How to Keep Happy Healthy Chickens in Small Spaces
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- Опубліковано 17 жов 2016
- Keeping chickens in a small area doesn't mean they have to end up feather pecked and unhealthy. Here we'll give you tips to to keeping your flock happy and healthy even if you don't have huge spaces to free range them in.
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I've been watching chicken videos for about a year now. I think this brief video has given me the best information and clearly, too. And your voice is so soothing. I could listen to you narrate my tax forms for hours.
Thank you. I can't say I've ever had someone call my voice soothing before, although you could be onto something with soothing tax form narrations. 😆
you can lay tree discs, logs or random(chemical free) pieces of wood on the ground(soil) and just flip/roll them over 1-2 times per week for protein rich entertainment^^
Congratulations. You actually do look after your birds properly unlike some of the other
keeper on You Tube who really don't put their words into practice.
We have lots of space so our are out and about but they still need care. Thanks a lot
Thank you so much! I was really worried a didn't have enough space. Your suggestions are clearly common sense.
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Great TOPIC! As we are learning--we built our run somewhat short of typical recommendations, so this makes sense and is very-very helpful! Thank you!
Very Clear Video, Respect.
Really great video .Thanks !!!
Wonderful chickens in a beautiful place, keep it up
Very good video. Thank you for all the tips.
wonderful information- thank you!
Great advice 👍 ..and such a nice flock you have! 🙂
Very good advice and video. Thanks!😊
Excellent video!!! Thank you!!
excellent tutorial . nicely done .
Thank you
Great advice! 👍👍❤
To jsou krásné slepice. Šťastné slepičky.
Great video..I enjoyed that.
Wonderful! Thank you!
Thank you! I'm planning on getting some bantam hens and I will be sure to offer them sand and fresh foods:)
Thanks for the great tips
Randall Wilson You're welcome. I hope they come in use
perfect thank you very helpful :) god bless.
Really informative video thankyou
Thanks good information
Your chicken yard looks very interesting. I hope you will give us a tour.
My last two videos have shown a little tour of the chicken runs.
Good info!
Beautiful chickens
great chicken care
Excellent ty
Wonderful video!!
Yes ! A lovely voice as well as a lovely flock healthy n interested xx
Great video!
Love this video...
Thank you for saying so.
It's amazing, you are not only on the hive blockchain platform, you are also UA-camrs and I am also interested in some of your activities as a farmer and also gardening. 😀
I haven't been very good at uploading on here, now my computer savvy daughter has left home.
I think it's easy to upload this video on UA-cam. You also already have a lot of subscribers, continue to upload more of your videos, to get more followers and subscribers. And to find out more about how to upload, you can ask your daughter when she's back home.
I love your chickens they look just like mine
I have a 10 x 5 cage for three hens. So spoiled lol. But they’re my babies so it’s worth it.
Steve Harvey Hotdog
sounds like three well loved hens!
Kilometers 😝😝😝😝
This is nice i love it
Thank you for some great tips, I think my 3 Welsummer's 15 weeks, are not getting enough Protein, I have seen some feather eating here and there, More mealworms I guess
You have a Wonderful mixed flock
Richard Murdock I hope you get that feather eating under control. It's not a nice thing to see. I'm sure the mealworms will go down well with them. They certainly need lots of protein when they're growing.
Thank you. I enjoy having a mixed flock. It seems to help avoiding them singling any one out.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 soak some pintos 2 days cook till very tender give them some they love it lay more I don’t enforce in winter they do need a break. I give mine about every couple week add alfalfa. 1 tbsp brags Apple cider vinegar to a gal water help digestion A sprinkle cayenne pepper in their water keeps them warm in winter. Do sift your wood ash. Occasional cats think it their litter box.
Your flock looks so healthy
Thank you. Their health is my priority.
Beautiful
I love the hens
Nice information
Yes they need lot of space,i dont like it when they stay in the same smal place.
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What is the optimal space for 31 chickens with 6 roosters?
What breed is the silver grey hen? I've been trying to work out what breed ours are!
Natasha Midgley I'm not entirely sure which one you mean, but the small darker grey one is an araucana bantam and the one which is paler and speckled looking is a cross between a light Sussex and a legbar
Just curious, what exactly is the mixture of greens you are serving your feather babies. :)
We feed lawn clippings, which will be grass and clover, mostly (chopped fine for tough plants like this to avoid impacted crop) and we'll give them softer weeds whole, like sow thistle, prickly lettuce, dandelion. They also get lambs quarter/goosefoot.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 Thank you! :)
What was the green plant you were dumping in there pen?
It's lawn clippings, grass mostly.
When do you clean your box
My run is on an allotment that previously had green houses on. I have sieved through the ground several times and removed all the glass that i can find, however i am sure there is still glass there, how dangerous to the chickens is this?
You can never be sure of anything, old glass is less likely to pose a problem as it's unlikely to be as sharp. Chickens are also much lighter than us and have pretty tough feet, so hopefully it's like likely to penetrate their feet. They are unlikely to try and eat it as well.
I have about 30 chickens and 4 roosters, most of the chicken have bold spots on there bad and blood, idk what to do and how to get rid of the other 2 roosters please help.
Cookie Gurl Sans first of all seperate the roosters. If you can get a lavender essential oil and fractionated coconut oil, add about 3 drops of the lavender oil to about 15 drops of the fractionated coconut oil and apply it to the areas of concern twice a day. Try adding frankincense to the mix (but still only 3 drops of the oil all together) if the wounds don’t seem to be improving much. If they still don’t heal then try removing the wounded hens from the other hens, still treating them with the oil.
Essential oils are just a natural way of treating the wounds, hope all goes well. 🙂
Fed strips of raw meat will handle the pecking . Thanks nice video
That's an attractive rooster.
Keegan Carney Thank you.
What are the penciled laced hens they have darker heads than the rest
Do you mean the barnevelders?
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 I think so
What breed is the brown, white, black spotted chicken?
Also, great video!
Thank you.
That's a Speckled Sussex. The Sussex breeds are ideal backyard breeds; docile and not flighty.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 are they good layers?
@@gwenhammett9349 they are a dual purpose breed, so average layers.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 thank you
What do you feed them?
Their basic feed is a grain and layer pellet mix. They also get scraps from the garden and kitchen, bugs and whatever else they forage
Chicken health tips Sri Keluang Aseel Parrot Beak Farm style 😘
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Nice hai n
What are the pretty white chickens?😍
The ones with the dark collars are light Sussex and the all white ones are a cross between a commercial red and a light Sussex.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 Thank you!
i wish i could build a paradise for male chicks, i want to save them, raise them as family pets, look after them give them the best life possible, sadly bury them when they pass away naturally, but they fight? is there really nothing i can do to stop that?
I've heard that chickens will single out a bird for salt in their blood. I know, gruesome. So, perhaps they might use a handful of crushed up potato chips in occasion.
That is gruesome! I hadn't heard that before.
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AllahuAkber what a beautiful birds you have created you are glorly Almighty Allah
Hvac MEP Engineer yttyy
Allah had nothing to do with making these beautiful chickens.
@@pwillia8864 It's his religion. Christians say God made the animals, I don't know much about Muslims, but maybe its the same. Try and be a little more respectful for others beliefs.
@@heidihaaa6214 God bless you for your kind heart
It looks very good 👍🏻. But I don’t think that you should recommend chicken for people with no space for them. Its very simple that if you don’t have the space for them then don’t have them at all or it will be animal cruelty . Thanks 😊
Thank you for your comment. I don't believe I recommended chickens for people with no space. I state at the start, that the minimum recommendation is a metre squared. Some recommend a minimum as 2 chickens per metre squared, which I wouldn't. They need the space to get away from one another if necessary.
My purpose with this video was to bring awareness that space isn't everything, after seeing feather pecked chickens in a contained flock which easily had over the recommend space available. When we contain animals in any way, even if it's not tight confinement, it raises issues.
Again, thank you for raising this, I hope that anyone would research well before getting chickens.
The Miniature Smallholding Thanks for you answer. I appreciate that. Have a nice day😊
Chickens make good soup!
I never see a chicken make soup.
pwillia8 Yeah me neither. Atleast mine have not Done it yet
@@pwillia8864 :):):)
you are wrong about isolating the victim-you need to isolate the culprit..
In this instance I wasn't referring to a victim and culprit situation. I was talking about if they have an injury, no matter how it's caused. There is no point in leaving the injured hen in a position where other hens can continue to peck at the injury, it needs to heal.
When I get a singularly aggressive hen she will be completely separated from the flock for a few days to take her out of the pecking order, not isolated with the flock.
if you cant true free a range a chicken you shouldnt have any. these birds need to forage a couple acres to remain nature instinctive. i hate seeing chickens in cages
I guess I could leave them out for the foxes and hawks
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 or you can take the proper steps to keeping foxes and hawks away instead of just throwing chickens in a tiny wire fence and saying problem solved!
Tiny wire fence? My runs are bigger than my first house. Or didn't you watch past the intro with the mobile cruiser?
I'd appreciate any ideas as to how to keep them away without any fencing.
@@theminiaturesmallholding9479 i watched the whole video. i didnt see a single clip in the video where i couldnt also see fencing. the mobile cruise is just down cruel and not to mention your video tittled is labeled keeping chickens in "small" spaces. to me, yes that is tiny. as far as tips, all i do is raise hardy alert rooster with decent size and strong traits (i personally love sumatra roosters for protection) they are fearless and black chickens have been known to look like a bigger threat to airel predators. i just got into wyandottes a few years ago after hearing great sucsess stories with this super hardy breed and they are also great protecters and large in size. i have hawks just about every week lurking around and they have tried many times to snag my chickens, but are never sucsesful on my large fowl. i have lost bantams which is why i dont keep them anymore. foxes are sly and probably a chickens biggest threat but a healthy forager chicken should be able to detect and evade. personally i shoot foxes and coyotes whenever i can on my property, it is the most effective way of removing predators (they dont come to close anymore) but i know this isnt a option for some in rural areas. it really depends how much effort and time you are willing to put in if you want your chickens to live that natural life it desires.
@@rapscallion3421 shooting foxes is not an option here for most of us and while we do have the odd licensed hunter who'll try and take some out, the numbers are such that they are now working together to take full size sheep! A rooster is no deterrent to them any more and even with fully free ranging flocks they'll take nearly every chicken, bar a few lucky escapees. More and more people, even in rural areas with plenty of space, are having to resort to supervised free ranging and secure runs for the main part. We also have the occasional wedge tail which will easily carry off a full size chicken. Apparently they like Chihuahuas too. ;D
It's a screwed up situation, we shouldn't have foxes here and the ongoing droughts and fires are bringing more and more predators into areas people live. I'd rather keep some chickens in relative freedom and not buy battery or barn eggs (free range isn't really free range as the farmers face the same issues). Others are going to keep chickens in smaller spaces anyway, so if I can offer tips to help them to do that in a way where they don't suffer boredom then I'd like to do so.
Are you gonna kill them plz don't if you are
No, not planning to kill them.
The Miniature Smallholding thank you for not
english plz
Happy? This is the atheist misunderstanding of life. Happiness comes from he harmony of life with its meaning
, and from love, and not from an fulfilled stomach, sitting in the shade. Chickens can't be happy, but they can feel good or even great, that's all.
You don't know anything
DF USA preach
Beautiful
I've heard that chickens will single out a bird for salt in their blood. I know, gruesome. So, perhaps they might use a handful of crushed up potato chips in occasion.