In this vlog, the host walks viewers through a low‑cost, high‑efficiency pastured‑chicken system that reduces feed expenses by roughly 20%. The core technique is moving the chickens daily using a lightweight, electric‑powered poultry net (Premier One 1280) that can be pulled by a single person. A solar‑powered IntelShock 30 energizer provides a portable electric fence, allowing the net to be repositioned without re‑installing the fence each time. The host demonstrates how to calculate feed reduction (e.g., 20% of a 6‑lb daily ration equals 1.2 lb saved) and shows the practical steps of setting up the net, moving the chickens, and using a vacuum‑seal waterer. The video also covers garden tasks performed alongside the chicken work: thinning and transplanting lettuce, using a fish‑based fertilizer mixed with kelp, and setting up a sprinkler for fall protection. Family members (Jenna, Jonah, and others) help with chores, illustrating a collaborative, hands‑on approach. The host announces an upcoming free YouTube series on winter chicken care, invites viewer questions, and mentions a “Mighty Man Camp” family vlog that may delay the next regular video. Throughout, the tone is informal, instructional, and enthusiastic, aiming to empower small‑scale farmers and hobbyists to adopt similar practices.
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Jenna, here's your pig feed. Will you get the eggs this morning, Jenna? Oh, you'll help me in the garden?
Yeah, I think I would.
So you do want help with chores? Yeah. Okay, well, we have to hustle because we got to do this job while it's cool.
Let's divide and conquer while we do chores.
Okay, which one do you want to do?
Okay, I can move them. Hey, I thought we were dividing and conquering, but I needed to know what the Icy's grain was.
Oh, okay.
Well, here, let's calculate it. If there's 20 and you're moving them every day to fresh grass, Blue.
Yeah.
Okay, so that's going to cut off 20% of what they need. You would go 20 times 0.33. 6 pounds though, you can take off 20%, which is 1.2. So give them, um, give them 5 pounds feed.
You want my handlebar, Papa?
Cats and the dog like the pig feed too. This is probably one of the easiest ways to cut chicken feed costs, is move them every day in an electric poultry net like this one. Super easy to move. You're going to be able to move it by yourself. You don't even have to move one corner.
It's an easy net to move.
This is the—
I'll just go like this.
Let's show them what it is. It's the Premier One 1280. 1248-3 SSDP because this is made for frequent moves. Doesn't have very many poles, so the pole would stretch far, and we've moved this in 7 and a half minutes. Oh, look, see? And then he's only moving— hey, you know what, wide that up right here and then move the, the Shaw. You put your chickens in a mobile chicken coop. This is the Chick Shaw mini-me. And then they can easily get 20% of their food from the grass, from the bugs in the grass, and other things. Oh look, now we put up this. Jonah, how old are you? Yeah, a 10-year-old can do this. Now you would pick up this end. Right now it's in an S. It's always better with sound effects. Now you pick up this end and you wrap it around, and theoretically you can keep crawling around the pasture just like that. And so they were here yesterday. If you only have a limited amount of space, you could come back here in about a month or so. This recovers, and this you could cycle through all over again. You can do it, huh? That's how you do it. You carry them vertical like that. That's smart. We have a vacuum seal waterer out here. It's a bit smaller, so it's lighter. To move for them. We carry a bucket of grain out here, and then it's a bucket of water. He didn't use it yesterday, so here it is, still here, ready to be used today. They just didn't need it. The other thing that's key is this mobile electric energizer. It's solar. This is the IntelShock 30 from Premier One. It's got a short grounding rod, so this can be easily pulled up and moved and just put in up there. And the cool thing about this is the way we had this set up yesterday, the fence was there and then it was here yesterday, and the Energizer didn't have to move. So it's gonna have to move now, but then it can be in one spot for 2 days. Nice. Hey, I'll leave you. I'll go, I'll go do the pigs and chickens if you promise to get the folks a nice shot of, uh, the chickens coming out this morning. Sure, I'll leave the link to the shawl, the net, the energizer, the water, if you guys are interested in doing this yourself, saving 20% on chicken feed just by moving them.
Now it's time to let off the chickens.
Jonah, you know what time it is? Project time. This is not good. What happened here? Here we go, here we go. Get one for me, one for Jonah. I have about an hour left on this. The watering seems to have done it good. I've got an hour left to work this morning. What we're gonna do— and I realized I did it wrong the other day, like there's a gap here Okay, and then there's bunched lettuce right there. Well, I just kind of pulled it. Let's get one of these smaller ones. Look how little. Okay, good, I got it by the roots. Let's put it right there. Good. And I learned that trick from Curtis Stone, but when I went to replay the video to show you guys where I learned it, I realized I made a little bit of a mistake.
So all I'm doing is I'm just using a trowel and just very loosely and gently taking this bean out. I want to do it without disturbing, with, with minimal disturbance so that the roots don't get too knocked around. And I'm just being very careful, and it might end up being a relatively large clump of soil.
I'm just going to come in here and retransplant it right here. I didn't use a trowel and I could have gotten more soil. I don't think it mattered because it worked. So do you see where—
better than I thought hoeing.
You like this better? Okay, so what you do is you see where they're bunched up. Yeah, you see where they're bunched up, then you go put it in an empty spot. It's going pretty good. It's only been about 15 minutes, we've done half a row. 15?
Yeah.
45 more minutes, buddy. We filled in this row. Oh, actually, there's a couple more right here, Jonah. 1, 2, 3, 4, 4-ish that we can easily get from right here. This needs thinning, and then we would have done this entire row in less than 20 minutes. Before we thin that one over here, this one needs its own thinning. So let's thin these, place them on the outer edges, and then if we need more, we'll grab from over there. Mau Manzo, why are you—
what's the deal?
Leave us alone. I don't know if you noticed in the time lapse, this cat is not leaving us alone. He's never acted like that. Okay, we got this row done. It's good to put the energy into this because we're just gonna row cover this and eat off this all winter. The growth will halt as the daylight shortens. Weeds won't grow anymore, and we'll just come out here and harvest our lettuce, our Swiss chard, our kale. I'm so excited about how this is turning out. We did it! Well, we did 3 rows. Look how much better. Look how much better that looks.
We don't want to do any more because of the heat coming.
We want to do this in the cool of the day. Least stress to the plants as possible. All right, so it's afternoon.
You know, we put the sprinkler out yesterday. That's gonna be one insurance for this fall garden. We gotta get it grown as much as possible before the days shorten enough to where the plants aren't gonna grow anymore. I got some more insurance for the garden.
You want to help me apply it? I'm gonna give you a hint.
It's fishy.
We need our sprayer. Yes. Oh my goodness. I'm gonna spray. But it's not poisons. Boy, I haven't used some of this market gardening stuff in a long time. I think I found it. What I need. Need one more thing. The magic. The insurance. The— Fish fertilizer. You got your tablespoon, Mom? Yeah, it's right there. No, it's kelp. It's okay if you do a little bit more. We'll do a little extra. Then let's fill this up with water to a gallon. This is fish fertilizer, which is what? Fish poop. Ew!
Can I do it?
So you do that directly to the plant, okay? Some of our transplants from this morning are suffering a bit. Some are not current suffering as bad. Probably just didn't clip as much as their original soil.
Two things I forgot to put in the vlog here, so I'm putting it in now. One is I want to do a chicken series, like an instructional series on YouTube for free, no sign up required. I'm gonna start with how to keep your chickens happy for the winter. I'm getting a lot of questions about that. I want to help you guys. So maybe once a week up to November-ish. So maybe 3 or 4. But I want to know, how can I serve you better with chickens? So I've got a question for you.
Actually, there might be a few questions.
It's down in the description.
Help me.
Let me know what you need and how I can serve you better in answering some of your biggest concerns or obstacles for raising chickens. Check that out. Link in the description. Also, about next week, I might not put up a video on Monday. We don't put up videos on Saturday and Sunday unless there's some, you know. So Monday though, I might even take Monday off because over the weekend every year the boys and I do what we call the Mighty Man Camp. And I want to document that really nice. We start doing that on Friday, Saturday, and it goes into Sunday. So I don't know if I'm going to shoot a vlog on Sunday. May continue to shoot that special movie. That's the bad news. You may not get a vlog on Monday, anything on Monday. I'll work on editing that all week and put that up Friday as kind of like a family movie night type of thing. It'll be a special, probably longer than the normal type vlogs, and it'll just be about our experience, me and the boys camping out in the woods, making fires, going fishing, going ziplining, and talking about what it means to become a man. So I'm looking forward to that. It's going to be a great weekend, and I'm looking forward to sharing that with you the next week.
