Simplest Trick for Free Chicken Feed
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- čas přidán 14. 09. 2021
- PVC pipes and complex BSF larvae traps? Ain't nobody got time for that! I set up the super stupid simplest black soldier fly bin I could find and it works great. Permanently better chicken nutrition for $9.
HT to Carol Broman who had the original idea for this bin. • The Easiest DIY Black ... - Jak na to + styl
thank you for your "stupid simple" methods. one thing I've learned in my 59 yrs is that there's a whole lot of people that love to make things difficult/complicated. I'm all about the simplest, easiest, fastest and cheapest way of doing everything, while getting the same or better results than any of the complicated methods. lol that's how I roll. when you're raising/homeschooling 8 children on a shoestring budget you learn these things lol. I'm very happy I found your channel
I’m proud of you for being a mother who homeschools and homestead. If no one has told you, you’re doing a great job
Agree 👍
Your children are the future of this country.
Thank you for you service.
I honestly think some people build these elaborate systems just because they like to tinker and that's fine but some of us have to much to do to spend time tinkering on little projects. Running farms and acreages is nothing but constant work.
Idea- same setup as what you have, but after the jump into the goodie bin, there's a declination and an opening and the worms can fall out onto the ground. Place with the chickens and then it's an auto feeder.
At a remote fisheries research station, in Manitoba, we did something similar.
Dead fish were put on top of chicken wire. The maggots fell down into tubs. We fed hundreds of hatchery pickerel that way. It was incredibly productive.
The only downsides were the smell (minor issue), and we had to put down a bear that became a nuisance.
One of my best memories was collecting the spawning pickerel eggs and milt.
Best summer job EVER!
I had thought this too but chickens being smart things would just sit there pigging out and the other chickens lower on the pecking order would miss out...if you added a windmill style gizmo with cup that flicked them around that could be fun
@@patrickbutler1715 lol... endless possibilities for creative/inventive constructive types.... God bless
@@patrickbutler1715 would make sense then to put up a couple extras to give them all options
Make some drawings and I bet people would make them.
I accidentally made an earwig farm by stacking some old roof tiles, now I use them all the time, every month or so I pick up the pile of 4 tiles and brush off the earwigs into a container and place the tiles back down, I have 5 traps/nests around the garden keeping them off my veggies without Poison and best my chickens love them 😀
I love the simple setup of your black soldier fly bin. Thanks for sharing.
Fermentation made simple.
1) Put rain or dechlorinated water in a 5 gallons food grade bucket.
2) Put your whole grains in the bucket of water. The water level must be several inches above the grains for absorption. Cover the bucket with a lid that has holes/ or slightly lift the lid for ventilation.
~ I ferment enough grains for an entire week, and I ferment a new batch in the middle of the week.
3) Sock the grains for three days and stir throughout so that all the grains are fully absorbed.
4) After the fermentation process, store the grains with the liquid in the refrigerator so that it will not spoil.
5) Each day drain the water off a portion and serve it to the chickens.
~Each morning I put a portion of the fermented grains with the chicken feed plus a dash of the DE. The wet grains slightly soften the feed and the chickens love it.
What is the point of this I've never heared this I own 10 chickens please explain
I bought an old wooden toybox for $5 with the fly bin in mind. I just slid the plastics inside & it sits under a shady tree looking all cute.
We've raised thousands of chickens, rabbits, ducks, etc...and you are so correct. Most things can be done so simply. That's honestly how we are designed to function. Man makes things complicated. Thank you for the morning dose of stupid sanity!!❤
I love how genuine this guy is literally only watched 2 videos this one and the one on how to get tall ryegrass in your pastures and I’m subbed now
you're not the one who thinks like that :) and yes I'm subbed and tryıng to watch all the videos :))
yea me too. Those are the exact videos I watched and subscribed for.
Thanks, Jeff! Really appreciate you sharing this. I’ve always wanted to do this but like you, felt like it was a tad tedious/expensive for the supplies. Gonna have to get one of these setup this year
planted rye in a back 40 plot last year, bastardo rats got all the sprouts, will watch vid. God bless
Can you post the link to the ryegrass video? I'm not seeing it on his listing.
This is awesome! I have been drawing out plans for a BSF farm and this is perfectly simple and effective!!
Thank You for this information and very simple way to grow larve. Yeah, it drives me crazy to see all those complicated ways that are out there and supposed to be simple. Your way is just what I’ve been looking for
We saw the video about the grasses, now, this one. Wow! THANK YOU!!! Yes... we just subscribed. Why isn’t anyone else posting these GREAT ideas. We’re very glad we found yours!!!
I hope you did find the easiest way to ferment feed. Again, people try to make it so damn hard and it doesn't have to be.
Get a food grade 5 gallon bucket from tractor supply. Put in equal parts feed and water and leave some space at the top of the bucket so it can expand. Stir it all around real good add a dash of apple cider vinegar if you want to, but you don't have to. Stir it every day for three days. Then start feeding it. When the bucket gets a little low, add water and feed again it will ferment overnight because of what was left in the bucket to begin with. It is a never ending bucket. And you only need one bucket. A couple times a year. I completely rinse out the bucket and start new but you don't have to. Keep it stirred and you will do fine. it should be about the consistency of oatmeal. You don't need to leave water on top etc. etc. It is the easiest thing ever.
"equal parts feed and water.."
What feed can be fermented? Kitchen scraps?
@@aronbalabs9389 I wouldn't put kitchen scraps in there. Just toss them to the chickens and let them eat it. I have fermented all kinds of chicken feed, including a grower, which is what I feed all my chickens all the time now. In the past I fermented layer feed. I have fermented, pellets or granules. also feed that is more whole ingredients. it's really good for this time of year when it is so damn hot. The chickens get more moisture from their feed.
I have been doing this for 3 yrs... I make a big bucket of feed and water ... and my chickens go to it before dry feed... I started noticing my chickens would eat feed ( dry) if I spilled water in it.
Thus started me soaking it.
Excellent “simple” presentation! Loved it! For years, I’ve been feeding maggots to my chickens right from one of my compost heaps that will grow thousands and thousands of maggots in the warm weather. But I love this bucket method. Never thought of it before lol thank you for this info Jeff!
Thank you for this, two years later this is still the most simple way that I've seen to harvest fly larvae
I have been researching so many of these and yours is far and away the simplest.
Agreed
Dude. I love your videos. They're informative and hilarious. Its like listening to Jack Black discuss homesteading. Awesome!
We had a Big back yard (really big); in the big city, had a garden covering about half the yard. We had lots of chickens (76 at the highest count). We bought lots of feed and other things (like crushed oyster shells) but supplemented that in other ways.
We let the birds roam through the garden during the day. The garden plants were helped by many bugs being eaten plus the birds did eat certain plants but not too much. The bird poop helped too.
We also got old veggies from a local market since they would otherwise toss them out when they are too old to sell. Some stores refused that option saying corporate would never allow it. Seemed silly to me - but whatever…
Our black soldier flies breed in an old bath that we use as a scrap/compost bin. It is elevated about a foot off the ground and there's no plug in the drain hole(for drainage): the liquid from this drain goes straight in a bucket and from there goes onto the garden.
The fermented seed process is "super stupid simple 🤗
I have two dozen chickens( 2 rosters included) and feed them around five cups of fermented grain per day (without fermenting, I was feeding them up to eight-nine cups) along with garden timings and their crops are always full.
Fermenting process:
Five cups of grain/cracked corn, wheat, sorghum, a little black sunflower seed, etc in a bucket and cover X2 with water. To start I did this three days in a row and started feeding the first lot on the third day. Nb; drain the liquid from the first batch and reuse in the fourth batch( this liquid is the culture for the lactic acid process to continue your ferment).
After you've established the culture, you can cut the batches back to only two, (giving you a forty eight hour ferment) and continually strain and reuse the liquid in the next batch topping up with fresh water to maintain the level of the first batch.
I'm in Western Queensland; Australia and our climate never gets really cold; if you're in a colder region, you may need to have three batches to allow for fermentation.
It's not rocket science, just give it a go🙏👍
Thanks for this! I ferment my chicken feed and often wondered if I could reuse the liquid. I didn't want it to go to waste so I've just been diluting it and feeding the plants. I'm going to try this instead.
I'm sure you do this anyway but I have 3 buckets with holes drilled in the bottom and they fit into 3 buckets without holes. To drain, I simply lift out the inside bucket with the grains and all the water falls into the outside bucket.
Starting with KNF LAB would be a nice way to speed all this up and keep the “mother” concept going
Thank you!!!! I’ve been looking for a simpler way to make one of these bins. This is perfectly simple!!!
I have a similar chicken run! I have 2 coops, because I have a few rooster, head rooster(a bantam), runs our tiny coop, with his little ladies, and then the bachelors and a few younger hens, live in the other.
I can't wait to try this, thanx for adding this video!
Super simple video, thanks! I just came across your channel and hope you've already posted fermented feed too. Super simple to make as well.
Just found you! YOU ARE AWESOME; Your personality, your content, everything! You should have 10 million subscribers. ... Subscribed and sharing :)
Thank you for making this project super easy. I hadn’t given this project a go because you have to spend money getting the sifting equipment,containers and crap that takes money. We’re old and having to tighten the already tightened belt like every one else. Again thank you for making it simple. You just gained a Follower
I love, love, love stupidly simple!!!!! You just came up on my feed, and I am kicking myself for not finding your channel earlier. Thank you so much!!!!!! I tried the other "stupid" ways with BSF, 😑
This is definitely stupid simple! I had BSF invade my compost tumbler and flourished all last summer in a SPINNING compost bin. I tried to transfer them into one of those semi-complicated plastic totes with PVC pipe, and while I did get a few mature larvae to climb up and out, I never got any new takers to lay eggs in the new bin. I will try again this summer because I finally have chickens, and I do still want finished compost some day!
Right now the chickens' favorite place to scratch is under the compost tumbler. I may have to block the area off if I want to get BSF this year.
Y did a great job showing the people's past it's important to do this saves a lot of the new people into thinking they have to go buy feed all the time.
👋as a new person, I can attest that you've saved me a lot of time! Thank you, subbed 🥳
Thank you Jeff. I think I have almost everything on hand to do this! I appreciate you sharing this for us simple folks out here with limited resources!
Gosh been looking for ages on a simply way to do this, thank you, just fantastic!
Dang just found this video, YOU ROCK!!!
I'm a new subscriber! I MacGyver the heck out of everything I can... Love this.
THANK YOU!! THANK YOU!! I really wanted to do this for my chicken but it was SO complicated that I never did so this is a game changer!
Oh my goodness I just tried to watch a video just before this one and had to stop because it was so complicated!!!! Thank you, I prefer stupidly simple!
5-8-23 thank you for this video this is the simplest way I have ever seen. I think people make this complicated because they want to make a video. Your idea is genius so simple. Thank you.
Just found your video in my search for growing chicken feed. Great video! Funny, strait to the point and stupid simple. 😆👍
Just subscribed 🥰🌱🐥
New favorite source info when i get started with chickens, thank you!!
Yep and then I'm so glad you brought it up man you alright there so many videos on CZcams unbelievable I started reading about it 10 years ago I'm doing it now I dispose of everything into that container they break it down for me I have another container just so I can use that for my chickens..
Awesome use of resources!!! Great video!!
I love fermenting my feed. I just take a couple scoops, throw it in a jar, put water in and wait a few days. Sometimes I cover it, sometimes I don't. I've had flies lay eggs and it turns into a little larvae snack too. It looks gross but the girls go bananas for it.
Love how not stupid but simple this is! Thanks.
This is awesome. I like how it it genuinely easy and cheap, but also genius. Well done.
New subscriber here. I love your videos. Thank you for all the good tips
You are my type of guy! No tools needed-projects are my favourite kind of projects.
I think we can say super smart simple. Love Jeff’s approach to nature. Much respect.
Yes, work smart so you don't have to work hard!
I have no respect for someone who doesn't provide shade for their animals....
Great stuff..subscribed straight away...I use to complain about the larvae that use to block my worm farm mesh holes until I worked out what they were. I've just got me 3 chickens and guess what I'll be making....thankyou
I love videos that overcomplicate the simplest thing, they're hysterical. Bullshit boggles the brain, and never is that more true than in the current CZcams universe. This video was a breath of fresh air!
I hate hyped stuff and I’m incredibly practical not wanting any fluff or spending an arm and a leg on frivolous unnecessary stuff. I just subscribed to your channel because THANK YOU!! Common sense is lacking so finding someone capable of thinking this way is highly refreshing!
very good! We don`t have those fat ones, but the chicken like it. Thank you! And it`s natural food . The fermented wheat is wonderful I make that since I heard that on " chickenlandia" years ago. The chicken get so much nutrition out of it.
I'm loving your videos. Keep them coming.
Always searching for simple genius, and I found another one! Subbed, of course. Thanks for the vid!
I love this, I am going to do this. Thanks for sharing, I have just subscribed.
Great video! HEY another guy said to just put some wide slits in the bin filled with scraps. A few drainage holes in the bottom. He claims the larvae crawl up the side and fall out for the chickens to harvest all by themselves.
I came. I laughed. I learned. We are all suffering analysis paralysis, thanks for brining back simple thinking. 😊
Thank you for this. I've been fermenting for almost a year now.
Great video. Thanks for the simplicity.
Wow, thank you. Simple cheap effective is the opposite of stupid. Good engineering!
You had me cracking up at the end. I love simple.
❤ that's what I needed! I saw several solutions, but yours is the fastest and most easy. The only thing i will add is a tube that transpots the worms directly to my ladies.❤
Very informative but also entertaining video. I love it
I literally use the food from my quails poop trays. I don't like to try to pick out the good bits of food they fling out. I also don't want to waste the food. So I literally gather a big pile of it, poop and all, and put it in a bin like you do with your food remnants. I mix in some wood shavings or dead leaves and I get tons of larvae. Like you I don't give a crap about what kind they are. The chickens love eating any of them. Lol
Thank you for making a stupid simple set up and showing people they don't need to make things complicated!
You have given very honest information.I agree with you.Thanks!
Thank you for keeping it simple
Exactly what I was looking fir!!! Thanks a bunch.
I gunna do like 10 of these rn. This was a great idea!
Thannnnk God for this vid... ours got rain in it and just became sludge. Top was not sealed properly so this is insane genius. Thank ya.
All the best things in life, are pretty much free! Thanks for the 'stupid, simple' info. Our chickens will be thrilled!
This is amazing. Thanks so much for this video.
We have a composting bin that turns. We leave it slightly open. Every few days we dump it into trays and the chickens eat the larvae then we put the compost back.
Used Coffee Grounds is a very good base for BSF and they will occasionally graze on it, so it acts as a backup emergency food source for them.
Optional bases: Sawdust or other "browns (aka, fiber)" to act as non-food bedding, so they have a place to get away from the food and keep the temps from getting too high as food breaks down and BSF larvae heat it up. Also it helps some of the food get hidden from the surface, which helps avoid attracting some pests and helps absorb excess liquids. If you give them high fiber foods, the fiber will build up over time for you, but I recommend starting with a fiber source and used dry coffee grounds are the easiest and free from Starbucks.
and of course, give them actual food.
Dude, that is stupidly simple. I will definitely try this method. My neighbor wants to do a compost as well and I have chickens so I could get double out of there
This is such a great, cheap way to do this! Thanks!
Great Job Man!! Love the video and how simple it is. First video I have watched of your Now SubScribed!!
Did anyone else recognize he nailed exactly on how many black fly clips there are on CZcams wow that's amazing 😅
I’ve got a super simple way to ferment feed. Works for us. One container. Overnight fermentation. We use a stainless steel pot with a lid. At night we leave a little bit of previous fermented food behind and mix in 1 part feed to 1.5 part water. When pouring in water rinse the sides. Ferments overnight perfectly ready for next morning. Once in a while reserve some food and wash out the pot well. Maybe every two weeks.
Thank you, I was wanting to set this up before I bring chickens 🐔 home 🏡 so I'm gonna make this for sure, nothing like being prepared.. Thank younfrom Melbourne..❤ love this simple and smart.. Ma kinda video 📹
Very nice! Thanks for the info.
I am thinking, just the bin set up at a slight slant to drain any water to bottom of slant with a few small holes if needed, a 2-4" hole in the top for black soldier fly access, a horizontal slot at the high end a few inches up from bottom, for the larvae to crawl out, a piece of flat wood like a 1"x4" that would fit in the slot, the larvae would crawl up and just fall in the floor of the chicken coop if it was inside the coop and all you would have to do is put left overs, animal manure, kitchen scraps in it, the rest would be automatic. The wood slanting up extra would be so it would keep above the food for a while. Subbed, like, and black belled. I may put a video of this up on my channel.
I like the simple approach.
Thanks Bud for simplicity
Good info. Also soak your feed before feeding and you get more volume. Most stores will give you expired greens and produce if you pick it up 2 days a week. Some ask you to sign a liability waiver but most stores will donate them to you. Yokes will be orange when you feed greens!
Thanks so much for this video. That's what I like simple and easy
I had forgotten a bag of chicken scratch in bed of spare pickup. It had gotten rained on and fermented some. Feed was in paper feed bag, and when I realized I had forgotten it in bed, it was too late. Soldier fly larvae were everywhere. Wish I'd had chickens at the time because it would have been a feast for them.
LOVE THIS!!! Going to make it right freaking now!
I like it. Currently have no use for it, the "simple" set up, but I have filed the concept somewhere in my brain. I will be interested to see how you do with your fermenting experiment.
Cheers.....I grow mine in an upright 12" PVC pipe set upright set down into the soil with a plate on top and half a cork glued on the to keep the gap. Your hen run is lovely and generous however a couple of shade trees would be generous for your egg queen's 🥂
You hooked me!!!!!! Just subscribed
LOL, great simple not stupid way to do it. Black fly larva at the feed store are so expensive.
28 dollars for a bag at tractor supply!
nice job. I'm going to make one this year
Awesome! Thank you so much! New subscriber.
I liked your video solely on the fact you accurately told us how many black soldier fly videos there are 😅😂. Made me chuckle cuz its true
You are like the jack black of gardening. You are hilarious!
Do you know another thing i saw......when ever there is a dead animal on your farm, place the carcass in a bucket with some holes around the bottom......and the maggots will fall out onto the ground as the carcass rots.
I like this idea also....gonna try this for sure.
Amazingly simply, thank you!
4:35, the minor word trip up there is kind of funny lol
also that is really amazing because ive seen that before but it was ultra complex, this super simple way seems way better (simpler) and more accessible to a lot more people.
I gathered the old horse manure, put an old board on top, came back in a week and took the board off. Buggapalooza! The Chickens go wild eating.
This is what I was looking for. Thank you
That is an awsome video. Thanks so much !
This was excellent! THANK you..
I get a lot in the compost by leaving the food scraps in plastic bags for a while then tip it in the pile. This would be nice to manage them thanks
Thanks for the tip.
My chicks are about 8 weeks old now and I'm sure they'd love this idea.
QUESTION: How do you keep the raccoons/skunks/possums etc., from tearing apart your grub farm every night?
didn't you see the rock? 😄
@@youtubeKathy
Yes. 🙂
Do you know how determined wild animals are?
dogs, at least a big one to bite and a small one to make noise.
raccoons , skunks, and possums are an issue for me too. my solution is i put out a trap every night with easy foods.
easy foods like a handfull of cat food will be choice over a more difficult to get at souce.
but i keep my soilder fly bin in the coop.
I never considered closing the loop on this circle of life by collecting larvae for my hens instead of trapping the flies and throwing them away. Great idea.
Just a comment my nephew had a problem with earwigs, he bought 6 chick's, when they were about half grown he leed them where earwig were massing, his feed bill went to almost nil all summer.
Your system is only common sense. Thanks for sharing.
And that's really handy I'm going to have to try that I already have all the material just laying around
Fantastic and doable. Thanks!!!
Outstanding! Earned a sub!