Never Pay for Chicken Feed Again Plant This Shrub and Feed Them Forever

📗 Get My Complete Poultry Guides Here: https://angusdouglaspoultry.com/ Feed bills only ever seem to go one way, and for most of us that bag from the mill is the single biggest ongoing cost of keeping a flock. In this video I show you the shrub growing along my fence line that I planted eight years ago and have never paid for since — the Siberian pea shrub, hardy down to -40 degrees and still setting pods every year. Its seed runs around 36% crude protein, comparable to the soybean meal in commercial feed, and because it's a nitrogen-fixing legume it quietly improves the soil around it at the same time. I walk through planting from nursery stock or seed, the four to six week fridge treatment that improves germination, spacing at four to six feet, and the mistake that cost me nearly half my first batch to browsing. I'm honest about the timeline too: two to three years to your first pods, four or five to full yield, then decades of production. I feed it at around 10-15% of the ration rather than as a complete feed. I also cover harvesting and winnowing the seed, how goats and sheep take to it, and why clover, black locust and honey locust belong in the same conversation. This one is for anyone in a climate too cold for moringa who wants a feed source that's paid for once and keeps giving back. CHAPTERS: 00:00 – One Planting, Feed Forever 01:19 – Why Feed Costs Climb 02:37 – Meet The Siberian Peashrub 03:56 – 36% Protein Seed Pods 05:19 – Nitrogen Fixing In The Soil 06:42 – My First Planting Mistake 08:00 – Cold Treating The Seed 09:10 – An Honest Timeline 10:24 – Drying And Winnowing Seed 11:39 – The Bigger Principle 12:51 – Honey Locust Alternative 14:02 – Goats, Sheep And Browsing 15:19 – Yield From A Hedgerow 16:39 – Exactly What To Do 17:55 – Plant It This Season #SiberianPeaShrub #ChickenFeed #FreeChickenFeed #Homesteading #BackyardChickens #Permaculture #NitrogenFixing #FodderPlants #ColdClimateGrowing #SelfSufficiency