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Schmidt to Smith Small Farm Project
Приєднався 21 вер 2016
Steve Smith's Lite Farming- Small farm to provide food for my family. Approximately 10 acres.
Chicken Hawk No Free Lunches
Red Tail Hawk Chicken Attack, Chicken Hawk, New Metal Roof on Shed, No Free Chicken Lunches, Catch and Release Red Tail Hawk.
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Week 76 Meat Chickens
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Preparing Permaculture Garden for Winter, Meat Chicken Breeding Update, Are Burdocks Edible?, Fixing the Chicken Coop.
The Three Amigo's are FREE Ranging!
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The Three Amigo's are eating raspberries, Preparing the Garden for Garlic and Next Year's Crop, Using Leaves for Mulch.
Week 72 meat Chicken Project
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Meat Chicken Cross Breeding, Hot Smoking a Beef Brisket, Vacation in the Florida Key's, Fishing Mahi Mahi and Black Fin Tuna, Small Dolphins, Angle Fish and Nurse Shark.
Week 67 Meat Chicken Breeding
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Breeding Meat Chickens, Meat Chicken Cross, White Plymouth and Dark Cornish Cross, Butchering Chickens the old way, Hen Saddle Review, Chicken Coop Repairs, Picking Raspberries.
Week 65 Meat Chickens
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65 Weeks into Breeding Rock Cornish Cross Chickens. Harvesting wild mushrooms, Freezing Garden Veggies, Fox is still at it, Getting ready to Butcher Roosters Meat Chickens. Keeping all hens.
Week 62 Meat Chicken Breeding
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Fix Chickens Escaping, My Hens are Crowing, What to do with the three Amigo's, Garden Update, Fox problem getting better.
There's a Fox in the Hen House
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This is a week 60 update on the Chicken Meat Breeding Project. A Fox is killing my hens, what to do? 2nd generation chicken update, Garlic Harvest, and Garden Harvest Beans and Peas.
Week 58 Meat Chicken Project
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Meat Breeding Project week 58 update, Free Ranging new chicks, Garden Update, Bolete Mushrooms, Bringing the Sailboat up Seneca Lake.
Week 56 Meat Chickens
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Happy Independence Day, Week 56 of the Meat Chicken Breeding Project, Fox are getting our Hens, Removing Fox Ambush Resources, Giving the Meat chickens more space.
Week 55 Meat Chickens
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Week 55 Cross Breeding Meat Chicken. Line A hatching group 2. Garden Update and Bonus Footage climbing a peak in Lake Placid NY, home of the 1980 Winter Olympics.
Week 50 Meat Chickens
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Week 50 2nd Generation Meat Chickens, Garden Update, Chicks are growing, Geppetto is Gone.
Week 48 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
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18 out of 18 Cross Breed Meat Chicks hatched, Planting Asparagus, Green House Transplanting, Quasimodo update week 5 chicks.
Week 47 Meat Breeding Chickens
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This week I moved the four Chicks out to the Barn. Dividing the barn up into two sections. Hatching 16 Chicks Cross Breeds White Plymouth Rock and Dark Cornish. Removed the green plastic fencing to solve the fence blowing over problem. Green house plants and Garlic update. Bald Eagle catching a fish on Seneca Lake.
Week 46 Meat Chicken Breeding
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Cross Breeding Meat Chickens, Cooking Pork Ribs, Expanding the Chicken Coop,
Week 45 Meat Chicken Breeding Eclipse 2024
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Week 45 Meat Chicken Breeding Eclipse 2024
Greenhouse Gardening and Growing Garlic
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Greenhouse Gardening and Growing Garlic
Cross Breeding Meat Chickens Week 44
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Cross Breeding Meat Chickens Week 44
Week 42 Cross Breeding Meat Chickens
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Week 42 Cross Breeding Meat Chickens
Meat Chicken Cross Breeding Week 41
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Meat Chicken Cross Breeding Week 41
Week 39 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
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Week 39 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
Meat Breeding Chicken Project Week 37
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Meat Breeding Chicken Project Week 37
Breeding Meat Chickens weeks 36 update
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Breeding Meat Chickens weeks 36 update
Week 32 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
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Week 32 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
Week 30 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
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Week 30 Meat Chicken Breeding Project
Meat Chicken Breeding Project Week 22 to 25
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Meat Chicken Breeding Project Week 22 to 25
Better off going with Delaware chickens, which were the broiler of the day back in the 40's...
I would have went with Delaware chickens, which were the meat birds of the 1940's and which may sit eggs and make good mothers, They also lay pretty well. Too many weeds in your garden...
Thank you for Not killing the hawk. I try to let predators be and just beef up my security. They're just trying to survive, just as we would if we were hungry and gad to feed our young
Thanks for watching! Steve
"I love how you incorporate technology into traditional farming-it's so innovative!"
I've seen some videos on UA-cam where folks just kept Freedom Rangers and let them reproduce. They swear that they laid pretty good and produced pretty good meat chickens(makes sense since the genetics are in them)...
Hi Thanks for the comments. I raised freedom Rangers. They were great multipurpose birds. I'm trying to simulate the Rock Cornish Cross breeds everyone is ordering chicks for meat. Just an experiment and documenting it. Thanks! Steve
verry good
I really like your voice but can you please show your face?....
Hey Man thanks for sharing this. I am also in the process of cross breeding cornish cross to rhode island red. Can't wait for the result 😊
I absolutely love the energy at [1:30]! You made this topic so engaging and fun to watch!"
This was very helpful! I am in Central Texas and just started with a single hen and plan on getting more soon!
And alternate between toes at last 2" of tee shirt strip make a slit to tie off.leave it for several weeks.the gum acts like a sole of a shoe. It's called bramble foot .
Thanks for the Info. I'll research more.
Hi steve .wrap the foot.use a strip of tee shirt at pne end poke a hole .Insert middle toe .take a piece of chewed gum and hold against pad of foot .start rapping from underside of foot .go around ankle
u shold select the cooles rooster one or two for breeding
That's the goal. Stay tuned...
How many roosters per hen? The hens look like their getting too much attention from the roosters. Put saddles on the hens to protect them from the roosters attentions and the feathers will grow back. or sell or eat a few of the roosters ! Just saying do your own research. Good luck with the fox!!
I did buy two Saddles. $14 each ouch... One to try and one to copy as a pattern if they help. Thanks! Steve
good luck with the fox garden looks great😊✌🦊
Thanks so much! its a battle our ancestors have been battling for centuries. They've to eat too!
Jus subscribed to your channel! Thanks for joining mine!
@@stephensmith9807 I had a fox this spring after my chickens not sure if the dogs ran him off or someone else in the area took care of him, i've been very lucky with my dogs they saved my chickens many times
@@erniescabin4256 I have 4 dogs but my barn is 200 yrds away. I'm going to make a trap in my next videos.
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Thank you so much. New York is a beautiful state.
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I’d definitely keep the hens for cross breeding and for evaluating egg laying performance.
Thanks for the video! Do you think cutting and modifying the chute was necessary?
Yes, it would rub on it. Or just remove it all together if you are keeping the Catcher on it.
Good video. Thanks for sharing. I grew up near Fillmore glen state park.Your footage brought back memories!!👍😉
Thanks so much! Just got back from Lake Placid Climbed mount Jo. New footage coming.
Well done! Looking forward to seeing them grow and how they do.
Me too! Thanks for watching
Beautiful farm life, keep sharing ❤
Hi 👋.great hatch rate. The first batch the white with dark flecks is a roo.the 3 darks are poults. There a sex link color reversal. The white one has the pea comb as do the darks but the comb is much bigger due to being a cockeral.I also planted a bed of asparagus. I have an established bed thats producing good.Nothing like fresh asparagus. Thanks for sharing. Konrad
Thanks for the comment, my son thinks they are sex linked also. Females are Dark and Males are white. We raised those many years ago...
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I am doing something similar I am making my own mix 1/4 Light Brahma 1/4 Jersey giants 1/2 Breese in a 4 tribe spiral breeding system
Light years ahead of me. Thanks for Commenting!
New subscriber. Looking forward to your journey and channel. Many 💙 prayers for you all 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister
Thank you so much! Prayers to you as well Judi! Thanks for all your hard work! God Bless you and your family!
Last year I ordered 10 dark Cornish roosters and 10 white rock hens. In February I put the 2 biggest roosters in a pen with the 8 biggest hens. Yesterday I just set my first batch of eggs in the incubator. This combo is the closest I can get to Cornishx, I’m curious how they will turn out. I’ll be happy with a chicken similar to a red broiler/freedom ranger type meat chicken.
Would love to see your end results. Who did you buy chicks from?
@@stephensmith9807 the dark Cornish came from McMurray, the white rocks came from Belt
@@TheFrogfeeder Same place I ordered mine.
Please Hit the like Button. And subscribe! A lot if good content coming in the future. Hatching more Cross Breed Meat Chickens. Green house planting and gardening. Need to build space in the barn to house and free-range meat chickens.
Please subscribe! A lot if good content coming in the future. Hatching more Cross Breed Meat Chickens. Green house planting and gardening. Need to build on to barn to house and free-range meat chickens.
Thanks for sharing your hard work brother.
Thanks Amir!
75% of 4 is a good hatch rate, you should do well. 👍🤙
So far Geppetto is hanging in there. Hopefully introducing him/her in with the other three in the next few days.
Hope the chicks all do well😊👍🐣🐤
So far so good! Geppetto is hanging in there.
👏👏👏now the fun begins !! Enjoy the content.
Thanks so much!
The Homestead Engineer on UA-cam has a great deal on a quality automatic chicken door under $100, I've found guillotine doors work best,
My incubator is coming 16th. Going to do some hatching too. Good egg shot.
Excellent! Starting to hatch today.
I breed brahmas for my meat birds. Cornish cross is a good bird I've heard.never tried it myself. Will be glad to see how they turn out.
We started hatching 4 eggs. About 14 days in. My son got a little anxious and put 4 eggs in. I want to fill up the incubator and try 24 once these hatch. :)
I would love to learn how to tap a tree, that's so cool. Our chickens are starting to lay again we have yet to start back getting ducks eggs.
I'm getting about 11 eggs from 17 hens.
Also collecting sap and making maple syrup.
Went on vacation and started a new job. Sorry about not giving updates. Going to add solar lighting, working on green house and preditor proofing.
You don't really have to worry about turkey vultures.
I see that in some research. I do have a redtail hawk lurking around. The chickens seem to be aware of them. And duck for cover.
Yep, they like dead animals...
Have you thought about crossing the Bresse with a white Chantecler? The whites lay better than the partridge. The hens would be good layers as the Bresse are good layers. Since i see you are in a cold winter area the compound comb of the Chantecler would stop frost bite or comb/wattle freezing! You could process the most males and keep the females for eggs and further breeding. The chanteclers are thick and the Bresse are not to far behind. That would be a much more humane way to have cock birds. I hate seeing someone get chicks and keep a cock bird with a big single comb ,because ive seen what happens to many times. Half the comb and wattles are frozen off and a few even die. Just an idea ive had. I live in the suburbs now and plan to get a few Easter Egger hens for eggs and pets. The sheds full of chickens are in the past.
I have a back up plan to breed Bresse if this doesn't work out. Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. Steve
Good job brother. Looking better every video. Its very cool to see your process. You narrate very well. I feel like I'm right there with you.
Thanks Amir! I need a Camera Man!
Yeah! Dropped a pumpkin in my birds food plate. So what I do is lay down a tarp over a pile of leaves and uncover it after the snow. My Cornish Cross lays the smallest eggs for a ten pound hen. Are you actually trying to breed the meat birds? I am this year. Cheers
Hi, Yes, I'm crossing Dark Cornish Males with White Plymouth Rock Females. Hatching in the spring. The hatchery gave me a bonus chicken at was a White Plymouth Rooster. Need to sperate him with a couple females. Or just hatch them and hopefully see the difference.
@@stephensmith9807 good luck. Did you look up the actual breeding needed to create the Cornish X ? I read it was a three way cross of those two breeds. I hope to do Brahma with CornishX. And allow some americauna lines in and then go for size again.
There is limited info on it. Proprietary knowledge of the actual breeds. But these are the two breeds and female Plymouth Roc and Male Dark Cornish. @@uprightfossil6673
@@stephensmith9807 several years ago I read that the proprietary cross was male to female and then reversed and done again. (With white Cornish though) I am raising some light Brahma Roos to breed to the most athletic Cornish cross hens. Next year I may try Jersey giants crossed to the Cornish X hens. The plump waddling ones are for eating. The male Cornish X are not capable of breeding. They are too slow. Good luck. Looks like early spring where I am.
I remember in the 60's and 70's the geese would start migrating mid September thru early November to southern fly zones.Then around mid march thru april heading back to finger lakes and further north to start there hatching .bu the last 2 - decades they stopped migrating south.thanks for sharing enjoy your content. Konrad
Seneca lake never freezes. Its over 600 feet deep. So many ducks and Geese stay all winter.
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Get some bales of straw to build a cheap insulated wall. I have a sheet of plywood on top so that the birds could get shelter and pick at the straw when the weather gets real bad…and you know it will.
Please subscribe and like. New goal is 100 subscribers. Need to get to 1,000. I promise content will get better but I need to invest in a new camera and editing SW. Thanks! Steve
i have a fence like that, my chickens just fly over it. do you cut there wings ??
No not yet. They seem to respect it. I reconfigured the fenced in area and I just opened up some more indoor space. Video this weekend.
Dark cornish roo mated to white rock hen the offspring will be a sexlink.white roo and white pullet withblack body spots. White being dominant
Thanks for sharing enjoy your content. I live in northern Kentucky but grew up at lake como homer school district Cayuga county. Konrad
Thanks Konrad! We are in Ontario County. It's tough to create new content. I'm working on giving them some more inside space. Hope to finish maybe this weekend. Steve
@@stephensmith9807 so are you planning on doing a series of content on hatching off spring of this mating be interesting to see.I raise white cornish and dark cornish and white rocks.I taught my self how to wing sex at 4-5 days of age.IM working on caponizing so i can have some larger birds for holidays or family events.I bought 2 incubators from hatching time .I use one as an incubator and one for a hatcher .they are awesome set and forget.ran them from febuary - july in 2023 had excellent hatches.Ive had cornish chicken since 1974 .I like calling them old indian game so people dont confuse them with cornish x rock.keep up the good work its interesting. Konrad
@@konradrueb1567 very interesting. Yes I’m cross breeding these and doing my first hatching in spring.
@@stephensmith9807 Ill stay tuned.thanks for sharing your content. Its right up my alley. Konrad
That little dog looks like a teddy bear 😍 There are a few reasons my chickens make that sound when they lay eggs but also when they were happily surprised, I have left bowls of worms in spots to surprise them and when one hen finds them she starts the sound, or when they are gathered chatting , or they have seen a hawk but it wasn’t until they were adults. You can put some hydrogen peroxide in that pool of water it will clear pretty quick.
Thanks for the comment. I want to plow up an area for them to get at some worms. It will be interesting to see what they do.