Nice! I may have a new goal. I'll have to check with the local brewery and organic cidery. I want the apple seeds as well to start some trees, if they aren't that good I could always graft to them. I have some wild apple trees or Pippins that produce quite a bit, so what I don't eat and the deer dont get go to the chickems
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I also got an old construction trailer that’s 10‘ x 20‘ I put some hog panels on the framing of it. I put three totes in the middle of it for water for the chickens that runs to siphon water so there’s 900 gallons at any given moment on the trailer, then spent horse manure grain and all of these things and pilot on the trailer. I built some ramps so the chickens can get up on the trailer and they scratch through finding whatever they want. They also can hide under the trailer if hawks come, I keep this in the chickenyard that’s mobile that moves around the farm every time it rains it’s like putting fresh manure on the ground. They also scratch the stuff out of the trailer and onto the ground so that I don’t have to do it.
The other good place is to go to the local school they have to throw away whatever lunches aren’t eaten you can ask them to have it but you’re better off telling them that you’re composting it not that you’re feeding it to livestock
Follow Billy Bond he’s the Permaculture pimp cast. He raises his pigs and chickens, and doesn’t all for free.
I love Billy's content. His chicken tractor on steroids videos are great
I also buy 50 pound bags of black oil, sunflower seeds, and spread it all over my property, and then just harvest whatever is left to feed to the chickens but they have a tendency to go find them as soon as they start dropping
The other cool thing is to start a worm bin or a black soldier fly operation in an IBC tote. You can use any of the spin creams or whiskey mash to feed them and then use them to feed the chickens. You can also get free and fat and stuff from any of the local butcher shops the chickens will eat it just as it is otherwise, you run it through the black soldier flies
