Mine too we have one named Sophia she sprints out of the poop runs up to the porch and cross underneath the barbecue to lay her eggs 😂 and then we got our fussy fuzzy Faverolles they will be so loud that if you don't let them out they'll keep your butt awake until you get up and let them out even though they're not the smartest they are pretty fun. I got a mixed Asian black with something cuz she's red but came with their Asian blacks Ruby fat girl but she's really Lowe on the picking order and that supposed me...
It amount to what I said , my chickens would stay inside , but in day time they inspect all 9 acres of my homestead they come in coop to lay eggs and at dusk for the neight . Ad to fence them in now because new neighbour . Planning chicken tractor ...
The only reason chickens like tight spaces is because acts as a shelter from predators especially as they are vulnerable while laying eggs and sleeping. No different to any other bird really.
Hi Mark - Just FYI, in America, cage-free can still mean thousands of chickens sitting squished together in barns but just without cages. Free-range just means that there has to be an opening, but if you are a chicken that has been scrunched together since they were born. The chickens may never go outside, but as long as they have an opening and the "opportunity" to go out, they can be called "free-range" here. To ensure chickens have actually been able to live outside, eating bugs and such, you want "pasture-raised." So in the US, there is a lot of misunderstanding and, quite frankly, misrepresentation from the big growers here. Via
Thank you for agreeing light on the issue. I was just about to look up what is the technical meaning of the labels they slap on egg cartons here in the US
@Skodaman2 If you read his letters he does say that he tried in legislator of his state and later in the federal government to get it abolished, but failed. Though when he was president Thomas Paine and others tried to get him to abolish it the South after the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson said no. He feared an event akin to the Haitian Revolution would go down, and the loss of the sugar trade, too. Jefferson died a cuck and Paine a depressed drunkard. And we waged a war in the end that spilled more blood than any black rebellion would have. Paine > Jefferson
My coop is air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter, yet my chickens STILL would rather be outside free ranging having the time of their lives.
Chickens get bored when stuck indoors. The chickens my family had only went into their house for night roosting, inclement weather, avoiding predators and to lay eggs. Otherwise they were nowhere near it. They loved dust baths in the sunshine.
I mean, like any animal complex enough to have personalities, I'm sure you get the occasional introverted chicken, but that's probably like cats that like the water, or rabbits that like to be picked up. It's a very small number of the whole.
Love the episode, and you hit the nail on the head. I'm sure if you follow the money it leads back to the factory farms and their losses due to more ethical farming.
Holy shit I just checked it. I cant believe it. American cigarettes doesn't have those warnings. Holy moly.... The European union has voted that all cigarette brand should print with big letters the dangers of it. Maybe you guys should follow.
At one time we owned a large rooster who was very attentive to his hens. I watched him do one deep cluck and suddenly all the hens were in a hurry to get into the henhouse while he remained outside. He had spotted a hawk circling the area about 200 feet above. He was the knight staying to slay the dragon that threatened his maidens. Chickens are outdoors creatures, they are natural bug killers and soil tillers. May they ever roam free!!❤️
@@blackhawkmg3722 My first chicken when I was a kid was a neighbor's rooster that wondered into our yard. They had a lot and never realized he was missing but he wasnt really friendly and didn't let you get close. Later, some dogs attacked him and he looked like he was going to die. I took him inside and cleaned him up and cared for him. When he was fully healed, he became the sweetest friendliest bird. I could walk over and pick him up and hed squeeze through the dog door to go into our garage. Loved that rooster.
When you’re bombarded with propaganda at every turn, it’s sometimes hard to know what the truth is. It’s sad, and it should not be legal to publicly make such false and absurd statements.
The only chickens I've ever met that preferred to stay indoors were brooding or injured. While they prefer to sleep in tight spaces, I've not seen anything suggesting they want that during the day. In fact, everything I've seen suggests the opposite
From my experiencew many vets are scum. They just look at animals as a source of big earning potential. And the Veterinary Surgeons Board is stacked with Freemason scum.
Yeah I would rather eat eggs from a chemically sustained chicken than getting their protein from natural sources which is why I take antibiotics just incase I get more sick
--- I for one also am all in favour of keeping away dangerous weapons out of hands of fools. So let's sure they won't be able to keep their typewriters while relocating them into these tiny cells. --- ---
You totally forgot to mention that free range eggs are usually tastier cause of chickens getting more variety in their diet yolks r richer and not so pale
i've noticed that as well. they get a better diet and a lot of regular exercise. have you looked at the fat of a free-range chicken? it's a very bright and full yellow. the fat of a supermarket chicken is transparent......
@@EliF-ge5bu i found a study from usa that says free-range eggs have more monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. and also more omega-3. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21673178/ not only are they tastier, but they seem to be healthier as well....
I stopped carrying cages when i take my walks in the woods , The animals would crowd around me and fight (sometimes to the death) for a cage to be locked into.
I am the owner of The Homesteaders Workshop and I just stumbled upon this video you shared. Your presentation here was spot on my friend and I not only learned some points from you but also felt and understood your compassion and desire to reach others in your delivery. Well done and simply will said sir. Thank you for your time invested and sharing in something that most unfortunately take for granted. As a new subscriber I look forward to enjoying more of your operation and insightful content. Great Job brotha 😏👍
As someone who's had backyard chickens for almost a decade now, I can confirm that they hate being kept inside. I have to keep them in sometimes to treat them when they get sick and they always hate it and try to escape. I can't believe this is even a question.
I have chickens. They have a coop, a run, and a large backyard. If they preferred the coop and small run, why do my chickens FLY OUT OF THE DOOR to free range in the backyard every morning??? Answer me THAT, Daily Mail UK! 😂
Your chickens do everything they do because they are biological machines driven by their instinct. They do not have the mental capacity to be happy or sad, that's just you anthropomorphizing them.
@@martintranslations9883 Even a chicken brain is much more complex than any machines and AI we have today. I don't think we have enough knowledge about neurology to definitely say that a chicken wouldn't have its own version of "happy" or "sad". What we can say is that free range chickens are almost always in much better health.
@@martintranslations9883 Humans are also driven by instinct. How many humans do you see resisting the instinct to reproduce, socialize, or eat sweet things? Being driven by instinct and having emotions are not mutually exclusive. In fact, emotions ARE instincts by themselves, designed to motivate animals to seek out beneficial situations.
@@martintranslations9883 They're dumb for sure, but we have no idea if they're happy or not because they're not exactly great about filling out questionaires. If you hear a vet saying a wild animal doesn't like the outdoors you may not want take your animals to that vet. He's a idiot.
@@Ali-pb6jb You are talking about cage free, not free range. USDA requires any farmers that label products as free range to have unfettered access to the outdoors. Cage free, however can just mean they aren't jammed in a cage, and can be just kept in a barn forever. This is why you've seen some states force them to label these as "barn roam". www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/food-labeling/meat-and-poultry-labeling-terms/meat-and-poultry-labeling-terms/!ut/p/a1/jZFRT8IwEMc_zR673hyS4duyxMCUTUKUshfTuVvXuLVLWyT46R0aTCQg9J569_vn7v5HC8poofiHFNxJrXi7_xfjV1jAOJgkkOaT4B5m2csif0gSiJa3A7D-B8jCK_VnXgyX9OkVDW7MPJkLWvTcNUSqWlMm0BGu7BaNpazWuiKW1-h2pOZvjtgG0R0KLS-xlUpQ1iHfqyrS603rzO63RByazl4GVrT4Oy4EQ8yycDmaplkI-egYOOHnD3DesMER0ery-3jrWJVhNKxusEaDxt-YId0419s7DzxA5W_lu-yxktzXRnhwStRo6yg7ZmnfPbPPx3gK8qlbRTb-AuIQOWg!/#4 Now that doesn't mean that all farms follow the rules, but it is that way for any rules or regulations. At the very least, even being packed in a barn while being able to wander is still slightly better than stuffed in a cage. Progress will always continue, and eventually battery farms will be gone, and the next battle will be to move over to a pasture raised type situation. The main issue is price as well, I can buy a 3 dozen pack of normal battery farmed eggs for 2.70 (90 cents a dozen), while the cheapest actual verified free range eggs (here in my local area of the US) I can buy are 4.00 a dozen.
@@Ali-pb6jb I mean that is US law that if they are labelled free range they have to have access to the outdoors inherently (IE-be able to move freely from indoors to outdoors). The fact that some farms break said law/regulation/rule and aren't getting caught is largely irrelevant overall (to this specific conversation), like most rules/laws, most people follow them, some people don't. There are plenty of farms that label free range and sell to grocery stores that are actually completely following the laws and are totally fine. On top of that, I have never once seen a single egg carton, anywhere that was labelled as "pasture raised" to begin with (here in NY).
I absolutely love the chicken trailers that we increasingly see in Germany. A trailer functioning as a coop with a ramp for the girls to get in and out. The trailer gets moved to different places every now and then and an electric fence is put around, surrounding a wide enough area. When the chickens are "done" with a place, i.e. the ground starts looking a bit empty from the hens picking bugs, grass etc it's time to move the trailer. It always makes me smile when I see the happy hens.
I'm sure there's a small, small minority of chickens that prefer to stay in the coup, but that's like cats that like water, or rabbits that enjoy being picked up. It happens but very rare.
Yeah, those "some chickens" are called broody hens. I wouldn't doubt they're including those so that they can say "Some chickens actually prefer to be indoors."
@@joshua.merrill when they use weasel words like "some"(which could mean 1 in 100,000,000) you know they are trying to deceive you. if they were honest they would tell you the percentage of chickens who prefer the indoors, which as someone who has observed chicken roaming free and being caged, i would venture guess is a tiny percentage.
Out of years of dealing with chickens, I only met one hen who genuinely didn't like leaving the coop/straying far from the coop. Then again, she only started being that way after she was chased by a loose dog.
I've noticed that right-wing-industry-factory-farm-money-worshipping-anti-nature-types have their own type of religion. No matter what their profession, they will defend the practice that will brings them the fastest RTOI, no matter how false the rhetoric.
@Scott Robinson Sure, some. I'm more concerned with the fact that they are serving Satan, regardless of whatever "lineage" they may claim to be descended from.
Thank you for this video; it raises some questions for me. Here in the U.S. what qualifies as free range is uncertain to the buyer whether they're even aware. Like how much open, outside area is available to them. Could be a quarter acre for 2 thousand hens. Could be less or more. I know the color yolk of a true free range chicken but I've bought eggs that say free range that I know are not true free range. In my opinion if that yolk is pale yellow it's not true free range. Thanks to you for getting this information out.
It would be so embarrassing to say that you are a journalist these days. A few of them are good, but they are in a minority. Most of them are professional liars.
@@dgphi As soon as someone tells me a ridiculous title from an online article my first response is "Daily mail?" lol i cant take anything from them seriously and no one really should.
My hens actually don’t love being out in a wide open field away from cover; they do like having tall grass to hide in, shrubs to sleep under, and deep shade during the heat of the day. In fact one would be hard put to even find them when it’s nap time. That is *not at all* to say they would prefer being locked up in a place they can barely move, or even never go outside. They wait at the door to be let out every morning. I don’t let them out when we have rainy days in winter and when the rain stops and I open their door, man, you best get out of the way, lol! It’s a full frontal chicken assault which includes ground and air forces! They know the rain has driven yummy bugs up out of the soil. And they know that because they LOVE to free range!
Bogdan Bogdan Are you stupid? Did anything I say indicate my home is a freaking hatchery? My hens and 2 roosters came from private breeders. I rehomed the roosters that were excess because they actually harm one another and overbred the hens causing them injury, too. The two roosters I have remaining are brothers who hatched together and they don’t fight each other. You know NOTHING about reality. Roosters will gouge another’s eyes out, and even murder another rooster. They are not kind, thoughtful, sweet, caring people. They are animals driven by their hormones to dominate and win. Some will also attack humans, including children. They will go for children’s eyes, just like they will to their competition within a flock. And those sweet little clucking hens will peck another hen to death and eat it. Nature is NOT sweet little kittens and puppies...it is violent and harsh, painful and cruel. Have you ever eaten another being as it screams? That is the natural world, hon. My little flock is balanced and nurtured...they have food and water and a safe place to escape bad weather, lay their eggs, and sleep. In the daytime they have their freedom to roam a huge area and live happily. When I walk down the hill, the whole flock runs to greet me, and goes happily into their coop for the night. They have a livestock guardian dog to deter predators that would eat them alive. Kiss my butt, you ignorant fool.
@@Mulberrysmile i think you missed his point, he was talking about how, in industrial hatcheries and egg farms, battery hens are killed when their egg production slows, and how they toss male chicks into a grinder shortly after they're hatched
Thank you for separating the real truth from the fake lies regarding chickens 🐔🐔🐔 and their care. We try to buy free-range when available. We are looking into keeping a few. Should we set-up a large cage/fenced off area with top too because sometimes there are hawks flying in our city. Is it true that chickens like to eat marigolds and this produces more golden/yellow yolks? Love your program. Your garden inspires us. THANK YOU for your down-to-Earth method of teaching. You make it FUN and ENCOURAGING. GOD BLESS YOU !!!
Billy Connolly told the story, in a little paperback, of when he lived with his family by Loch Lomond in Scotland. He already had a few free range hens and he received some ex-battery hens that had been destined for the chop. They were in poor condition with many feathers missing and seemed bewildered and afraid of their new open space home. It took a few days but they gradually got the idea of scratching and foraging for insects, dust bathing and awakening all the charming (to us) instincts that had been dormant in their heretofore existence. There is no question where they were happier.
We had a couple of ex battery hens and they loved being outside in the backyard.The down side to that was you could find eggs literally anywhere and not know how old they were,so we rarely ate any of their eggs. They decided when to get up in the morning and put themselves to bed at night. We had cats too and the chooks wouldn't take any crap from them,sent them packing if they got too close. The funny thing is they let a feral cat sleep in their coop at night which surprised us when we found out.
@@tallyhorizzla3330 so much for there instincts ! I mean allowing the cats in there coop and allowing them to forage there eggs. But anyway I prefer my backyard chickens !
It was probably statements taking out of context. I've noticed with my chickens they like to be in one corner of the coop all perched together when they do go in for the night. So chickens may prefer confined areas when they can't see anything as they are blind in the dark.
Looked into it a bit further, he says that they like to be in small groups under leaf cover and that battery cages are of course horrible. He states that they'd probably prefer a barn where they have shade and walking space over walking in a meadow. It's a bit more nuanced, I think letting the chickens decide whether they want to be inside or outside and offering them some leaf cover is probably what you should take away from all of this.
@@DionysusFascinus Yeah the second part of the title of that news item was the only honest part, the rest was all gross misrepresenting what that vet said. People are really disgusting when for money they spread complete lies like that
The fact that when you open the pen and all the chickens run outside settles the matter as to what chickens want and need! When night falls they naturally go back into the pen because they know there is danger in the dark.
Its good that you addressed this issue. Not everyone grew up with their food supply running around happily in their natural habitat state. The happier, the healthier. I rather enjoy your contents and am looking forward to putting your garden tips to use. I would like to have my own chickens for laying eggs. But I moved from Hawaii to Washington state. Big difference. I do enjoy ducks from a distance here, as we live by a water slough where ducks often hang out. Like always, thank you for your videos.
Chickens are almost equatorial in their original habitats.. they have adapted very well to our northern climates..some even reduced comb sizes and added feathers to their legs.
yup. weird how a lot of people in the comments seem to think this is "liberal fake news" or something, when it's actually big agri-business who obviously benefits from articles like this, and conservative politicians pander to them even more than liberal politicians do
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I agree 100%. I've been following you for sometime now and really appreciate your channel. We live in a city in Texas and do what we can in our backyard, gardening, have chickens and quail. We dream of moving to more space someday but it's amazing what can be done even in small places. Thanks again, for all you share. I enjoy it amd always learn something.
beleive it or not I have a couple of friends who hate to go outside very much, but they dont call such people happy but rather disturbed it is even called a mental disorder (forget the actual name) they are fearful of being out of their own yard however small it may be, in fact one friend her husband has to go grocery shopping another she wont drive a car and I believe she has a license, she hates crowds, it is very difficult for her but they dont call this well contented and happy people but rather suffering some kind of disablity. so much for being happier ina cage thing.
I actually laughed out loud when you said that free-ranging chickens on the freeway can be devastating to the chickens. I raised chickens for about 10 years. As far as I could tell they were deliriously happy. The only one that liked being inside was the broody one setting on the eggs. And she was as happy as a momma chicken could be.
I totally agree with everything you said. I would like to see tip's on how to keep your chickens out of your garden. My chickens leveled my garden. Like they were billy goats.
Needed this today. I lost a hen to a hawk attack today, and I was questioning myself for free ranging the girls and May be I should just do a run but you reminded me the reason I free ranged to begin with, I wanted them to love their life and to be happy and they are. They free range all day, the coop is always accessible and they opt to forage the yard, even though her life was shorter than expected, it was the best life
My little bantam chickens have a coop of 7m x 4 and they hate being locked in there... they want the whole garden to explore and vocalize to be let out
Once upon a time, we had two backyard hens, and an Australian Shepherd dog that was smarter than most humans. If a hawk flew overhead, the two hens ran to the Australian Shepherd dog and stayed close. The dog stood at attention and stared at the hawk, daring it come closer. Those two hens ate every bug and earwig in the yard. They were great.
Has zero to do with what's being said but a family farm n Alabama cog hill family farm on utube has an emu an chickens goats turkey's pig 🐖few other things an peacocks 🦚the male turkey an peacock were fighting n the emu went between them an stopped them fighting idk it was just cute he was making them behave that emu nuggets his name they raised him n their house from a tiny baby till he was ready to go outside n live hes the sweetheart of emus so cute
@@empirepolice8313 i've seen chickens who were born together. were kept with more than enough space and more than enough food, just peck each other to death. brother against brother, for literally no reason as they all had more food than they could eat and more water than they could drink and a lot of space.
This article really ruffled Mark's feathers. Lol. Good info. I'm looking at getting into raising chickens in the next few months. I've really enjoyed your videos...
That’s like saying all people should be locked up in their rooms for their entire lives because it’s the best way to keep us safe. That article is ridiculous! If the chickens didn’t like open spaces and preferred small enclosed spaces, then they would just stay in the nest boxes in their coop!
rip Here lies Erwin Schrodinger" Mowed down in his prime, By a flock of Chookies whom were Rushing to get to the Outdoors because they Hate being Free in Nature where they belong and feel at home ! yah ;-p
This just a paid add...journalists, often, sell themselves for a couple of coins...sadly a lot of people have very little common sense and believe this bull...
@@TheMurlocKeeper oh that wasn't actually that hard to find out. The first "vet" the author quoted works for AU government au.linkedin.com/in/charles-milne-07343345
"I don't care what you want! You WILL go outside! No, a few minutes isn't going to make me happy at ALL. You won't lay if I make you go out? Fine, you just bought yourself all day outside." ;)
@@mala3isity But do they have little Chicken X-box and Chicken Playstations in their Coop? Then I could believe it! Take away their Chicken Cola, Chicken Cheetos, and Chicken Gaming and maybe they'll get bored and leave the Coop! *From the perspective of a Gamer Wannabe! LOL Don't Judge Me!!! I buy pasture raised eggs when I can.
So if they are “free” to stay in confined spaces and prefer it, why would they ever choose to go out when given the option?… duh, shame on the sited articles. Thank you for yet another excellent post!
If chickens diddnt want to go out, they wouldn't leave the egg..... Also, I highly doubt anyone forces chickens from the coop. If anything like mine, as soon as you open the door they charge out like wild animals.
That is exactly what they do. They start calling out as soon as they hear us up and about. Their eggs are just so superiorto tge ones,Ibuy from the Supermarket.
Mine are a bit reluctant when it's chilly outside, although I can't say I blame them. I'm the same, I don't want to get out of bed when it's cold, they just poke their heads out and have a quick graze on the ground outside. The rest of the time, they happily come out of the coop.
@@nosmallo Yep, ours never volunteered to go out in snow, even if it was just enough to turn the ground white. But the rest of the year, they would exit-seek if we hadn't opened their protected pen.
Swap the exclamation mark and the question mark in the title, please. Stop messing with my mind! 😂That said, I completely agree with you. What utter bollocks! Caged “anything” is not as happy/fulfilled/relaxed/contented as anything with the freedom to choose its level of mobility. A free range hen that is a bit agoraphobe can CHOOSE to stay close to its roosting box while all its flock friends go for a scratch and strut around the yard, whereas one that is caged MUST stay in its hen pecked, mobility constricting, cage without choice. How anyone can come out with such utter shite is beyond me! I like you very much. Lord knows why you appeared in my suggested, but I’m glad you did. All the very best.
This guy has no idea what he's talking about, the article was correct, he thinks factory farms work like him in his backyard, they don't. They ARE locked in a diseased warehouse shoulder to shoulder their whole lives, up to 60,000 in a shed full of ammonia and death, the only thing that defines free range is whether they are caged or not, that's the law. Free range is locked in a shed but just not in a cage. The guy has never seen a free range factory farm, it's horrendous
In the US, "free range" in unfortunately a very loose and meaningless term. It can still refer to warehouse and caged chickens with some technical access to an open area. Pasture raised is the best, at least in the US.
same with the label "olive oil". Unlike in Europe, companies are not governed to sell 100% olive oil in north america. most of the cheap ones are diluted with canola or vegetable oil
pasture raised in the USA is like a weak and unenforced version of free range anywhere else. i'd rather eat fewer animal products and know they're from healthy animals that suffered as little as possible. rely on the amish lacking mechanized torture systems to deliver quality animal products, or get to know your local farmers
No, business interests try a spin, Farmers with stranded investments and veterinarians (they have less work with healthy chicks ! No preventive medication - antibiotics etc. 13 % increase in _one year_ (I guess consumers buying those eggs as opposed to the food industry) is MASSIVE. 45 % of the market (of consumers) is massive. They could try the trick with "indoors but not caged" (who knows if the claims are even true) but consumers are not interested. There is less use for those large stables and all the equipment in it. - they still have the food industry for eggs from cages or indoors.. BUT that might put pressure on the prices the farmers get OR the stable is not filled. They could of course pick up the trend, but the large building was for nought. _That_ could be repurposed maybe so the money would not wasted (for sleeping a much more modest building would do) - but they also FINANCED special equipment for the indoors operation. Feeding, watering, lighting, etc. Maybe even some robots if it is a large operation. And now the damn consumers do not buy what they invested for. But even w/o the financial problems: Conventional farmers do not like to change their ways. it was profitable at some point in time (or everyone who "counted" did it) so it must be right, and they feel almost entitled to continue with industrial ag. Even as some farmers see their soil being eroded and getting hard in summer, or they spread the extremely stinky liquid pig manure (sitting in that tractor !) - and they have the example of an organic or at least regenerative farmer nearby who develops beautiful soil. And they STILL do not consider changing ways. On the contrary then the nerds, homesteaders (! not even real farmers) and outsider would have bested them. The outsiders are belittled - if they are succesful (you can SEE that) they are very begrudingly tolerated, but imitating them ? That goes too far.
something has been fucking this dimension up for a long time. Jesus was trying to wake us up from the same group of people who are still running this shit today. A small group of pagans the one's behind freemasonry.
Mine did as well! Skunks got them; I miss them so! We listened for each other! That vet is not too swift! He needs to develop some reverence for other creatures!
On point, Mark. Nicely put. It's not for nothing we use the saying 'cooped up' as a description of the uncomfortable situation of being inside (in a small space) for too long... Your arguments could easily be applied to any farm animal. The way most farm animals are kept and treated nowadays is downright torture.
I read that as news omelettes for a second. Guess its time I let the evil mini raptors out and collect these toxic eggs that put the biggest smile on my face. :-)
I live in the UK and after watching this I looked at the packet of eggs that I always buy and to my shock, in very small writing it says 'caged birds'. I remember reading a very long time ago that caged birds were illegal in the UK - obviously that was fake news. I now will check every single box of eggs that I buy. The cage bird industry must be desperate to put something like this out - which is good because it proves they will soon go out of business
I actually think they’re referring to the commercial ‘free range’ chickens. I worked for one of Australia’s big commercial chicken farms and I can tell you that the free range they sold was a scam. They used the same shed as the normal but added a few hundred square meters of outside area around the shed. The birds are so line bred they do not leave the inside area as it is where the food and water is and ventelated and temperature controlled. So it is a way for the farms to triple the amount of birds they can farm at a time. You simply cannot move freely in a free range farm as the birds are so tightly packed onto the floor. Pasture raised is the key word you’re after not free range
@Hayden Bragg **EXCELLENT info. Hope you repost this sep from a reply--I think that is a great point and probably the truth of the problem with misunderstanding!! Thank You so much I feel the gentleman in video would esp like to here that info. It sounds like even the imposters prob came up w that word just to cause ppl to invision Pasture raised.
Corporates think we r all idiots just changing the defintion for Free range later thy wld do the same with Pasture raised horrible.....High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup so many diff names for same thing corporates jst keep changing names to fool us....
@@myvoice5466 Guess we should just all give up. Instead of spreading knowledge. All we can do is our best. Obviously Corporations are always going yo have the $$ & power to do more. But I guess if you can't beat --em-join em.
Anytime the corporate commercial "food" industry starts trotting out their "specialists" with negative propaganda against healthier conditions for the animals and the quality of the food for us, you know we are going in the right direction. Better lives for egg layers and egg eaters!
You are exactly right. North Carolina and Virginia chickens go in and out of their coop. Eggs are richer. Chicken smells like chicken. Love your videos. So informational. I am watching you so I can grow my garden here in Virginia, USA. Must visit you in Australia.
When anyone puts out an article like this with supposed "experts" trying to assert that something that is clearly cruel and sadistic is ok, all it makes me wonder is "Who is paying them? What factory farming corporation is giving them money to say crap to makes them look good?".
No politician ever does anything unless he can profit from it. The same is true of the the big corporations that own the politicians, and of the news media that are all under their control. Follow the money far enough, and you'll notice the same names popping up frequently.
don't fall into their bait, Mark! The more you get involved with the news, the angrier you'll get, and you'll get old faster just by the intentional fear and stress they cause. Trust me, I'm from South America. lol
I have probably commented on this video before, but this is my 3rd/4th time watching it... I have a few chickens/turkeys both for eggs and meat. I enjoy this video because it gives me some comfort that I am not the only one who knows the birds are happier with more space, even some human interaction creates a noticeable difference in the birds. I feed mine a lot of veggies from the garden. They can see me in the garden harvesting, and they all get excited for the treat they are about to receive.
Great video Mark. Try not to get too upset, it is the Daily Mail - a shitty tabloid website full of tacky articles & click bait. Would be great if they could be held accountable for these types of damaging stories. Your happy birds sum up what chickens actually prefer! Keep sharing your stories with us 👍
My chickens have proven they would prefer to be outside. We had a hawk find them this past winter, and we kept them inside the barn (not in cages, just inside) for about a week, to help keep them safe. In that week, they dug holes in the dirt, both for bugs, and to find a way out. Also, we built them a new run recently, 6.5ft tall. Those stinkers were still jumping, not flying, as their wings were clipped, to get to my garden. Now, we have the netting up and, for the moment, they stay in the run. So, gee, where do chickens prefer to be? My chickens obviously prefer to go outside and everywhere they can, to get their own food.
@@circa134, I now have netting over the chicken run, to keep them in and the hawk out. I may get some black chickens and try that out though. Thank you.
I was raised on a farm. Thank you so much for your humane treatment of the hens. You are a good man. Our chickens had a hen house and ran free. They would scratch around and enjoy themselves. The people who wrote that garbage ate a bunch of sellouts with no. Morals. Keep up your good work. Let me know what you 5hink if you get a chance. As they say in your country gday mate.
I think so too!!! Very confusing for people that don’t know much about Mother Earth! Thanks for sharing! Let’s Share Some Love For Our Planet 🌏 #iThinkSustainable 🌱
From my experiencew many vets are scum. They just look at animals as a source of big earning potential. And the Veterinary Surgeons Board is stacked with Freemason scum.
I was once given the task of putting a dozen chickens back into the hen house at dusk, had to chase the buggers around the farm for an hour before I got the last one in, saves them from Mr Fox at night of course;)
Granville Stout I just leave their door open all day they go in and lay eggs all day and at night I just close the door after they all go in to roost no chasing
@@granvillestout2681 I watched a video on cattle that was barned every day. Someone freed them and they were running and jumping around and playing. You could see their overwhelming happiness. Nothing wants to be caged they all want freedom. :)
@@LadyAtara can be. Depends on what mud, and how you define clean. Good mud is probably cleaner than you imagine, but it's not going to be free of bacteria, the same way your skin isn't free of bacteria (bacteria are not all bad, nor all good, you'd die if you got all the bacteria in your body magically removed)
All he did was prove how little he actually knows. He doesn't even know the article was completely correct because he thinks free range means what he has in his backyard. It doesn't. Free range by law is a chicken that isn't in a cage, they are still locked in a shed, just not in a cage. That's what thus guy completely misses. He is a fool
@@douhdanne did you even watch the video? The video has literally nothing to do with his chickens at his house. He is talking about free range farms which are nothing like how he presents them to be, they are exactly what he thinks they are not, warehouses with tens of thousands of chickens locked in, living in their own shit never seeing the light of day. That is the reality of the majority of free range farms. Free range just means not in a cage, but it doesn't mean going outside. He spends a whole video talking smack about an article that is actually factually correct because he has no idea about what he is talking about
Since I found out that those factory eggs and meet are loaded with hormones and antibiotics , I swapped to free range and organics ones. Yes they are more expensive but I go without soft drinks, chippies, cookies, cakes, chocolates and lattes🙂
Way to go man. I developed serious allergies to soy and dairy. Try eating fast food with that list. Everyone feels bad for me but, eating only whole foods I feel and look great!
@@Jas111ld just have to look harder. There are chocolate snacks and chocolate chips in "natural" or "organic" isles that are made with coco butter and not dairy. Just watch out for that soy lechtin or xanthum gum!
Vet had to be paid off to say that battery hens are happier than free-ranging. I refuse to believe a vet would side with the caged egg industry without having something in it for them. Shame on the vet.
agree, my guess for the context here is: the vet probably said that they are more protected from outside threats(as described in this video) and it was twisted into the generalised shit that was published.
My chickens and turkeys are happy to be let out seems to agitate them if I don't let them out everyday they are walking the fence line just waiting and it save on food in a lot they get what ya give them let them loose and they eat bugs grass clover and more and my birds waited on me every evening to put them to roost and my eggs seem to taste better do what makes your chickens happy and they will produce better for ya. I have learned alot watching your you tube channel now I have a beutifull garden thanks to my grandparents and you so you are at the too of my list coming from a westvirginia country boy that means alot and my cabbage and califlower thank you for all your help keep up the good job your doin and I thank you for your help. Have a blessed day. If I can remember I'll send ya a picture of my garden thanks again.
The way my girls run out of the barn when the door opens tells me all I need to know.
Yep I can hear them scratching at the door when I'm trying to unlock it in the morning
and this is why experience always counts more than theory!
What youhave.. Nunnery??
Mine too we have one named Sophia she sprints out of the poop runs up to the porch and cross underneath the barbecue to lay her eggs 😂 and then we got our fussy fuzzy Faverolles they will be so loud that if you don't let them out they'll keep your butt awake until you get up and let them out even though they're not the smartest they are pretty fun. I got a mixed Asian black with something cuz she's red but came with their Asian blacks Ruby fat girl but she's really
Lowe on the picking order and that supposed me...
@@njrasmussen5515 make a place inside the poop(big enough, food variety,retire box-high)make them content foradayortwo.
Sure you have fun now.....
If they preferred the indoors, they would stay in the coop when you open the door ffs
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It amount to what I said , my chickens would stay inside , but in day time they inspect all 9 acres of my homestead they come in coop to lay eggs and at dusk for the neight . Ad to fence them in now because new neighbour . Planning chicken tractor ...
true dat
The only reason chickens like tight spaces is because acts as a shelter from predators especially as they are vulnerable while laying eggs and sleeping. No different to any other bird really.
As a NYer who raised chickens, it sounds like a few large cage-farmers paid someone to manufacture this story. Obviously you're 100% correct!!!
The article was sponsored by Big Egg!
Facts
Fellow NY farmer. Chickens elected to stay outside during the day, inside at night... by choice. Kinda says something, eh?
Mega millionaire farmer owning CAFO warehoused chickens losing $ from local goods & changing farm methods they don't want to goto.
@@Andruth34 funny cause battery eggs are so shitty and small.
Hi Mark - Just FYI, in America, cage-free can still mean thousands of chickens sitting squished together in barns but just without cages. Free-range just means that there has to be an opening, but if you are a chicken that has been scrunched together since they were born. The chickens may never go outside, but as long as they have an opening and the "opportunity" to go out, they can be called "free-range" here. To ensure chickens have actually been able to live outside, eating bugs and such, you want "pasture-raised." So in the US, there is a lot of misunderstanding and, quite frankly, misrepresentation from the big growers here. Via
Thank you for agreeing light on the issue. I was just about to look up what is the technical meaning of the labels they slap on egg cartons here in the US
Shedding light*
"I prefer dangerous freedom over peaceful slavery."
Thomas Jefferson
Chicken owner, Probably.
@Skodaman2 This point was not lost on them and the people of that day. They were made freedmen and women upon his death.
Was just going to write this
Definitely a farmer
@Skodaman2
If you read his letters he does say that he tried in legislator of his state and later in the federal government to get it abolished, but failed. Though when he was president Thomas Paine and others tried to get him to abolish it the South after the Louisiana Purchase and Jefferson said no. He feared an event akin to the Haitian Revolution would go down, and the loss of the sugar trade, too. Jefferson died a cuck and Paine a depressed drunkard. And we waged a war in the end that spilled more blood than any black rebellion would have.
Paine > Jefferson
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My coop is air conditioned in the summer and heated in the winter, yet my chickens STILL would rather be outside free ranging having the time of their lives.
Chickens get bored when stuck indoors. The chickens my family had only went into their house for night roosting, inclement weather, avoiding predators and to lay eggs. Otherwise they were nowhere near it. They loved dust baths in the sunshine.
I mean, like any animal complex enough to have personalities, I'm sure you get the occasional introverted chicken, but that's probably like cats that like the water, or rabbits that like to be picked up. It's a very small number of the whole.
Media Lies.
Some people don’t like going outdoors so we should all live in little prisons.
Love the episode, and you hit the nail on the head. I'm sure if you follow the money it leads back to the factory farms and their losses due to more ethical farming.
Remember when the tobacco companies said smoking was harmless. Just about the money.
Holy shit I just checked it. I cant believe it. American cigarettes doesn't have those warnings. Holy moly.... The European union has voted that all cigarette brand should print with big letters the dangers of it. Maybe you guys should follow.
@@joselaw6669 the last thing we need is more druggies. And I don't know why you think Marijuana and hashish is the same as a cigarette?
Why do you say that? Dont you think it was ignorance in the 19th century?
"Camels are recommended by 8 out of 10 doctors"..... that was an actually print ad at one point.
Tegrity Farms remembers.
At one time we owned a large rooster who was very attentive to his hens. I watched him do one deep cluck and suddenly all the hens were in a hurry to get into the henhouse while he remained outside. He had spotted a hawk circling the area about 200 feet above. He was the knight staying to slay the dragon that threatened his maidens. Chickens are outdoors creatures, they are natural bug killers and soil tillers. May they ever roam free!!❤️
That's why I have a rooster... he is an asshole but... he protects his hens... and they listen... he's killed an owl.. a hawk or two even
Oh my gosh I saw that happen the other day! The exact same thing, it was so crazy to watch
Great story!!! I had a rooster mean as heck. I never saw it as a virtue until I read your post.
@@blackhawkmg3722 My first chicken when I was a kid was a neighbor's rooster that wondered into our yard. They had a lot and never realized he was missing but he wasnt really friendly and didn't let you get close. Later, some dogs attacked him and he looked like he was going to die. I took him inside and cleaned him up and cared for him. When he was fully healed, he became the sweetest friendliest bird. I could walk over and pick him up and hed squeeze through the dog door to go into our garage. Loved that rooster.
Ohh he sounds cool!! 😁
Smells like somebody got a whole lot of $$$ to make that kind of stand. And lots of people will believe it because someone “credible” said it.
Where O Where did COMMON SENSE go !
When you’re bombarded with propaganda at every turn, it’s sometimes hard to know what the truth is. It’s sad, and it should not be legal to publicly make such false and absurd statements.
You ask them who said it and they reply the Daily Mail with a straight face.
Or just plain stupid
people who think this clowns are credible deserve to get rekt!
The only chickens I've ever met that preferred to stay indoors were brooding or injured. While they prefer to sleep in tight spaces, I've not seen anything suggesting they want that during the day. In fact, everything I've seen suggests the opposite
From my experiencew many vets are scum. They just look at animals as a source of big earning potential. And the Veterinary Surgeons Board is stacked with Freemason scum.
I believe journalists like that should be kept in tiny cells....so they don't harm sane people
AMEN!!!!!
Yeah I would rather eat eggs from a chemically sustained chicken than getting their protein from natural sources which is why I take antibiotics just incase I get more sick
What you mean is prisons, and I fully approve that idea.
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I for one also am all in favour of keeping away dangerous weapons out of hands of fools. So let's sure they won't be able to keep their typewriters while relocating them into these tiny cells.
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and chicken dung thrown at them periodically.
You totally forgot to mention that free range eggs are usually tastier cause of chickens getting more variety in their diet yolks r richer and not so pale
i've noticed that as well.
they get a better diet and a lot of regular exercise.
have you looked at the fat of a free-range chicken? it's a very bright and full yellow.
the fat of a supermarket chicken is transparent......
An also the shell is thicker as well. It take a big tap to crack the shell open. Cage eggs are so thin take if I tap to hard. The egg falls apart.
Agreed!
CBC has done a test on all kinds of egg and the conclusion reached is that nutritionally, free range eggs are not better than the conventional ones.
@@EliF-ge5bu
i found a study from usa that says free-range eggs have more monounsaturated fats and polyunsaturated fats. and also more omega-3.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21673178/
not only are they tastier, but they seem to be healthier as well....
I stopped carrying cages when i take my walks in the woods , The animals would crowd around me and fight (sometimes to the death) for a cage to be locked into.
Tot Dranche....I don't understand. Why were you carrying cages when you took your walks in the woods? Excuse me, but what a weird and creepy comment.
@@2eleven48 Your sarcasm detector appears to be broken.
Richard Eckel bwahahaha!
2eleven48 you’re excused.
Lol 😆! Funny!
I am the owner of The Homesteaders Workshop and I just stumbled upon this video you shared. Your presentation here was spot on my friend and I not only learned some points from you but also felt and understood your compassion and desire to reach others in your delivery. Well done and simply will said sir. Thank you for your time invested and sharing in something that most unfortunately take for granted. As a new subscriber I look forward to enjoying more of your operation and insightful content. Great Job brotha 😏👍
As someone who's had backyard chickens for almost a decade now, I can confirm that they hate being kept inside. I have to keep them in sometimes to treat them when they get sick and they always hate it and try to escape. I can't believe this is even a question.
Me either. My chickens would stay outside, even to their own detriment at times (weather, predators).
I love how he starts the videos w/ letting the chickens out lol.
Agreed. Our birds absolutely hate snow because it means their feet get cold and they have to stay inside more often during the winter.
It's not a question. This is naked propaganda. Deliberately misrepresenting reality.
I have chickens. They have a coop, a run, and a large backyard. If they preferred the coop and small run, why do my chickens FLY OUT OF THE DOOR to free range in the backyard every morning??? Answer me THAT, Daily Mail UK! 😂
Your chickens do everything they do because they are biological machines driven by their instinct. They do not have the mental capacity to be happy or sad, that's just you anthropomorphizing them.
@@martintranslations9883 Maybe my chickens are more intelligent than yours. They certainly are happier given choice.
@@martintranslations9883 Even a chicken brain is much more complex than any machines and AI we have today. I don't think we have enough knowledge about neurology to definitely say that a chicken wouldn't have its own version of "happy" or "sad".
What we can say is that free range chickens are almost always in much better health.
@@martintranslations9883 Humans are also driven by instinct. How many humans do you see resisting the instinct to reproduce, socialize, or eat sweet things? Being driven by instinct and having emotions are not mutually exclusive. In fact, emotions ARE instincts by themselves, designed to motivate animals to seek out beneficial situations.
@@martintranslations9883 They're dumb for sure, but we have no idea if they're happy or not because they're not exactly great about filling out questionaires. If you hear a vet saying a wild animal doesn't like the outdoors you may not want take your animals to that vet. He's a idiot.
I feel sad that you have to explain and debunk such a ridiculous article. The factory egg companies probably sponsored and paid for that article
@@Ali-pb6jb I buy from a friend that has hens and they are raised and fed right.
@@Ali-pb6jb I raise my own because of that. Free range here they are still in barns and dont go outside.
Traci Scheelk whatever desert dweller.
@@Ali-pb6jb You are talking about cage free, not free range. USDA requires any farmers that label products as free range to have unfettered access to the outdoors. Cage free, however can just mean they aren't jammed in a cage, and can be just kept in a barn forever. This is why you've seen some states force them to label these as "barn roam". www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsis/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/food-labeling/meat-and-poultry-labeling-terms/meat-and-poultry-labeling-terms/!ut/p/a1/jZFRT8IwEMc_zR673hyS4duyxMCUTUKUshfTuVvXuLVLWyT46R0aTCQg9J569_vn7v5HC8poofiHFNxJrXi7_xfjV1jAOJgkkOaT4B5m2csif0gSiJa3A7D-B8jCK_VnXgyX9OkVDW7MPJkLWvTcNUSqWlMm0BGu7BaNpazWuiKW1-h2pOZvjtgG0R0KLS-xlUpQ1iHfqyrS603rzO63RByazl4GVrT4Oy4EQ8yycDmaplkI-egYOOHnD3DesMER0ery-3jrWJVhNKxusEaDxt-YId0419s7DzxA5W_lu-yxktzXRnhwStRo6yg7ZmnfPbPPx3gK8qlbRTb-AuIQOWg!/#4
Now that doesn't mean that all farms follow the rules, but it is that way for any rules or regulations. At the very least, even being packed in a barn while being able to wander is still slightly better than stuffed in a cage. Progress will always continue, and eventually battery farms will be gone, and the next battle will be to move over to a pasture raised type situation. The main issue is price as well, I can buy a 3 dozen pack of normal battery farmed eggs for 2.70 (90 cents a dozen), while the cheapest actual verified free range eggs (here in my local area of the US) I can buy are 4.00 a dozen.
@@Ali-pb6jb I mean that is US law that if they are labelled free range they have to have access to the outdoors inherently (IE-be able to move freely from indoors to outdoors). The fact that some farms break said law/regulation/rule and aren't getting caught is largely irrelevant overall (to this specific conversation), like most rules/laws, most people follow them, some people don't. There are plenty of farms that label free range and sell to grocery stores that are actually completely following the laws and are totally fine.
On top of that, I have never once seen a single egg carton, anywhere that was labelled as "pasture raised" to begin with (here in NY).
I absolutely love the chicken trailers that we increasingly see in Germany. A trailer functioning as a coop with a ramp for the girls to get in and out. The trailer gets moved to different places every now and then and an electric fence is put around, surrounding a wide enough area. When the chickens are "done" with a place, i.e. the ground starts looking a bit empty from the hens picking bugs, grass etc it's time to move the trailer. It always makes me smile when I see the happy hens.
@Murphy Church Yep, sounds like Joel Salatin's "Chicken Tractor".
God Bless us all
"Some chickens don't like going out doors". If that was true, chickens wouldn't leave the coup.
I'm sure there's a small, small minority of chickens that prefer to stay in the coup, but that's like cats that like water, or rabbits that enjoy being picked up. It happens but very rare.
Yeah, those "some chickens" are called broody hens. I wouldn't doubt they're including those so that they can say "Some chickens actually prefer to be indoors."
@@joshua.merrill when they use weasel words like "some"(which could mean 1 in 100,000,000) you know they are trying to deceive you.
if they were honest they would tell you the percentage of chickens who prefer the indoors, which as someone who has observed chicken roaming free and being caged, i would venture guess is a tiny percentage.
Out of years of dealing with chickens, I only met one hen who genuinely didn't like leaving the coop/straying far from the coop. Then again, she only started being that way after she was chased by a loose dog.
When I open my coop door in the morning it's like black friday at Walmart.
I'll bet it is! 🤣😅😂
Black Friday haha love it
lol
You expecting fox propaganda network to be telling the truth and not pushing their agenda?
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Q: What are their real motives?
A: they've been paid by the "battery hen" industry to rubbish free range chicken industry 😉
Bingo.
I've noticed that right-wing-industry-factory-farm-money-worshipping-anti-nature-types have their own type of religion. No matter what their profession, they will defend the practice that will brings them the fastest RTOI, no matter how false the rhetoric.
@Scott Robinson More like the NWO cabal that's running the world, including the U.S.
@Scott Robinson No. I mean the NWO. Grabblers in general.
@Scott Robinson Sure, some. I'm more concerned with the fact that they are serving Satan, regardless of whatever "lineage" they may claim to be descended from.
Thank you for this video; it raises some questions for me. Here in the U.S. what qualifies as free range is uncertain to the buyer whether they're even aware. Like how much open, outside area is available to them. Could be a quarter acre for 2 thousand hens. Could be less or more. I know the color yolk of a true free range chicken but I've bought eggs that say free range that I know are not true free range. In my opinion if that yolk is pale yellow it's not true free range. Thanks to you for getting this information out.
Those poor chickens look really unhappy roaming around Mark! How dare you let them out😄
Lol ur funny!🤣
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Just outrageous 😂
Ha ha ha haaa!!! Yes, they really look like they are unhappy roaming around where ever they want.
How Does He Dare lol
"The worst pieces of mainstream media junk I've read in a long time"
*shows the daily mail*
Yup, checks out.
Par for the case with the online Daily Mail.
not as bad as the Guardian, but close.
It would be so embarrassing to say that you are a journalist these days. A few of them are good, but they are in a minority. Most of them are professional liars.
@@dgphi As soon as someone tells me a ridiculous title from an online article my first response is "Daily mail?" lol i cant take anything from them seriously and no one really should.
Hilariously, the Mail seems to be less biased nowadays than the BBC, Guardian, or Telegraph. Interesting times indeed.
My hens actually don’t love being out in a wide open field away from cover; they do like having tall grass to hide in, shrubs to sleep under, and deep shade during the heat of the day. In fact one would be hard put to even find them when it’s nap time.
That is *not at all* to say they would prefer being locked up in a place they can barely move, or even never go outside. They wait at the door to be let out every morning. I don’t let them out when we have rainy days in winter and when the rain stops and I open their door, man, you best get out of the way, lol! It’s a full frontal chicken assault which includes ground and air forces! They know the rain has driven yummy bugs up out of the soil. And they know that because they LOVE to free range!
I know what you mean. Mine do that too.
The news media is all about the clicks and nothing about telling the truth
@@Catsarecool2023 *eaten
Bogdan Bogdan
Are you stupid? Did anything I say indicate my home is a freaking hatchery? My hens and 2 roosters came from private breeders. I rehomed the roosters that were excess because they actually harm one another and overbred the hens causing them injury, too. The two roosters I have remaining are brothers who hatched together and they don’t fight each other.
You know NOTHING about reality. Roosters will gouge another’s eyes out, and even murder another rooster. They are not kind, thoughtful, sweet, caring people. They are animals driven by their hormones to dominate and win. Some will also attack humans, including children. They will go for children’s eyes, just like they will to their competition within a flock.
And those sweet little clucking hens will peck another hen to death and eat it.
Nature is NOT sweet little kittens and puppies...it is violent and harsh, painful and cruel. Have you ever eaten another being as it screams? That is the natural world, hon.
My little flock is balanced and nurtured...they have food and water and a safe place to escape bad weather, lay their eggs, and sleep. In the daytime they have their freedom to roam a huge area and live happily. When I walk down the hill, the whole flock runs to greet me, and goes happily into their coop for the night. They have a livestock guardian dog to deter predators that would eat them alive.
Kiss my butt, you ignorant fool.
@@Mulberrysmile i think you missed his point, he was talking about how, in industrial hatcheries and egg farms, battery hens are killed when their egg production slows, and how they toss male chicks into a grinder shortly after they're hatched
Thank you for separating the real truth from the fake lies regarding chickens 🐔🐔🐔 and their care. We try to buy free-range when available. We are looking into keeping a few. Should we set-up a large cage/fenced off area with top too because sometimes there are hawks flying in our city.
Is it true that chickens like to eat marigolds and this produces more golden/yellow yolks?
Love your program. Your garden inspires us. THANK YOU for your down-to-Earth method of teaching. You make it FUN and ENCOURAGING.
GOD BLESS YOU !!!
Billy Connolly told the story, in a little paperback, of when he lived with his family by Loch Lomond in Scotland. He already had a few free range hens and he received some ex-battery hens that had been destined for the chop.
They were in poor condition with many feathers missing and seemed bewildered and afraid of their new open space home. It took a few days but they gradually got the idea of scratching and foraging for insects, dust bathing and awakening all the charming (to us) instincts that had been dormant in their heretofore existence.
There is no question where they were happier.
It can be stressful and anxiety inducing for prisoners to encounter freedom. Doesn't mean the transition isn't worth the destination.
We had a couple of ex battery hens and they loved being outside in the backyard.The down side to that was you could find eggs literally anywhere and not know how old they were,so we rarely ate any of their eggs. They decided when to get up in the morning and put themselves to bed at night. We had cats too and the chooks wouldn't take any crap from them,sent them packing if they got too close. The funny thing is they let a feral cat sleep in their coop at night which surprised us when we found out.
@@tallyhorizzla3330 so much for there instincts ! I mean allowing the cats in there coop and allowing them to forage there eggs. But anyway I prefer my backyard chickens !
Good man Bill Connolly
That “top vet” was probably paid to say what he did. The food companies have a lot of money and can get people to say whatever they want
His surname is Adolf.
It was probably statements taking out of context. I've noticed with my chickens they like to be in one corner of the coop all perched together when they do go in for the night. So chickens may prefer confined areas when they can't see anything as they are blind in the dark.
@misa smith add the banks are fair and no one would jack the price on medicine just to make a bigger profit:-)
Looked into it a bit further, he says that they like to be in small groups under leaf cover and that battery cages are of course horrible. He states that they'd probably prefer a barn where they have shade and walking space over walking in a meadow. It's a bit more nuanced, I think letting the chickens decide whether they want to be inside or outside and offering them some leaf cover is probably what you should take away from all of this.
@@DionysusFascinus Yeah the second part of the title of that news item was the only honest part, the rest was all gross misrepresenting what that vet said. People are really disgusting when for money they spread complete lies like that
The fact that when you open the pen and all the chickens run outside settles the matter as to what chickens want and need! When night falls they naturally go back into the pen because they know there is danger in the dark.
Just like in minecraft
@@spidertager precisely
Its good that you addressed this issue. Not everyone grew up with their food supply running around happily in their natural habitat state. The happier, the healthier. I rather enjoy your contents and am looking forward to putting your garden tips to use. I would like to have my own chickens for laying eggs. But I moved from Hawaii to Washington state. Big difference. I do enjoy ducks from a distance here, as we live by a water slough where ducks often hang out. Like always, thank you for your videos.
Before we domesticated chickens, where did they live again? Sometimes stupid amazes me.
Before we domesticated chickens, they were called dinosaur 🙃
Chickens are almost equatorial in their original habitats.. they have adapted very well to our northern climates..some even reduced comb sizes and added feathers to their legs.
They lived in tropical forests I believe.
They're pandering to the big agri-business companies.
Agreed
It’s called Astroturfing
The great reset
yup. weird how a lot of people in the comments seem to think this is "liberal fake news" or something, when it's actually big agri-business who obviously benefits from articles like this, and conservative politicians pander to them even more than liberal politicians do
UK was killing people's chickens. Physically going to homes where people had egg chickens or pet chickens and gassing the birds. :(
That's why you shouldn't watch the Daily Mail!
.... Or any other MSM
Or anything really.
*NazTheGreat ... That's unfortunate because the Daily Mail in Britain....is a very honest and upfront newspaper❗️*
@@musiclover-tf6fu I hope that was sarcasm
@@musiclover-tf6fu your idea of honesty is very strange if you think the daily mail is an honest newspaper
@@musiclover-tf6fu What?! The british one is also horsehit.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts. I agree 100%. I've been following you for sometime now and really appreciate your channel. We live in a city in Texas and do what we can in our backyard, gardening, have chickens and quail. We dream of moving to more space someday but it's amazing what can be done even in small places. Thanks again, for all you share. I enjoy it amd always learn something.
If they liked closed boxes so much, then why are they always crossing roads?
To get to the cage on the other side ofc
Thomas Johnston I’m dead af lol
Ha! Ha! Ha! 😬👍
Chickens cross the road because everyone loves a good suicide joke.
they are desperate to jump into the holds of trucks, obviously.
Research shows some people don't like going outdoors!
Dailymail: Let's lock them in cages.
bahahaahhaha
beleive it or not I have a couple of friends who hate to go outside very much, but they dont call such people happy but rather disturbed it is even called a mental disorder (forget the actual name) they are fearful of being out of their own yard however small it may be, in fact one friend her husband has to go grocery shopping another she wont drive a car and I believe she has a license, she hates crowds, it is very difficult for her but they dont call this well contented and happy people but rather suffering some kind of disablity. so much for being happier ina cage thing.
Next article: humans should never shower, because most people do not like swimming in shark infested water.
OMG! This comment totally hits home as to how governments use the media to control (herd) humans. LOL. Nicely said.
I don't like either much...
But my wife doesn't make me swim in shark infested waters.
Next article: humans benefit from having lead in their drinking water
@Agris Bisenieks
Or maybe you've been brainwashed by mainstream media.
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My partner & I are from Britain we enjoy your videos great to see someone’s awake.
I actually laughed out loud when you said that free-ranging chickens on the freeway can be devastating to the chickens.
I raised chickens for about 10 years. As far as I could tell they were deliriously happy. The only one that liked being inside was the broody one setting on the eggs. And she was as happy as a momma chicken could be.
Yep, that made me laugh as well
Same!
Ditto.
Me, too
I love listening to people who have common sense, it does not seem to be that common anymore. Great video sir.
The term should now be called *uncommon* sense
That's THE understatement.
I've raised chickens for 37 years. Yeah, you're spot on! That article is a load of wet chicken manure!
I totally agree with everything you said. I would like to see tip's on how to keep your chickens out of your garden. My chickens leveled my garden. Like they were billy goats.
Needed this today. I lost a hen to a hawk attack today, and I was questioning myself for free ranging the girls and May be I should just do a run but you reminded me the reason I free ranged to begin with, I wanted them to love their life and to be happy and they are. They free range all day, the coop is always accessible and they opt to forage the yard, even though her life was shorter than expected, it was the best life
If possible... in your area raise a rooster. They will fight the owls and hawks.. and warn your girls to get them undercover
Or get a dog in the coop.
I was talking to a chicken just the other day and it told me how chickens don’t even like the Internet!
And they do not like to be eaten either
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Ask them how’s employment at KFC, Popeyes, Jollibee’s and Churches!!
If chooks preferred tight spaces free range chooks wouldn't go out to peck. They'd stay clustered together and wouldn't leave the coop!
Excellent point! Helen
I mean its not like free range means they are locked out. They can go back inside if they want but they choose not to.
My chickens go outside even if it's raining.
haha, I guess the obvious is beyond the supposedly trained professional.
My little bantam chickens have a coop of 7m x 4 and they hate being locked in there... they want the whole garden to explore and vocalize to be let out
Excellent. So glad you called this out.....love your garden. Regards from Ireland
Once upon a time, we had two backyard hens, and an Australian Shepherd dog that was smarter than most humans. If a hawk flew overhead, the two hens ran to the Australian Shepherd dog and stayed close. The dog stood at attention and stared at the hawk, daring it come closer. Those two hens ate every bug and earwig in the yard. They were great.
if chickens were large enough to hunt humans, they would be terrifying.
i've seen them hunt. they are savage.
Has zero to do with what's being said but a family farm n Alabama cog hill family farm on utube has an emu an chickens goats turkey's pig 🐖few other things an peacocks 🦚the male turkey an peacock were fighting n the emu went between them an stopped them fighting idk it was just cute he was making them behave that emu nuggets his name they raised him n their house from a tiny baby till he was ready to go outside n live hes the sweetheart of emus so cute
@@sabin97 wouldn't they, same goes for ants 😱
Chickens are very voracious and have no mercy
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i've seen chickens who were born together. were kept with more than enough space and more than enough food, just peck each other to death. brother against brother, for literally no reason as they all had more food than they could eat and more water than they could drink and a lot of space.
One has to wonder how much this "reporter" was paid by the commercial chicken egg farming industry to post this article.
This reporter is brain washing by Marxism completely idiot and ignorant, period!!
An interesting thing to note was that at the time of this article the vet as the opinion dr Charles Milne was working for agriculture Victoria
Some people is just very stupid, we cant know why she did
@@misiomisio2335 how in the fuck would marxism brainwash someone into putting a corporate friendly spin on their article? think before you speak.
Not the reporter, it comes from the owner and editors
Big Agra doesn't like losing that 13% of sales. Too bad it's not 100%. Give me my free range eggs any day. Much Love
Where do you think the free range eggs in the supermarket come from? "Big agra" doesn't care, they sell you both.
@Desiree Silva not in free range keeping
@@JonasRaphaelKallasch I raise my own free range chickens. Big Agra has nothing what so ever to do with them.
This article really ruffled Mark's feathers. Lol. Good info. I'm looking at getting into raising chickens in the next few months. I've really enjoyed your videos...
That’s like saying all people should be locked up in their rooms for their entire lives because it’s the best way to keep us safe. That article is ridiculous! If the chickens didn’t like open spaces and preferred small enclosed spaces, then they would just stay in the nest boxes in their coop!
Writing this from Ireland, facing 3 more months of house arres- I mean "lockdown", after the previous 9 months...
According to that logic, a prison is the most humane way for people to live.
That is what happened in some states in 2020. Lockdown.
@@michellegrovak yes, I remember being told I couldn't leave my room for the rest of my life too. Hard times.
@@megafang It is STILL STOLEN TIME , never to be given back.
My chickens cant wait to get out of their coop when i let them out. I literally cant get out of the way fast enough
Erwin C. J. Schrödinger Spiel vicious little bastards got murdering to do
rip
Here lies Erwin Schrodinger"
Mowed down in his prime,
By a flock of Chookies whom were Rushing to get to the Outdoors because they Hate being Free in Nature where they belong and feel at home ! yah
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Im pretty sure all chickens do that
Except those who prefer to be caged all day and be used as an egg machine
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Chances are that the article was sponsored by a Caged Egg company.
Exactly!
No doubt. Sadly, there is almost no such thing as true journalism. That industry has died and been replaced by propagandists.
Caged eggs are for caged humans
Probably the one on the egg case.
No doubt in my mind.
Thank you for this heartfelt message, and so wonderful to see your beautiful hens roaming freely - it is so obvious they're happy and healthy.
This just a paid add...journalists, often, sell themselves for a couple of coins...sadly a lot of people have very little common sense and believe this bull...
Quite much what I was thinking, either she is related to some scrummy chicken farmer or she got paid to warp the reality
It shouldn’t even be allowed. Yellow journalism was outlawed here nearly a century ago.
But paid by whom? That would be the interesting part!
@@TheMurlocKeeper If you have to ask that question...
@@TheMurlocKeeper oh that wasn't actually that hard to find out. The first "vet" the author quoted works for AU government au.linkedin.com/in/charles-milne-07343345
The real survey is when you open the coop for them in the morning - do you have to drag them out scratching and screeching?
"I don't care what you want! You WILL go outside! No, a few minutes isn't going to make me happy at ALL. You won't lay if I make you go out? Fine, you just bought yourself all day outside." ;)
Funny but true
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@@mala3isity 😅😆
@@mala3isity But do they have little Chicken X-box and Chicken Playstations in their Coop? Then I could believe it! Take away their Chicken Cola, Chicken Cheetos, and Chicken Gaming and maybe they'll get bored and leave the Coop! *From the perspective of a Gamer Wannabe! LOL Don't Judge Me!!! I buy pasture raised eggs when I can.
So if they are “free” to stay in confined spaces and prefer it, why would they ever choose to go out when given the option?… duh, shame on the sited articles. Thank you for yet another excellent post!
It feels so good to know you are on it! Thanks for being you!
If chickens diddnt want to go out, they wouldn't leave the egg.....
Also, I highly doubt anyone forces chickens from the coop. If anything like mine, as soon as you open the door they charge out like wild animals.
Eggsactly!
That is exactly what they do. They start calling out as soon as they hear us up and about. Their eggs are just so superiorto tge ones,Ibuy from the Supermarket.
@@ashleyhayes7568 indeed!
We had chickens when I was growing up . Our chickens could go in and out at will.. I’ve honestly never seen one chicken not want to go out.
Mine are a bit reluctant when it's chilly outside, although I can't say I blame them. I'm the same, I don't want to get out of bed when it's cold, they just poke their heads out and have a quick graze on the ground outside. The rest of the time, they happily come out of the coop.
@@nosmallo Yep, ours never volunteered to go out in snow, even if it was just enough to turn the ground white. But the rest of the year, they would exit-seek if we hadn't opened their protected pen.
Love the tagline: you don't have to be self-sufficient with everything, but be self-sufficient with *something* !!! ♥️
Readings by CARA its so true!!!
Swap the exclamation mark and the question mark in the title, please. Stop messing with my mind! 😂That said, I completely agree with you. What utter bollocks! Caged “anything” is not as happy/fulfilled/relaxed/contented as anything with the freedom to choose its level of mobility. A free range hen that is a bit agoraphobe can CHOOSE to stay close to its roosting box while all its flock friends go for a scratch and strut around the yard, whereas one that is caged MUST stay in its hen pecked, mobility constricting, cage without choice. How anyone can come out with such utter shite is beyond me! I like you very much. Lord knows why you appeared in my suggested, but I’m glad you did. All the very best.
Sounds like money is in someones pocket. Great video! thank you!
Precisely. Many of these articles are nothing more than paid advertisements trying to pass themselves off as objective content.
right? No way a vet that really cares about animals actually thinks cage raised is better
@@katieglauber3083 I meant money in the pockets of the cage raised advocates. sorry for the misunderstanding.
Ohh that too 😂
This guy has no idea what he's talking about, the article was correct, he thinks factory farms work like him in his backyard, they don't. They ARE locked in a diseased warehouse shoulder to shoulder their whole lives, up to 60,000 in a shed full of ammonia and death, the only thing that defines free range is whether they are caged or not, that's the law. Free range is locked in a shed but just not in a cage. The guy has never seen a free range factory farm, it's horrendous
Ugh, Mark is seriously the best person. Thoroughly endearing angry face. Thank you for supporting animal rights
Brandon Case - hey handsome
"Sold out to the devil of clickbait..." Best line so far at 2:02
This was really smart and well informed. Thanks for speaking out against Daily Mail LOL!
In the US, "free range" in unfortunately a very loose and meaningless term. It can still refer to warehouse and caged chickens with some technical access to an open area. Pasture raised is the best, at least in the US.
same with the label "olive oil". Unlike in Europe, companies are not governed to sell 100% olive oil in north america. most of the cheap ones are diluted with canola or vegetable oil
pasture raised in the USA is like a weak and unenforced version of free range anywhere else.
i'd rather eat fewer animal products and know they're from healthy animals that suffered as little as possible.
rely on the amish lacking mechanized torture systems to deliver quality animal products, or get to know your local farmers
Chicks are $3 a pop, just raise your own
@@fgsfdsmonkey the Amish treat animals horribly.
@@pepepepepe33 [citation needed]
We definitely have slipped thru a crack in a dimension. We are in the movie Idiocracy on all levels.
Brawndo ... it's got what chickens crave!
Started drinking toilet water in 2016 just to get ahead of the game!
No, business interests try a spin, Farmers with stranded investments and veterinarians (they have less
work with healthy chicks ! No preventive medication - antibiotics etc.
13 % increase in _one year_ (I guess consumers buying those eggs as opposed to the food industry) is MASSIVE. 45 % of the market (of consumers) is massive. They could try the trick with "indoors but not caged" (who knows if the claims are even true) but consumers are not interested.
There is less use for those large stables and all the equipment in it.
- they still have the food industry for eggs from cages or indoors.. BUT that might put pressure on the prices the farmers get OR the stable is not filled. They could of course pick up the trend, but the large building was for nought.
_That_ could be repurposed maybe so the money would not wasted (for sleeping a much more modest building would do) - but they also FINANCED special equipment for the indoors operation. Feeding, watering, lighting, etc. Maybe even some robots if it is a large operation. And now the damn consumers do not buy what they invested for.
But even w/o the financial problems:
Conventional farmers do not like to change their ways. it was profitable at some point in time (or everyone who "counted" did it) so it must be right, and they feel almost entitled to continue with industrial ag.
Even as some farmers see their soil being eroded and getting hard in summer, or they spread the extremely stinky liquid pig manure (sitting in that tractor !) - and they have the example of an organic or at least regenerative farmer nearby who develops beautiful soil. And they STILL do not consider changing ways.
On the contrary then the nerds, homesteaders (! not even real farmers) and outsider would have bested them.
The outsiders are belittled - if they are succesful (you can SEE that) they are very begrudingly tolerated, but imitating them ? That goes too far.
LOL did OP, try to make a "smart post," and just call herself an idiot? You say "all levels." Why would we listen to an idiot?
something has been fucking this dimension up for a long time. Jesus was trying to wake us up from the same group of people who are still running this shit today. A small group of pagans the one's behind freemasonry.
My chickies love going outdoors. They love it even more when im outdoors with them. My precious little fluffy girls :)
Aren’t they fun to watch!
Mine did as well! Skunks got them; I miss them so! We listened for each other! That vet is not too swift! He needs to develop some reverence for other creatures!
On point, Mark. Nicely put. It's not for nothing we use the saying 'cooped up' as a description of the uncomfortable situation of being inside (in a small space) for too long... Your arguments could easily be applied to any farm animal. The way most farm animals are kept and treated nowadays is downright torture.
Thank you for standing up for the fair, humane treatment of all animals.
If they like being inside so much. Why do they wait at the gate every morning to be let out?
Tbehonest they wait for you bringing poulenta. But sure life needs space, variety, environment to be healthy.
I can't take any news outlets serious anymore, it's all about getting money now, they do anything for clicks, it's embarrassing.
I read that as news omelettes for a second. Guess its time I let the evil mini raptors out and collect these toxic eggs that put the biggest smile on my face. :-)
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@@tracischeelk29 get a life man
I live in the UK and after watching this I looked at the packet of eggs that I always buy and to my shock, in very small writing it says 'caged birds'. I remember reading a very long time ago that caged birds were illegal in the UK - obviously that was fake news.
I now will check every single box of eggs that I buy.
The cage bird industry must be desperate to put something like this out - which is good because it proves they will soon go out of business
The sooner the better.
I actually think they’re referring to the commercial ‘free range’ chickens. I worked for one of Australia’s big commercial chicken farms and I can tell you that the free range they sold was a scam. They used the same shed as the normal but added a few hundred square meters of outside area around the shed. The birds are so line bred they do not leave the inside area as it is where the food and water is and ventelated and temperature controlled. So it is a way for the farms to triple the amount of birds they can farm at a time. You simply cannot move freely in a free range farm as the birds are so tightly packed onto the floor. Pasture raised is the key word you’re after not free range
@Hayden Bragg **EXCELLENT info. Hope you repost this sep from a reply--I think that is a great point and probably the truth of the problem with misunderstanding!!
Thank You so much I feel the gentleman in video would esp like to here that info. It sounds like even the imposters prob came up w that word just to cause ppl to invision Pasture raised.
Thank you
Corporates think we r all idiots just changing the defintion for Free range later thy wld do the same with Pasture raised horrible.....High-fructose corn syrup (HFCS), also known as glucose-fructose, isoglucose and glucose-fructose syrup so many diff names for same thing corporates jst keep changing names to fool us....
@@myvoice5466 Guess we should just all give up. Instead of spreading knowledge.
All we can do is our best. Obviously Corporations are always going yo have the $$ & power to do more. But I guess if you can't beat --em-join em.
@@Kaylin_h eggcellent
The point sir is that 'reporter' was paid by some big industrial farm lobby.
Exactly. It was a promotional deal.
Anytime the corporate commercial "food" industry starts trotting out their "specialists" with negative propaganda against healthier conditions for the animals and the quality of the food for us, you know we are going in the right direction.
Better lives for egg layers and egg eaters!
You are exactly right. North Carolina and Virginia chickens go in and out of their coop. Eggs are richer. Chicken smells like chicken. Love your videos. So informational. I am watching you so I can grow my garden here in Virginia, USA. Must visit you in Australia.
When anyone puts out an article like this with supposed "experts" trying to assert that something that is clearly cruel and sadistic is ok, all it makes me wonder is "Who is paying them? What factory farming corporation is giving them money to say crap to makes them look good?".
No politician ever does anything unless he can profit from it. The same is true of the the big corporations that own the politicians, and of the news media that are all under their control. Follow the money far enough, and you'll notice the same names popping up frequently.
don't fall into their bait, Mark! The more you get involved with the news, the angrier you'll get, and you'll get old faster just by the intentional fear and stress they cause. Trust me, I'm from South America. lol
Just for publishing that im never buying daily mail, ever.
I thought they were more reputable. I was so wrong.
@fifthof lol
I have probably commented on this video before, but this is my 3rd/4th time watching it... I have a few chickens/turkeys both for eggs and meat. I enjoy this video because it gives me some comfort that I am not the only one who knows the birds are happier with more space, even some human interaction creates a noticeable difference in the birds. I feed mine a lot of veggies from the garden. They can see me in the garden harvesting, and they all get excited for the treat they are about to receive.
Great video Mark. Try not to get too upset, it is the Daily Mail - a shitty tabloid website full of tacky articles & click bait. Would be great if they could be held accountable for these types of damaging stories. Your happy birds sum up what chickens actually prefer! Keep sharing your stories with us 👍
My chickens have proven they would prefer to be outside. We had a hawk find them this past winter, and we kept them inside the barn (not in cages, just inside) for about a week, to help keep them safe. In that week, they dug holes in the dirt, both for bugs, and to find a way out.
Also, we built them a new run recently, 6.5ft tall. Those stinkers were still jumping, not flying, as their wings were clipped, to get to my garden. Now, we have the netting up and, for the moment, they stay in the run. So, gee, where do chickens prefer to be? My chickens obviously prefer to go outside and everywhere they can, to get their own food.
@@circa134, I now have netting over the chicken run, to keep them in and the hawk out. I may get some black chickens and try that out though. Thank you.
The general sarcasm in your voice is freaking epic. I feel you...that article was a real head scratcher.
I love your sense of humor and your empathy to environment!
I was raised on a farm. Thank you so much for your humane treatment of the hens. You are a good man. Our chickens had a hen house and ran free. They would scratch around and enjoy themselves. The people who wrote that garbage ate a bunch of sellouts with no. Morals. Keep up your good work. Let me know what you 5hink if you get a chance. As they say in your country gday mate.
All chickens were originally Free Range until man decided to domesticate and cage them. Freedom is always favorable to being locked up in a cage…
I think so too!!! Very confusing for people that don’t know much about Mother Earth!
Thanks for sharing!
Let’s Share Some Love For Our Planet 🌏
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From my experiencew many vets are scum. They just look at animals as a source of big earning potential. And the Veterinary Surgeons Board is stacked with Freemason scum.
When I opened the door to my chicken house, chickens streamed out on their own. I never had to chase them out.
I was once given the task of putting a dozen chickens back into the hen house at dusk, had to chase the buggers around the farm for an hour before I got the last one in, saves them from Mr Fox at night of course;)
Granville Stout I just leave their door open all day they go in and lay eggs all day and at night I just close the door after they all go in to roost no chasing
@@granvillestout2681 I watched a video on cattle that was barned every day. Someone freed them and they were running and jumping around and playing. You could see their overwhelming happiness. Nothing wants to be caged they all want freedom. :)
I justed wanted to say, thank you for this video. We need voices like this in the current food market.
Next article will be about how "Pigs prefer to live in small pens filled with their own waste. Instead of outdoors with clean water and clean mud".
Don't worry what you said is happening exactly like that in the Philippines 🇵🇭
That would not surprise me
Mud is clean? I'm going to get back to you on that.
@@LadyAtara can be. Depends on what mud, and how you define clean. Good mud is probably cleaner than you imagine, but it's not going to be free of bacteria, the same way your skin isn't free of bacteria (bacteria are not all bad, nor all good, you'd die if you got all the bacteria in your body magically removed)
Beautiful all creatures
The Daily Mail is a rag.
I wouldn't wipe my boots with an issue of it.
aren't rags good for wiping boots though?
Pathetic work by the daily mail. You however keep up the good work.
daily mail is gonna daily mail
All he did was prove how little he actually knows. He doesn't even know the article was completely correct because he thinks free range means what he has in his backyard. It doesn't. Free range by law is a chicken that isn't in a cage, they are still locked in a shed, just not in a cage. That's what thus guy completely misses. He is a fool
@@80slimshadys He lets them outside the cage/shed, what are you talking about.
@@douhdanne.....
@@douhdanne did you even watch the video? The video has literally nothing to do with his chickens at his house. He is talking about free range farms which are nothing like how he presents them to be, they are exactly what he thinks they are not, warehouses with tens of thousands of chickens locked in, living in their own shit never seeing the light of day. That is the reality of the majority of free range farms. Free range just means not in a cage, but it doesn't mean going outside. He spends a whole video talking smack about an article that is actually factually correct because he has no idea about what he is talking about
They are not just happier, they are healthier. I keep chickens so I know they aren't full of antibiotics etc. Love your channel
Since I found out that those factory eggs and meet are loaded with hormones and antibiotics , I swapped to free range and organics ones. Yes they are more expensive but I go without soft drinks, chippies, cookies, cakes, chocolates and lattes🙂
I thought the hormones like BHP were outlawed or just not used
Way to go man. I developed serious allergies to soy and dairy. Try eating fast food with that list. Everyone feels bad for me but, eating only whole foods I feel and look great!
how did you give up chocolate
@@Jas111ld just have to look harder. There are chocolate snacks and chocolate chips in "natural" or "organic" isles that are made with coco butter and not dairy. Just watch out for that soy lechtin or xanthum gum!
Your concern is that they've got hormones and antibiotics in them? Wrong concern, dick.
Vet had to be paid off to say that battery hens are happier than free-ranging. I refuse to believe a vet would side with the caged egg industry without having something in it for them. Shame on the vet.
It pro wasn't a vet or the reporter twisted his words around.
agree, my guess for the context here is:
the vet probably said that they are more protected from outside threats(as described in this video)
and it was twisted into the generalised shit that was published.
Whoever the idiot was that said this has never seen chickens running in the sun, rolling in the dirt!!! Love what you're doing!!!!
My chickens and turkeys are happy to be let out seems to agitate them if I don't let them out everyday they are walking the fence line just waiting and it save on food in a lot they get what ya give them let them loose and they eat bugs grass clover and more and my birds waited on me every evening to put them to roost and my eggs seem to taste better do what makes your chickens happy and they will produce better for ya. I have learned alot watching your you tube channel now I have a beutifull garden thanks to my grandparents and you so you are at the too of my list coming from a westvirginia country boy that means alot and my cabbage and califlower thank you for all your help keep up the good job your doin and I thank you for your help. Have a blessed day. If I can remember I'll send ya a picture of my garden thanks again.