the big times new wave of food price hikes set to hit americans this fall the 8.8 increase in
food prices that americans have already seen doesn't take into account the dramatically
higher cost that farmers are now experiencing the prices now have not hit the grocery stores yet
but she expects they will start by the end of summer much of the cost of food
hinges on the price of oil chester said fuel and fertilizer together make up 55
of its total cost the price of diesel fuel has more than doubled to more than five dollars per
gallons today farmers say the cost of fertilizer an oil derivative has tripled and in some cases
quadrupled there's a real risk the price of gas could reach six dollars a gallon by
august retail prices could surge another 37 percent do you have anything to say to that
oh lord and then she laying on a bunch she's not laying on two she's five
really
this is a very exciting week special week launch week for can you guys see it the abundance plus
community app oh my goodness well there it is i mean the pictures aren't loaded because i
i'm on i'm not online but guys it's a facebook like group but just for us none of the silly
rules plus a marketplace where you can sell stuff at plus a map where you can find each other and
recipes and what else oh discounts to come to homestead companies and
is that not enough okay plans we've got plans for all my builds okay we're launching that
this week if you're already in abundance plus you got it just download it on android or app and use
your same username and login if you are not in abundance plus you're going to want to do that
get this community app we are going to do let's do an early bird special let's do 15 percent off
until wednesday midnight 11 uh 59 pm 15 off early bird discount anyway this is a very special week
in honor of launching this i'm going to address some of the big world problems and i'm going to
point out how different elements of homestead can address that today we'll talk about how chickens
can do that i want to make a final point of saying at the each end of these is that
we can learn this and do this but we do this better together the world's problems are big
homesteading is a solution but us together homesteading and supporting each other
is even bigger and that's what we're celebrating with this community app is really going to connect
a lot of people i'm really excited about so you definitely got to check that out i'll
leave the link for it down in the description or you can go to abundanceplus.com and get that
for today's homestead element the chicken the almighty chicken we're gonna focus
on meat chickens today i would encourage you to get layered chickens but in the spring
focus on meat chickens because if food prices are going up and they're going to spike in the fall
then it's not it's not too late sea monsters are the sea monsters what i like to call corn c
for cornish cross uh in two months guys two months it's just a two months commitment so
even now in the fall get it get your chicks here four weeks before your last possible frost date
uh ask mr google pants when that is for you ours is october 10th
so i could technically be getting chickens chicks as late as september 10th so it's not too late
to give us some structure to this let's answer the who what when where why all those questions
why sea monster as well it's super fast it's going to be half the cost of pound for pound what you're
paying in the grocery store it's going to be half the cost there's no supply chain issues there's no
going out to the grocery store you just go to your freezer when well now guys i would you could get
chicks i would say easily up to four weeks before your first possible frost date ask mr google fans
when that is for you what i've already said for the the kind of bird get you the cornish
crush get the jumbo cornish cross you can get them at mcmurray hatchery or somewhere similar
where well let's say you're going to grow a hundred i mean if you if you if all hundred
made it you'd have two a week for the entire year where you're gonna put them so thousand
if you do my net system for a hundred birds it's gonna be a little over
seven thousand square feet guys to give you an idea of that an acre is like 45
000. so it's not very much at all and if you're not going to do 100 at a time do 20
and do it in my uh chicken tractor and it's only like 40 inches by 8 feet that's 840 square feet
that's not even a thousand square feet that's a very typical front or backyard y'all 20 birds
and lastly how do you do it well i'll go into full length we've got plenty of classes to get
you completely through it from day zero all the way to harvest all the way to butchering inside
abundance plus but the the general how is well you're gonna need the premier one poultry net
you're gonna need a couple of five gallon vacuum still waters you're gonna need a trough heater
a couple of king feeders a meat shawl which we have plans for that in the in in the member
area you're gonna move that out onto the pasture after the chicks are three weeks old so you're
gonna have the chicks and a brooder until three weeks old guys i don't have enough time in this
video to go over the brood or like i said it's all in abundance plus but uh you you keep the
people in the boot i call them people sometimes you you keep them in the brooder for three weeks
and then you set them out and then they're only out for five weeks and in the net system in the
meat shawl they move once a day you move the meat shell once a day and that goes for three days and
then like i had to do today you have to move the entire net and it's super easy the bird's getting
habit you get a habit you move that entire net every three days and if you did 100 birds in one
100 foot premier one net that's going to be a little over 7000 square feet if you're
going to do it in the chicken tractor you would move that every day your day-to-day
operation is going out there topping off the feed putting water in it moving people that's
it you can easily do that within 15 minutes every day sometimes less if everything was
topped off well then of course at eight weeks you don't need to go much longer you shouldn't go much
longer any longer butchery and butchering at home this that's probably the most intimidating part of
the process but we have videos on that you could reach out to the abundance plus community and see
if others are are willing to help you i know we have masterminds inside abundance plus and the
mastermind group got together and helped one of the people butcher their birds it was absolutely
amazing so that's your who what when where and why for the sea monsters like i said we got a lot
more of that inside of abundance plus right now when you get abundance plus you get the abundance
plus community for free it's 15 off for the next day and a half it's till wednesday at midnight
this airs tuesday at 3 p.m so from tuesday to wednesday at 3 p.m i'm gonna be hot in there
i'm gonna be in the community area answering any questions it's gonna be chicken theme i mean i'll
answer other questions but let's try to keep it chicken theme if you're a member make sure
you get the app if you're not well make sure you get the app get abundance plus and it'll
come with email instructions on how to get your sign in and get in the app and let's hang out
uh the rest of the afternoon and tomorrow talking about chickens inside abundance plus we'll see you
there 20 minutes till we gotta leave we haven't even milked yet think we can do it gabby's hopeful
how was your new ground guys this is new ground we cleared i don't know from where about where she is
up all along here you've been enjoying it well you grazed it to the ground haven't you kate yo grace
you're tricking me you're kate you're grace i'm kate whoever you all are let's uh open
this gate for the cows it is off let's put it up that way the cousins only have one
last day the reason and we're in a hurry is we want to take them to sliding rock keep going
it's a good sign when they start grazing right when they go across hey are you giving birth
any day right any day i don't think you're giving birth yet you got some mucus though
that means it's gonna be a week hey wouldn't that be something if she had her today get to see her
before you leave would we name it kate and grace maybe she'll have twins oh my gosh that would be
really something so that's what this looks like now that's what it looked like yesterday
thank you guys and the sheep god love them we'll come in and eat
this multiflora rose this other bramble they eat the stuff the cows don't eat
look at them look at them all laying down over there they'll eat this brambly stuff and it'll
let the grass grow better because it's uh it's opening it up to the sunshine and then we'll
have better pasture for our cows all right miss thing you know the drill she knows the drill you
see the tree don't you you're coming to it come on up here wonder if you would behave right here this
would be kind of neat kind of mellow all right give her a good scoop of that maybe a good three
boo yeah and we milked her right there we didn't tire up we didn't have around the shed
that was nice the girls got the calf over good job girls buffalo is that what you named it
buffalo i was talking to a neighbor friend of mine he said anybody want any goats i said i
don't know anybody wants any deviles they're deceiving he's trading out goats for cows
guys you think cows are harder because they're bigger milk naturally naturally homogenizes cows
will stay in one strand of electric fence so don't let those deceitful devil eyes fool ya
cows are easier than goats by far you ready to go henry and who's getting her all right better
late than never so many of us we have a caravan bar in big daddy's truck let's get over my man
what do you think guys you're gonna do it yeah
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