Things To Know Before Getting Chickens

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Things To Know Before Getting Chickens

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@DKWalser 3 жыл бұрын

When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my dad said to me one Saturday morning: "If you'll clean the chicken coup by the time I get back from town, I'll pay you $10." I went up the hill to the chicken coup, home to about 100 birds, and quickly decided that cleaning the coup wasn't worth $10. When my dad came home, he saw the chicken coup remained uncleaned. He asked, "Didn't I tell you to clean the chicken coup?" I said, "No. You said you'd pay me $10 if I cleaned the coup. I decided I didn't want $10 that badly." He smiled and said, "You misunderstood. The chicken coup needs cleaning. I offered you $10 if you had it clean by the time I got back from town with fresh wood shavings to put in the bottom of the coup. The coup still needs cleaning. Now, you'll clean it and I won't be giving you $10." Chickens offer lots of teaching moments.

@dannywilsher4165 3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like my raising... lol...

@sambrandt3688 3 жыл бұрын

A good example of "Dad" logic and math all rolled up in one lesson LOL.

@ReinhardLins 3 жыл бұрын

@@sambrandt3688 as a dad I loled.

@DKWalser 3 жыл бұрын

@@ReinhardLins My kids have heard the 'cleaning of the chicken coup' story several times, complete with its moral. Believe me, whenever I promised them some cash to complete a chore, they always did it promptly!

@natejm 3 жыл бұрын

@David Walser Hope you don’t mind, but I’m going to steal that story as my own, and tell it to my kids... what a great anecdote!

@mauricioespinoza5390 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like he can make any subject interesting, he can make paint dry interesting.

@JohnDotBomb 3 жыл бұрын

I could go for a EC video on paint drying

@paulkolodner2445 3 жыл бұрын

I would like to see what happens when you paint a chicken.

@sambrandt3688 3 жыл бұрын

@@paulkolodner2445 you get colored eggs. LOL If you paint a rooster you get a bloody mess as in you get torn up trying to paint the rooster LOL

@dancearoundtheworld5360 3 жыл бұрын

Is anyone eating chicken right now cuz i am

@natejm 3 жыл бұрын

Dance Around The World Nope, but I could go for some!

@williamdipoalo3814 3 жыл бұрын

I just had my first child, my son. I plan to have chickens and it will be part of his chores when he grows up. I am excited about being a father and teaching my kids. You always have great advice and make excellent videos. I appreciate what you do.

@Phafner9 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! One tip, raise your bucket drinker so that the shortest hours has to slightly stretch it's neck upward to drink. This will keep them from spilling as much. Also, if you get tired of filling the bucket, they make pressure regulators and PVC lines with nipples on them.

@williambrooks276 3 жыл бұрын

I love your channel Mr. Wadsworth. You have so much to teach and are a great teacher. You have a beautiful family too.

@kencarp57 3 жыл бұрын

I built our coop, and it’s very secure. It is entirely surrounded on all sides, and one top and bottom, with galvanized 1/2” hardware cloth... with no holes anywhere bigger than the holes in the hardware cloth. No predator has ever gotten into it. We USED to let our chickens free-range around our 8-acres of thick woods - but we lost 3 over a week’s time two years ago to a mama coyote, and four this year to a very large wild cat of some kind... not as large as a wildcat but WAY larger than ANY house cat, and absolutely fearless. Neither Mssrs Smith, Wesson, nor Mossberg were ever able to get a good bead on the coyote or on the cat... not for lack of trying. 😤

@sambrandt3688 3 жыл бұрын

You should meet my friend sig, he would sauer any idea's by a coyote or cat thinking of making a meal of your hens.

@baidreamer 3 жыл бұрын

just wow! How she handled the situation at the end of the video: chicken ""attacks"" the hugging boy who got scared, and then she says "you wanna pet him ?" And he does... damn nice parenting!

@robinrummel1359 3 жыл бұрын

Good info to know, appreciate the variety of topics on your channel! You also mentioned in this video that your family lived in Powell. Amazing to me since I lived there for 5 years, late 70's to early 80's. Since moving away, you are the only ones I have ever heard of living there! It was beautiful and I missed it quite a while after moving.

@toddster8793 3 жыл бұрын

I loved seeing that little guy in blue crawl into the coop, made me chuckle!

@josephforgione1762 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. We are considering chickens as a retirement activity which will happen in about 6 years. I also like your channel because I’ve gotten a renewed interest in carpentry and construction. When I was a youngster(high school) I attended a vocational school and learned carpentry. My Dad was a master carpenter and I learned more from my Dad than the vocational school ever taught me. Got out of high school, worked construction for awhile. Then decided to join the Air National Guard for 33 years. Retired. Went to school got my degree and started teaching. Now I’ve gone full circle, back to construction. Thank you for your stimulating and motivating channel. Signing off from Highgate,Vermont.

@conrodfox8859 3 жыл бұрын

Brilliant video. I am from India and watch your all videos with full devotion. Thus video reminds me of my childhood days when my grand parents had a farmhouse and only papers, plastics and metal objects, basically all non biodegradable waste, went out of the home to the scrapyard. There was almost zero waste that went out as garbage. Every food waste generated after processing basically was turned into manure and used back in the farm and as the feed for the chickens ( we had close to 200 or so chickens, 50 goats, 30 cows and 25 bulls). The whole set up worked like a so well oiled machinery. The animals provided us all those eggs and milks and poop for manure. Which was used in the farm that gave us all the produce and the waste then was in turn used for the animals as feed. All happy including mother nature. Nice Podcasts EC! Wish you the best🙏

@jovenlagda1229 3 жыл бұрын

Your admiration of chicken has pull you over some great adventure that seem nice to talk within.

@Synistercrayon 3 жыл бұрын

Check out the way the guy at carolina coops builds his coops. I modeled my coop after their basic plan. Totally secure. And for a chicken coop, fairly clean, with the easy bedding, cleaning method that is used. Some great ideas.

@mattlowry8256 2 жыл бұрын

We need more rusty on these videos, he can brighten someone’s day every day!!!!

@tonydeleo3642 3 жыл бұрын

Great video and good info. Love seeing you getting the kids and grandkids involved, this is something we have lost in our electronic, selfie era.

@tbernardi001 3 жыл бұрын

Hmmm, talking about raising chickens with 2 axes featured prominently in the background. Coincidence? I think not.

@SkyGhost1000 3 жыл бұрын

First thing I noticed lol

@fast-eddie-clarke 3 жыл бұрын

i remember when i was about eight or so i loved to play in my granddads chicken coop with my cousin. one day we decided that the coop wasn't big enough for the hens and neither was the yard they used to walk around at day. so we opened up the gates and let them free to run around the entire ranch. my grandad had a few chained up guard dogs and a canal going through the ranch. let me say that the chicken bath didn't turn out as two young boys had imagined and the dogs had a decent lunch that day. we saved a few hens and brought them back and closed the gates and cried the rest of the afternoon till we went to bed. the next morning, still feeling like murderers, we were sent to the next ranch on our bicycles to get new chicks. my cousin and i vowed to never ever harm a chicken again and to also protect them from all harm. we carried the chicks back on foot and left our bicycles at the other ranch so we couldn't fall down and hurt the chicks. we took good care of them since that day and even now twenty years later when i'm going out early to feed my chickens i often think about our oath we did as kids and count the hens and massage my cousin telling him, mine are save and sound how about yours?

@ryanwilson5222 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like you are not the real Fast Eddie Clark. But that’s a crazy story. Which would be made crazier if you are indeed the real fast Eddie Clark. Either way, awesome KZfaq handle. Also I’m totally checking out the NWOOSTM bands. I didn’t know that was a thing

@Joshleslie871 3 жыл бұрын

You massage your cousin while you feed your chickens? What a servants heart!

@glenncalzada1707 3 жыл бұрын

Those birds must be pretty old by now! 😲😝

@patobez3901 3 жыл бұрын

You are the greatest story teller alive! I always learn something interesting no matter what subject is, and I somehow just generally feel better and more relaxed after your videos. I live how there is always a message in there as well. Thank you for doing what you do.

@SchysCraftCo. 3 жыл бұрын

I did chickens and turkeys for 4-H when I was younger absolutely loved it absolutely can't beat a fresh eggs

@onecrowingrooster2239 3 жыл бұрын

Having chickens will always leave you with some great stories. Thanks for sharing

@M1America 3 жыл бұрын

I started following this channel after learning how to use a skilsaw when building my small suburban chicken coop. My hens haven't started laying yet haha.

@derweibhai 3 жыл бұрын

We run Silver Leghorns freerange, and have very few losses. We have an open coup, with a roost at about 7 feet tall with a smooth wall underneath. They are spooky birds that fly like pheasants, hard to catch, hard to kill, basically maintance free.

@omshomestead Жыл бұрын

This is helping me a lot getting through my life. You have no idea. Thank you.

@michaelcavin5447 3 жыл бұрын

I bought my first chicks about 6 months ago. My family and I simply love having them around our farm.

@twestgard2 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve made a bunch of mistakes regarding chickens over the last seven years, and here’s the one big thing I learned: Infrastructure is everything. If you get yourself a big, secure coop that’s easy to clean, and have the food and water set up well, it’s a breeze. If you don’t, you’ll swiftly find out why you wish you did. The run can be less secure but the coop needs to be Fort Knox.

@JesseG085 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who has over a quarter million free range chickens on site I agree. The coop has to be secured a lot better than you'd think. Predators can be crafty. Due to potential disease I don't have personal backyard chickens to protect the commercial birds. But, if I'm ever out of this business I'm building coop Fort Knox that will be easy to maintain.

@twestgard2 3 жыл бұрын

Jesse G Dang, that’s a lot of birds! When I said “big,” I meant mine is a cube 6’ on each side designed for two dozen birds.

@dimesonhiseyes9134 3 жыл бұрын

@@JesseG085 not only crafty but determined. We once had a dog or perhaps coyote chew through the side of our coop that was made out of 3/4" plywood and a chain link fence. Must have taken hours and how that critter had teeth left is beyond me.

@YSLRD 3 жыл бұрын

@@dimesonhiseyes9134 Pitbulls are infamous for tearing through chain link.

@spokebloke1 3 жыл бұрын

Yep. We moved to a rural area 8 yrs ago, and one of the first things we did was get chickens. I built a coop out of marine ply, and the run was made using reinforcing mesh, with chicken mesh on the outside and a fine snake mesh on the inside. The chicken mesh went about 6 inches underground, and about 2 feet out from the run sides. Several of the long-term neighbours (politely and in good humour) told me that I had probably overdone it. Over the next 6 years that we had chickens, our 3 closest neighbours all lost chickens to foxes and feral cats. We didn't lose a single one. Do it right the first time, and assume that those pesky predators are smarter than you think!

@ArandomNutter 3 жыл бұрын

What lovely chickens, great to see you teaching the grandkids about farming

@tienhuynh1814 3 жыл бұрын

informative, high-quality audio and video, 10/10.

@haydnjenkins7607 3 жыл бұрын

Lovely grandchildren being a Grandad best job In the world

@elitearbor 3 жыл бұрын

Did the little fellow (Russ, I think I heard?) slip and practically bodyslam a chicken there near the end of the video? That was a classic little kiddo tumble.

@michaeldalton8374 3 жыл бұрын

elitearbor Smashed that hummer right into the wall. 😆

@stevearttus8164 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had to watch that a couple times, cute little feller, he cracked me up!😅😅

@johnwright6706 3 жыл бұрын

I feel like that chick isn't going to like being picked up after that 🤣

@aerialrescuesolutions3277 3 жыл бұрын

I love that, the kids are a real Jewel to see. Jim Tree

@TheOnlooker65 3 жыл бұрын

A lovely video. In the UK, the fox is our worst predator, even in town. In many year’s experience, most of the time the fox doesn’t even take a chicken, just kills the lot. After a gap of a couple of years I’m starting again because there’s nothing like a new laid egg. The only time we kept a cockerel, the fox killed him defending his his girls, I was so angry! Your grandchildren are beyond adorable and seeing the toddler going in and out of the henhouse gladdened my heart!

@reallydonotdo 3 жыл бұрын

🤣 "Everyone is down for a chicken dinner"

@kirkyorg7654 3 жыл бұрын

always learn something form your videos hellva story-teller lol when I was a kid it was racing pigeons my dad had a coop full of them we had a massacre or two sometimes weasels sometimes stoats this was in Scotland

@tomjensen618 3 жыл бұрын

Lay down some wire around the peremiter of the yard and prevent dig ins.

@daringlunchmeat 3 жыл бұрын

This is what we did. We buried hardware cloth 1 foot down and 1 foot out.

@rickoncordova1 3 жыл бұрын

If you slightly bury 16 or 18 gauge expanded metal around the perimeter, about 2 feet wide, any critter that even tries to dig under will tear their paws to rat- shit. I don't care what kind of animal it is, it won't get under the fence. Rick.

@fredbecker607 3 жыл бұрын

I fastened the roosting branches to the wall instead of the ladder idea. Cats and such will climb the ladder type.

@paulevans3261 3 жыл бұрын

I Thank YOU for the SMILE... These trying times, we need this!!

@GarageMisadventures 3 жыл бұрын

We live in town so we can only have a few but we have enjoyed our little backyard flock.

@ebutuoyebutouy 3 жыл бұрын

Powell Wyoming? Awesome. I spent a few years in both Rock Springs and Laramie.

@turdmuffins88 3 жыл бұрын

My suburban flock has been safe behind vinyl fence and hardware cloth on one side. The skunks & raccoons in our neighborhood haven't been able to get in so far. I've seen hawks near my house, but they don't seem to notice my little flock. We don't have any roosters because we live near people...and because my wife likes to sleep. All the roosters I've ever owned didn't just crow in the morning. They crowed all day long. I've heard people refer to chickens as "pigs with feathers". It's been a long time since I've had to slop a pig, but chickens do love table scraps. If they see me or my wife coming, they come running to see what treats we're bringing. When my fruit trees drop fruit, I pick it up and toss it into the chicken yard. It helps keep the bugs under control.

@johnsmith-vz3vr 3 жыл бұрын

I have been fascinated by this orange cabinet for a long time. It still catches my eye.

@duanelundgren7985 3 жыл бұрын

Love it!!! Thank you! I recall as kids, MANY years ago, we would wrap a big 'chaw' of gum around a chicken's foot and laugh ourselves Sick watching the chicken run around...

@kirkendauhl6990 3 жыл бұрын

My uncle was telling me a story about prey birds -I want to say it was pheasants- and how they usually have a claw/talon higher up their leg that they use for jabbing. He said when his friend reached for something on the ground that the bird wanted, that friend ended up with a bleeding hole between his thumb and index finger in an instant. I’d say a guard rooster can be a pretty good thing to have around in some niche situations.

@chrisparent1142 3 жыл бұрын

I was amazed to hear our rooster alert the flock of crows flying overhead. They came together and under cover. We are new to having chickens!

@eliprice138 3 жыл бұрын

That little boy is fearless ! Lol good luck and god bless .

@DANVIIL 3 жыл бұрын

The little boy with the glasses is gonna be a real handful.

@christopheryoung7456 3 жыл бұрын

Best video I've watched all week! Thanks guys

@xXBuckOFiveXx 3 жыл бұрын

Little Rusty looks just like the kid on a Christmas story

@soul8bounce 3 жыл бұрын

The old man from UP when he was a kid. 😆

@TJDukit1 3 жыл бұрын

Growing up we had a really mean protective rooster with some nasty 2.5 inch spurs. Even as a teenager I didn’t go in that chicken pen without the 3 foot pcv pipe we kept by the gate.

@georgereiss998 3 жыл бұрын

We had chickens growing up and it was great. I loved watching them clean off a corn cob after a picnic or bbq. My father also taught us that the old chop the head off method was not the best way to get the fob done.

@offgridnorthwest 3 жыл бұрын

I would highly recommend Premier 1 electric poultry netting. This is the first time I've had chickens and we have put that fencing around both our laying hens and our broiler chickens this year and I have watched cats, dogs, and skunks learn about that fence and go the other way in a hot hurry. Coyotes have to jump a perimeter fence and then deal with the electric fence and so far they haven't made the attempt on the chickens.

@worldwidewes8411 3 жыл бұрын

I don’t think these guys know how many people they are positively affecting. What a treasure to follow this channel

@gabrielplatte1521 3 жыл бұрын

0:50 Most common culprits are cats and foxes. Especially cats. And foxes.

@BKD70 3 жыл бұрын

And Raccoons.

@propanehotrod 3 жыл бұрын

our chickens beat up on our cats!

@wvmike7008 3 жыл бұрын

House cats are a scourge

@Farming_in_Eden 3 жыл бұрын

This is gonna depend alot on housing and location, never lost an adult bird to a cat in 20 years of breeding birds, but raccoon, mink, weasel, and dogs will massacre a flock, fox and coyote tend to snag them one at a time.

@wvmike7008 3 жыл бұрын

@@Farming_in_Eden I've never lost one to house cats either but they are responsible for killing many small animals. Actually they are causing multiple extinctions. Should be illegal to allow cats to roam outside.

@sdrammm696969 3 жыл бұрын

I'm in Oregon now leaving my son for university, from northern Cal, wish I had a chance to meet this men, what a blast will be to have a talk with this gentleman Maybe next time, love your videos!

@bobbailey4954 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent advice thank you for the roosting information

@kazukarukelley 3 жыл бұрын

EC, your grandkids are a dream. Great info on keeping chickens! My uncle had a bob-cat problem and it took out his entire coop and helped itself to a couple of sheep before my uncle brought some cowboy justice to thief.

@francescocuscuna5906 3 жыл бұрын

I liked the look of the two axes behind you.

@natejm 3 жыл бұрын

I love watching the little one chase the birds around, so innocent and so full of a lust for life, reminds me of my boys when they were that young

@MoPoppins 3 жыл бұрын

Very informative! 👍 OMG...the baby crawling into the chicken coop was so precious!! 😍 What an energetic & curious little tike!

@nickhayward9069 3 жыл бұрын

Scott I could listen to you talk about paint drying! 👍👍

@ac170 3 жыл бұрын

One thing you will find is if you raise the water bucket up, so all those drips from the nipple drinkers so te hens can just drink with their bodies vertical, they will waste a lot less water. They can catch those drips in their beaks rather than having them run on the floor. Salmonella loves wet floors, so you get better use of the water, and less disease if you can keep the hens drier.

@blhack123 3 жыл бұрын

We got a chickenguard door for our coop (has a light sensor on it, and closes/opens the door automatically). Highly recommended! Also: if you live in the desert like we do (in Phoenix), get an automatic irrigation system, but use it to just spray water on the ground in the chicken run and it will help keep them cool during the summer.

@jungle5663 3 жыл бұрын

This was really great way to have coffee in the morning, definitely offered me a laugh as well lol.

@kengamble8595 3 жыл бұрын

Wow Scott, you just took me back fourty years when my boys were young! 😊 Lots of memories come from having chickens and kids! Thanks for sharing and take care. 👍 👍

@tennysonfordblackbird2087 Жыл бұрын

Great stuff and all the best from England and love the rooster stories.😂😂🎉🎉

@pwhurley49 3 жыл бұрын

Skunks love chicken too. They will work in tag teams. One will “attack the wire”, driving the chickens to the other side of the pen, and a second skunk will literally pull them “through the wire”... especially 1” poultry netting.

@FetKiller 3 жыл бұрын

Started with chickens back in 2017 has been a journey. Lost quite a few chickens to illness, hawks, dogs etc. we usually get a few every spring. Yep we have a few roosters as well. Yea a couple roosters we have had make that journey from chasing the wife to the no longer. It’s challenging to over winter them here in east central MN but it’s not that bad. Actually as I’m writing this the water jugs are sitting the tub ready to be filled.... oh forgot to say how rewarding it’s been to build a couple coops with my hands and to raise and tend to the chickens.

@ALAPINO 3 жыл бұрын

We raise our own invertebrates for our various pets. Zophobas morio beetles and their larvae (commonly called "Super Worms", erroneously as they are larvae not true worms) and Tenebrio molitor (commonly called "Meal Worms") and the chickens and quail go absolutely mad for them. They take very little effort to raise and their husbandry is not complicated. We joke that our feeder stock eat better than we do... they do. A well rounded diet yields astounding quality eggs and fantastic tasting birds.

@theawsmith 3 жыл бұрын

If you put down wood chips, it attracts worms and helps breed lots of worms, and the chickens love to dig through it looking for the worms.

@ohhansel 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing your knowledge and experience. We've been raining chickens for 5 months and this helped.

@MiltonGeorges 3 жыл бұрын

I can't think of a more tailored made video for myself - I love this channel, and I'm looking for chickens. This is absolutely the content I wanted to see. haha

@ozone5100 3 жыл бұрын

I have raised Chickens and Turkeys in my previous life as a farmer. We used an old grain silo as a coop once. Went in to feed one morning. There was a ring of blood around the edge about 2"off the ground. I looked over the chickens, they all seemed fine. It appears a rat had tried to steal eggs. The hens took that rat out. They were some mean hens. Sure could produce eggs though.

@merrittnichols6101 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know if ya'll will ever see this comment. But first I quite love your videos. Reminds me of working on the jobsite with the old man who taught me carpentry. With albeit less profanity and anger at slippery eyeglasses. I would like to offer a bit of advice from a farmer, change your 2x4 roost for a cut limb piece. Standing on a hard flat place all night is not good for their feet. It will give them Bumblefoot overtime. Again don't know if ya'll will see this, but really enjoy your content.

@mikeice9768 3 жыл бұрын

Nice spread. If I may, one little tweak could be added to your chicken waterier. Slide down to the hardware store and purchase a toilet tank fill valve. Presto changeo, watering the chickens just turned into checking the chickens water!!

@MrEazyE357 3 жыл бұрын

"and it's a good chore... for your kids." That killed me! 🤣

@johnd5805 3 жыл бұрын

That little dude is a future worker. Teach them young.

@andrewlivingston5105 3 жыл бұрын

that little boy with glasses is a whoot!!

@beveik 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your knowledge.

@ApocalypseGuy1 3 жыл бұрын

The 3-rooster gang attack story reminds me of a story my mom told me. When she was a little girl, my grand-grandmother's rooster jumped on her back and started pecking. The grand-grandma grabbed the rooster by the legs, slammed him onto a chopping block, and lopped his head off with an axe in what was basically a single fluid move. My mom still dislikes roosters to this day, but she says that one at least tasted real good.

@JeffKnoxAZ 3 жыл бұрын

My brother was once chased and spurred by my great-grandmother's rooster, winning that guy a warm bath with some dumplins. My brother wasn't sure how he felt about that, but at least he knew that rooster wasn't going to chase him any more. Later that summer, my cousin's little dog, Gumbo, snapped at my brother. A few days later, someone asked what we were having for dinner. My brother burst out in tears when my grandmother said we were having gumbo.

@rwallace9848 3 жыл бұрын

Great way to get rid of old fishing worms

@jakelancaster5889 3 жыл бұрын

You, saying keep up the good work for. Some reason brings tears to my eyes

@davidstreeter9426 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the chicken tales. I grew up on a farm and chickens provided lots of meals and a lot of entertainment to this young boy rom 1941 to about 1950 or so.

@kentkirkpatrick7953 3 жыл бұрын

Our chickens loved meats. They got all kinds of meats and greens. And egg shells, soft bones. provides good protein and calcium. We had the best eggs because if that. Also can't forget youll need that roster if you want fertile eggs to get more birds! They LOVE mice too!

@stiritup4663 3 жыл бұрын

Our coop is splattered with the blood of chickens, raccoons, possums, rats, mice, a neighbor’s cat and the tail of one of the neighbor’s dogs. It’s a killing field

@chaquatics9512 3 жыл бұрын

I’ve kept chickens for over 20 years, hardly ever stop to watch a chicken video, yet I knew I’d learn something from this man. Guess what, I was right.

@DUDE72341 3 жыл бұрын

Hmm well, first we learn about concrete, setbacks, reinforcing steel, and some metal crafts..then low and behold we move right on to raising chicken! I guess it's the depth of our study that keeps me tuned in. Great content!

@williamklingenberg108 3 жыл бұрын

Love those little people!!!

@blueferral3414 3 жыл бұрын

When our roosters got a bit out of hand they got sent off to "Freezer Camp".

@philipmiller5202 3 жыл бұрын

Some great stories . Thanks

@newtype0083 3 жыл бұрын

Perfect timing! We're moving next month and inheriting chickens. Thanks for the advice.

@danno1111 3 жыл бұрын

I was pretty young when I went out to our family coop and found one of our roosters "attacking" one of the hens. Flapping, noisy, feathers being ripped out, it was pretty intense. I just ran over and kicked the rooster, he went flying and thankfully it seemed like the hen was OK. I explained to my parents what had happened that night when they came home, and they had quite a laugh as they explained what was really going on. There's nothing like raising chickens to learn the harsh realities of life. It's a continual learning experience on many fronts.

@prietogerardo1 3 жыл бұрын

When a daddy rooster loves a mommy chicken very much....

@steveuible5915 3 жыл бұрын

HaHa ! Poor Rooster.

@rustyshackleford5060 3 жыл бұрын

Keep up the good work!

@G60syncro 3 жыл бұрын

One thing I learned from having many very friendly roosters is to always feed the rooster!! If you feed the hens, they'll view you as a threat or competitor and they'll be on the defensive. If you go straight for the rooster and feed him, he'll call the hens and he'll love you for being the purveyor of such fine offerings!! In one instance, it got to a point where we had one rooster pecking our shoes and tugging our shoelaces if we didn't give him attention when going in the chicken coop!! Try it! Because you're right, having a rooster restores the balance of power and keeps the hens in check.

@nerfherder4284 3 жыл бұрын

Always top quality content 👍🏻. Been thinking about some chickens for a while and no one's advice means more. Great grand kids btw.

@slpeteyAZ 3 жыл бұрын

We have those same watering nipples on a bucket. If you raise the bucket so they can get directly under it, then it doesn’t waste as much water and they have an easier time drinking. Thanks for the video.

@peterellis5626 3 жыл бұрын

The height of roost versus nest box isn't an absolute ;) I've got roosts well above the nest boxes, and hens roosting in the boxes, despite ;)

@buggs9950 3 жыл бұрын

When I was young my parents had ducks, ducks are great. A fox came in the field in broad daylight and made off with one, holding it by the neck. Mother saw this and made such a commotion the fox dropped it and ran off. The duck was okay but its throat must've been damaged as it never quacked again..

@buggs9950 3 жыл бұрын

@@David-gld They're amazing aren't they!

@billpiehler9010 3 жыл бұрын

I saw where people add a mean goose to their chicken flick. Protected the flock and made a racket

@charomorris 3 жыл бұрын

Your little one crawling into the coop after the chickens made me laugh out loud, thanks for sharing!

@practilectual 3 жыл бұрын

As always, a wealth of practical advice packed into 8 minutes.

@tommywilliamson2103 3 жыл бұрын

One way to help avoid predators is to lay down some chicken wire that goes about 3 - 5 feet out from the coop. Securely attach the wire to the bottom frame of the coop then cover it with dirt and top it off with rock. It becomes to much of a problem for the predators.

@bob_frazier 3 жыл бұрын

There's one rooster in our little valley, he woke me up most mornings this summer. I'll be at the Roseburg Costco tomorrow buying a nicely roasted chicken for $5.99. Keep up the good work, I tell them.