I water the ground in the evening and place a log on the area, in the a.m. I flip it over and they all run to get the bugs that hide under it.

She hates how much she loves her chickens 🤣🤣🤣

Put a bug zapper out there and every morning they got bugs on ground

Clothes on chickens is just as kooky as putting clothes on dogs and cats:-)

I’ve put greens and suet balls etc in wiffel balls. They freak out. There’s always the brave one will tool it and run with it all day. Lol

I'm having fun watching the chickens hang out tree stumps with old branches sticking out. I see them having fun playing on the different sized stumps.

I thank you for so greatly caring about your hens; I doubt that most would even consider many of these things, nonetheless actually carry out the ideas.

I have 2 acres fenced in.. they have no problem keeping occupied... my biggest problem is keeping them away from the crows feed... I feed the crows because they keep the hawks away

Chickens deserve to thrive, Thank you.❤

I'm a new chicken and duck Mama. Thank you for all of your tips, tricks and instruction. ❤️🐔🐥🦆

Two houses up the street there's a ton of bamboo, which I use to create roosting bars in the run. Cut the bamboo; place one end through the hardware cloth or wire on one side of the run and the other end through the same on another side of the run. Attach with zipties. Also you can hang things from roosting bars. For instance a cabbage tether ball or a swing. I've taken an old branch that's roughly 1 1/2" in diameter. Drilled a hole on each end. Using twine hang it from a roosting bar. Now you have a swing. Hang a cabbage tether ball near the swing at a height that the chicken has to be on the swing to access the cabbage!

i love how she talks to the chickens

It’s true! They pick on the each other. In the process of correcting their environment. Thanks for the great ideas.

You're a good chicken mama :) One easy thing you can do is just create a small compost pile (keep it balanced, not overloaded with food scraps and you will have no smell) in their run - give them things to hunt through that they will enjoy and bugs will come and delight them to pick through. Also, yes you can freeze raw pumpkin (and the seeds with stringy pulp I might add) and they will love it. I'll pulled out frozen pumpkin during the summer for them to cool off and enjoy. Hanging corn cobs that the family didn't clean off perfectly, cabbage is always a favorite to allow pecking & it's good for them. I also like to give our melon rind with a bit of melon left on it. Most chickens adore bushes with a bit of clearance to hide under and explore (they love to hide under evergreens & even fruited briars to protect from predators while they find bugs and dirt baths there) - mine free range and honestly my overgrown forsythia bushes saved their lives many times from hawk attacks. It was their favorite place to hang out.

I dont have chickens and dont really want things to take care of at my age, but I love love love your channel....learning so much...who knows I may well get inspired! Thank you for entertaining me!

Thanks, it’s great you make them feel like they are in the wild by giving them stuff to keep them occupied. Also this is some great info will definitely be using it.

My chickens love their swing. And their mirrors and bells. Chickens are too funny!

Really like the grazing box. Making one tomorrow. Thanks!

Sarah, you are as sweet as can be! I enjoyed your video and your comments very much and yes, you can absolutely freeze pumpkin! 🎃🐔🙃

during the summer on hot days, my chickens love to hunt and jump for ice! It isn't just fun, but very hydrating

Thanks for this, my chickens have turned into bullies so hopefully this will help.

Your commentary made me laugh out loud. You have such a witty sense of humor - I love it! I can't wait to get our backyard chicken set up put together. Great info!

I mix my feed and mix treats in with food Then I give scraps Everything is a treat

My aunt had an old piano in the barn they liked to run across the keys. When I get left over spaghetti I give them to my chickens. They go crazy. Probably thinking it’s worms

Thanks for the info, very helpful.

I put a plastic pail for me to sit on in the chicken run and forgot to remove it. The girls have been pecking at it and making a hollow sound.

it's getting too cold for my guy to be outside, but you have given me great ideas, thank you!

It was because of you I created lots of individual scratch areas for my girls, swings, places to hide additional bugs and treats for them..... My girls have feeders in their house which is always full.... But I also scatter their layer food throughout the various play scratch areas as I'm not certain how many bugs we have so it's their proper food they eat anyway.

Wowed that was interesting! Going out to make a swing and prop a pallet up and give them a squash from last year... love the idea of hanging a mirror and the suet blocks. Thankyou

Our chickens have to be covered because of eagles around most everyday . We put a scratch block in with our girls and no pecking at all . We got the scratch block from farm & fleet . Love your videos and i try to spend a couple hours with my girls every day so if something is wrong with one i can catch it right away. we also cut there nails if they start getting to long after all they are my babys !

I love the way you think!

Thank you so much for the grazing box idea!!

Awesome ideas!

I realy needed this video because i bought a few beautiful exotic chicken and i want to give them everything they need to be entertained ,thanks for this video 💕😍

I said “Ouch! Stop!” at 1:08 because one of my hens (also named Gracie) was pecking at mosquito bite on my leg. Destructive! And painful! But cute. And sweet, too.

Get grown feed by bulk. Store in barrel and fermented feed I'd Heather and better for feed gut. Soak in pail for 3 or 4 days. Stirring 2 a day. Strain most water out and scatter on ground. Almost 2 times value from your food. 7 barrel makes a tone storage. Fluffy, so do light packing as you fill barrels.

I do not have any chickens yet. In the last few days I’ve been watching quite a bit on KZfaq of the what to do use and what not to do it. Thank you so much for your information. Love this channel.

You'd have to be awfully bored yourself...and have way too much free time ...to even think about putting clothes on chickens...😂

Mine are seriously entertained by my 2 giant compost piles. They also like digging through the dumped lawn mower bag, and I mulch the leaves with the mower and they love that too.

I do not have chicken my neighbor have some but I like to talk to them and I gave them names. They come to my house all the time. So I love them like a child..

You got me with the Netflix part 😂

This is the best video I have found. Thank you, and thanks for the laughs. I am going to use some of your ideas.

I hv my first 5 🐣 pollitos right now. Thanks for the tips :). My coop is built. Need to build the run next

Thank you!

I've got Two White Brauma Hens who are sisters & stay together, They beat the crap out of a lil Batam Frizzle hen, She was laying in a dust pile & dirty, I thought she was dead. Picked her up and she looked at me and started telling me all about it. I didn't see the fight but I saw the aftermath, I nursed her in a Dog Crate in the Camper where I hang out and made her strong & forging again, I take her outside and I had her outside cleaning her cage and sit her on the ground, before I could blink the Brauma’s started a beating her & chased her across the yard till they pinned her down with their girth and was pecking her, I snatched her up & put her back in the Kennel

I'm in Burundi Africa, so don't have many options of buying things. But I did have some workers make a cage for my ground to keep the chickens out. I move it once the plants there are looking ready for chicken destruction, lol. Then I start over. I'm going to try to have more roosting areas- I like some of your ideas!

Nailed it.... Monty Python cartoon caravan 🎯🎯🎯

I’m new got lots of birds thank You for the ideas

U just gave me so many epic ideas

I grow cucumbers, my girls love them!!! We buy em veggies a lot til the garden sets in good. Just no beans, lol

I didn't realize how pro level chicken farm could be. What we Polish know about farming? So excited how much is to do in this topic! :D

Yes, you can freeze the pumpkin. We freeze watermelon for the summer.

Great video!!! I just got my FIRST EVER chickens/baby chicks. I’m in central Illinois so I did 3 Black Australorp & 1 Speckled Sussex, we are only allowed 4. I got them the day after they hatched. They are now 3 weeks + 3 days old and growing strong. So much personality!! Thanks for all of the tips.

I’m watching this for my turkeys lol

❤ Oh yass I have a bbq fish 4 the charcoal grill and a hook 🪝 So thanks m, I have all the repurposed materials but no ideas, love ❤ ideas when I can use what I have 😊😊😊😊

First time viewer and new subscriber. Loved your video and your outlook. I want my chickens to be healthy and happy too.

Nice information and nicely presented

I am also in South Texas, Frio County.

We drill 1/4" holes in aluminum drink can that have screw on lids, fill with scratch or seeds or their food. They love it!

I use pea straw mulch, but I don't shred it. Just take off the plastic and the chooks will do it for me !

We’re grading the run to run off to one back corner out & off and it’s between 2 sheds so will put rain gutters on each side. One storing kayaks 😁 one natural. We have big trunks of trees from unsold wooded lot next to it which we cut back for cleanliness etc. and to fence ours. Yes we are making a swing one corner in run & one outside run. We are adding those triangle tarp type shades for anti-predators=Hawks online not expensive! Maybe something tunnel like to waddle through lol bet they’d like a short gym like ramp to go up & dn and squat. Bet a soft ball like small! Bskt ball little lrgr than a base ball on on rope to poke at esp if a tree branch is available. Think outside the box😁

❤Kia Ora 💜 Mama from Melbourne Thank you 😊 🙏 for the advice much appreciated

We also do cabbage on a chain like that

Great ideas! My girls are molting, they look hideous! LOLOL...I'm upping the protein to help them.

Mine love the pumpkin that I froze yes you can freeze it

I know this is old but onions in small amounts, cooked or raw, are not bad for chickens. Neither is cheese or avocado. The skins and pits are of course, but not the flesh. As for cheese, chickens love sour/cultured dairy and it's good for their digestive system.

We have three chicken swings and my chickens do not use them at all. My chickens are just scared because they move 😂

Black soldier fly farm where the maggots self harvest into the chicken run

I'm just starting out on the path of discovery, at the moment I have two 4 week old chicks, my plan is to get another 2 more in a month or so. I think you are great. You have entertained and educated me both at the same time. Keep up the good work😊

Have some questions...You ready? Is that a Barred Rock I see? How do they do in the heat? Do they ever peck at the mirrors and break them? (my 3 young barred rocks are peckers..and they bite) Was thinking of getting them a fisher price xylophone... that would be funny. The graze box, how often do you replant in it? Think that is enough for now..lol. Thanks for sharing!!!

mine love fruits. they live free in the garden and when they wake up the firs thing is to go under the tree that fruits now. figs or berrie trees or aplles, plums etc.. nothing compares to the view of chickens running to get a falling peach :) they got countless bugs, slugs etc. i give them complete food, but never ever cared about obesity

I just found your video today and just subscribed. I am a newbie have had my chickens for 7 months and loving it but I learn something new every day. You mentioned you are in south Texas where are you located. I too live in Texas. So glad I have came across your video. Thank you!

Love your channel !! Omg my biggest problem is my girls digging holes to China every single day! Do you have this issues ??

i gave my chickens pumpkin, they refused to go back in their run until i took it out

idea fill a bucket with dirt and worms and your chickens can dig/forj in it

Been giving my birds fresh pumpkins. All they do is eat the seeds and inside and leave the rest. I just started to give them black oil sunflower seeds about 2 hours before dusk,

You mention not putting clothes on your chickens - agreed. How do you feel about the chicken “saddles” to help protect the hens during mating?

Yes u can freeze chunks of pumpkin

Some of our dogs toys had squeaker, the dogs took out the squeaker, when I was free ranging my hens one ate a squeaker. It was funny when we realized we had a hen which sounded like a squeaky toy. The squeaker did not block the hen from eating or drinking, and because we didn't know which of the 18 was squeaking we didn't worry about it. I no longer hear the squeak.

Mine hate pumpkins & watermelon.😜🤪😜🤪

Hang an upside down { or legless } mini trampoline as a swing

Very helpful - thank you. Have you had any problems with aerial predators? I have my area ready for chickens and privacy fencing like yours with huge oaks over the area. But I'm not sure the tree cover will be enough to hide them. I'm wanting to put netting over it but my husband is convinced we don't need it.

Get a worm farm as well and grab a handful of worms a day

I need to gwt some pumpkin for my flock!

Great advice, lots of good tips. Thank you for this vid, I’m sure there’s lots of chickens that would be grateful for you too.

Mine eat used eggs but we crush them also give them scrambled eggs

Re: the cold. Where are you located? I'm in western PA and a little concerned about the winter since my chicks will be 8 weeks in late October.

Birds 🤔🙃😉😝🥰

Locking my birds up until this passes So we are finding all the things for their small chip

Whats your opinion on fermented feed? Because of you i stopped giving them corn on the cob.. thet just love corn.😢 Im reverting to pearl pellets and rough crumble w whole grain for fermenting.i dump my compost from my kitchen to a large container then to the pit where i let the girls scratch thru.

If you have a cold storage area, a pumpkin or other winter squash can last into the spring without needing to be frozen. Just keep your eye on it and use it before it becomes moldy.

Does peat moss make the ground more muddy? And does peat moss get moldy if it rains a lot?

#Question? I have a dozen various hens and I feed them Crumbles in the Winter and Pellets in the spring summer & fall start the crumbles as they eat a lot more Crumbles compared to Pellets?

Do these toys keep their morning noises down? My girls seem to make noises until I hang out with them in the AM.

I have the same chicken coop as you. I cannot remember what state you said you live in but I live in Upstate Ny. Let me tell you, I do not recommend this coop in snowy areas. I have had it less then a year and it's falling apart. It's so low to the ground that the ice builds up around the doors making them hard to open and impossible to shut. I have to put cinder blocks in front of the doors so that other animals don't get in. I'm so ready for a new coop. Love your flock btw!

Chickens will eat eggs if they have a calcium deficiency

Where is the video on the grazing box?

Hi about cooked rice and they like my plant called Hosta

Do your girls let you pick them up? We got 8 when they were 2 days old. I have 4 kiddos and we handle them daily, they're 16wks now and they still let us walk up and pick them up. Just wondering if they'll stay like this as they get fully grown. We just got 2 7wk old easter eggers, their toenails are crazy as you mention with one of yours. They're not so social but we're working with them

how did you know your easter Eggers had worms?