Collecting and Aging Chicken Manure for Garden Fertilization

more hins in here and it would be just fine. I clean the chicken coop out probably three or four times a year. You can put shavings in there, wood chips in there, sand in there, whatever you want to put in the chicken coupe. So, you can utilize that manure as fertilizer on your garden. I've been growing this garden right here for almost 10 years now, and I've never put fertilizer on it. Every bit of it [screaming] has come from the butts of these chickens. So, all my fertilizer comes from them. The next thing that they do is they reduce your waste stream. I don't care if you go out to dinner or if you cook at home, there's always going to be some scraps. Whether you're cutting up asparagus or apples or anything that you have leftover food scraps, even onions, you can throw them in there and the chickens will consume them. So, you can offset their diet and your food cost or your feed cost by giving these chickens things like grass clippings and food scraps from your kitchen. If you go out to dinner and you got an unconsumable amount of food or if it's something that you just didn't like, scoop it up, take it home, and feed it to your chickens. It's awesome. It helps keep the food out of landfills. It helps take what you would otherwise throw away and turn it into eggs, food, and fertilizer. So, is it worth it to keep chickens? These four chickens consume somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 lbs of feed every month. That cost about 10 bucks. The chicken coupe. Probably got a thousand bucks in materials, maybe a little bit more in materials of this chicken coupe. When you build your chicken coupe, let's talk about that. Build it up off the ground. You see how this one's up off the ground? If you put it down next to the ground, the manure is going to rot stuff. That's important. And you don't want to be bending over to get eggs. You don't want to have to walk through chicken poopy to get your eggs. You want it easily accessible just like this. Open up. There's a be a video attached to the end of this. I think I got five hens. Someone was in there laying an egg. Uh, be sure you hang your feeder up just like I've got right here. Get it up off the ground. That will help with feed waste. And you're going to get some feed waste cuz the chickens like to dig. They they like to get in here and do that right there. Elevate it up off the ground. That will cut down on the mice. I will tell you this. And you also have to have a roost pole. So you got roost poles here. And…