Growing Food And Food Resilience
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How do these not cause blisters in the animals?
You can run it through an oat roller.
This was a lovely video I really enjoyed it! We are going to try this.
Thank you! We are glad you enjoyed it
Other youtubers tested and found it grows best in the shade. I have had trouble growing it too. I grow it in buckets with fish waste water. This summer i will change the water every 2 or 3 weeks to replenish nitrogen. Duckweed is great food for goldfish and turtles.
We've had Ancona ducks and now have Cayuga ducks as well as a pair of juvenile Bastopol geese. The Anconas behaved less like a flock than the Cayugas do. We find it relaxing to sit with them.
Pretty cool 😎 how long do you think the syrup would last?
Hello! I’ve just happened upon your channel. I’ve got several San marzano plants that I started from seed. I see I’ll be needing WAY more trellising than I have. 😂 Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Can’t wait to binge your content.
They are monsters if given the chance. But they really are great producers and our go to tomato now for sure. Thank you so much for watching
Hi from Romania,very nice rabbits Champagne
Thank you 😃
You look like John Mellencamp. The new silkies are cute. My dad had bantam chickens when I was in high school they were so cool.
The switch to silkie chickens has been fantastic. We are really enjoying them and they fill all our needs in a super cute package, 😆
For the viability sink test, I found water from a kitchen faucet it had little bubbles that would stick to the nut and make it float. Putting the same floaters in water that had sat a while, many sank. Now I always let the water sit an hour or so.
Excellent tip. That would definitely explain why so many of the floaters still seemed like they were perfectly fine. Hoping that this year is another great harvest for us.
@@HickorycroftFarm Walnuts will be again, haven't scoped out the hickory. Last year so many vids came out for walnut, hickory, and oak. They must communicate, but across long distances, how???
I hope everything is ok! Haven’t seen anything posted lately.
We just lost our American buff female in an accident. We are heartbroken. Our gander is now alone and raising the 6 goslings that just hatched a few weeks ago. Do you recommend we find a new adult female for our gander?
Thank you for showing us how to grow turnips
Thank you so much for watching along it is always appreciated 😀
I moved my other hens and left the broody one alone lol.
That method also works well 😀
My tress finally have blooms on this year! I’ll definitely be looking at your jelly for recipes, hopefully I’m able to get enough to make some jam or jelly’s
The Cherries definitely have good and bad years. This year our trees had barely any blossoms, so good thing I made lots last year.
Excellent content! We actually just got ourselves a goose for "bird guarding" purposes. For our chick's and Keats. All are being raised together in hopes of companionshipand cooperation. 😊❤️ Going well so far! If anyone's reading this and trying something similar, get your chick's/Keats first (a few weeks older) and THEN get your gosling.. Geese grow sooo quickly and much larger, they can (by accident) step on or trample the chicks/Keats. But this isn't so much an issue once the chick's/Keats have grown a few weeks. 😊👍
Wow there’s so much that you could even start a business selling the seeds lol
It is amazing how much a few plants can produce.
Are the Beets stored in wood chips?
Yes, pine shavings. We have always found that it works pretty good for us.
I like your idea and your creativity. I was thinking about doing the same thing. Have you consider using fish that you can eat, such as bass or even the lowly tillapia?
I'm also one of those few who can't get duckweed to grow. Apparently I have too much water movement.
Great information! Well done 😀
Thank you 😃
Silkie is the funnest breed
We are enjoying them a lot and I (Steph) have to admit I love all the colour combinations.
I've been at my wits end with all the wild parsnips in my yard!!!!! It's like every time i pull and toss one, four grow back! I was told they were poisonous. So I've just been pulling pulling pulling and tossing them all. Well, talk about food security in hard times. 😂 I'll never starve. I'm gonna dig some more up tomorrow and for the first time, I'm gonna eat them!!!
Thanks for the idea I have dog kennels that I use to put baby birds in before I take them out to their permanent place.
After few years of raising geese, I found Swangoose species breeds (Kuban, African, Chinese, partially Kholmogory) to be a lot less feed intensive than Greylag base breeds, which tend to consume more grain and fatten up more. That said, swangoose produce smaller and leaner carcass, so they're not for everyone, especially if you like to eat plenty of meat.
Bought one plant on a whim before I knew much about them. I’m not prepared. 😮 I better get out there and start getting ready! Lol
Super cool! I have a garden and 3 of those tanks to collect rain water, but they have been turning into pond water the last 2 years and decreasing the garden output, so I'm considering a system like this. Did you say you have other animals that will eat the fish? What's the larger water plants in the bottom? Are there rocks in the bottom? Thanks!
This is so interesting and helpful. Thank you. 🍭 xx
I did this with pumpkin, trying to recreate a pumpkin pancake.... It was astonishing how little fliwer came from our pumpkins.
Its called a sheaf of wheat
Schmaltz!
The blue squash are Blue Hubbard squash.
Love this idea. Do stay inside them overnight? How do you handle predators?
Its an old video, but i hope you see this and reply, because im getting some partridge chanteclers pretty soon, and i cant seem to nail down any good information on how they handle predators (pine martens, hawks, things roughly their own size)
Hey thanks guys, been doing this awhile and wanted to start grinding, do tall add anything to the ground mix?
I really liked yours design on the rabbit tractors....need 2 bld some....gonna use your design...thanks!
I've been growing them for 4 years, in small pots, so mine never grown that tall. My late mom loved them. Super delicious
What if they are not broody and don't have a nest? My African goose is with 4 ducks, no gander, and has gotten much more aggressive the last few months.
You can’t accurately line breed this way unless the hens lay a different colored egg and you can collect them and separate them for incubation. This requires single pair matings.
I'm finishing my coop now and I want to use this spiral mating system however, I don't have the space nor the intention to keep clans completely seperate. Would it work if I just keep all the adult hens from all 3 clans together in my main coop (from where they can free-range my entire property) and from them select the best females for breeding (ringing them for identification) and only take them out of the flock when it's time for breeding? I am thinking of having a bachelor pen where I will keep my roosters seperated from the hens and 3 small breeding pens where I can put the selected hens from each clan with the cock they are to mate with for a couple of weeks (until I have enough eggs) and then release the hens back into the main coop and the cock in the bachelor pen. From there I'd hatch the eggs in an incubator and keep the chicks from each clan seperated in a growout pen until they are big enough to be ringed and introduced to the flock.
I'm glad you gave sufficient attention to discuss schmaltz but you missed out on talking about the gribenes, the skin cracklings. Delicious.
Mr Hicory! When did you plant your harvest? Thanks!
Super explanation. I learned about clan mating first in an old English book, Farmer’s Progress: A Guide to Farming by George Henderson. He also ran four clans. He explains that tartans, an Irish child’s game with colored stones, and mosaic designs in Persian temples show how before people could read they could track genetic relationships. He combined clan mating, however, with a bit of single mating, which is what I do. Even without trap nesting, you can figure out who is a great layer, say, by physical examination and observation. There may be a few hens that have a great dual purpose physique AND also lay great. In your case, you'd need four small pens for a male and female during breeding. For my six clans (but generally breeding only three clans a year) I use easily movable 4x4 wire and wood dome pens on grass. I scoot them to fresh grass 1-2 times a day for the week before collecting eggs and for the week to 10 days I'm collecting. My pens are fairly predator proof, but I try to use them in my Electronet area where I raise chicks in the summer. I also use the clan color on the right leg band and the cock's color on the left. As well, I wing band chicks and generally use clan-colored Jiffy wing bands. So I can also run my hens together. I may start a separate pen for my pullets because in my breed the hens are hard on pullets.
Wanted to add on egg production. I've read that great progress began when breeders realized a hen passes the trait to her SON. So breed the sons of great layers to other hens and pullets.
What size dog crate did you use?
Great video, I've only just now found your channel and I'm really impressed with it! A lot of what I know about duckweed is its potential for a source of bioremediation, renewable energy, and (of course) a prolific protein source. However, based upon their application there are different species that are recommended by the literature. If you mentioned what species you're using in the video, then I apologize I must have missed it, but if not then maybe switching the species (from what I've read, those within the same genus have similar potentials within their uses) may help the issue. Also, I want to hit the point home that this comment is based on reading and background knowledge within biology. I have no direct experience trying to grow duckweed, but as it's been the hot topic within environmental and ecological studies I've read a fair amount about the plant at this point. Wishing you luck!
Glad you enjoyed the video. Since we did this video we have kept experimenting and have had a bit more success (will post something about that in the nearish future). Its Lemna minor that we are using (lesser duckweed). We actually were able to use some this winter feeding our silkies and they really liked it fresh (I know the water content is higher fresh but in the winter that's not terrible either for the birds). I'm actually a biologist as my "normal" job and that's what got me into the research as well on growing it. I need to do another video on this soon!
@@HickorycroftFarm I had a feeling you were a biologist based on the way you speak! Finishing up my bachelors right now and looking towards grad school to *hopefully* do the same. Thanks for the reply. Looking forward to that video in the future.
What a clever way to make the tractor.
They work really well as long as you have fairly flat ground (we just put a few rabbits out in the tractors today actually!)
How have geese owners experienced their loyalty? Do they roam too much?
I like your concept. And the repurposing. I have a doe in a repurposed large dog crate on grass (more like weeds!) The holes are either 2x4 or 3x4. Great for letting grass in, not so great for her digging. How much land do you think you would need for a doe and growing out a litter of kits?
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Thanks alot man very informative