This video shows how you can raise chickens WITHOUT grain, just by providing enough compost for them to scratch around in and find their food. They get a diverse, natural diet and are significantly cheaper to raise when you don't need to expend extra money on food for them! Most animal feed is either expensive or of low quality for what you get and growing enough sunflowers or comfrey to provide additional feed to supplement free range scavenging is land that could be better used for other crops. Hope some find it interesting. great article @mericanhomestead !
I love this idea, but I'm not sure it's really feasible for most people. When you don't have a lot of land, having a giant mountain of compost is probably not the greatest idea. Not to mention the logistics of finding and retrieving good quality compost material seems like it might be a little difficult. But, I'm not someone who has the patience to maintain nice compost piles, either, so my opinion is probably skewed. I would love to see some examples of someone using this method on a much smaller scale.
This video shows how you can raise chickens WITHOUT grain, just by providing enough compost for them to scratch around in and find their food. They get a diverse, natural diet and are significantly cheaper to raise when you don't need to expend extra money on food for them! Most animal feed is either expensive or of low quality for what you get and growing enough sunflowers or comfrey to provide additional feed to supplement free range scavenging is land that could be better used for other crops. Hope some find it interesting. great article @mericanhomestead !
I love this idea, but I'm not sure it's really feasible for most people. When you don't have a lot of land, having a giant mountain of compost is probably not the greatest idea. Not to mention the logistics of finding and retrieving good quality compost material seems like it might be a little difficult. But, I'm not someone who has the patience to maintain nice compost piles, either, so my opinion is probably skewed. I would love to see some examples of someone using this method on a much smaller scale.
Wow, compost instead of feed? That would reduce the cost of raising chickens. @ironshield
To practically zero! And they probably eat better than most other hens, plus they have to work a bit for it.... making you better compost!
I'd like to get my compost closer to the chickens... hmmmm now I must think. Haha