7:51 - Chicken TV starts, if you wanna skip the other stuff :)
We're learning that in order to have very active and healthy composting worm populations in our chicken composting system, we need to have large, thermally stable and healthy composting happening, but most importantly is we need 'safe havens' or 'home bases' for the worms to keep stable baseline populations.
We're learning this by beneficial accident by having some leftover metal composting rings that are imbedded in our system. I had planned to pull it out this fall to make more room for turning, but luckily I didn't and now we have a place where the red wiggler population can continually reproduce safely and then migrate into adjacent compost. By incorporating more of this design into our system we should be able to create many nuclei of worms to fill our system all winter long with just about the highest quality food our chickens could possibly want.
This is all still 100% compatible with our bigger goals of more compost, less purchasing of resources and healthier chickens. Win win win!
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