a little bit of a chilly morning today
you can see your breath a little bit i can't i'm not sure if you can see it in the uh in the uh
camera there but it's chilly which which brings me to the point of what we're doing here this morning
um i just loaded up uh a bunch of poop it's that time of the year yeah the harvest season's done
uh we learned quite a bit you could see it in our previous couple videos we got some
and also turned out on potatoes uh onions garlic uh we got some squash a little bit of
pumpkin not that much beans didn't work out so uh basically fed that all to the rabbits the chickens
you know reuse what you have on the homestead and that's kind of uh where this poop comes into uh
play i just loaded a bunch of chicken poop that we've been collecting since we've had them
in the spring that's including our meat birds and our layers i just cleaned out their coop a couple
weeks ago so that they have some nice bedding for the winter the rabbit poop i had from cleaning up
on the other side of the chicken coop where we had the babies so over time that all piled up and i
combined all that into one pile by the greenhouse and as well as we had a pile of rabbit poop right
underneath the male rabbit that we have so i was able to easily shovel that in and put that in
to these bins back here these garbage bins and i'm gonna be stopping off at the goat shed
just before i go down to the garden to pick up some goat poop because uh there's some good stuff
uh coming for out of them and it's not smelly and all that stuff we'll get to that in a second
now you know it's not really that bad working with poop and or manure should i use it as the the
proper term so nobody gets uh offended so working with manure people think oh that's gross and
it could be depending like the chicken poop there it really stunk this uh summer one and the
the sun was beating on it and uh it was cooking basically in the sun along with everything else
the rabbit poop not so much but the chickens for sure uh so when you're working with livestock poop
it's not really that bad and in the past being a tradesman i worked in many different places and
i'll tell you one thing is i worked in a water treatment plant and the things that us humans
put down the toilet and that the things that come out of us human beings
yeah your nostrils basically uh burn out and the smell doesn't even bother you because uh
it's that bad in there so working uh with this stuff here is uh really not that bad uh just
make sure you keep your hands clean unless you get some underneath your fingernail like this
all right funny story just uh unloading these things here uh we used to have a farm growing up
out in the middle of the country somewhere and it was just a piece of land small little
house on it but it had a garden that was probably um four times this size here
and we would use manure a lot of the times and it would be chicken manure and we didn't have a
pickup truck like i have now which is convenient when transporting uh manure and what we had was a
aerostar or sorry safari van aerostar was like a similar version just a different company but
anyways we'd pull out the bench seats out of the van and fill up the truck the van itself with
these garbage cans and we drive out probably half hour before uh we got to our farm because the farm
itself was uh probably a 45 minute drive so we'd get out to this farmer's place where he gave out
free chicken manure uh and so we'd stop by there and this stuff was like heaping piles like i'm uh
six one myself and these things were uh bigger than me i would say probably 10 12 foot piles
and the the sun would be beating on it all the time and we'd be filling these things up and it
would just be stinking and so because we had these things filled uh and in the back of the van now
mom and dad were worried about the manure spilling in the back of the van and guess who
was the one that got to sit in the back of the van and between all the containers there
and hold on for dear life so that they don't fall over so this little bit here and compared to
the water treatment plants where i've worked at is nothing i just remember that stench
it's so bad right just and you have windows that don't open
all right moving forward uh i'm gonna talk about the different kinds of poop that i have here and
the benefits of them uh each one so again i have chicken poop i have um rabbit poop and i have goat
manure so uh goat manure is some of the best stuff you can use hands down first off it's um it's
really clean it's not like uh a dog or a horse or a cow where they lay mud pies these come out
almost in kibble-sized bits like a rabbit almost or a deer um so uh it's not considered very hot
either because it doesn't stink and just how clean it is itself um so what i like to do is i
have bedding in the goat house where the uh goats will uh urinate and uh and poop onto and so that's
basically all i did here was clean up the bedding um clean all that stuff up and bring it down here
and i'll be uh tilling that into the garden now the chicken manure that i'd like to talk to you
about is uh one of the best stuff you can go out there i've been hearing that chicken
manure is now a hot commodity in the um growing section or the garden section of big box stores
and uh it's going for a decent penny so i feel quite fortunate that i get that free of charge
here i just have to move it around myself and it's actually real organic stuff i don't know
where it's been coming from or the store stuff anyways uh chicken poop is very high in nitrogen
um and fresh manure is considered hot and you should not put it in to your garden right away
and with your plants because you do have the potential of burning your plants down
and killing them basically so that's one of the reasons i'm going to be putting in all the chicken
manure that i have um in this garden here well i have a still a pile left upstairs or up top and
i'll be adding that to the greenhouse and i'll be expanding um this garden down here uh with a
second garden over to the side here which i will be showing you as well now chicken poop uh like
i said it's very high nitrogen you want to uh let it sit over the winter so that way it has time to
cool down and uh the snow gets to sit down on it and kind of um saturate the soil with it
i also have uh wood shavings in there as well so that's why another reason i want to put it in
there right now to give the wood shavings times to um a breakdown over the winter and the wood
shavings is just from uh the chicken coop itself that i use as a bedding in there and what i'll do
also is in the springtime whatever i clean out of the chicken coop i'll be putting into the garden
here as well um but i'll give it probably a week or two before i actually put my plants in so that
way it's not hot and killing off my seedlings the next and final one is the rabbit manure and some
say that rabbit manure is some of the best manure that you can use again because it's considered a
cold um a cold manure and does not have to be composted like sheep or [ __ ] or cow manure
all right i got everything spread out so what i did was for every one trash can i uh took a
quarter of the uh garden and dumped it in six different places so technically every
uh eight i put a uh three drops of the manure in and now i got the roller killer warming up
and uh basically all i'm gonna do is tilt everything in all the um weeds that are here
all the squash that has been hit by the frost i'm going to tilt all that in because it's going
to break down and turn into nutrients for the growing season for next year so it's all good
i'm also thinking that i might add some more uh manure to this uh depending on how everything
spreads out but you'll see that in the next coming days when i actually expand this garden
and start breaking up the soil for the uh garden number two down here so let's get tilling
so
all right that's that uh i typically go this way as well but i figure since in the spring
i'm gonna be tossing in some more manure uh i'll do another pass this way and uh this way as well
but for this year uh i think it's uh good enough all the dead plants that you see in the back there
or the the green plants or the live plants they're just gonna decay and turn into some compost
and uh i brought the goats in here they can kind of fertilize back here if uh
they can and uh they got all this green stuff that they can uh eat up for now so looks like it's
gonna rain and i got some wood to split i'll uh see on the next video when uh we're expanding uh
we're putting in a garden right here just to utilize some space so i'll see you on the next one