I Google searched can chickens eat onions when I found wild onions and garlic everywhere in my yard, I was so stressed that they couldn’t roam the yard since it is everyday and impossible to o keep track and pull up . I found 3 or 4 studies on onions ( @government websites / pubmed) and how they effect broiler hens and geese and the way it makes layer hens eggs taste. There is no reason to pull onions out of your food scraps and if you chicken likes them add them to your chickens diet they enrich their health. yay! That relieves the free range wild onion stress for many of us on the east coast that tend chickens. 😊
Since I believe in a Designer and Creator I believe the chicken came first. An egg can't happen by random chance or accident. Someone needs to lay it, and someone needs to set on it and incubate it. And really someone needs to care for, protect and teach the chicks, so it really doesn't make sense or seem feasible for the egg to come first...
hello, I do agree,I believe God created all the creatures and we had to have a hen and cockeral first to get the agg znd to be fertilised..I love chickens such lovely creatures. xx take care,x
Just found your site because I’m getting some chickens and I’m educating myself. The question what came first the chicken or the egg. God created all animals so my answer is the chicken!
That’s great, you’re going to love chickens! They are great pets and give you delicious eggs :) Be sure you check out our newest video we just posted a couple days ago. A complete guide on raising chickens, we packed it full of information ua-cam.com/video/icq7otYnlfQ/v-deo.html
Love it, Ricardo and Kelly, you guys are perfect at this and I love watching your videos, very fun and enjoyable. funny Kells you are a lot like me, lol
Hi Linda here... I make a sort of soup up with pasta mix of veg and tuna I leave the tuna juice in as well and the water from cooking the veg and pasta....I give it to them about 3 times a week....they all ways have seed mix with malases and layer pellets in the pen....I grow greens and heaps of other things that I pick daily and through them in the pen ...they are locked up at night and have an open yard by day
Great comment. Thanks. Wonderful channel. I’m retired here in Thailand, the supposed origin of chickens, and I only have 30 chicken pets, so I’m a little jealous of your 39. Guess I better go find some more.
Hi guys! I am so happy to have found your page! I recently rescued two hens from an abuse situation- their wings had been broken with the bones protruding and they had severe infected flesh wounds and bumblefoot. The vet had to euth one of them sadly but said I could try to nurse the other back to health. I did it! She is thriving and I so adore her. I knew nothing about chickens 2 months ago and have had to learn so much very quickly. My Penny still has bumblefoot but I’m doing my best to resolve it. Thnx for your informative and helpful videos! 🐓❤️
Love that you send out this invaluable information, as a new chick mamma I worry that living so far away from a city to purchase chick food, will I get the right appropriate food from a local co- op ? Thanks for all the work you two put into these videos !💕🐓
I love this video and I love your kitchen counter egg holder. I ordered my chicks on Monday and then got so worried scared. I have been watching UA-cam and reading chicken magazine and I am not as nervous now.
Thank you! Yes don’t be nervous, raising chicks is pretty easy and very fun! We have a full video breaking down every little step and full of valuable information maybe not even thought to ask. I’ll link it right here. This is every step from hatch to the hen laying her first egg ua-cam.com/video/icq7otYnlfQ/v-deo.html
Wow! I didn't know about tomato leaves. I'm raising chickens for the first time and my chickens love eating the tomato leaves. I use tomato plants around the coop for shade and they're always snacking on the leaves and blossoms. I'll be sure to trim the leaves back
They’re apart of the nightshade family, small doses is okay but better avoided. But that shouldn’t kill them. What a great shade idea, we have been using rosemary bushes and it’s been working very well, they don’t destroy them
@@BockBockBouquet thanks so much. I also have peppers, rosemary, nasturtium and mustard greens and tons of marigolds around the coop. I use cement blocks so each hole has a different flower or veggie. The girls love them. They're constantly nibbling. I used tulle after I watched your video to block them from the tomato leaves and I transplanted the peppers. Not they only have access to beneficial plants
Best way to monitor health would be a weekly weigh in. Chickens will conceal their illness as long as possible because they don’t want to show weakness. Yeah, I probably won’t go through the effort, but, yes, a weekly weigh in would catch an illness much faster than waiting to see symptoms. I like aragonite calcium, or calcium carbonate, I’m convinced oyster shells being coastal bottom feeders or farmed have high levels of chemicals and heavy metals. Also avoid pyrethrin chemicals for mites and lice..these are not safe, innocuous chemicals just because they are made from flowers..there are new studies that show they cause birth defects like scissor beak and bulging eyes..
I bought 11 Golden laced wyndottes. One had a crossed beek. It would not eat so I assume it had a broken jaw. It's eyes were bad. I figure the high calcium in the egg shell was so hard it could not hatch out without destroying itself. Just my thoughts on calcium. It did not live but a few days.
It’s easiest to shake a bag or container of grubs like black soldier flies and say here chicka chicka chicka, whatever, if they associate a certain sound with a treat they will come running, you can always count on them coming if you train them..
Thank you! Most definitely, we use Scratch and Peck Feeds and we love it! We have it linked in the description of most of our videos if you want to try it.
Thank you for another great show! Always an education and pleasant to listen to. I agree with one of your other viewers. The chicken came first. Just like God created Adam and Eve first and then they had children. Genesis says when all the various types of animals were created. I love the little picnic table. This is two years after you made the video but I'm going to see if you have any directions on how you made it. I can probably tell from the picture. Thanks again!
@@BockBockBouquet thanks for offering good informative videos. Also offer hen home treatment of health problems and signs. Also inform video on home made chick feed for summer and winter.
Hi! Quick question. Do the hens go back to their nesting boxes to lay their egg or do they just lay them wherever while ranging? I free range my chickens after a certain hour because of this reason. We have a big piece of land and Im afraid they will lay eggs anywhere and I will never be able to find them 😊
Would that coop behind you be good enough for 20 chickens? How big a space would 20 chickens need? Is that fenced area where the chicken coop is inside big enough ? Do you have a video how you clean the coop?
Thank you! We usually go through local breeders or hatch hatching eggs. We have ordered from Murray mcmurray, my pet chicken, and cackle hatcheries online as well
Hello. Just found your channel and love it. Question -- do you have problems with rats ? Sometimes we are overrun with them. Tried everything. Ant ideas would be helpful. Thanks
Thank you! We don’t anymore, the best way to keep them away is too never leave feed out. Only give them as much treats on the ground as they will consume. You can take their feeders away at night, or I will link a video below on the rodent proof feeder we use and love. It’s a treadle style that only opens for the chickens and not rodents or wild birds. We haven’t noticed any rats ever since we have stray feral cats that took up residence on our property. They just showed up, we don’t feed them, they live off our land. They must be eating something! (All the rats) maybe add a few barn cats to your property. They don’t bother the chickens, they would only harm baby chicks or small pullets. ua-cam.com/video/Z0Wc9ltBIOo/v-deo.html
I think both of my gallinas are brooding and they both are on egg #5. When should we put a food and water bowl next to their nesting boxes and will we need to take the rooster out? One of our roosters is a semental and he used to be what I called “the gentleman” but now he flogs me every time I go in the coop to change water and give food. Not sure if he is just protecting the gallina or why he suddenly started flogging me 😅
Eventually they will stop laying eggs while being broody, they are trying to lay a clutch to hatch. Is the food and water for mom or for babies? If it’s for mom there is no need she will leave the nest once a day to eat/drink and relieve herself. The eggs will hatch after 20 days of incubation and at this point after all chicks have hatched, I would recommend actually fencing off an area in the coop or putting her and pen or larger cage and letting her raise the babies in there safe from predation from predators and other hens/roosters possibly picking on and killing the baby chicks. If not separated there is a chance they will go missing one by one. The mother hen will do her best to protect her baby chicks but this can cause undue stress to her. The fencing will have to be small enough that a baby chick couldn’t fit through it and it’s best if it’s in or near the coop so the flock sees the babies and once they are large enough and released they will have already been integrated as the rest of the flock is used to seeing them. We use these grow out pens often as they come in handy for broody moms, integrating pullets, or as a hospital pen. The rooster could just be hormonal and coming to age and possibly seeing you as a threat to the flock. Unfortunately some roosters can be aggressive and it’s hard to change that. Some are always gentlemen and would never attack. Some are gentlemen and only attack if they see you picking up a hen and she’s squawking up a storm 😂. Maybe he hears the hens distress call and you happen to be around. Try picking him up and carrying him around when he tries to attack. Pet him, talk to him. See if this helps lol
@@BockBockBouquet we will be working on this project and many more. Thanks for lending us so many ideas to adopt and piggy back off of! You 2 are the best! Umm yeah they Gallo is still acting like Mr. Head hancho when we walk up so I’ll try and bribe him with treats this week and just show him I’m not scared or Intimidated, even though I am a little and haven’t picked one up yet lol I almost passed out trying to give an anti biotic shot last week to the one that was limping, and yet still so much to learn and so much torso and error going on with my new little loves lol
Aw thank you! Good luck with him I would be giving him nutritional yeast in his feed and giving him poultry cell (a product by rooster booster) vitamins orally in a irrigating syringe or in his water
@@BockBockBouquet ok, perfecto! I’ll go to tractor supply and get some yeast. I have been doing poultry cell in his water since I saw the first aid kit video and how crows feet symptoms are and i think that hit the nail on the head! I have been alternating his water from poultry cell to garlic water to regular water. This is total trial and error but I was also raised around chickens but I’m definitely having to sharpen my skills and know how. Thank you thank you , my friends!
Just discovered your channel. Wow you guy's are very knowledgeable about chickens. I live in rural Ohio, thinking about starting to raise my own chickens. Can you recommend some good egg layers..? I love eggs, I live alone so I don't need a bunch of chickens but I do eat 3-4 eggs daily. Thanks.!
Thank you & welcome to our channel! Chickens are the best, no other pet gives you a valuable protein source! I would definitely recommend a production red (sex link hen) or leghorn. The sex links are generally friendlier than the flighty leghorns though. We go over good eggs layers and other beneficial members to choosing chickens for a flock in one of our newest videos here! We hope it answers your questions & if you have any more feel free to ask ua-cam.com/video/y_j5WpQQm-E/v-deo.html
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ oh yes they are beautiful and give many huge eggs! Perfect layer for white eggs. We like to collect the rainbow and have a few of each that lay each color. Not for any reason they’re the nutritionally the same, we just like having all the colors lol
@@BockBockBouquet Do you think they might be more susceptible to being picked off by other predators because they are all white..? Something I heard on another video.
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ no I don’t believe that, no more than other chickens. I’m not saying I’m correct, it’s just what I think personally…but I also don’t believe having black chickens keeps hawks away because they think they are crows lol. I think actual crows and ravens keep other birds of prey away. They attack hawks and leave chickens alone, so they are a good ally to us. But having good predator proofing will keep predators away, our white chickens have never been more susceptible to predation than any other chicken. (There are also brown leghorn variety as well if you would rather not have a white chicken)
Hi guys, new chicken owner here. Quick question that wasn't asked on the video. My chickens have taken to sleeping on top of their coop. I was told probably because it got really hot here. We let them do it for a few days but decided it wasn't a good habit. Their coop has a window and ventilation. For a week now we have to go out each night and physically take them off the roof and put them inside the coop. Any tips on how to break them of this habit? They are getting to be laying age and want to encourage them to lay in the proper place. Thanks for any tips!
Chickens desire to sleep on the highest roost to be protected from predators. Manually placing them on their roost each night should train them. How tall is your coop and how high are the roost bars in the coop? Maybe raise the roost bars in the coop as they would dislike ones near the floor. Once close to laying age place fake wood or ceramic eggs in the nest boxes and that will encourage them to lay in the nest boxes
Do hens lay eggs while hatching eggs or do they stop until all hatching is done.....also when do you stop collecting egg to eat when the hen begins brooding
Once they lay a clutch of eggs they stop laying while brooding and sitting on the eggs to hatch. We mark a circle around the egg in pencil on the eggs being incubated by the hen so if another chicken lays their eggs in the same nest we don’t get them confused and have half incubated eggs
I'm not sure if you can assist me but here goes; my chickens are not laying in their lush nesting boxes. I even placed ceramic eggs in the boxes prior to them laying. Because they are free range (I let them out of their pen in the morning), they lay around the yard and it literally becomes an egg hunt. With this in mind, do you have any suggestions as to how I can encourage them to lay in their nesting boxes? Thank you!
Besides the fake eggs the other way to train them unfortunately is to lock them up for a week or two. So they have no other option but to lay there, once they get used to that routine they will continue to lay there. Easter egg hunting everyday is not fun 😂
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She is a black copper marans, she was very young at that age so she hadn’t developed her red comb & wattles yet. They lay a very dark brown chocolate colored egg
Hi we are firstime chicken keepers since covid.got excited we think we have too many for our urban Coop. They deleveloped feather picking we tried extra protein no peck clips nothing seem to work.please help
It could just be an activity due to their high pecking instinct and boredom. We recommend lots of toys, we grow grazing boxes for them and hang cabbages for them to peck and have lots of perches and toys. If your run is smaller it could be a sign of overcrowding as well possibly. Just have to keep their minds busy. Check out our diy and chicken feed playlists for ideas
Eggs have to come before any egg laying animal. The "chicken" came from selective breeding of jungle foul in the Asian Islands from what I can gather on that subject lol
Can you tell me any information on Black Sex Link hen and Roosters . I have 5 hens and 1 mistake Rooster.. they are about 14 weeks old. Any information is Helpful !!! Thank you so much. Or chickens are spoiled like yours. ❤️❤️you 2!
They are a great friendly and high production chicken breed. We have a few very old ones who actually still lay. They can be sexed at hatch as the roosters are a different color. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you would like to know about them. Thanks so much! ❤️
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is the rooster. Then the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the rooster, He then plucked a feather from his side and created a hen. Then the rooster was more than happy to know the hen and she layed an egg.
Isome folks may be un aware about God's law on blood, not to eat any amount of blood of any kind in any amount, to spill it on the ground, because it is sacred to Him, whether a foul or a beast Leviticus 19. 26. And Galatians ❤️ 5. 29😊. Because we love our God above for all He has done for us . Especially giving his most precious son Christ Jesus so that he could buy back his perfect earthly paradise of peace and love and joy 😊 John chapter 3 verse 16. And how grateful we are. For eggs it's so easy just Remo the blood. It's usually just a drop. Thank you 😊 💓 folks for teaching us. We're still learning new things about our hens, they're our pets ♥️ too. Agape love ❤️
Genius says God created each animal and articulated its every feature including the beautiful science of the reproduction system, so chickens came before eggs
To answer the question, what came first, the chicken or the egg? I look at it this way, and egg needs to be nurtured. It needs warm, it needs to be turned, and it needs the right environment in order to survive. So, a chicken would be needed to do that. So I believe a chicken came before the egg. For those who believe that Adam and Eve were the first people created by God, I don't believe that God created men and women as an infant child. Children need nurturing. Children cannot survive without an adult. Therefore, God created man in his own image as an adult. Just my beliefs.
God Created everything full grown. The chicken came first :) But it probably looked like a prehistoric bird, and not like the chicken that you see today.
😂😂😂 maybe! Ohh and on the auto door I have heard of that, that’s very sad. We recently got an auto door and it if it detects a chicken and will not close. It stops if you put your hand there too. We have had a good experience with it
Raising Baby Chicks Video, click here---> ua-cam.com/video/HVIWVplRbRo/v-deo.html
I Google searched can chickens eat onions when I found wild onions and garlic everywhere in my yard, I was so stressed that they couldn’t roam the yard since it is everyday and impossible to o keep track and pull up .
I found 3 or 4 studies on onions ( @government websites / pubmed) and how they effect broiler hens and geese and the way it makes layer hens eggs taste. There is no reason to pull onions out of your food scraps and if you chicken likes them add them to your chickens diet they enrich their health. yay! That relieves the free range wild onion stress for many of us on the east coast that tend chickens. 😊
Some of the most intelligent in depth knowledge of any chicken care videos I’ve seen. You really know a lot! Thank you for sharing!!
UA-cam rabbit-hole brought me here. Excellent video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Since I believe in a Designer and Creator I believe the chicken came first. An egg can't happen by random chance or accident. Someone needs to lay it, and someone needs to set on it and incubate it. And really someone needs to care for, protect and teach the chicks, so it really doesn't make sense or seem feasible for the egg to come first...
That's a very great take on that! Age old question.
Me too! Also the egg would have to be fertilized which is another great point!
hello, I do agree,I believe God created all the creatures and we had to have a hen and cockeral first to get the agg znd to be fertilised..I love chickens such lovely creatures. xx take care,x
My thoughts exactly!!! ❤️❤️
Dinosaur eggs
My 10 year old just got chickens and she loved your chicken facts! She was excited to learn that they see color and that the insects they hunt glow.
That’s awesome! We think chickens are so interesting and fun. It’s great for kids to learn to raise and care for them 😊
Your videos are so amazing and informative!!
And God made the first chicken, and then she procreated!
Just found your site because I’m getting some chickens and I’m educating myself.
The question what came first the chicken or the egg.
God created all animals so my answer is the chicken!
I am learning so much watching the two of you. We hope to have chickens this summer.
That’s great, you’re going to love chickens! They are great pets and give you delicious eggs :) Be sure you check out our newest video we just posted a couple days ago. A complete guide on raising chickens, we packed it full of information
ua-cam.com/video/icq7otYnlfQ/v-deo.html
Will definitely check that out.
Love it, Ricardo and Kelly, you guys are perfect at this and I love watching your videos, very fun and enjoyable. funny Kells you are a lot like me, lol
Thank you so much! We don't know if anyone besides us like these videos haha. Thanks for sharing it!
Hi Linda here... I make a sort of soup up with pasta mix of veg and tuna I leave the tuna juice in as well and the water from cooking the veg and pasta....I give it to them about 3 times a week....they all ways have seed mix with malases and layer pellets in the pen....I grow greens and heaps of other things that I pick daily and through them in the pen ...they are locked up at night and have an open yard by day
Great comment. Thanks. Wonderful channel. I’m retired here in Thailand, the supposed origin of chickens, and I only have 30 chicken pets, so I’m a little jealous of your 39. Guess I better go find some more.
Thank you for this video!! I am one step closer to feeling comfortable raising my own chickens!
Thank you very much! Hope you have gotten some chickens since you left this comment. =] Chickens are the best!
@@BockBockBouquet I'll be getting them in January!
Awesome! You’re gonna love them and their silly personalities. Let us know if you have any questions 😊
Hi guys! I am so happy to have found your page! I recently rescued two hens from an abuse situation- their wings had been broken with the bones protruding and they had severe infected flesh wounds and bumblefoot. The vet had to euth one of them sadly but said I could try to nurse the other back to health. I did it! She is thriving and I so adore her. I knew nothing about chickens 2 months ago and have had to learn so much very quickly. My Penny still has bumblefoot but I’m doing my best to resolve it.
Thnx for your informative and helpful videos! 🐓❤️
Oh wow thank you so much for what you do and rescueing those hens! You are amazing thank you for teaching them love and giving them good life ❤️
Thanks for this video. I enjoyed it. You are so knowledgeable.
I just acquired 8 pullets. We’re enjoying watching them grow.
Raising chickens is the best! ❤️
Love that you send out this invaluable information, as a new chick mamma I worry that living so far away from a city to purchase chick food, will I get the right appropriate food from a local co- op ?
Thanks for all the work you two put into these videos !💕🐓
I love this video and I love your kitchen counter egg holder. I ordered my chicks on Monday and then got so worried scared. I have been watching UA-cam and reading chicken magazine and I am not as nervous now.
Thank you! Yes don’t be nervous, raising chicks is pretty easy and very fun! We have a full video breaking down every little step and full of valuable information maybe not even thought to ask. I’ll link it right here. This is every step from hatch to the hen laying her first egg
ua-cam.com/video/icq7otYnlfQ/v-deo.html
Thrilled to have found you guys! I too started raising chickens during COVID and love every aspect of owning them. Great information!
Thanks for watching 😄 glad you enjoyed the video ♥️ chickens are such a joy
Precise. Relevant information for food security
Your guy is a keeper, ma'am. Also, Thank you for this information!!
Wow! I didn't know about tomato leaves. I'm raising chickens for the first time and my chickens love eating the tomato leaves. I use tomato plants around the coop for shade and they're always snacking on the leaves and blossoms. I'll be sure to trim the leaves back
They’re apart of the nightshade family, small doses is okay but better avoided. But that shouldn’t kill them. What a great shade idea, we have been using rosemary bushes and it’s been working very well, they don’t destroy them
@@BockBockBouquet thanks so much. I also have peppers, rosemary, nasturtium and mustard greens and tons of marigolds around the coop. I use cement blocks so each hole has a different flower or veggie. The girls love them. They're constantly nibbling. I used tulle after I watched your video to block them from the tomato leaves and I transplanted the peppers. Not they only have access to beneficial plants
@@backyardfarmerpat that’s a yummy lineup! We love sharing our garden with our flock 😊
@@BockBockBouquet awesome❤️
When I get a broody hen I am going to feed them by hand, can't wait
Hen-opause! Hilarious! Thanks for making my morning!
Haha thank you!
good show.
Best way to monitor health would be a weekly weigh in. Chickens will conceal their illness as long as possible because they don’t want to show weakness. Yeah, I probably won’t go through the effort, but, yes, a weekly weigh in would catch an illness much faster than waiting to see symptoms. I like aragonite calcium, or calcium carbonate, I’m convinced oyster shells being coastal bottom feeders or farmed have high levels of chemicals and heavy metals. Also avoid pyrethrin chemicals for mites and lice..these are not safe, innocuous chemicals just because they are made from flowers..there are new studies that show they cause birth defects like scissor beak and bulging eyes..
That makes a lot of sense about the oyster shells, great tips
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You guys are so gorgeous!!!! Wonderful couple, Wonderful life! God bless you!
Aw thank you so much!
I'm a new chicken owner. I love your very informative videos.
Thanks so much! Welcome to our channel and the wonderful world of chickens! ❤️
Awesome video Thank You
Thank you!
Love it!
Thanks so much!
Really helpful for knowing about chicken. Thank you both for presenting it.
Thank you!
I bought 11 Golden laced wyndottes. One had a crossed beek. It would not eat so I assume it had a broken jaw. It's eyes were bad. I figure the high calcium in the egg shell was so hard it could not hatch out without destroying itself. Just my thoughts on calcium. It did not live but a few days.
Nice video. Chickens are amazing!!
Thank you! A lot of our friends were asking us these questions, so we decided to just make a video and answer those curious questions.
I am with you Ricardo! I think the hen says , “what that’s my egg!!” Don’t take it , SWAK SWAK!!
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off subject- missy, you have great posture.
LOL thanks!!
Top video. Thanks for the advice. Really helpful and well presented.
Thank you!
Thanks guys, this was so helpful! And silly, you guys are cute
sitting here watching this and laughing at some of the questions lol very good info
Lol thank you!!! ❤️
Y'all are too funny. Very informative.
Thanks for watching ❤️
It’s easiest to shake a bag or container of grubs like black soldier flies and say here chicka chicka chicka, whatever, if they associate a certain sound with a treat they will come running, you can always count on them coming if you train them..
If our chickens hear any bag they think it’s for them and come running lol
luv your videos but this one was especially cute! thanks for the chicken facts.
I have two Pekin ducks, one drake, and one hen named Donald and Daisy.
There is a breed of chickens that DO lay eggs for their entire lifespan and that is the Deathlayer Chicken that originated in Germany.
Fine and good;
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i have been chased down for them a few times
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Thank you for such a helpful video. Can you share what brand of organic chicken feed you use?
Thank you! 🌷🐣🐓
Thank you! Most definitely, we use Scratch and Peck Feeds and we love it! We have it linked in the description of most of our videos if you want to try it.
Great info!!
This is one of our earliest videos, thanks!
Great info thanks
Welcome :)
Thank you for another great show! Always an education and pleasant to listen to. I agree with one of your other viewers. The chicken came first. Just like God created Adam and Eve first and then they had children. Genesis says when all the various types of animals were created. I love the little picnic table. This is two years after you made the video but I'm going to see if you have any directions on how you made it. I can probably tell from the picture. Thanks again!
Good information, thanks
Thanks for watching!
@@BockBockBouquet thanks for offering good informative videos. Also offer hen home treatment of health problems and signs. Also inform video on home made chick feed for summer and winter.
It is feed . Not Read. Auto spelling problems.
@@churraa68 check out our channel playlists we make videos on treating sick chickens and feeding we recommend 😊
You guys are such a great team. You are killing that dress! #Savedinplaylist #Keepupthegreatwork
Aw thank you!
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Hello from California!
I think the change of atmosphere especially of our Country Iraq Hot in summer and cold in winter affect on birds health
Hi! Quick question. Do the hens go back to their nesting boxes to lay their egg or do they just lay them wherever while ranging? I free range my chickens after a certain hour because of this reason. We have a big piece of land and Im afraid they will lay eggs anywhere and I will never be able to find them 😊
Would that coop behind you be good enough for 20 chickens? How big a space would 20 chickens need? Is that fenced area where the chicken coop is inside big enough ? Do you have a video how you clean the coop?
41 chickens 😱 and do they all stay in the same coop or do you have several other coops?
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Great video, thanks You picked up a new subscriber. If I go fishing, can I feed fish, and fish parts to the chickens ?
Yes, absolutely. They would love that! Very healthy for them
@@BockBockBouquet Thank you.
Great video's. Where do you but your chicks from?
Thank you! We usually go through local breeders or hatch hatching eggs. We have ordered from Murray mcmurray, my pet chicken, and cackle hatcheries online as well
Henopause made me laugh haha
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Would the pepper work deterring rodents also?
Hello. Just found your channel and love it. Question -- do you have problems with rats ? Sometimes we are overrun with them. Tried everything. Ant ideas would be helpful. Thanks
Thank you! We don’t anymore, the best way to keep them away is too never leave feed out. Only give them as much treats on the ground as they will consume. You can take their feeders away at night, or I will link a video below on the rodent proof feeder we use and love. It’s a treadle style that only opens for the chickens and not rodents or wild birds. We haven’t noticed any rats ever since we have stray feral cats that took up residence on our property. They just showed up, we don’t feed them, they live off our land. They must be eating something! (All the rats) maybe add a few barn cats to your property. They don’t bother the chickens, they would only harm baby chicks or small pullets.
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I think both of my gallinas are brooding and they both are on egg #5. When should we put a food and water bowl next to their nesting boxes and will we need to take the rooster out? One of our roosters is a semental and he used to be what I called “the gentleman” but now he flogs me every time I go in the coop to change water and give food. Not sure if he is just protecting the gallina or why he suddenly started flogging me 😅
Eventually they will stop laying eggs while being broody, they are trying to lay a clutch to hatch. Is the food and water for mom or for babies? If it’s for mom there is no need she will leave the nest once a day to eat/drink and relieve herself. The eggs will hatch after 20 days of incubation and at this point after all chicks have hatched, I would recommend actually fencing off an area in the coop or putting her and pen or larger cage and letting her raise the babies in there safe from predation from predators and other hens/roosters possibly picking on and killing the baby chicks. If not separated there is a chance they will go missing one by one. The mother hen will do her best to protect her baby chicks but this can cause undue stress to her. The fencing will have to be small enough that a baby chick couldn’t fit through it and it’s best if it’s in or near the coop so the flock sees the babies and once they are large enough and released they will have already been integrated as the rest of the flock is used to seeing them. We use these grow out pens often as they come in handy for broody moms, integrating pullets, or as a hospital pen. The rooster could just be hormonal and coming to age and possibly seeing you as a threat to the flock. Unfortunately some roosters can be aggressive and it’s hard to change that. Some are always gentlemen and would never attack. Some are gentlemen and only attack if they see you picking up a hen and she’s squawking up a storm 😂. Maybe he hears the hens distress call and you happen to be around. Try picking him up and carrying him around when he tries to attack. Pet him, talk to him. See if this helps lol
@@BockBockBouquet we will be working on this project and many more. Thanks for lending us so many ideas to adopt and piggy back off of! You 2 are the best! Umm yeah they Gallo is still acting like Mr. Head hancho when we walk up so I’ll try and bribe him with treats this week and just show him I’m not scared or Intimidated, even though I am a little and haven’t picked one up yet lol I almost passed out trying to give an anti biotic shot last week to the one that was limping, and yet still so much to learn and so much torso and error going on with my new little loves lol
Aw thank you! Good luck with him I would be giving him nutritional yeast in his feed and giving him poultry cell (a product by rooster booster) vitamins orally in a irrigating syringe or in his water
@@BockBockBouquet ok, perfecto! I’ll go to tractor supply and get some yeast. I have been doing poultry cell in his water since I saw the first aid kit video and how crows feet symptoms are and i think that hit the nail on the head! I have been alternating his water from poultry cell to garlic water to regular water. This is total trial and error but I was also raised around chickens but I’m definitely having to sharpen my skills and know how. Thank you thank you , my friends!
Don’t give up it may take a few months for his symptoms to reverse if it is a vitamin deficiency causing his leg issues. Are his toes curled?
Just discovered your channel. Wow you guy's are very knowledgeable about chickens. I live in rural Ohio, thinking about starting to raise my own chickens. Can you recommend some good egg layers..? I love eggs, I live alone so I don't need a bunch of chickens but I do eat 3-4 eggs daily. Thanks.!
Thank you & welcome to our channel! Chickens are the best, no other pet gives you a valuable protein source! I would definitely recommend a production red (sex link hen) or leghorn. The sex links are generally friendlier than the flighty leghorns though. We go over good eggs layers and other beneficial members to choosing chickens for a flock in one of our newest videos here! We hope it answers your questions & if you have any more feel free to ask
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@@BockBockBouquet Thanks for the reply. My grandma always had leghorns and had great luck with them, so I'm leaning towards that breed.
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ oh yes they are beautiful and give many huge eggs! Perfect layer for white eggs. We like to collect the rainbow and have a few of each that lay each color. Not for any reason they’re the nutritionally the same, we just like having all the colors lol
@@BockBockBouquet Do you think they might be more susceptible to being picked off by other predators because they are all white..? Something I heard on another video.
@@Buckeye_4_Life_ no I don’t believe that, no more than other chickens. I’m not saying I’m correct, it’s just what I think personally…but I also don’t believe having black chickens keeps hawks away because they think they are crows lol. I think actual crows and ravens keep other birds of prey away. They attack hawks and leave chickens alone, so they are a good ally to us. But having good predator proofing will keep predators away, our white chickens have never been more susceptible to predation than any other chicken. (There are also brown leghorn variety as well if you would rather not have a white chicken)
Hi guys, new chicken owner here. Quick question that wasn't asked on the video. My chickens have taken to sleeping on top of their coop. I was told probably because it got really hot here. We let them do it for a few days but decided it wasn't a good habit. Their coop has a window and ventilation. For a week now we have to go out each night and physically take them off the roof and put them inside the coop. Any tips on how to break them of this habit? They are getting to be laying age and want to encourage them to lay in the proper place. Thanks for any tips!
Chickens desire to sleep on the highest roost to be protected from predators. Manually placing them on their roost each night should train them. How tall is your coop and how high are the roost bars in the coop? Maybe raise the roost bars in the coop as they would dislike ones near the floor. Once close to laying age place fake wood or ceramic eggs in the nest boxes and that will encourage them to lay in the nest boxes
WO we have something in commons stop eating chicken since we have them as pet and for eggs from covid era
Do hens lay eggs while hatching eggs or do they stop until all hatching is done.....also when do you stop collecting egg to eat when the hen begins brooding
Once they lay a clutch of eggs they stop laying while brooding and sitting on the eggs to hatch. We mark a circle around the egg in pencil on the eggs being incubated by the hen so if another chicken lays their eggs in the same nest we don’t get them confused and have half incubated eggs
I'm not sure if you can assist me but here goes; my chickens are not laying in their lush nesting boxes. I even placed ceramic eggs in the boxes prior to them laying. Because they are free range (I let them out of their pen in the morning), they lay around the yard and it literally becomes an egg hunt. With this in mind, do you have any suggestions as to how I can encourage them to lay in their nesting boxes? Thank you!
Besides the fake eggs the other way to train them unfortunately is to lock them up for a week or two. So they have no other option but to lay there, once they get used to that routine they will continue to lay there. Easter egg hunting everyday is not fun 😂
Also we added curtains to our nest boxes and we find the added privacy makes them enjoy laying in their boxes more
Thank you so much!
I say the chicken came first. Cause God made it
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They are so cute!
I have a rooster how do you tell if a egg is fertile
I believe the egg came first as a mutation in evolution, from there they just flocked!
I agree!
We had a duck lay a double yolk it was massive
That’s cool! One of our Cayuga ducks laid a double yolk last month, it was so beautiful and solid black
What breed is that black chicken that was at the end of your video?
She is a black copper marans, she was very young at that age so she hadn’t developed her red comb & wattles yet. They lay a very dark brown chocolate colored egg
@@BockBockBouquet Awesome! Black Copper Marans are on the shopping list for spring. How dark are the eggs she gives you?
Hi we are firstime chicken keepers since covid.got excited we think we have too many for our urban Coop. They deleveloped feather picking we tried extra protein no peck clips nothing seem to work.please help
It could just be an activity due to their high pecking instinct and boredom. We recommend lots of toys, we grow grazing boxes for them and hang cabbages for them to peck and have lots of perches and toys. If your run is smaller it could be a sign of overcrowding as well possibly. Just have to keep their minds busy. Check out our diy and chicken feed playlists for ideas
@@BockBockBouquet thanks
where can I get chicks in my state?
How can i buy authentic good quality eggs from Bangladesh?
Dude, looks like tito ortiz.
Eggs have to come before any egg laying animal. The "chicken" came from selective breeding of jungle foul in the Asian Islands from what I can gather on that subject lol
I totally agree with you! 🙌🏼😁
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Can you tell me any information on Black Sex Link hen and Roosters . I have 5 hens and 1 mistake Rooster.. they are about 14 weeks old. Any information is Helpful !!! Thank you so much. Or chickens are spoiled like yours. ❤️❤️you 2!
They are a great friendly and high production chicken breed. We have a few very old ones who actually still lay. They can be sexed at hatch as the roosters are a different color. Let me know if there’s anything in particular you would like to know about them. Thanks so much! ❤️
Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The answer is the rooster. Then the Lord caused a deep sleep to fall upon the rooster, He then plucked a feather from his side and created a hen. Then the rooster was more than happy to know the hen and she layed an egg.
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF AN EGG IS FERTIL OR NOT?
Our rooster do not like a particular hen , she is small in statue he breeds her once it is over he then chase and peck her .why would this be
Calcium: Older chickens tend to have thinner shells, too.
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Isome folks may be un aware about God's law on blood, not to eat any amount of blood of any kind in any amount, to spill it on the ground, because it is sacred to Him, whether a foul or a beast Leviticus 19. 26. And Galatians ❤️ 5. 29😊. Because we love our God above for all He has done for us . Especially giving his most precious son Christ Jesus so that he could buy back his perfect earthly paradise of peace and love and joy 😊 John chapter 3 verse 16. And how grateful we are. For eggs it's so easy just Remo the blood. It's usually just a drop. Thank you 😊 💓 folks for teaching us. We're still learning new things about our hens, they're our pets ♥️ too. Agape love ❤️
If the egg is a chicken period then the chicken came first 😅😜
Genius says God created each animal and articulated its every feature including the beautiful science of the reproduction system, so chickens came before eggs
At my house it’s the chicks
Why do chickens cross the road?
I think in the beginning, WAY back, God created a chicken.
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'GOD' Made ALL in the beginning! The eggs came next.
Why do the chickens eat the eggs
To answer the question, what came first, the chicken or the egg? I look at it this way, and egg needs to be nurtured. It needs warm, it needs to be turned, and it needs the right environment in order to survive. So, a chicken would be needed to do that. So I believe a chicken came before the egg.
For those who believe that Adam and Eve were the first people created by God, I don't believe that God created men and women as an infant child. Children need nurturing. Children cannot survive without an adult. Therefore, God created man in his own image as an adult. Just my beliefs.
God Created everything full grown.
The chicken came first :)
But it probably looked like a prehistoric bird, and not like the chicken that you see today.
Automatic doors can accidently kill a chicken ..which came first the chicken or the egg i say the rooster..
😂😂😂 maybe! Ohh and on the auto door I have heard of that, that’s very sad. We recently got an auto door and it if it detects a chicken and will not close. It stops if you put your hand there too. We have had a good experience with it
I believe it's the chicken that came first, scripture says the fowl were created first, then they were told to be fruitful & multiply. 🐔 🥚 🐣 💕 🙂
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I believe God created the chicken first with the ability to lay eggs. 😊