Checking Poultry and Apiary
6:40
27:25
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What happens here
The farmer visits his outdoor chickens (pasture sanitation crew) and beehives. He shows a mobile chicken coop and bee boxes, explaining their role in the farm's ecosystem. He demonstrates how pollen is collected using a pollen trap attached to a beehive, highlighting that one tablespoon of pollen can sustain a man for a day in terms of protein. He expresses concern over one of the hives not doing as well as the others, noting a significant amount of dead bees in the pollen trap tray.
Goal: Monitor livestock and collect bee pollen
Tools and materials
- Beehives — Housing honeybee colonies
- Mobile Chicken Coop — Housing free-range chickens
- Pollen Trap — Collecting bee pollen
- Bee Pollen — Nutritional supplement