Makapala, North Kohala, Hawaiʻi Island · October 19–21, 2017

Master Cho on the Nutritive Cycle

Three days in a Makapala hall with Master Cho Han-kyu: when to feed a crop, what to feed it, and why. All seven recorded sessions are here as they happened. His Korean is translated again and checked, so you can read what he said, not only what the room heard.

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4 talks on “housing”

Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·35 min Spoken in Korean

Chicks on Brown Rice, Hens on Green Corn, Sun on the Floor

The livestock section starts. Cho shows his self-ventilating pen and skylit chicken house, then raises chicks: brown rice first, the 3-day yolk, egg yolk with bamboo leaves, then greens like a cow. Green corn chopped and fermented with IMO4, LAB and grape yeast becomes feed; his feed-plot arithmetic gets checked by the room. He ends on the layer house: openings at 36 cm, sun across the floor once a day, and a rice-straw floor with no flies and no smell.

Found Sun on a sheet-iron roof pulls fresh air through the pen

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Gus, with Master Cho Han-kyu (interpreted by Kim Chang) ·18 min

Build the Coop Before the Chicks: Gus's Hard Lesson

Gus tells the room about two weeks of poultry training in Korea and his first batch at home: 100 chicks shared with Stephen, and most of his died. Not from sickness: fear of mongoose kept them crowded in too small a space. Kim Chang, the interpreter, adds her own lessons on mongoose and rats, Cho says with proper housing not one of 100 chicks dies, and Steve tells how fish killed his.

Found Two weeks of hands-on poultry training in Korea, April 2017

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·28 min Spoken in Korean

A Yolk You Can Lift: Hen Houses and Egg Tests

It's past 9 pm and Cho keeps going through his poultry slides: soil floors and dust baths, Korea's pesticide eggs, the hen that roosts highest, broody cages, dark laying boxes and rice hulls. He shows home-made feed, pig feed from broiler litter, and how to test an egg: lift the yolk, look for three layers, pull it with a toothpick. Then blood spots, red paper against pecking, dissected birds and darker yolks from purple sweet potato.

Found On a soil floor the droppings break down and the hens dust-bathe

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Master Cho Han-kyu, interpreted by Kim Chang ·20 min Spoken in Korean

Sawdust + IMO4 = A Pig Pen Nobody Cleans for 3 Years

Fifteen more minutes of slides, now pigs. Cho shows the wing-curved roof, houses 2 m apart with perilla between, and the floor bed of logs, sawdust and IMO4 that lets one housewife keep 300 pigs with no cleaning for 3 years. Then free sow pens, a Chinese pen at minus 40, a fermented feed box, food scraps and pig dung turned into feed, piglets on the first nipple, and a stress-hormone slide. The session ends: 'that is love', and the rest tomorrow.

Found The pig-house roof curves like a chicken's wing

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