Feeding and Economics of Free Ranging 1000 Hens
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2021
- I didn't address the housing cost of all the trailers and fencing. If it was all bought now, I'd put an insurance value at 10k. Then by the time hens are bought and feed paid for, probably wouldn't net much the first year, and may take some time the second year. Then the third year will be a turnover year, so those profits will be ate up by the new hens, but by year four, should be regular scheduled programming. Now, I didn't just jump into 1000 hens quick, it took me six years of slow building because the real challenge was marketing. I got lucky to stumble into the wholesale deal, and that's why I expanded. Hardest part of eat local food is marketing.
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Jacob, that is an exceptionally good video. You have packed an impressive amount of free-range chicken husbandry into only 27:43. If you could find the time to go deeper into some of the more common veterinary problems with free range birds, such as identifying parasite issues, bronchial problems (like flu and infectious bronchitis) and plumage problems it would be very much appreciated. You have an abundance of experience with free-range chickens and I hope you can share more.
Your class on "chickens 101" was very interesting, thanks for the video.
I'm glad you enjoyed it
This was very interesting. You have things stream lined pretty good! Definitely sounds profitable. Lots of work. But your are your own boss. Something I would be willing to take less money for. From the get go 👍 On the algae growing in those translucent tanks. I have 450 gallon truck tank up high in a shed. Has a float valve. Use it it quickly refill tractors tanks with. Had a awful tine with algae growing in. Found some heavy canvas. To wrap it with. Pitch dark in it with that on it. Completely stopped the alage growth.
tar paper works good too
I’m always learning something new with your channel. Thanks Jacob
I'm glad to to impart some knowledge.
We use to feed wheat middlings or shorts to hogs we put it into 55 gallon drums and soaked it with water it will start to ferment and become more flavorable in a couple of days. Your cracked eggs make a good treat for hogs....
What you need for a water trailer is this , you can buy black PVC tanks at a farm supply company in various sizes , then rig up some pvc pipe around the edge of the trailer where you can install chicken water nipples. No pressure needed due to gravity. Fill you tank from your well as needed and take it to whatever area you move your flock. I think the tanks sell for about a 1$ per gallon size. People in Arizona store water in them and use them to back up their wells due to the scarcity of precious water .
Wow 1000 birds 110 dozen eggs holy cow. How about a video on the business end like egg collection washing and maybe egg delivery. That would make a great video. Good stuff 👌🏻
Love the swimming pool idea. I’m going to have to do that. Great videos!
A can of rubber spray and a layer of canvass, use the spray as an adhesive and just put the canvass on like a poncho on the tanks to block sunlight. Pecking at the canvass won't bother the chickens at all. On the regular feeders you can just top em with those corrigated side flimsy plant pots, should last quite a few years where you're at. Might develop a hornet/bee problem. You can probably find one of those cheap black plastic planters like the pots and skip the canvass.
i like it when you show your huge flock of chickens!!
Great video. Learned a whole lot. I like the longer videos.
Fermentation is why its warm
Nice video. My wife also watched and enjoyed it.
Delightful
Check out the way that Pete (Just a Few Acres Farm on UA-cam) covers his gravity boxes of chicken feed. Also he has some good homemade waterers.
If anyone has questions about profit and stuff read the description. Good video Jacob
Thank you
Nice setup. I really do like the holistic approach you've got going on. From weed control to fertilizer to grain usage etc. Makes my dozen hens in the orchard look amateur. Run a few ducks with them to. But it's a similar idea to what your doing just I have to buy some of their feed
Had no idea you got that much more for your eggs. Very interesting video sir.
Omg. Im just happy to have 50 chickens. i cant imagine the noise of this :D
This all blows my mind
Looking good!
Great video. Still a bit shocked they're gone - from a viewer's POV they were the best part of your operation. But I can understand the need for fresh approach & a bit of freedom. We have ~20 hens; a little different than 1k. ☮️
That is quite an operation you have!
All those eggs no wonder you farmers are so rich lol. Great video thanks Jacob have a good night.
I'm rich in inability to have time for crime lol.
@@boehmfarm4276 lol you work hard thanks for the video
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Wonderful video Jacob , I had the comets for years but I also used the Amberlinks a brown egg layer , good birds and of course I used the black sex links also brown egg birds , I enjoyed this video thx for posting it .
I liked amberlinks, but it's hard to find any volume of pullets ready to lay in anything but comets and white leghorns.
Well your out of the egg operation and now im in it lol . I have 150 egg layers coming this week. Ive got a local diner who will be taking the eggs.
Just my opinion, but I would toss the grain on the ground for them to scratch and fill those little pools with water. And I would put straw in the nest boxes to keep eggs cleaner and cushioned from getting cracked.
Jacob your use of chickens for weed control and natural fertilization is a great idea ,I used to do the same thing but in a much smaller operation (25 birds) But my garden spots were much improved.How much does it seem to help in pest protection for the following year
Bugs are greatly reduced. Haven't found ticks in the yard for a couple years. Weeds are only reduced while the hens are in place.
The brewers grin is probably still fermenting is the reason it is still warm.
I have never seen so many chickens in one place! Love chickens but the hawks would surely get them free ranging, and I hate keeping them locked up. Great video loved every second of it well done. Looks like Ohio has dried out a little in this video. Keep the videos coming. "Thank You"!!
The video is misleading. Got six inches in the week after this.
I have seen some people using Geese to protect chickens. I am not sure how well it works with Hawks or Racoons. Does anyone have any experience with that? I have seen geese that keep people out of certain areas, and they can be extremely tough and fearless fighters in that regard
You mentioned algae growing in the waterer tanks and plugging things up... we had the same problem with the PVC pipe on a riser supplying water to two cattle floats on two troughs on either side of the fence. I fixed the problem by spray painting the pipe a couple coats of black spray paint. PVC is translucent enough to allow enough light in to grow algae and it would sheet the inside of the pipe, then flake off or break loose, wad up, and plug the float orifices. The black spray paint, when you give it a couple coats to really make it thick enough that light can't shine through it, will block the light sufficiently to make it too dark inside the pipe for algae to grow. You could probably use the same trick on your waterers... spray paint the translucent tanks black to minimize/eliminate light infiltration that allows algae to grow. Another nice benefit is, they naturally warm up in the sunlight, so in cold weather the pipe or waterer will absorb sunlight and thaw out if stuff starts to freeze up, or if it freezes up overnight it will thaw faster as it absorbs sunlight in the morning. Later! OL J R :)
Okay later in the vid you said something about it not working as well... maybe put a couple more coats on it? I post sometimes as you're talking so I don't forget what I was going to comment on. Later! OL J R :)
Hello from goderich ontario Canada 🇨🇦
Hello from Toronto Ontario Canada.
Free range chickens have a problem with hawks in our area of the country also coyotes are a big problem...
Great video, it looks if chickens and eggs witch wash and pack is a full time job already,
I do a days worth of work before lunch, then get to the tractor farming.
Hi I’m from Phillippines I’m following your vlog about free range chicken , im interested too because here in Philippines I practice just like what you do in you farm
Nice video.can you please show us the feed ingredients you use and how you mix them?
Hi I build watered from jerrycans. They are metal and good to handle. And so far there is no algy growing.
You only get algae when light can get through the water to the surface underwater... then algae will start growing on the interior surfaces. Steel doesn't permit light through, so you shouldn't see any algae growth. Later! OL J R :)
In New Brunswick, Canada ready to lay pullets (20 weeks old) are $13.50 each and a 55 lb bag of feed is close to $20 from a feed store. Quite a difference from where you are. Lol. Last I figured it was just under .10 cents a day to feed a hen.
Get a big old bulk milk tank on a running gear and fill that once a week or so would be mighty handy
Yes, I just have to find one low cost for which the seller realizes that small dairy equipment has a dying market, sadly.
Here in Mississippi. All the dairies are gone. Its so sad to see a old barn with a couple of silos beside it. They are building new houses everywhere they can. Lots of new schools, restaurants etc. But no dairies. I'm confused 🤔
@@rogercarrico4975 Small dairies just cannot stay in business...most will be consolidated into large operations with 1000+ herds.
Too cute ❤
Have you considered soaking your grain mix overnight?? Might improve bird performance.
Just a thought
Wow! You really scaled up. Hope they are helping with the income stream. Are you going to be doing a profit and loss video this year?
Let's not give too much fodder for the tax man. Selling eggs is like a milk check, constant money flow.
Great video! Would solar powered night lights in the coops help them get settled more evenly at night?
Possibly. I tried setting up a flashlight one night to see if anything changed. I wasn't fully convinced of the results.
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Jacob, how do you keep the hawks away from 1,000 chickens free ranging?? How many acres do have on the main farm, I understand you rent more acres?? And Jacob will you ever get back into running again for fitness?? You must use a go pro camera on your head?? Take care Jacob!!
It's a go pro. Um, I didn't run for fitness, I just happened to be decent. Don't know if I'll really ever have time to get back to running. The chickens have ones that are on the lookout for aerial predators and they send out a warning squawk for everyone to take cover.
What did you use for flooring in the blue shed?
It's commercial poultry flooring. Found in farm paper a few years ago. Still have a big stack of it. Been real handy for coop floors.
Imagine they all escape and with one net you gotta catch 1000 of them
They won't run away too far. They'll go back to the coops, or where they were at night.
Hi Jacob. Are these considered organic free rage chicken eggs that you sell?
Well, not quite organic
Looks like you could use a golf cart to help out instead of that wagon.
Exercise and walking are good for a person.
Have you consider a TR99 New Holland combine?
Eh, hope I'm set on a combine for a while with the 86.
What’s the going rate in your area per dozen? Or are you mainly selling wholesale at $2 bucks or was that just for simple math?
There's a lot of local eggs given away for $1.50-- the people with a dozen hens producing more than they can eat. But most of mine are wholesaled at $2. A small portion is sold at the farmer's market for $3.
Where can you get 1000 pullets?
A couple of tounge Jack's on the roll away nest box trailer to level it??
0r even cheaper couple blocks of wood tied to the trailer so they are always handy to toss under the wheels of the nest box side??
One tire is flat
@@boehmfarm4276 only on the bottom 😂🤣
Where are you located?
Looking for lots more videos on your egg farm. Do you see yourself growing even bigger than 1000. And is there money to be made thanks.
Um, settling in with 1000 for a while. Makes more money when grain prices are down. Don't know how many more I want to free range. Really seeing the joy of having them in a barn.
@@boehmfarm4276 grain prices in upstate New York are so freakin high.
What brand of brewers grain do you use?
Whatever is coming from the micro breweries in Cincinnati.
Where do you get rid 400 dozen eggs a week would love to expand my chicken farm from 65 to 800-900 birds . Thanks
I got really lucky to get into a wholesale deal with a country neighbor.
@@boehmfarm4276 that’s awesome
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egg washing vid next?
Eventually. There's one from the winter showing off the new washer.
Permantly retire them! 🤣
How much time do you spend easter egg hunting every day.
1000 hens would seam like would drop hundreds of eggs all over the place.
No, they like the nesting boxes pretty well
if i had to go arouind every day filling up tiny waters for my 1200 layer i get ride of them, some 30 years ago i rand summer water lines every were as well as winter water lines much deeper with heat trace were they come out of the ground so they dont freeze in our 40 below, the live stock tanks the water runs really slow 24/7 so i dont need to have tank heater burning up costly hydro, in winter the chicken houses are moved into the barn yard so your not going out miles of 7 feet of snow and the chickens are on auto waters in summer out were ever they are feed by cheap polly pipe from the mains feeds and in winter the have a slow running water into a long tray so it dont freeze. be damned if i am going to ever carry water an fill small waters that just nuts. as long as water is very slowly moving it dont freeze even at 50 below, it dont take long installing 1000's of feet of summer water line 12" down, just plow it in a done, late fall blow them out with air from the shop, same with chicken feed each trailer has 3 500Lb feeders in each, i pull up and dump them full from the oout side as needed..
2000 Kuhn GA 7302 DL tedder Hot Springs MO $12k found in FB marketplace
Too high for that old of a tedder... that's d@mn near new price! Looking for a sucker... probly one of these retiree hobby farmers bought it thinking they'd "get rich baling hay" and found out how much work it is, played with it a few years and decided to get out, and now they want to make ALL their money back. See it all the time down here LOL:) OL J R :)