STOP Pay for Chicken Feed! Plant This Tree and Feed Them Forever

If you’re tired of buying bag after bag of chicken feed, there are ways to make your land do more of the work. In this video, I’m showing you one of my favorite long-term ideas for a backyard flock: planting a tree that can produce food for your chickens year after year. Instead of thinking only about what you can buy at the feed store, we’ll look at how a productive tree can become part of a larger natural feeding system — providing seasonal food, shade, enrichment, and something your flock can return to every year. I’ll explain what I plant, where I put it, how I protect a young tree from destructive chickens, when the flock can safely forage around it, and how I combine homegrown food with a properly balanced poultry diet. Plant it once. Let it grow. And let your land start working for your flock. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – Stop Paying So Much for Chicken Feed 01:14 – The Tree I Plant for My Chickens 02:28 – Why This Works So Well 03:42 – What Chickens Actually Get From It 04:56 – Choosing the Right Location 06:10 – How Much Space You Need 07:24 – Planting the Tree 08:38 – Protecting It From Your Chickens 09:52 – The Mistake That Can Kill a Young Tree 11:06 – When It Starts Producing 12:20 – Letting the Chickens Harvest Naturally 13:34 – Why Fallen Food Is So Useful 14:48 – Shade Is Another Major Benefit 16:02 – Turning One Tree Into a Feeding System 17:16 – What I Grow Around the Tree 18:30 – How Much Feed Can This Actually Save? 19:44 – What Your Chickens Still Need 20:58 – My Seasonal Feeding Routine 22:12 – How I’d Set This Up From Scratch 23:26 – Making It Produce for Years 24:19 – Final Poultry Advice #Chickens #ChickenFeed #BackyardChickens #FreeChickenFeed #RaisingChickens #Poultry #Homesteading #ChickenTips #SelfSufficiency #FarmLife