Prepare Feeders and Waterers

and keeps the birds cool now we've got all the feeders and stuff stored from last year in our old tobacco barn so we're going to go up to the tobacco barn it's kind of a treat going up there [Music] you guys might notice a few other things going on on the farm the chickens aren't the only thing that's going on on the farm blog here guys be sure and found that like button subscribe to the channel there's a lot more fun stuff going on here at the Stoney Ridge this is our tobacco Shack our tobacco barn this is a circa nineteen I'm gonna say teens tobacco barn hand-built tobacco barn this is where they used to hang tobacco up back in the old days pretty cool we'll try and go in there the lights pretty low but and it's a mess so don't hold it against me it's a storage area this was a huge mess a huge storage area a huge disaster of a mess it's still a moderate mess but I got a big pile of trash to take to the dump on the trailer now instead of a big pile of stuff we might use everyday into the tobacco barn we go this is the tobacco barn those are called tear or peer poles I think they're called tear poles and this is where they used to string up tobacco and dry it this would make a pretty awesome cabin huh really cool this is also where we store our fancy feeders there's one fancy feeder here is our water er let's talk really quickly about the feeders and the waters that we use this is a five gallon easy clean type water er and it has a little float in there that allows water to trickle out right through here it works great on a slope in other words when you're moving chickens on a hillside or when you're on a mobile coop the water tends to drip out of your standard type water err not with this and if we want to clean it all we got to do is open it up and you can get right in there so it's a whole lot easier than unscrewing and sliding and taking stuff apart all you do is put water in there and it works it works great let's show you the feeder so here's the feeder system that we use this is easy to handle I think it's four feet long maybe five feet I think it might be a five foot long feeder this will hold about 25 pounds of chicken feed the chickens fifty chickens will go through one of these in a day once they're about five weeks old these birds are two weeks old now and they're going out there already feathered out and they're going out on past year what's really interesting is