the tractor bucket. Stilts made it the perfect height to
scoop right into the tractor.
Great video Paul!
That’s a great idea.
@lavenderdawnstar 60 hens and 3 roosters
Very nice, now if someone would tell me how to beet the radio active fall
out I might live long enough to get my chicken to the pate.
Laziness is the true Mother of invention. LOVE this!! Have been discussing
with the family about raising chickens, the smell and my laziness have been
an issue brought up as a negative.. THIS is SUCH a way to fix the
problems!! I live in Pine/Spuce forests!! Sweet!
Great idea, think I’ll give it a try!
That was a good one!