Compost Woodchips Quickly - THE UPDATE! Great results!

This video details the process I use for composting woodchips quickly. I compost the woodchips with chicken manure and biochar. It only takes half a cubic yard of wood chips to make a very hot pile of compost that composts down in about 3 months.

0:00 Intro
0:19 Rationale
2:33 Chicken brooder
3:56 Composting begins
5:53 Composting updates
10:00 Mycelium
11:13 The results

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[stevesamoffgridsmallholdin]

Excellent detailed content just what I needed to study👍

[Technoanima]

Great update on the progress and time line.

[dangolfishin]

I layered a 50/50 chicken manure wood chip mix in between layers of 100% wood chips. Its been a couple weeks now and all of the manure layers have mushrooms growing out everywhere. Hoping those will help breakdown some of the surface crust. I'm still on the fence on whether or not to turn

[Tygydyk]

Great video. But for us homeowners with smaller yards there are some other options. You can get your own wood chips by investing with some $500 gas powered wood chipper and run your own yard stick, branches twice through it to produce fine chips. Mixed with used coffe grounds from your local coffee shops will turn pretty quick into beautifull compost for your garden.

[PachamamaGLORY]

I flood my woodchipped areas in the summer months, the water penetrating and the blasting 120° summer days in AZ expand and decompose woodchips into rich soil for worms. Water and heat work great to break down woodchips.

[Haval]

Hi the secret is to keep it well watered. It was very dry in the plastic container

[mllokie]

Have you tried this with cardboard added as well

[simmonds]

That's good stuff! I don't have a chipper or access to clean woodchips, but I could do this with leaves and homemade charcoal from brush burning in a pit. I've been inoculating biochar with urine, but this seems like it would be simpler and provide a wider range of nutrients.

[lokes]

Great Video. Waiting on my delivery of woodchips now, have my chickens already so this will go in their coop. And I need to get my barrels for Biochar! Good stuff. Keep up the great work.

[kofrass]

Right on. I use biochar frass and em1 solution and have the same results as you.

[AaricHale]

Really great content ! We just made some bio-char today to add to our compost . I joined your channel and will be watching more videos . Thank you for sharing !

[ximono]

The same method is used with sheep. In Norwegian we call it "talle", and it's known to be a very high quality compost. I don't know if there's an equivalent English word.

[MistressOP]

I wonder if you put a broody hen in with the chics if that would work as well. If you left feed in with her. because if the hen bonded with the chics well they could be out of there in under 4 or 5 days. be out on the range. Even no compost doing this you could just pour the woodchips directly on the pasture.

[davidpenfold]

Very interesting. And lovely livestock guardian dog! Is it a Maremma? We had one who passed away recently, she was wonderful.

[pa.fishpreacher]

Hey Brian, I just got a massive pile of chips but they are either pine or spruce. (didn't know what I was getting but was hoping for hard wood chips) Will this process work with pine or spruce?

[imneverwrongsometimestruthlies]

How about tree barks? Especially the decomposing ones? Cz i got plenty and I usually use it for my orchids but I wanted to learn if it was nutritional for other plants, cactuses and succulents? 🙏

[patti]

Feeding composted wood chips to a worm composter will make beautiful fertilizer. Worms are the answer to our composting and fertilizer problems. Go worms!

[frkifrk]

and wood chips were intact when chickens were on it? :)

[cherylj]

Wow! I didn’t know it could get that hot. What if several buckets of kitchen scraps were added? Where would you add it and would it change anything?

[handshearts-seedsfeedamu]

I got a big pile of wood chips last spring for FREE, they have broken down for the most part. I been adding them to the top of my planting beds, along with leaves & pine needles and rabbit & chicken 💩. I am hoping the beds will grow better this year. The beds are full of clay.