Cleanliness and Chickens

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Sometimes the coop can get a little messy. In this episode, Kevin, AJ, and Jordan discuss tips and tricks that help chicken-keepers with hygiene. They also cover a few anecdotes about their adventures in chicken cleanliness. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/44nRLDR Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/4a3oqzx Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3UI7pqa EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/4a3alCm Learn More. 14 Ways Backyard Chicken Save Your Garden and the WordConnect With Jordan Barnes:Jordan: Jordan is the co-founder and creative force behind Coop. She brings an unconventional wealth of expertise to the world of agtech, with Coop's mission to blend innovation with tradition, making high-tech farming both accessible and delightful. You can usually find her whipping up gourmet meals for her favorite hens, 4 Rhode Island Reds, with a spicy ranch water in hand.AJ Forsythe: AJ is the co-founder and original visionary behind coop, on a mission building the world's largest decentralized food production network. His journey from beekeeping to winemaking led to founding the world's largest on-demand repair and trade-in network, and earning a spot on Forbes 30 Under 30. His passion for chickens started accidentally when he rescued a chicken from a meat market in LA and brought it back to Cal Poly on the train. Instagram Website Shop the StoreAs an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Get Our BooksLooking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live!He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots.Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store.More ResourcesLooking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	When you are keeping chickens, you are keeping chickens you will run into a situation at some point where it just
0:18.9	gets a little bit messy whether it's in the hen house or the chickens butt. I have a story about that I'll share in today's show, but we have
0:26.2	A.J. and Jordan back on the show. They are the co-founders of Coop and it's a smart chicken
0:31.9	co-op. We'll talk about it and guys I don't know about you but I've had to like put one of my
0:38.2	hands in a little bowl of hot water and soak her butt and then like whip did you put saline or salt in it to make
0:45.6	it saline I did not write that tip down I don't even know that that's the that's the trick is that a
0:51.5	trick to get that unheartened poop?
0:54.0	Yeah.
0:55.0	But to know.
0:56.0	Okay.
0:57.0	You know what was weird though is it was my Orpington butter,
1:01.0	so she's my buff Orpington and I put her in this like big silver bowl, filled it up with hot water,
1:06.2	and I was like, there's no way she's gonna be down with this, right? I don't see my hands like bathing like ducks.
1:11.0	She sat in that thing for like 30 minutes. She just didn't move. I was like,
1:15.5	wait what? I didn't realize that was a thing. We might need to do a chicken spa content would be hilarious.
1:22.6	That might need to be a scene that's happening.
1:25.0	That's brilliant.
1:26.0	She's like, this is nice.
1:27.1	Jordan met someone, Jordan, you want to talk about the woman you met
1:31.0	that takes her chicken in the pool?
1:32.4	Yes, when we were still early days of Coop, I think we were actually in Palo Alto pitching and we were,
1:38.2	you know, I was walking somewhere to get a coffee and I struck up a conversation with a woman who ran like a gift shop and she had a little chicken pen on and we just went from there.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Epic Gardening, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Epic Gardening and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.