PART 2: No Mud, No Smell, No-Work-Compost Making Ultimate Chicken Run
Part two of my guide to making a smell-free composting chicken run. This video focuses on why my composting run is so important to my little backyard-scale ecological farming system, and the specifics of making your composting chicken run produce tonnes of high-quality compost. I also go into reasons why your run might not be meeting your expectations and how to problem-solve it so it gets working for you.
In this video I show you my work-saving composting chicken run. This is a great example of using permaculture principles to turn a problem (stinky gross chicken poop and muddy mess) into a solution (the world's best nutrient rich compost). Make every bag of chicken feed do double duty - turning it into fertilizer by setting up this chicken run system. Chicken compost for the win!
I was inspired by @theJustinRhodesShow , Joel Salatin of Polyface Farm, and Harvey Ussery, author of The Small-Scale Poultry Flock (The best book on chicken keeping in print).
00:00 - Introduction
00:37 - Why My Composting Chicken Run is Important
03:27 - How To Setup A Composting Chicken Run
07:00 - Reasons Why A Composting Chicken Run Might Not be Composting
08:53 - How To Maintain Your Composting Chicken Run
11:57 - Final Thoughts