Oh my gosh!! I watched countless videos, and yours was THE BEST!!! I'm starting my chicken/ Rooster family this weekend. Thanks for keeping it SO SIMPLE! ❤
Awe you are a fabulous hen owner. They are some of the best looked after hens I've seen. I'm hoping to get a few hens in the next few months, so currently devouring all the info I can find to ensure I'll have healthy and equally important happy hens. My autistic son adores hens, his paternal grandmother keeps quite a few hens and my son is often found plonked on the ground with hens on his lap and others snuggling into him. It's the most amazing sight to behold. He is an 8 year old hen whisper lol...so the hens are actually very therapeutic and help calm him after a melt down... With the benefits of free range eggs. Great little video... Thank you
Lo Chambers hens are so loving and smarter than people think. I hope you enjoy your hens when you get them. Thanks for sharing your heartwarming story about you son. He sounds precious.
Great video, thanks. I’m a new chicken owner, and I’m devouring information and knowledge. My coop was just built, and I’m so happy to learn about the wand. Lol. I have 5 hens and I’ve become obsessed with them. I got them when they were only a week old, so it has been quite a journey. No eggs yet, but we are ready!
What a great video. I am getting baby chicks in July and I have just ordered an extra large coop and covered run combo. The run is 22 ft. I hope that is large enough because I cannot let my chickens free range with loose dogs in the neighborhood and I have seen a hawk perched in my backyard trees on different occasions. We might add an additional large fenced in area and cover it with bird netting next year. But I would never let them out without supervision. I look forward to watching more of your chicken videos.
So glad I found this. I'm up in Canada and will be getting some chickens next year. I was afraid it would be too much work but you really make it see, quite manageable. Thanks so much for this. Gonna go and check out your other posts now :)
Wish we could get an updated or more frequent chicken video's. Your coop video inspired my husband and I still a work in progress but looking amazing. Hope to see chicken video's soon
The way i clean my chicken run: first sieve potting soil (WITH NO ADDED FERTILIZER) so it gets all of the bark and rocks out which makes it SUPER SOFT. then, every morning i just scoop hand fulls of bedding into the sieve and shake it so it just leaves the food scraps, poop and grain in it. Once a month i take out all of the soil and replace it with new soil and it works amazingly! Btw i always sieve the run in the morning before the chickens have come out because while they were sleeping, the poop would have hardened and that will make it alot easier everyday. I reccomend you try it because it is a natural substrate and it is so easy to clean.
Hey 👋 you take care of your chickens, like I do! Your coop is lovely! Have you ever had a problem with your chickens plucking one another’s feathers and eating them?
Great video. I have runs & coops being set up at the moment, & eggs in the incubator, so hoping to see little Silkie chicks in around 20 days time. I also have a 9 week old silkie rooster coming in a few days. Hoping I enjoy my chickens as much as you do yours. I'm in New Zealand, so we don't have foxes, racoons, snakes, etc here, thankfully, but I will still being tucking them into bed at night, & securing the coop. Thanks for doing this video.
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that uses a “chicken wand”...lol. My want is actually a red light weight garden fencing pole about 3 to 4 feet long. I never touch me hens with it. I use it like a Shepard’s staff and direct their path that they should go. And I am calling out for them because they know my voice as well.
please u can put a video about ur chickens and hive introduction of each chickens like the egg's color of each chickens, what they do ,how they sleep, what they do inside their house , I want to see them how cute they could be look when they play inside or outside
Hi. My friend needs a loving home for her three chickens. We have a coop and everything but: 1) do they make alot (like loads) of noise or are they normally quiet? 2) Where can I buy cheap food? 3) How often will they lay eggs? 4) Can I have three or will they fight? 5) Do they get along with Guinea pigs? I have a little G-piggy and we are planning on letting the chickens free once every week but my g-pug is freerange and roams the garden :D
Team Bartlett I'm going to answer your questions: Roosters only make a lot of noise but hens, you don't have to worry about. Go to tractor supply and they have all kinds of feeds including a variety of chicken feeds. Chickens don't normally fight. And I would watch your Guinea pig though because the chickens might peck at the Guinea pig, and injure it. Hopefully this helps.
Team Bartlett is right. Roosters are the noisy ones. Some hens can cluck from time to time but it doesn't bother me. they put themselves to bed before the sun sets and they are very quiet then. I buy an organic, GMO free pellet from my local feed store, of course that will be more expensive but they have other options as well. You can order it online if you wish too. They love meal worm snacks and chicken scratch. Of course they wouldn't say no to a earth worm, snail, or insect. Chickens the most eggs on the longest days. Each breed will lay at a different rate so if you want lots of eggs a leghorn for a white egg or a Road Island Red for a brown egg are good layers. I write growing articles for a magazine in Malibu called Westlake Malibu Lifestyle and my last article was all about raising chickens. I will be posting it on my Facebook soon so you can get information there. Thanks for all you questions, I hope this helps.
thanks that's a wonderful story about your spoiled chooks. I want to do the same, I am very caring like you just one question if you have time & that's keeping chickens & a veggie garden
Once you get your coop and run up chickens are really quite easy to take care of. If you live in an area where you don't have many predators you can let them roam around all day if you have a large enough property and you have fences that keep you chickens out of your neighbors yard. They will put themselves to bed because they don't see well once the sun starts to set. But research because some hens do better in a coop run environment and some love to forge around. I hope you get them because they are the sweetest things and each breed has their own personality. good luck
Kelly Emberg, I want to let my chickens forage (chickens love digging in the compost heap for bugs and whatnot), but we have hawks and other raptors here. Pretty much any California location will have hawks, have you ever had an issue with them? We live in a rather common tract on edge of larger cities, but the whole development is against wild land on two sides. I've heard coyotes late at night, and have heard that they follow backyard fences for as far as they go, looking for the perfect meal. Also have Owls of all sizes, and skunks, 'possums, and raccoons visit our yard often, in the middle of the night. (we've seen 'em on the security cameras--I do not empty the trash after dark if i can help it!) I like the idea of letting the chooks wander around, and the night visitors don't worry me, but I saw a hawk snatch a songbird out of a small tree in our yard a few years ago, and I've been worried about it ever since. Any advice for this situation? Your place is very nice, but that gully/canyon back there is quite worrisome!
I'm doing a tiny bit of research on different farm animals for a sleepaway camp I may be working at this summer. I might get a position working with the farm animals so I decided to do a bit of research on how to care for them. Could you tell me a bit on how to interact with chickens? I have limited experience with them.
Thanks for this video! I'm saving my cash to buy a good chicken coop and some chicks. Can't wait until I have enough! Until then, I'm researching how to care for them. =)
I bought a shed kit from Costco and converted it to a shed/coop combo. The back quarter is the shed. It works out great because everything is right there to care for my hens. It is the Everton Shed. If you are handy you could put it together yourself. Good luck. Thanks for watching!
Is Moe or Mo a rooster? You stated that you thought he was so sweet. If he is a rooster I'd love to have one just like him. He looks extra sweet to me!
Hi Kelly, Very informative and detailed video especially about the coop cleaning. Only rooster is Missing... Are you allowed to get a rooster in ur city.
Stratton Tidwell, Most experienced chicken moms n dads advise keeping younger chickies separated from the main "herd"-- but visible to each other through a wire fence -- so they can get used to each other. This is probably true of older chix who join the family, too, but the originals might be more likely to hassle the young'ns and that sets up a self perpetuating situation, and the youngs will learn to be bullies, thinking (if chickens think, LoL) they have to fight to survive.
She didn't tell you but PLEASE don't use cedar chips in you coop it will kill you chickens and don't have to have oyster shell it's just a treat or for calcium deficient hens and don't add it to your feed the feed , it has all it needs and they will just scratch all the feed out,also as long as you use a all in one wormer you don't absolutely have to have that stuff she puts down but if you do notice mites you can use sieving dust or lime it does the same thing and is a lot cheaper
+Flixx Foxy well if u want to raise them humanely u dont need them, in my experience its best to give them vitamin powder and mix it with their water also they need space ETC. So they wont be unhappy
tannenbaum, I was thinking the same, but more along the lines of the dust being kicked up while raking the poops and stuff out. Since I found out about Deep Litter, thats what I plan to do. If I'm understanding it right, you dont need to pick up the poops, you just keep covering with additional shallow layers of litter (HEMP litter is known to eliminate odor, and some people use PDZ which also prevents the stinkies that draw flies; stink and flies are going to get complaints from neighbors, so that's my main objective.) Deep litter is cleaned out completely, saving a bit to return a 4" layer of the old stuff to start a new batch, which is then composted and used on your flowers and veggie gardens. Anyway, I've only heard that dust kicked up from litter is bad for [wo]man and beast. The chickens can get some kind of lung infection if breathing in the desiccated waste, and I'm afraid to ask what it does to humans but it doesn't seem like a good idea. I dont think the DE has an effect on keeping the chix from bad effects of breathing in waste, but, as Kelly says in the video, it's great for worming, getting rid of mites and other critters. Some people make their chickens dust baths out of DE, either 100% de or mixing in with local soil. Lots of people put DE in the feed, and claim it keeps worms and such in check.
Great but it has put me off. Seems like a full time job and a lot of initial expense. I wonder what my Vietnamese neighbours would make of her. The chickens in my neighbourhood are kept in, they are noisy and - in mot cases - their home stinks. Mind you, this town sucks - the villages are a different matter .
s j f, Stink-free chickens are possible!! Use either Hemp Bedding/Litter or look into PDZ. Either of them keep away flies, because the flies are not attracted, cos no smell! The Hemp requires a certain type for chickens, they have a coarser one for horse stalls (which do not stink!), another size for cats, and even smaller (?) for little things like guinea pigs and the like. Same with PDZ, if I'm not mistaken, different size grades for large/small animals. You should tell your neighbor (gently) that you have a "situation", and suggest these products to her. As for the noise... does she have a rooster? They are generally not allowed even in areas allowing BYCs, because they are SO noisy. Of course that may be a way for her to make money, selling baby chicks. She may not know that several fertile eggs come with only one encounter with the rooster... the hen can lay fertile eggs over a two to three week period. Maybe she could put the rooster on a ranch nearby, and just bring a couple hens over to the rooster every few weeks.
They like to stand in water for cooling. As such, your raised nipple water feeder is BS. and other things you do don't really do them any real good, but make the resulting eggs too expensive to bother doing it.
I guess it depends on where you live. I use to leave water in their coop because one of my hens in particular liked to stand in the water but she got infection on her foot and my vet told me to take the water out because it was causing the infection. So I now have lots of water that is attached to the run as well at the hanging water bucket with nipples. They like to drink from both so I don't know what you are talking about that it is BS. I didn't say my coop was inexpensive. I just wanted to share some simple ideas about raising hens. They are my pets and the up side is I get eggs from them as well. It depends on why you want hens in the first place. BTW that raised water feeder was inexpensive.
Oh my gosh!! I watched countless videos, and yours was THE BEST!!! I'm starting my chicken/ Rooster family this weekend. Thanks for keeping it SO SIMPLE! ❤
Awe you are a fabulous hen owner. They are some of the best looked after hens I've seen. I'm hoping to get a few hens in the next few months, so currently devouring all the info I can find to ensure I'll have healthy and equally important happy hens. My autistic son adores hens, his paternal grandmother keeps quite a few hens and my son is often found plonked on the ground with hens on his lap and others snuggling into him. It's the most amazing sight to behold. He is an 8 year old hen whisper lol...so the hens are actually very therapeutic and help calm him after a melt down... With the benefits of free range eggs.
Great little video... Thank you
Lo Chambers hens are so loving and smarter than people think. I hope you enjoy your hens when you get them. Thanks for sharing your heartwarming story about you son. He sounds precious.
Yes,I'm planning on getting three chickens for my urban homestead and you have taught me how to take care of them. Thank you so much for sharing!
I love the way you talk about your chickens, so cute!
Thanks Tina. They are really easy to love.
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I love your video. Very well organize a place and beautiful as well. You are a beautiful lady.
Nilas spasov thanks! So happy you enjoyed it! It’s a labor of love for sure.
Great video, thanks. I’m a new chicken owner, and I’m devouring information and knowledge. My coop was just built, and I’m so happy to learn about the wand. Lol. I have 5 hens and I’ve become obsessed with them. I got them when they were only a week old, so it has been quite a journey. No eggs yet, but we are ready!
What a great video. I am getting baby chicks in July and I have just ordered an extra large coop and covered run combo. The run is 22 ft. I hope that is large enough because I cannot let my chickens free range with loose dogs in the neighborhood and I have seen a hawk perched in my backyard trees on different occasions. We might add an additional large fenced in area and cover it with bird netting next year. But I would never let them out without supervision. I look forward to watching more of your chicken videos.
Awesome video, very informative, I love your personality and the way you talk
So glad I found this. I'm up in Canada and will be getting some chickens next year. I was afraid it would be too much work but you really make it see, quite manageable. Thanks so much for this. Gonna go and check out your other posts now :)
Wow, your chickens look really healthy and well cared for. Nice video. Greetings from the South of Chile!
That is one upscale coop, stunning! The weathervane is a great idea!
Wish we could get an updated or more frequent chicken video's.
Your coop video inspired my husband and I still a work in progress but looking amazing.
Hope to see chicken video's soon
The way i clean my chicken run: first sieve potting soil (WITH NO ADDED FERTILIZER) so it gets all of the bark and rocks out which makes it SUPER SOFT. then, every morning i just scoop hand fulls of bedding into the sieve and shake it so it just leaves the food scraps, poop and grain in it. Once a month i take out all of the soil and replace it with new soil and it works amazingly! Btw i always sieve the run in the morning before the chickens have come out because while they were sleeping, the poop would have hardened and that will make it alot easier everyday. I reccomend you try it because it is a natural substrate and it is so easy to clean.
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Hey 👋 you take care of your chickens, like I do! Your coop is lovely! Have you ever had a problem with your chickens plucking one another’s feathers and eating them?
you should do a video on introducing each of your chickens saying the breed and egg colors their so beautiful.
+Jamie Angulo that is a good idea. Thanks
Great video. I have runs & coops being set up at the moment, & eggs in the incubator, so hoping to see little Silkie chicks in around 20 days time. I also have a 9 week old silkie rooster coming in a few days. Hoping I enjoy my chickens as much as you do yours. I'm in New Zealand, so we don't have foxes, racoons, snakes, etc here, thankfully, but I will still being tucking them into bed at night, & securing the coop. Thanks for doing this video.
Glad you like it Nassim! Hope you get some of your own. 😊
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Loved your video ! You had so much good information . Thank you !
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your really good at telling us how to look after chickens
Thank you, we just had a chicken adopt us. Very informative!
Amber Kilby ahhhhhh enjoy her!
Thanks!
I’m glad that I’m not the only one that uses a “chicken wand”...lol. My want is actually a red light weight garden fencing pole about 3 to 4 feet long. I never touch me hens with it. I use it like a Shepard’s staff and direct their path that they should go. And I am calling out for them because they know my voice as well.
thank u for the video i understood it real well....cant wait to have some myself😋
what chicken breed is laying that dark ish pink egg?
Prima Donna. She does not know what real life is like.
wow, excellent chicken coop and care
Thanks for this great informative video!
please u can put a video about ur chickens and hive introduction of each chickens like the egg's color of each chickens, what they do ,how they sleep, what they do inside their house ,
I want to see them how cute they could be look when they play inside or outside
That is a great idea!
Hi. My friend needs a loving home for her three chickens. We have a coop and everything but: 1) do they make alot (like loads) of noise or are they normally quiet? 2) Where can I buy cheap food? 3) How often will they lay eggs? 4) Can I have three or will they fight? 5) Do they get along with Guinea pigs? I have a little G-piggy and we are planning on letting the chickens free once every week but my g-pug is freerange and roams the garden :D
Team Bartlett
I'm going to answer your questions:
Roosters only make a lot of noise but hens, you don't have to worry about. Go to tractor supply and they have all kinds of feeds including a variety of chicken feeds. Chickens don't normally fight. And I would watch your Guinea pig though because the chickens might peck at the Guinea pig, and injure it. Hopefully this helps.
Team Bartlett Oh and I forgot to tell you that the hens might squawk whenever they lay eggs, which is normal.
Team Bartlett is right. Roosters are the noisy ones. Some hens can cluck from time to time but it doesn't bother me. they put themselves to bed before the sun sets and they are very quiet then. I buy an organic, GMO free pellet from my local feed store, of course that will be more expensive but they have other options as well. You can order it online if you wish too. They love meal worm snacks and chicken scratch. Of course they wouldn't say no to a earth worm, snail, or insect. Chickens the most eggs on the longest days. Each breed will lay at a different rate so if you want lots of eggs a leghorn for a white egg or a Road Island Red for a brown egg are good layers. I write growing articles for a magazine in Malibu called Westlake Malibu Lifestyle and my last article was all about raising chickens. I will be posting it on my Facebook soon so you can get information there. Thanks for all you questions, I hope this helps.
Ur so pretty. Love my chickens. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing 🧡
Them chickens live better than I do 😭
My birds wanna come visit that fancy coop
Thanks for sharing🌷🌷🌷
Beautiful Lady and beautiful her chicken as well. And very beautiful surroundings. I think expensive too.
Hmmm, it is good to be wealthy.
Great video! I am raising 9 hens and 1 bantam rooster. It's really interesting how they have their own personality!
Amazing! Thank you for sharing!
thanks that's a wonderful story about your spoiled chooks. I want to do the same, I am very caring like you just one question if you have time & that's keeping chickens & a veggie garden
Once you get your coop and run up chickens are really quite easy to take care of. If you live in an area where you don't have many predators you can let them roam around all day if you have a large enough property and you have fences that keep you chickens out of your neighbors yard. They will put themselves to bed because they don't see well once the sun starts to set. But research because some hens do better in a coop run environment and some love to forge around. I hope you get them because they are the sweetest things and each breed has their own personality. good luck
Kelly Emberg,
I want to let my chickens forage (chickens love digging in the compost heap for bugs and whatnot), but we have hawks and other raptors here. Pretty much any California location will have hawks, have you ever had an issue with them? We live in a rather common tract on edge of larger cities, but the whole development is against wild land on two sides. I've heard coyotes late at night, and have heard that they follow backyard fences for as far as they go, looking for the perfect meal. Also have Owls of all sizes, and skunks, 'possums, and raccoons visit our yard often, in the middle of the night. (we've seen 'em on the security cameras--I do not empty the trash after dark if i can help it!)
I like the idea of letting the chooks wander around, and the night visitors don't worry me, but I saw a hawk snatch a songbird out of a small tree in our yard a few years ago, and I've been worried about it ever since.
Any advice for this situation? Your place is very nice, but that gully/canyon back there is quite worrisome!
Beautiful chickens! They look just like mine!
I'm doing a tiny bit of research on different farm animals for a sleepaway camp I may be working at this summer. I might get a position working with the farm animals so I decided to do a bit of research on how to care for them. Could you tell me a bit on how to interact with chickens? I have limited experience with them.
this video is lovely
Thanks for this video! I'm saving my cash to buy a good chicken coop and some chicks. Can't wait until I have enough! Until then, I'm researching how to care for them. =)
+Emily Curtis Great idea. I did the same thing. Research as much as you can!
Nice video! Very informative! :)
Thanks for you kind comment.
love your chickies, is that first one a spitzihauben?
rose smith it’s a cream brabanter. The friendliest breed!
Where did you get your coop from because I love it?! Great video
I bought a shed kit from Costco and converted it to a shed/coop combo. The back quarter is the shed. It works out great because everything is right there to care for my hens. It is the Everton Shed. If you are handy you could put it together yourself. Good luck. Thanks for watching!
I would love to have a coop like yours. Where do I get one please?
I got my shed from Costco and modified it. You can do it with a Tuff Shed as well.
That's one serious chicken "coop"! LOL
Very helpful
I used to get my chickens in the coop with spaghetti, because they seem to think they are worms. They would all come running.
thank you for all of this help!!
very informative thank you
This video is so cool and ENJOYABLE i love this video!🙂☺i have chickens too☺
Good vidio
Best video I’ve seen it’s amazing! 💓
Loved it ! thank you :)
It would of helped if you gave a ratio of crumbles,(I can't believe I just said that) to oyster shell. Thank you. Love, chicken wand.
I am getting silkies in 2 weeks and this helps a lot , thanks
Hello, great video, what editing program do you use for your videos?
+Zachary Turner Finalcut
Final Cut
Is Moe or Mo a rooster? You stated that you thought he was so sweet. If he is a rooster I'd love to have one just like him. He looks extra sweet to me!
Mo and Flo she are hens. They are Cream Brabanters extremely sweet and loving!
nice
How nice. Which country is this?
We live in San Diego California USA
love it
+nassim daoud Thanks
I love Chickens, better that having a dog or a cat.
Greetings from Veracruz, Mexico.
If I was a chicken, I"d want you to be my owner.
Hi, what breed of chicken is in the photo as the video header?
cream brabanter They are the sweetest and most friendly hen I have ever had! Hope you get one!
Good video
thanks, I am glad you like it!
Hi Kelly,
Very informative and detailed video especially about the coop cleaning. Only rooster is Missing... Are you allowed to get a rooster in ur city.
I'll subscribe I actually liked u😅❤️
Great Video! Your so pretty
do you have americana chickens. Do they really have blue eggs. I just got two, do they get along with chickens when there chicks.
+Stratton Tidwell Yes they do lay blue eggs! They are Ameraucana chickens. I have 2 of them
Stratton Tidwell,
Most experienced chicken moms n dads advise keeping younger chickies separated from the main "herd"-- but visible to each other through a wire fence -- so they can get used to each other. This is probably true of older chix who join the family, too, but the originals might be more likely to hassle the young'ns and that sets up a self perpetuating situation, and the youngs will learn to be bullies, thinking (if chickens think, LoL) they have to fight to survive.
If you turn on subtitles at the intro music, it says "poop poop poop.." Such good captions...
funny
lol that made me laf
omg #goals
Wife loved video
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She didn't tell you but PLEASE don't use cedar chips in you coop it will kill you chickens and don't have to have oyster shell it's just a treat or for calcium deficient hens and don't add it to your feed the feed , it has all it needs and they will just scratch all the feed out,also as long as you use a all in one wormer you don't absolutely have to have that stuff she puts down but if you do notice mites you can use sieving dust or lime it does the same thing and is a lot cheaper
TY! Why so many chickens U give the eggs away anyway & you buy all the supplies🤔 seems impractical.
I love when chicken goes out in the garden,dont like it when they stay in the same space all the time,it is boring for them,just like it is to us.
I want chickens! Lol 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔
Love ❤️ your children
So are we going to ignore how beautiful perfect she is ?
lol your so right
everyone get this to 1000 likes
Hello would anyone need advice? Im a great farmer and vet
Oh and i share this youtube account with my brother
+ULTIMATE CARNO Oh that would be great! What vaccines are a must-have for baby chicks? I want to make sure that they stay healthy.
+Flixx Foxy well if u want to raise them humanely u dont need them, in my experience its best to give them vitamin powder and mix it with their water also they need space ETC. So they wont be unhappy
+ULTIMATE CARNO and diatomaceious earth
can u help plz I want make farm
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In the starting you show a crying chicken my female chicken piya piya also cry like that hahahaha
Can I use hamster pine Bedding
I use shredded paper and cardboard in my coop
Hemp!!
I Love chicken!
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yes i love how they know there bed time
Me too. It is because they don’t see well when the sun goes down. Nature is amazing!
Easy? Lol that's a lot of work.
MARK DUNCAN. People always say chickens are so easy..... easy my ass, them birds need you every single day, several times a day
Please be careful not to breathe in any diotometiall earth.
tannenbaum,
I was thinking the same, but more along the lines of the dust being kicked up while raking the poops and stuff out. Since I found out about Deep Litter, thats what I plan to do. If I'm understanding it right, you dont need to pick up the poops, you just keep covering with additional shallow layers of litter (HEMP litter is known to eliminate odor, and some people use PDZ which also prevents the stinkies that draw flies; stink and flies are going to get complaints from neighbors, so that's my main objective.) Deep litter is cleaned out completely, saving a bit to return a 4" layer of the old stuff to start a new batch, which is then composted and used on your flowers and veggie gardens.
Anyway, I've only heard that dust kicked up from litter is bad for [wo]man and beast. The chickens can get some kind of lung infection if breathing in the desiccated waste, and I'm afraid to ask what it does to humans but it doesn't seem like a good idea. I dont think the DE has an effect on keeping the chix from bad effects of breathing in waste, but, as Kelly says in the video, it's great for worming, getting rid of mites and other critters. Some people make their chickens dust baths out of DE, either 100% de or mixing in with local soil. Lots of people put DE in the feed, and claim it keeps worms and such in check.
Mmmmmmmmmmilf
I love chicken 🐔 too and I have them too
Chickens know what to eat and not
They always leave the skins of my avocados etc
Cougar!
Great but it has put me off. Seems like a full time job and a lot of initial expense. I wonder what my Vietnamese neighbours would make of her. The chickens in my neighbourhood are kept in, they are noisy and - in mot cases - their home stinks. Mind you, this town sucks - the villages are a different matter .
s j f,
Stink-free chickens are possible!! Use either Hemp Bedding/Litter or look into PDZ. Either of them keep away flies, because the flies are not attracted, cos no smell! The Hemp requires a certain type for chickens, they have a coarser one for horse stalls (which do not stink!), another size for cats, and even smaller (?) for little things like guinea pigs and the like.
Same with PDZ, if I'm not mistaken, different size grades for large/small animals. You should tell your neighbor (gently) that you have a "situation", and suggest these products to her.
As for the noise... does she have a rooster? They are generally not allowed even in areas allowing BYCs, because they are SO noisy. Of course that may be a way for her to make money, selling baby chicks. She may not know that several fertile eggs come with only one encounter with the rooster... the hen can lay fertile eggs over a two to three week period. Maybe she could put the rooster on a ranch nearby, and just bring a couple hens over to the rooster every few weeks.
PS: Curious, where do you live? Hope it isnt too bad! The "villages" part piqued my curiosity...
They like to stand in water for cooling. As such, your raised nipple water feeder is BS. and other things you do don't really do them any real good, but make the resulting eggs too expensive to bother doing it.
I guess it depends on where you live. I use to leave water in their coop because one of my hens in particular liked to stand in the water but she got infection on her foot and my vet told me to take the water out because it was causing the infection. So I now have lots of water that is attached to the run as well at the hanging water bucket with nipples. They like to drink from both so I don't know what you are talking about that it is BS. I didn't say my coop was inexpensive. I just wanted to share some simple ideas about raising hens. They are my pets and the up side is I get eggs from them as well. It depends on why you want hens in the first place. BTW that raised water feeder was inexpensive.