 apparently under my truck has become the flocks new favorite hiding place on hot days but I got work for you guys to do you chickens are not gonna be freeloaders today and I got just the thing to incentivize you guys to go where I want you to go oh what's that guys what's this is it your favorite dried out corn let's go do some work on the compost pile excuse you guys excuse you excuse me can I can I walk I'm walking here I'm trying to walk here and you chicks are just all up in my way what is this what is this you want some of the gobble gold well let me cut it off and put it in the pile for you because today you guys are gonna work we ain't playing no beat cob why are you jumping on me you have lost your mind especially you don't know Bad Bart Rock excuse you good Lord you guys are gonna end up getting stuck with this knife don't you see I have a knife out don't be jumping on me when I have a knife out here eat that let me try to cut this onto the pile for you guys goodness gracious no roosters at the top of the pile you guys are not gonna jump on me we ain't playing that get down get down but I'm sure you guys are gonna want to play beat cob with it anyway you can get to the main attraction of today's video which is this compost thermometer I bought so we're going to start applying some science to this need project I'm doing here and figure out exactly what temperature and you don't even think about jumping on me don't even think about it don't even think about it alright so you can see everything's labeled real good so hopefully we're gonna be in this area here it's about two feet long and as long as this stays within the green area then I know we're good and while that's going I'm gonna go get some water this pile is definitely gonna need water today we're going into a heat wave for the next I think three or four days why are you guys following me did I not just give you corn yeah we're going into a heat wave where it's gonna get up to about a hundred degrees for the next few days hopefully it's the last one of this year so I'm over these heat waves what do all of you guys want why are you following me I have corn I'm just getting water I might have to go drop some feed on that pile well I'm gonna turn it anyway so I guess I don't really need them to work the pile what do you guys want I know you don't want water maybe if I missed it they'll like that let's see all right do you guys want missed is that what we're looking for you want to be a misty boy hmm you don't really seem to mind you guys want some mist seem cool off no they don't want this just dude dude bro here with the crazy hair all right so there goes mr. blonde he's been a pain in the butt lately because he likes to run off outside of the fence and go in the woods and stuff and he takes other chickens with him they're easy to get back into the field but he will stay out there yeah that's right mr. blonde I'm talking about you yeah you are my main troublemaker rooster don't run from me mr. blonde you know what you do what do you guys want from me I don't need this to get too full carrying it by hand right now I'm probably gonna lose a little bit I should just use my truck for this but with all the chickens wanting to live under my truck it's kind of hard to move it right now this one here was trying to climb up on top of the truck and look at itself in the mirror it's like one of those songbirds except you're not a songbird you're a big white chicken all right let's carry this water back where do the rest of the birds go anyway let me get the stirring this stuff up let's see what this says right about where we need to be a little bit over a hundred I want to be a little warmer than this so I can get it up to about 130 before you know it starts kind of getting back into the too hot danger zone so let's see I can't help improve this piles health it's very dry that's one thing I notice I'm gonna let the chicken scratch this so though have a couple feet on top and let them get active don't even think about jumping up here don't even think about it looks like I'm still missing a couple birds one two three okay let's do it this way one two three four five six seven who's missing maybe they're all here let me try one more count two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen fifteen sixteen seventeen I think actually they're all here okay she scratched all the way down to the bare ground a little skinny rooster just bullied one of the hens and this pile doesn't have any bad smell at all those of you there may be wondering whether or not a compost pile smells as long as you have enough wood chips you know it's basically carbon it neutralizes any bad smell that you would have from chicken poop or rotting material or anything like that you can see if I grab a handful of it you know it's still pretty fresh I mean it's only been active for maybe about a week now but all that stuff's gonna break down into good soil isn't that right mr. red rooster oh that was not very nice why'd you do that to her she didn't deserve that what she do to you huh you think cuz you're not the dominant rooster you're gonna go around bullying the bullets no sir we do not bully the hens we protect the hens no go be nice and that guy seems like he's being a bully all right so most of the coop has come off the pile at this point I'm gonna go ahead and start putting things back together yeah so since all this stuff is really dry I think I'm definitely gonna put one bucket of water over this stuff this gonna stay here nope this GoPro keeps turning off on me I guess it's getting too hot but I'm gonna throw another bucket of water on this pile and I think it'll be where it needs to be at that point dump this in the center too it's chow time