DIY CHICKEN ROOST - Using upcycled junk
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- čas přidán 27. 01. 2023
- Easy cheap chicken roost build using recycled, repurposed and re-loved materials from around the farm and community.
Note: I also installed wire netting as the floor to keep the snakes out.
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Weedy
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Our chickens run around inside an electric fenced area so THAT is why the roost is open. The chickens are protected by the electric fence so nothing can get into their roost 👍🐔🐔🐔
Do you have carpet snakes?
@@janicejoyce8591 yeah, but they can’t get to the chickens
It's never occurred to me to use an electric fence to keep animals 'out'...
Would you mind sharing the spacings between each wire from the ground to keep foxes out.? 🙏🏽
@@rawgasmiclove Define perspective. 'Is a beautiful thing 🤗
Off the ground, dry, with plenty of air flow those will be some happy chickens
The sawing into the night segment made me laugh out loud. Thank you for the inspiring video!
idk how I got to this channel but I'm glad I did. cheers from NYC
Wow, I never knew about the charcoal thing for buried wood. I've got to try that.
I’ve used gumtree branches as chook perches for years, so much better for their feet. The only downside of using timber is that there are so many nooks and crannies for mites and bird lice to hide away and then attack the chooks. A couple of times a year I paint it all, perches included, with a mix of old olive oil and eucalyptus oil to keep them under control.
Interesting little trick, I'll take that thank you! my little trick is to spray 1 or 2 L of boiling water in those cracks and on those perches every time I clean up the coop. I did paint and gap fill the cracks in all the inside previously but it doesnt stop the mites coming back...
Gotta dust your chickens with diatomaceous earth and add it I to where they rolling. The dirt so they are Klinger anything that jumps on them, my dog had fleas that infested my house for almost a year, diatomaceous earth cured it all in 3 days no joke. And dust he bottom of your plants with it. Where they meet the soil
Thought a chock was a “Cooked chicken” 😅
You can use sump oil too but fit chickens you should use flat surface or a really large branch i use old pallets that are perfect for them to rust on and cost nothing use dirt to clean them and scrape off have never had mites , burn if you do get mites but you should not with pallets and replace when necessary
@@pierrerestoux7360I like to use the ash from my fire or diatomaceous earth in the dustbaths and in the coops to keep the pests at bay. It works rather well
I could watch this a million times.💚 Love all you do! Lucky girls!
I love how Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme hang about while you build their new house. Water bucket, excellent.
Oh to be a chicken at Weedy's place!💚
Most beautiful chickens and chicken coop in the history of the world! You make the most unexpected things visually stunning.
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We have had chickens and turkey in our upcycled coop and run! We love them! We have to have a run as we have so many foxes that if you have sandwiches and pop in to get a tea your sandwich is gone! We are now getting egg chickens I’m so excited! I love chickens they are epic, no only eggs or meat but they make fab composts
So, mycelium is nature’s umbilical cord! Love it. ❤
I'm glad you have chickens now, a proper permaculture garden revolves around those little goddesses!
Have had them for over a year.
Doesnt work in cold weather or if you need to avoid predators, but in you case its absolutely smart, out of the grid, what a nice idea! 😮👍
Hello Ladies🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔, Weedy sure built a beautiful new home 🏡 for you ❤️
😎❤💥 + U ARE BLOODY FUNNY 2 HA HA Lucky chookys Love how u did the MUFFLED SOUND when u were cutting the trees ,CLEAVER 😊
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I’ve only been to europe and nort america, those trees have the strangest ’sapling type’ bark, yet are huge.
🤣😂🤣 Kangawallafox, just like the elusive Rhinocrocodillapig 😁🌱☀️
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Great job! Only for 52 dollars, wow!
Lovely chook house! Lovely Day!
Thank you for a fantastic video from Weedy garden love the chicken House and your beautiful chickens 🐔 😀 xxxShaz
Thanks big bud,
I liked the burnt wood for the no rot...ive adapted that to my fish cleaning table and sink plus all the hard wood, all of which i got from the local tip, including the screws.
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Nice to c ur comment again beansprout 😄
Thank you sooo much for your delightful videos, which I enjoy from far away: Paris/Normandy, France...
You are a wonderful teacher you make everything so interesting 🎉❤
We were just discussing how we could change up the design of our chicken coop and were coming up with some ideas... really enjoyed this video thanks for the inspo as always 😊
I enjoyed this video! You have a fun, humorous way of telling a story.😃
Weedy! Thanks for another fantastic video. Your outlook on life and sense of humor is so much fun to watch. not to mention your production skills!
You need an impact driver. Look them up if you don’t know about them. They help you put screws in soo much better. Plus then if you need to pre drill something, you have that drill piece in, then you have your impact driver with the screw head. I’ve been planning a chicken coop for that long, I think I know what I want to do now 😊
love the mjik
The lil hen drinking water at the end made me bursssst with joy
here in our province in the Philippines, we are using used motor oil or cover it with plastic. To avoid termites on wood column and beams.
Great job, Mr weedy 🌴🏵🌷🪱🥑
Just finished watching your movie. Thank you for making it. It is very inspiring.
Just showed my husband. We are doing something similiar in Dandenong Ranges. Very enlightening, entertaining and love as always your photography and...music!
I don´t know why but the music and font just takes me back to my childhood. It reminds me specifically of a tv-show I used to watch growing up here in Denmark, called Cirkeline. Thanks for sending me "Home"
Oh, mr. weedy definitely knows Cirkeline
I love Cirkeline. The mouse voice is so cute
The timing on this!! I decided three days ago that I need hens in the backyard. Thank you! 💓
Thanks for the tip on the stump burning!!! will come in handy for my new outdoor patio!! Love the open Chicken coop with no bottom..... Might have to build one of them too!!! Good to have you back making videos weedy!!!
Great 👍
Makes me smile every time. Thank you!!!!
Always Love your videos first thing in the morning Weedy, 3:55 am here in Komoka Ontario Canada. My wife is watching the Aussie Open upstairs, but.....I would rather watch your Artwork from your part of Australia. Thank You, and Take Care. 🙏
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Another outstanding video!!!
Thanks Anita 😊🎥
Great timing David, I am in the process of planning a chook pen for my backyard. Being in suburbia I have to make it predator safe from mini foxie, Jack Russell/dachshund and a purebred dachshund that cohabit the backyard. All are very well fed none of the three have killed before but it is their breeds unfortunately. I am looking forward to having chickens in the garden a bit more self sufficient.
Also in the near future also I am getting a flow hive as my garden has suffered from lack of pollination this summer. You and this channel are my inspiration to have a go after a lot of medical issues in the past and still ongoing. My good days I garden my bad days I plan and make a to do list also read and research.
Great to hear 🤗👍💚
You, and your videos, are a work of ART! So enjoyable. That tree lugging sequence - ‘nother level😮
Lift with your legs!, @theweedygarden Beautiful work!
Yeah I needed reminding
Excellent video mate.
Looks great! I'm sure the chickens will love it.
Also, these videos are so calming to watch. :)
Screws 52 dollars ? Wow. I’d start learning advanced joinery i’m so cheap ;) (and love learning)
Such an inspiration
Love the rainwater harvesting system. So resourceful!
I absolutely love your videos!! l The videography is so incredible. Keep up the awesome work, and I will continue to get inspiration and make positive changes on my land, hoping that someday I can provide the inspiration to others as you do now. Have a great day!!!
Oh my guru❤❤
Great as always :D Thx Weedy
Free except for screws, bolts, chainsaw, grinder, grinder disc, drill, several drill bits, jigsaw, circular saw, Stanley knife, spray paint 😋
The chooks will love it, wd
Hey Weedy, beautifull set up! One more thing you could add around this is straw inoculated with stropharia rugusoanulata (king stropharia). They do great in high nitrogen soils!
Your video skills are fun to watch and the content is instructional. Keep it up
very nice!
Wow, great vid....entertaining, beautiful to look at AND I learned how to build a chook house!! Awesome :D
I remember in the episode that you built that with aboriginal magic , that was a funny joke in the episode :)
nice !
Awesome Video mate, Cheers!
Thank you for sharing.
Maybe it is also time for me to finally put together that kind of shelter so that we can have some chicken...
I absolutely love your chicken house you're a legend weedy xx
Tus videos son una obra de arte, Weedy.
Well done - love it!
Thanks for this awesome video! I never knew about the burning wood thing. Interesting!
This was great!
Awww that is just so snazzy David! I love it and I know the girls do too! Thank you for sharing, bless you :)
Cool, I'm just reading Suzanne's book now!
That was great Mr Weedy! lol :D .. Happy Chickens!! lol
😂your neighbours and wild life wishing you would shut up with your power tools . Great video. Yes this beats scooping out poo in hardto get places
Glad to see a new video
Привет Сорняк! Какой же ты молодец! Удачи, друг!
Beautiful work as always. Really enjoyed watching this with the offspring. Great tip on burning the ends of the poles, I didn't know about that yet. We have a ton of eucalyptus at our place too here in California too much really. It's great to figure out ways to use it other than firewood. Thanks for all of your efforts!
Im glad you have new videos! I love watching the weedy garden!!! Cheers from the Philippines 🥰
Love it!
i need some kangawalla nuggets....
Absolutely love it
The carpet snakes are going to love it! The electric fence doesnt stop the carpet snakes they are at ground level (I have one on my chook pen at Terania Creek in the forest) stops the Goannas not the snakes. Maybe wire the bottom well with avery wire and put a door on the front you can close at night. 💜
It’s mesh. Snakes don’t want to get through.
@@TheWeedyGardenIs the electric poultry fencing being held up by star pickets or does it have its own pickets? Can you recommend any? I must say I love the whole concept!
@@eloise6197 it’s a stand alone system. pegs included. I’ll show it on my next vid
@@TheWeedyGarden Thank you ❤️
It's good to coat the roost branches in sump oil to stop mites nibbling on their toes at night. Other type of oils probably work just as well.
This is such a great chook shed, we'd have to close the bottom in though because rats like to get at our girls at night.
Thanks so much Weedy!
Nice one! Love your videos...
I was just busy building something for the girls too. Such a pleasure watching your videos! Definitely going to try and build a similar water system and that bridge with netting!
Nice job weedy
You're into Shou Sugi ban, the Japanese technique of rot proofing, fire proofing and insect proofing timber, houses used to be made like this
Me encantan tus videos, Weedy.
Hi Weedy... I love all your videos... It's weird, informative and entertaining...
Great job Weedy, and enjoyable video as always, Inla'kech
Hey Weedy... great work there with the chook roost.. i want to put a guttering/ chook watering system up on my chook palace now...
Learning a lot from your experience. Was just thinking about getting a couple of birds for the yard. The fermented water works a treat on my plants.
I have a similar concept for mine. Bottomless coup so the poo falls straight down into deep woodchip litter. It’s a great system. No cleaning whatsoever!
Carbon diapers are the best!
I like how you left the bottom of the coop open. That way, if a predator does enter the coop, the chickens can actually flee. Maybe one gets taken out, but the rest can follow their instincts and Get Out!
Definitely copying that.
I have since put a mesh floor and an automatic door on 🫵🏻
Some seed for the girls ☺️
You are a legend dude. Thank you. I`ll give the girls a treat courtesy of YOU ;-)
I am on the other side of the planet looking down on you throught 4 feets of snow.. hey....what hapenned to the camera at the bottm of the hole...Here... carrying whole trees on one shoulder is called the Sasquatch tecnik...By the way...have a god dog warrior. negotiating peace pipe with Kyoty and Fox...live long and prospert...the force is already with you...
Lol. I took the camera out of course. 👌 I do NOT miss the snow at all, but I’m not really enjoying these 30+ humid days either 😂
Rough tree branches great for chickens feet when roosting.
Unfortunately also favoured by red legged earth mites.
Non chemical control of mites, quickly zap with blow torch.
Hey weedy, nice work, shout out to all your viewers as well, I got two questions for you, 1. What your primary source of energy that you use out there all day in the heat, 2. How to make ginger beer?😊
thats the ecoflow. see next vid. ginger beer vid coming in ginger harvest season
Just stumbled across one of your videos and HAD to subscribe! Love them! I am starting a food forest this spring here in COLD northern Michigan and am SO happy I found you while I am learning! We already have chickens, quail, cows, equine, goats, sheep and a couple kunekune pigs.... Cant wait to have my gardens done! Thank you for sharing all your knowledge!
Upper Peninsula get bloody cold, m8! Lived/existed in AA for 4 years and moved back to SoCal… Yep! Dislike cold. Weedy is up North from where I came from… God’s Country for sure…
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Here in Northern California, the eucalyptus trees are a nuisance to the garden...the near by trees (20-30 feet away) sent shallow roots up into all of our beds completely compacting it and stealing our water/nutrients. When you cut the tree down it doesn’t die, it comes back even more vigorously 😵
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Hi first i love your videos very well edited. But more importantly i saw the clip of your bees all swarming on the outside of the hive and i wanted to let you know they do that when the hive is getting too hot try putting a shade over it so it doesn’t get sun afternoon
Will do 🙏🏻