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Feeding Chickens and Beehive Check

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What happens here

He demonstrates feeding the meat birds by filling a large feeder with scratch grain and water, then moving the chicken coop to a fresh patch of grass. He also refills a larger container for laying hens' feed, stored in a pickle barrel with a screw-top lid to keep it weatherproof and mouse-proof. Afterwards, he briefly checks on active beehives, noting the bees are busy.

Goal: Josh feeds the meat birds and laying hens, demonstrating efficient feed storage and coop management, and observes the activity of his beehives.

Tools and materials

  • Beehives
  • Chicken Feeder
  • Metal Scoop
  • Pickle Barrel with Screw Top
  • Waterer
  • Scratch Grain Producer's Pride

What they say

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different paddock of grass throughout the yard or throughout the past year eventually this will be a rolling cycle with about 10 or 15 of these and we'll sell chickens to the public right there is where they went through the yard so we'll basically run them back and forth back and forth and we're gonna fence in our old garden here and let them pack through the garden to get some yummy garden goodies so 150 pound pail it's a 10 gallon pail we'll fill this thing up 4 times that means it'll last for 4 days the birds are eating somewhere in a neighborhood of 12 and a half pounds of food per day it's on about 40 Birds 40 meat Birds or so give or take two or three next we'll take the food to the big chickens over here I'll show you how we store our food outside for our laying hens pretty simple pretty easy and Mouse proof so here is how we store our chicken feed for our big chickens and it's just in a pickle barrel with a screw top pretty simple pretty waterproof no water gets in there good to go next nice warm day we get and we've got time this thing's got to get cleaned I haven't cleaned it in about a year that's a lot of poop that's a lot of good butt fertilizer for the garden too honey bees are rockin check it out all four hives are rocking it out let's get a little close-up nice I think we

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