GM Nostriches!

Here's another quick update on the 1/2 acre homestead. I have a lot of mulch screening to get to! Thoughts and opinions welcome!

I built the chicken tractor (stagecoach) a few years back thinking it would be a daily mover. But the 6 full size chickens were too big to contain n inside the stagecoach, and it was a lot more difficult to move then I thought. Then I got the Premier1 electro net and was moving them weekly, which turned into every other week.

I was also getting arborist wood chips dropped and after wheelbarrowing 3 truck loads to my back yard (and developing a hernia) I had had enough, so I moved the bird to where the load was and figured I'd let them spread it and compost it. I'm kind of treating this like a victory garden. I moved them to a new section, and now I'm going to screen this section to make garden beds. Updates to follow.

https://rumble.com/v2lq90g-homestead-update-4.html

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Love it! We are on 1/2 acre as well

Awesome. I always view it as such a small space, but when I describe what I have going on, there's a lot here.

Well done, love the use of the space!

Very cool. I made a similar screen to sift our year+ old wood chips. I find that scraping the material across the screen with a flat shovel works well too.

Yeah, I found using a pitchfork to add the chips to the screen, then rubbing it across the screen makes it go much quicker. Thanks for the comment!