Know This BEFORE Feeding Scraps to Chickens
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- Опубліковано 6 гру 2022
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I am going through the worst time in my life I was homeless after my mom passed, I quit my job to care for her and in that 3years I became disabled, I found a place thanks to family friends and through all of this I managed to keep my 11chickens I can only feed them stuff from my kitchen and garden so everyday I give them fresh tomatoes lettuce rolled oats, shredded wheat and corn meal. I hope I'm doing the right thing by keeping them they are the reason I get out of bed most days. And they look so healthy. So surely they are.
I am so sorry for your loss. I have had a similar experience and I too am doing better. Best wishes to you for a fulfilling life.
@@AuntCinCin Thank you very much, I only have hope and faith ..
You are 100% doing the right thing. ❤️ I’m so sorry for your hard times and the loss of your mother. I’m glad you have good friends that have helped you through this difficult time. ❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Thank you so much it means the world to me that you agree, ty for your kind words. And for all your valuable information.
You are an inspiration! I believe you gave your chickens a purpose and they return the favor. I'm certain they live a far more fulfilling life under your loving care than being stuck in a giant factory where no one loves them! Best wishes❣️
Chickens, if you observe and interact with them are healing. Be in the moment. Backyard chickens are cheaper than therapy. 🙂
This ^^^ ❤️
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Yes!
When I feel stressed, I grab a cuppa and chair and sit in the backyard and watch my 3 australorps. It is just so relaxing watching them dust bathe or scratch about. They make me laugh when they playfully chase each other. They are so calming.
I only have one chicken right now but she reminds me of my dogs. She is super friendly and loves to be petted.
I put my raw fruit & veggie scraps in the food processor and chop them into bite size pieces for my chickens and feed them in a pan so there is even less waste they get all of it that way.
I grow kale, spinach, herbs, pumkin & cook rice for my chickens..Always give table scraps to them!😍I also create worm patches for my chickens....Yes its all about the quality of life our chickens have.
My family always thrown chicken scraps from the table. You can cut down weeds and feed your birds. You can put out minnow traps in creeks rivers or lakes and feed the minnows to your chickens. Feed them that half eaten hamburger they will love it. Those things you normally throw away when you clean out your freezer, give them to your chickens
Better question would be to discuss is what chickens should not eat.
Sprouts, and fermented feeds are awesome and all backyard chicken farms should utilize them.
Thank you for this. I just saw my old post from Backyard Chickens and I saw that there were these purists who only wanted you to have chicken feed only and I even explained that there was a time that chicken feed didn’t exist. You have to be aware of their nutritional needs but you don’t have to be so rigid.
Exactly!
I agree! I give my chickens and ducks table scraps, mostly fresh veggies and they eat like crazy, like they are starving, but they have plenty of chicken feed.
Reminds me of when they told mothers they shouldn’t breastfeed and should only feed milk formula. Obviously that wasn’t correct, but people believed it anyways
I love hearing you lay out your philosophy. Chicken keeping doesn't just change how you relate to a new kind of creature--it changes your relationship with the world around you.
It certainly does. ❤️
Methinks you're right!
Beautiful flock 😍 I whole heartedly agree! It just doesn't feel right to only give them big industry feed. They LOVE fresh fruits and vegetables. And I just love watching them peck away at a pumpkin 😍 I am old fashioned and love raising my flock the old fashioned way. I don't always have kitchen scraps and I do give them feed but to help offset the cost I have started hatching their eggs and selling chicks 🐣 Also, I recently read that raising chickens helps decrease the risk of dementia by 50%! Thank you for the wonderful videos and all the great information! Love your videos! ❤️🥰
My chickens are therapy for me, Im Outside 365 for my well being 🌎 Thanks for all you share
You are a great ambassador for healthy chicken and other birds
I keep a clean bucket on my kitchen counter and all our scraps go right into it and down to the chickens, when I lost my first flock to a raccoon when I was first starting out, I took a break, and oh my gosh! It felt like so much wasted food without having chickens to throw it all to!
Scraps are great! Never give them salt. Or rabbit food because there is salt in it. My husband (even though I told him not to) gave them rabbit food and the hens bacame egg bound. The vet said the sodium in the rabbit food was the culprit. We give ours organ meats in the winters to keep their proteins up through the winter. Every other week, kind of thing. Layer's crumble, scratch grains. They enjoy all the variety. . They don't have the bugs in the winters here in Ontario, Canada.
I also have a compost area in my chicken run. In fact, it's basically half❤ of the chicken run. That's where all the scraps go. And in the spring I have great compost for my garden. The cycle of life :-)
I work in a restaurant kitchen that allows me to take home any of the kitchen scraps and expired food I want. My chickens have access to chicken kibble 24/7 but prefer the veggie scraps, grains, bread, and fruit I bring home from work on a nearly daily basis. It keeps all that waste from going to landfill and provides me with eggs and my garden with all the fertilizer it could ever need. It saves a ton on chicken feed!
Pre hurricane, we cooked store bought organic chicken legs& corn on cob from store, tied legs& corn cobs together hanging vertical on long horizontal rope so it would spin,hang in hen house for them to peck,keep destressed during 155mph winds. Made them trays of corn bread trays with flax,chia,corn,chili peppers, .,kept them distracted during worst of storm .
You are a great chicken owner!
I love how my chickens will eat anything I give them, and yet my duck are picking with scraps. It is so funny when the ducks shake their heads after tasting something they don't like. Sometimes, they look at me and tilt their head like I'm an idiot for offering food they hate. Funny 😁
I love this. My chickens get ALL KINDS of scraps; if they like it, I generally give it to them. They don't eat much feed (which we mix ourselves anyway) because of the scraps. As long as there is enough protein, feed away! And, they learn, trust me. Mine see me with a bowl and they come running!
Dear President of Chickenlandia,
You are an amazing human! I only have ducks and have no desire for chickens but still enjoy getting the knowledge you put out there. It helps me make sure I am doing right by my fistful (had to look that up - chose that one cause I only have 5).
Love the message that your sending, I feel exactly the same about tying into nature. Great stuff!
It's good to get edgy too, I truly find peace when otbers show their truth even when they may seem mad or upset. It means they are truly passionate about it and need to be heard because there is truth in their statement(s). Shine on sweet lady!
Preisdent of Chickenlandia meets President of Duck Land?
My chickens won’t eat pumpkin,squash,butternut squash,pumpkin seeds . They love pizza,table scraps, biscuits,cornbread and green vegetables. They get all the layer feed they can eat. They seem to be happy chickens.
If u slightly boil in a small bit of water the cuts or shred n slightly steam a small amount of water that sits in side a double boiler they will eat it
That's funny as mine are WILD about those things yours don't care for. Apple is another fave of mine.
Be careful with certain breads it's sticks in their gullots,I lost a few to this
Pumpkin is a non-starter with my girls also.
You are so uplifting… just love your personality and all the good information you share with us. ❤ thank you!!!
I’ve grown some comfrey and other herbs for the chickens, the girls love the comfrey leaves but what’s great is I’ll throw the leaves down on the dirt to break down the hard soil and the ladies help by scratching at the comfrey. Putting them to work! feed just keeps going up and up so free ranging them helps some but we still offer them plenty of other treats and scraps!
My chickens love cleaning up the used up garden beds. They clean up the weeds and bugs and they have a great time.
I get extra collard greens mostly connected to the main stem from farm share food give away along with squash n cabbage ect so when my garden gets low or not ready I don’t have to wait for kitchen scraps and you can root n plant the collard green n other greens and grow more
The largest parts of the stems that I dont add to fermented seeds and spit peas I chop up in the electric chopper goes the thickest parts of the stems that don’t fit in my skirt hangers with wilted carrots that didn’t get feed I time to the meal worms n Beatles
Awesome!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia I’m told I spoil them I stand firm I’m insuring they have what they can’t find within their yards now grassless area but they do enjoy mushrooms that grow in the logs I roll for bug searching between the mealworm draw
We're growing a ton more corn & sunflowers for our chickens, & I'll be saving some egg shells for them & our tomato plants. This is to supplement their feed. We also have a bag of various seeds w/corn as a treat, & we often buy meal worms. Of course, they eat bugs outside, too. They're all very wonderful chickens, & we love them - Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Moe, Miss Priss, Putty-Tat, Crooked Beak (severe cross bite), Forrest, Eli, Clairee, Weeza, Stripey, Snowy, & Poncho:) They all know their names, & they love rolling their necks around to reggae music lol:)
Usually it is the big feed companies like Purina, etc. that are pushing for people to only feed Chicken Feed. Same thing with dog and cat food. Follow the money. I know a family that doesn't feed anything except garden, yard and kitchen scraps to their chickens. They do give them oyster shell for the extra calcium. They do great.
Girl, my chickens have their own garden year round 😂😂😂
NICE lol
When you see your chicken prefer the fresh kitchen scraps to the best chicken feed you know that it is right to be giving them access to to the chicken scraps.
Our six hens will wait to take from the freshly filled feed bowls until they have had time to see what kitchen scraps and other fresh veg they are given each morning!
Then most of the afternoon they again abandon the layer mix to free range in the yard for what ever they can find. I 100% agree with the keep it simple premise of you Chicken food pyramid!
I truly thank you for all your advice. You bring peace to me when I hear your videos for whatever reason.
This was very helpful! I think that this is a great way to feed them healthy stuff and they are a composter without all of the extra work! Our chickens eat fresh strawberries and other treats. Our chickens also get pumpkins when its that season. They free range when it's nice out and are really funny when they both find the same worm at the same time.
My hens don't care for strawberries, but they LOVE blueberries! And banana peels. They eat some melon/squash rinds, but didn't eat the organic pumpkin or seeds that I split and gave them after Halloween (not carved, just a bit dry.)
As a chicken wrangler for some too much of my life... I have just begun collecting scraps from my Pizzaria... Just. Before it was some guy with hogs too bear hunter. Now it's my turn... Tried in the past but was ignored, till I found out about buckets. Seems there is a code... Now things are going great. Chickens do not seem to be all that thrilled about lettuce but so do enjoy pizza! Anyway, I can see how this will almost eliminate my feed bill. Though I still provide Layer Pellets, Sunflower and Scratch with some Grit and Oyster Shell. Used to ferment Crumbles and that is a miracle food... No more naked ladies! Have so many feathered children I do not know what to do...👢Thank you for the conformation! Take care
Bottle your joy!!!
I always have a pot on my stove and all my older, soft veggies go in..nothing mouldy..add water add some grains and they love it..i also grow kale, squash, and greens for them.
I haven’t read all the comments yet. I imagine this has been mentioned - if all that chickens should eat is processed commercial food…. What on earth did my great grandmothers feed their chickens?
Chickens have been with us so long. They foraged and ate after us.
We mix our own chicken feed. I’m allergic to shellfish. So, no oyster shells. We give them limestone instead.
Thank you for the advice, education and laughter. ❤
Exactly! My great grandmother's chickens lived in a tree in Guatemala. There was no commercial feed back then!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia it makes you wonder how they ever survived. 😂🫢
You could feed them crushed egg shells
I wash my egg shells and then bake them in the oven to dry them to brittle crisp. Then I crush them well. My hen eats these as she wants them. I put them in a separate bowl in the corner. She finds them as she wants them. I am allergic to iodine and can't have oysters. I figure that's what GOD made egg shells for. Since I wash them and bake their shells, they won't get used to eating their own eggs. They seem happy.
My three Girls and I had a popcorn party yesterday. I also give them a dish of yogurt soaked oatmeal for dinner every night!
Completely agree with you and I feel it's no different with us humans. We (like chickens, dogs, etc.,) were not designed to consume processed foods.
Thank you for making this video, I feel the same way, when we look into this feed situation, I have felt in my gut, fresh has to be better. I also understand there is a nutritional balance we need to obtain, and all fresh is not viable for most people as far as how much you would have to have. I dont have chickens yet but am planning on getting some this spring. I have gotten my coop and run, and buying a little at a time, including feed to stock up as I want soy and corn free so it is a lot more expensive. I am bombarded with the diseases, feeding, cleaning, and just feel like it will work itself out. I am into nutrition so I do understand the benefits of a fresh diet supplimented by feed and treats. Love the video.
Free range and food scraps are our girls primary diet. We only supplement with commercial feed (50/50 layer pellets mixed with scratch grains). I do give them warm water mixed with 1 cap of Braggs ACV and raw local honey. They also get all of their egg shells back and a few raw eggs every week. No supplemental light and we’re still getting 16-17 eggs per day from our 15 girls ❤. I’m starting to freeze some eggs just Incase they slow down. We love our girls...they are the hardest workers on the farm.
I agree whit you 🐔 in Québec the winter is cold...in winter time I Cook some meat patée whit herbs and good stuff, I give them some in the morning and some before night and also grow some Greens inside for us and for my chickens 🌱💕💞
I love my chickens. I spend a lot on them over 10k on coop and run have 37 . I spend 50 week and absolutely give kitchen scraps and I buy them treats. Black soldier flys and 6 grain scratch. It’s December in NJ where I am and they are still laying. I don’t put light on them. They are happy chicks. I give them everything we eat! I also buy case of cabbage or lettuce I put in the net and they play while they eat
You always have the best advice! Thank you for sharing this helpful information ❤
I feed my birds sprouted grains and seeds as their main source. I found buying bags of whole wheat, oats, corn and flaxseed, as well as "birdseed" to be cheaper in the long run. Sprouting them doubles the volume and more than triples the available nutrition. I also refuse to feed my dogs kibble 😉. I grow sunflowers, kale, comfrey, the list is to long. Garden scraps and weeds. A small mealworm farm. There are so many ways to keep healthy happy chickens (and ducks and quail).
I'm in Nj. I have 4 girls who are just about 7 months. They JUST started laying to my amazement. I assumed they wouldn't lay until spring . Im on day 6 amd have 9 eggs ! I usually feed jjst pellets. I added ALL my kitchen scrap and im picking all my dandelion plants. I let them out for 2 hours a day while I'm standing on top of them due to hawk and eagles . Im a proud chicken momma
I feed mine cooked pasta, cooked rice, cooked oatmeal, plain yogurt, cooked beans, and all kinds of vegetables from my garden.
My babies LOVE watermelon and strawberries!
I have lentils sprouting on the counter right now for my feathered friends to give them something fresh as winter sets in. They also get any appropriate scraps we have to share (makes for some jealous dogs here sometimes!).
Looking so forward to the release of your book!!! I give layer feed but I also fernment my feed. I keep a container of kitchen scraps in my fridge so every morning they get their fermented feed with fresh kitchen scraps together! This method has worked great for me.
I am really looking forward to your book and will encourage my library to purchase it to perhaps introduce you to some folks who are unfamiliar with Chickenlandia.
Madam president, my chickens agree 💯
I feed our free-range hens very little fermented commercial feed (when weather is above freezing), seeds, grains and lots of ugly garden produce. They love whole pumpkins-pumpkin seeds are a great natural de-wormer. Our hens get ALL our kitchen scraps that don’t contain paper. Those get composted. What do you think chickens ate before Nutrena or Purina existed?
My chickens diet is mostly forage 9 month out of the year. They have 5 acres to roam, and free access to my compost pile, on which they forage. They barely touch their feed in the summer. From early October through mid december they have a few deer skeletons to pick clean, which boosts egg production for a short time.
You are my new hero. Thank you for what you said in this video. I watch people get beat up on backyard chickens, from the feed police. It is just awful. People want to interact with their flock and food is a great way to do it. They are not going to come eat feed out of your hand.
I have a neighborhood chicken I have been noticing in my front yard scratching all my leaves and sticks up that i left from fall. I was seeing her every day for weeks. Well I decided to investigate and noticed she's been living under my porch. So I started feeding scraps to her and had a fun time digging up earthworms and collecting bugs in a dish with my kid and fed her that way for a few days, found she's been living under my porch I then made an old shed into a quick chicken coop to get her out of the Michigan cold with roosting areas and nesting areas. And covered In straw and lured her there with food. Well she's been in my care for the last week or so and In the shed now for 3 days and she already layed us an egg. I started to infnher 16 percent crumble and scraps still. I also had a bag of split peas I scattered in the coop so she can scratch around find them and started throwing in meal worms for her to find. She's gotten so friendly and so happy she won't even leave the coop. I prop the shed door open at dawn and close it at dusk she has the choice to free range or stay where there is clean water and food. However the skunks are starting up again like every year in my area along with Fox and hawks. So gotta be careful I have no money but I have scrap wood so i can keep improving the living conditions for her. Just need to make a dust bath and get her friends.
I'm impressed that you still have grass in your protected chicken yard/run .. Have you done a video on your run square footage to chicken ratio yet? I know from experience that the standard calculation of 10' run space/4' in the coop per bird is grossly inappropriate... Would you share yours? Thanks! Love your channel and great attitude!
I don't remember what video it was buried in, but recently Madame President said she just got lucky and has no idea how the grass is still there!
I think I have magic chickens because I can't believe I still have grass! I do have a ton of room, though. I will say the minimum would be 10' and 4' but with a lot of enrichment to keep them occupied. Most chickens in the world live in a tiny, tiny space not fit for life at all, so I try and remember that. Many people don't have a lot of space but if they have the minimum I want them to still have chickens. ❤️ It means less birds in factory farms.
i have never seen chicken pellets like that! i was taught that chicken feed needs to consist of:
*black sunflower seeds (the oil helps their feathers i think)
*calcium for egg production (my family actually just saves all the eggshells, turns them into a rough powder and adds it back into the feed)
*wild bird seed (for variety of healthy seeds)
*and animal corn
*plus a seperate bowl for their grit
i've also heard that like...fennel seed is okay? but idk too much about that
I love checking in to see what else I could learn from your amazing channel, I work in a primary school and am allowed to bring home any veg and the likes. I also buy greens and fruit if it’s not the season for my fruit trees. I buy mealworms and also give back some eggs when I just have too many lol, not to mention the egg shells. I love my girls and my dog gets jealous lmao 😂. I came in house one day and Izzy one of my girls was sat on the sofa next to my dang Khaleesi lmao, omg I just fell about laughing 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Thank you for all you share with us, from England xxx
This is THE best chicken channel! Thank you for helping so many.
Each week I chop up a variety of produce and each day I feed one heaping TBS per chicken, mixed with some moistened pellet feed.
I also add a little of the ingredients I strain off my fire cider each year and freeze, as it has been infused with homemade apple cider.
Honestly? It looks and smells delicious. They eat better than I do! Lol.
Great video. My flock goes crazy for anything that isn’t chicken food.
That's a really nice, spacious area you have for your chickens..
I was eating a tuna salad sandwich on multigrain when I was swarmed by a gang of juvenile Australorps. One flew up onto my plate and was clawing and pecking my lunch while, occasionally looking up to dare me to do anything about it while the others jumped up and down trying to get in on the action. Soon my sandwich was everywhere. The thing about Australorps is their eyes. Cold, black, lifeless eyes, like a doll's eyes, and when they take a bite out of your lunch, those eyes roll back and all you can hear is your wife's high pitched screaming.
Thank you for sharing your information it’s extremely helpful. You are so fun and educational at the same time.😃
I cane across your videos through the interview on farmhouse on boon. Really love your groundedness, simplicity and sense of humor. We are planning on getting chickens this spring here in Sweden. So looking forward to it now ❤
Sure am thankful for you and this channel! You gave us the confidence to start. We are so thankful for our backyard flock now. 😊
I love the way you think.. scandals of the productivity of feed. What will ppl do when they can no longer get to some feed? Scraps, egg shells, and worm beds will make you survive the hard times.
Another super helpful video and I am learning a lot.
I only have 5 chickens I raised from chicks and they love to eat.
I do give them chicken feed from a farm store that makes sure they don't alter the ingredients but also am fermenting a lot of their food now. I am on a limited income but it's more cost effective to give them the chicken feed, ferment a lot of their food, give them fresh veggies and fruits as well as other table scraps.
It's winter here but unseasonable temperatures make it easier for them but too cold to be out and about most of the time.
They lay between 3-5 eggs a day and since don't have anyone to give them to other than family, I do freeze some eggs, dehydrate and eat a lot of them lol
I love having my chickens and so thankful for your videos. I'm reassured and encouraged to do all I can.
Just made the treat for them you shared in a previous video. It's baking now and hoping they love it as much as your chickens do.
Thanks so much
Yes, table scraps are great. My grandparents never bought feed for there chickens. Always very healthy Free Range 👍🏼
I live in Southwest TN. It has been raining for days. I feel bad for rhem.
However, we have spring grasses popping up everywhere.
Thanks for your tips.
You rock and so does your flock!😅
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We feed our chickens Kalmbach Henhouse Reserve. They LOVE it, we don't give them much veggies. I feel the henhouse reserve is probably the best on the market, our chicken are in their first year & still laying like crazy even this far in Dec. We have 8 hens & get pretty much 6 to 7 eggs a day!
I’m in the PNW and accept you as my chicken leader 😂
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PSS. My chickens have not been sick in 4 yrs.
Here in central Texas, the 100+°F the girls suffered. I had to dip their feet in water a few times and put ice in their water. Of course, almost no eggs....but I still got some. Amazing.
❤️ Ya! 👍✝️❤️🙏🙏🙏
Trust me i had three healthy roosters leghorn and i only feed then 3-4 rotis (indian chaptis) , eggs , vegetables , noodles sometime ,fruits but never chicken feed that results in them being more healthy , playful and loudy bunch . I love them because they are the reason for me to not get depressed easily. Today when one of them want to peck me i cuddle him back to my heart content. ❤❤❤❤❤
I have super healthy, alive chickens now because of you and your guidance. So looking forward to your book….thank you!
We have wild muscadine grapes and several persimmon trees around our chicken pens. Plus we feed kitchen scraps. My husband also saves grass clippings for them. We also give then corn tortillas and layer feed.
I’ve been raising hens for over 25 years
I’ve always feed them table scraps
They love pasta
They devour it
In England it’s illegal to feed your chickens food scraps!! And mealworms! Will I do it anyway? Yes.
Wow!!! Why???
Yesterday I got a copy of your first book. Very nice content and pictures. I am enjoying it immensely . Anxiously awaiting your next one.
Love your videos. Your personality, seeing your feisty happy chickens, and picking up bits of new info. It's just wonderful.
I find my chickens don’t like pellet feed in warmer weather because there’s more to free range eat so I only buy feed in cold winter months saving $. I also love giving my flock scraps from the garden that have pest damage (plenty since I grow organically), pests I find in the soil/on plants, and they love pest eating behind the tractor when I mow (I tend to mow twice a week in spring/summer). I have a few chickens that hang out under the wild bird feeder for the sunflower seeds that get dropped (I only feed sunflower seeds in my wild bird feeders to cut back on unwanted weeds).
I would love some snow... Have fun.
Wonderful!!! I feed my hens scraps too! There are some things to not feed them but most vegetables and fruits, and a few other things are ok!
Thank you so much for this. We are working on becoming more food independent with homesteading and having chickens but were so worried about not being able to afford chicken feed costs. We are trying to be cost efficient by buying a preowned coop and obtaining any hand me downs for chicken needs that we can from other people. Slowly but surely we will have our chickens!! I’m grateful I can feed chickens food scraps-less food waste is always a plus AND it’s good for chickens!! Yay!!!
I’m looking forward to your book. Thx
I feed my chickens scraps. We’ve lots of chickens…lots of scraps. I get scraps from a sandwich shop for free, garden scraps, our kitchen leftovers of course and I frequently make them a pot of grain in our rice cooker. They are in amazing health. I also observe that our 3.5 year olds put out 6-7 eggs a week. My secret….I add seasoning of nutrition….i sprinkle nutritional yeast on there scraps. I’m concluding that Nutrition status is linked to the “ageism “ of decreased egg count. We use some feed, the flock tends to only eats the feed if there are insufficient scraps for their hunger. Check out the impact of nutritional yeast.
Would have been really nice to have that chicken pyramid as a printable.
Left overs and scraps is why most people get chickens. The egg is a bonus.
Well said, and I agree with you for healthier chickens.
Great info! Love the "curses, foiled again"! 😅 Btw, I really love how you smoothly lead in to the next video.
Gotta keep them on my channel! 😜🐔
So glad I found you. I like your channel so much. Thank you for doing it.
Yes! If you're doing what you can to feed them the best diet and get their nutritional needs met to the best of your ability like you do your own than you're already doing allot better than those disgusting factory farms that are slaughtering chickens inhumanly. You're already helping stand against that industry by giving them a happy life and trust me your chicken is happy grazing your yard! Imagine how the caged birds feel?
Love this message! My birds are finicky about trying new things, but - by golly - they are getting scraps and getting used to it. Today they actually were excited for kale. (City won't let me free-range them so this is a good fresh green source). I truly believe that chickens are smart enough to self-regulate given options (eg not stuck in a tiny box). I mean - hens know when to seek out oyster shell for calcium right? Not so dumb LOL 🙂
I have watched many of your videos. I've learned about so many things. Thank you
I love watching your channel. Love chickens and eggs.
Thank you so much for this video. I have frozen my end of garden things and grew Kale just for the chickens. Stalks I cut up into little pieces and cook them to soften them. In cold winter days I heat them up and bring them to them warmed.
Oh and they go nuts for leftover meat
Let them eat cake, wait wrong time wrong place. LOL
One hen is very smart. She knows geometry. The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. And she shortens that by standing on the coop ramp. Over the fence she goes. Only her. This happens right after they finish the feed. If I put in more feed she wants back jn of course. She comes to the front door, makes at least one deposit, and clucks loudly. I can't free range due to numerous predators. So, I tried raising the fence near the ramp. Not enough. Next I will remove the ramp. Wish me luck. For sure none of her eggs will hatch!!
Your chicken Land videos are so interesting and Awesome.Thankyou
I love your show. When I'm feeling down and unsure, I watch your schooling and I feel excited that I'm doing it right.
I have 6 beautiful chickies. They eat mostly the chicken feed. They love bananas. I mix in a tiny amount of wild bird seed. They love clover and bugs/worms too.
Thinking of growing greens or something through winter to supplement.
If you are thinking about chickens... DO IT!
Wonderful… thanks
Thanks for your content. I am new to chicken keeping so i reaally appreciate having your expert advice. Cheers
I spend summers in different parts of the world where chickens are fed anything but chicken feed
Free range for a few hours a day and eat healthy left overs. I raise my chickens the same way.
I do provide chicken feed but chickens don’t eat much of it