7/16/21
12:30 pm Friday
Exciting! We Examine The Type Of Sand And Drainage Rock For A 1” Foot Deep Sand Footing, French Drain And Dry Well On The M.I.G.H.T Project!
In a previous video we showed our footing and drainage for our Malay breeding facility at Cascadia Heritage Farm. We want to show you the progress and what we have been learning along the way. In this video we are very excited to have installed a foot deep of construction sand plus a French drain and dry well to keep our sand dry for our M.I.G.H.T, Malay Invigoration Gene Hybridization Team, Project. We show this large footing/ trench full of washed construction sand, the French drain and dry well in this video. We talk more about why we used a washed construction sand. Below is a link to some wonderful information about what type of sand to use and why use sand. This article is really well done and is worth reading if you are interested in using sand in your chicken coops.
https://www.thefeatherbrain.com/blog/sand-chicken-coop-bedding
We also show the drain rock/ round river rock in both the French drain and dry well. Our goal is to keep our sand as dry as possible to avoid disease and to aid in easy cleaning of our coups. We want to keep the environment as balance and health as possible to help keep our Mighty Malays healthy and happy.
We are working with Alastair for Black Horse Contracting and he and his team are doing a fantastic job! We are working on a building our breeding facility that will allow us to breed thoughtfully and manage the bird’s health and their environment well. We are employing the “heavy use area” concept that we learned about from our local Conservation District. This concept is to avoid making mud in areas that livestock are kept resulting in less disease. We have learned in this process ground material and water management is key.
This breeding facility is surprisingly complicated!!!! Our challenges are that we are farming in a small area, we want our birds to be healthy, we want the land to be healthy, and we want to manage their breeding carefully. This means tons of cross fencing, tons of sand and tons of work! The funny thing is, we also running another breeding project where we do not control the process. The final goal is to take birds from each program to create a healthy, huge, wild, exciting, beautiful Mighty Malay!
We want to encourage hope and appreciation in ourselves and others with this project, wish us luck!
We will keep you posted and show you what happens next.
We at Cascadia Heritage Farm believe we can make a difference and you can too.