FREE Chicken Feed All Year: The 3-System Homestead Method

You are spending money on chicken feed every single month — and most of it is completely unnecessary.

Chickens are not meant to live on bags of commercial grain.
They are foraging animals, designed to feed themselves while improving the land around them.

In this video, I break down three proven systems used in traditional self-sufficient farms to feed chickens for free all year, while increasing egg quality, soil fertility, and garden productivity.

No complicated setups.
No expensive inputs.
Just systems that work together.

This is how chickens were raised before feed stores existed.

🕒 TIMESTAMPS

00:00 – Why buying chicken feed is the real problem
01:38 – What chickens are actually designed to eat
03:12 – Overview: the 3 systems that replace feed
04:55 – System #1: The Chicken Tractor Method
07:48 – How chickens fertilize garden beds naturally
10:12 – System #2: The Balfour Rotation Method
12:54 – Growing feed instead of buying it
14:58 – System #3: Orchard Access (when and why it works)

🧠 WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

How to feed chickens without buying commercial feed

How chickens can fertilize your garden while feeding themselves

The Chicken Tractor system explained simply

The Balfour rotation method for continuous forage

How orchards can replace part of your feed bill

Why traditional farms never relied on feed stores

🌱 THE CORE IDEA

Chickens are not an expense.
They are a self-feeding system when used correctly.

When integrated into gardens, orchards, and rotations, they produce:

Eggs

Compost

Pest control

Fertility

All while eating what the system provides.

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