Next Level Chicken Compost System

A family moves their chickens onto a compost pile to let them naturally turn it by scratching and pecking. Between chores like digging trenches and stacking hay, they bake, prep a raised garden, and get ready for a film shoot helping a neighbor.
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Morning ladies, got a job for you. Hay mucho huevos. Shall we get them before we move? Whoa, 18! Now let's hope moving them to the compost doesn't stress them out too much. Kind of choosy still, aren't they? Just to encourage them to get on this pile. All right, release the chickens. Nothing will come out.
Oh, that one came out.
We've got some already pecking at the pile. This is so exciting because chickens naturally just scratch and peck all day, and they'll help turn this compost pile. They'll probably knock 3 feet off the top of this in a week. Rooster's king of the mountain. Just jump right to it as if you've been working compost your whole life. Who wants to catch this chicken in Beefcake's pen? The two guests go for it. There you go, John got it. There you go.
Drive me up to Grandpa's.
Sure. You're gonna finish your ditch digging? Look at you using your toe away. We got a line dug. Got to get Grandma and Big Daddy internet. There's no satellite for it. Yeah, we're getting a straight line here, buddy. Do you have your floaters so you can control how deep? Keep this right here at the top. We just saved several hundred dollars because the company doesn't have to dig this. Can you dig it? We dig it. Proud of you. Good operator. That thing is fast. Get those off the porch and bring them in, okay? Hand them to me. See? Can you go get those bottles? Yeah, go get those glass bottles. Yeah, carry them. Who's that? Papa.
Papa.
Is that the likeness of Papa? Come on. Gallon and a half from Vanilla this morning. She's liking that lower pasture. Okay, so it's raining. I thought this was gonna be to their advantage. They don't like rain. They could be at work, guys, but they're not working. They're getting in the chick shawl. You guys don't know what to think. You're dry, that's a bonus. That one's still trying to get with the pig. They're adding their nutrients though. Look at that little chicken turd. Try and take the hats off these things and open it up. They don't have to crouch down as much to get in there. I make it as easy as possible for these guys to eat. I put it under the meat shawl so even though it's raining, it won't get wet.
Famous baby in the world. The most famous baby in the world. The most famous baby in the universe. Dun dun dun. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me zoom in this belly of his. Open up wide. See how cool he is? He's awesomely special. The famous baby in the world. Tractor logo. The famous. The birthmark. Henry, what do you want to say to yourself?
What do you do when it's pouring rain? Don't be too excited, Josiah. We're gonna do the unsexiest thing I can think of, and I'm showing you because this is real life, real life homesteading. We're picking up our barn. Well, I wish it was more exciting. We got some things straightened out. We probably got eliminated down to one pallet. We're probably gonna be able to get rid of one pallet. Got a bunch of trash to get out of here. Hey, he's coming. We're having to buy hay. We think we found some local. We're gonna have to get this ready because it's gonna be stacked full of hay. Turn on the oven, bro. Kids are taking turns with various chores. Excited about this new schedule? Yeah.
All right, because I don't have to do anything else but cook.
That's right. Yep, just put it in. Take that lid off. That's so much. I wonder if we can put it in a smaller thing.
Grandpa was really impressed with the trencher.
Yeah, he was. Let's get his lunch. He heated up. How do you like this new schedule?
That's why it's heated up this way.
No, I did it. I put it in there.
The way it was made.
I resist a little. Never mind.
It tastes like feet!
I like it! Acupuncture for Jonah.
Here you go.
Hey.
Better?
What's this for?
That's the electrostim. So, um, it helps to deliver a current so that it helps the contraction and relaxation cycle. We're just gonna check his range of motion before I put the needles in, and then we'll check them after.
All right.
Okay, and then what about extending your— okay, okay. All right, let's try range of motion again. Stronger. All right, straighten. That's straighter.
The needle in his shoulder.
This is a mirror image for his hip, and so we are a holographic system. I can take every part of the body, and there's a microsystem for the entire body. It's some needles to open up his muscles to the, the tight band of parts of his muscles so that they can do the full relaxation and contraction cycle. They can go back and forth in between those, and then open it up here. Because if we keep needling in the area where there's pain, it's, it's like, I don't want to keep irritating it. So I'm lighting this part of the body.
How was it?
It was good.
You feel better?
Mm-hmm.
You've been cooking up a storm.
I baked this cake.
Oh my gosh. What's this cake for?
This cake is for tonight.
Oh my gosh.
Those cupcakes are for tomorrow.
Oh my gosh.
And cupcakes and Where are the other cupcakes?
Oh my gosh, look, you got chocolate all over you. We're gonna have to get you an apron, honey.
I do have one, I forget to put it on.
We're going up to Brewbets. That's Bruce and Beth and Aunt Ann. Dog ate your food? There you go, there's some more. Aunt Ann is in town. She's always the life of the party. Look at this, Grandma's jamming out her front yard on her raised bed. The new raised bed with trellises, doesn't it? Look at her tomatoes, they're growing perfect. She's got her trellis going up. Hey, Justin, how are you feeling? Good, good. You look good. How you feeling? Good. Let me look—
let me see.
I look good with the bandage on?
No, I'm just looking to see how, um, can you breathe through your nose?
Yeah, that's a good looking plate you got there, Millie.
Or—
hey, Anne, you going on chores with us?
Yeah, I'm sure.
Yeah. Okay. Oh no, maybe not. You still going to do chores in the rain? We got a film shoot tomorrow and a big work day for our TV show. Elevated helping a local homesteader. So we want to get some chores done tonight, but do them and get a little wet. Yeah, we gotta leave early, so we're gonna get as much as we can done tonight. We got muck boots and all. Get in, come, let's check our eggs. Hopefully we didn't stress them out too much. They did not eat a lot of food. Of course they're gonna be getting food from the compost. 4, 5, we're gonna see if we're close. 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. So perhaps we got infected a little bit. We've been getting at least a dozen. It's funny, they just kind of hanging out over here.
This egg was right here.
Okay, so 11. So not too bad for a move day. There you go, now you're on top of it. Now every single one of them are on top. I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. Oh, Dad's armpit. Oh, okay.
I grew tomatoes that I didn't know about. Armpits. Somebody might be in heat because stud muffins over by the fence going—
Oh really? You're purring in. Good job, he's cutting the weed down. Thank you.
Oh no, look at this!
That's just a volunteer, that's not even growing inside this high tunnel.
But look at all this. Yeah, but they're all cherry tomatoes, most probably.
I think you ever get any volunteer Romas, do you, Beck? You getting this under control, Beck?
I am, this is the last one.
It's got a lot of runaway vines on it. Here you go.
And you've caught it. Tomorrow we're giving a local homestead a boost. You don't want to miss it. Clearing, surprising them with picnic tables, mulching and tending their orchard. That's tomorrow. See you guys then.
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