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The feed bill is the great cost of keeping hens, and it can be cut way down, near to nothing for a good part of the year, with something most folks throw away or let sit useless in the corner of the yard: the compost pile. A good active compost pile is a living larder, teeming with the bugs and grubs a chicken loves, and if you set your flock to work on it, they feed themselves for free while doing you a great deal of other good besides.

In this video:
✓ Why an active compost pile is a feast of exactly the food a hen most wants
✓ The five things one system does at once: feeds the hens, turns the pile, enriches it, controls pests, and makes eggs and compost both
✓ Why foraged bugs and grubs are richer feed than grain alone
✓ Setting it up simply, and the two-bin method for a steady supply
✓ Keeping a big pile working into the cold, when it even makes its own heat

A word of care: keep a chicken-foraged pile to clean plant matter, fruit and vegetable scraps and garden waste, and keep out meat, dairy, and greasy food, which rot foul and can sicken the birds. Keep the pile active and never let hens feed on foul, moldy, rotten matter. And honestly, for a home flock this cuts your feed bill a great deal but should lighten their bought feed rather than replace it entirely, unless your pile is truly abundant. Cut the bill hard, but keep their nutrition complete and never short the birds.

Tell me in the comments: do you feed your chickens this way, and how much has it saved you?

Next time, we talk about all those dates stamped on your food, the sell-by, use-by, and best-by, and how to know honestly when food has truly gone off.

The people who built this country with their hands knew that, and we are only just starting to remember it.

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