This ranks as one of the best instructional videos on keeping chickens! One year in and I’m still learning how to best care for the health, happiness, and enrichment of my flock of 11 hens, 1 rooster, and one new chick. Praying the new chick is NOT another rooster. 😅I’m saving this video as I’m sure I’ll refer to it often. Thank you Ali!
Your welcome! Our broody hen hatched out 6 chicks last fall and 4 were roosters. 😳She hatched another batch of 8 this spring and THANKFULLY we only had 1 rooster. 🐓 😊 have fun with your flock! I just love. Chickens.
I look forward to your videos Ali, always so informative ! This couldn’t have come at a better time seems like a lot of us are under extreme heat and our chickens are stressed. Thanks for all of these tips they are much appreciated!!! Blessings!
I’m looking forward to the day when I can have my own chickens. I am getting started by getting educated. Thank you for this. Very helpful video. PS. Cute shirt!
Thank you for another great video! You know so much about farming... Its amazing! I am so glad to have found this channel and that you are sharing all this awesome knowledge . Thank you again and God bless!
I was searching your content just yesterday for videos on chicken care but I could only find some on breaking down their manure... I was stunned when I saw this video today. Thankyou for sharing your wisdom with us. I look forward to your video about the tincture. I would love to see more videos on herbal medicines for both humans and animals. God bless you Ali I am so thankful that I found you your content is priceless ❤
What timing then! 😁 I plan on doing more herbal uses! Thank you for reassuring me that is something wanted. Take care and God bless you! Thank you as well. 🥰
I just saw your post on the Tackle Anything Project and looked you up on UTube - Wow!!! Am I ever glad I found you - your videos are sooooo inspiring and I cannot believe you do so much on 1/2 acre!! Very impressive and amazing how you have it all set up - I work out of my barn on my less than 2 acre piece of land in northwestern Montana - looking forward to watching more of your videos and interacting with you on the Project.
@@lisaginmt8109 I’m really excited for this little project we will be diving into and look forward chatting with you more through the months! I hope we can all help each other and learn from each other as well. It’s fun! I sometimes think “how can this little 1/2 acre can keep me so crazy busy”. Thanks for looking me up! Looking forward to next week 😄
We lost our chicken run during the bushfires. For months we purchased herbs for them at the grocery store as we had lost everything grass and herbs that day. As a lot of the herbs grow so well for us during the summer months I dry herbs including our calendula all summer and winter so that they have their herbs every day of the year. When we rebuilt their coop we built the new enclosure around a water tank so that during the summer they can dirt bath alongside of the tank to help keep them cool. We replaced their coop with a resin garden shed installing polystyrene to the inside of the roof to help insulate from the cold of winter and the heat of summer. I purchased a solar fan which we installed inside at the roofline to push the hot air out of the coop all day. I pulled out the plastic window and installed mesh for airflow and built them an awning over the window to stop rain getting inside and using hole bits we drilled holes at the roofline of the walls for extra ventilation. We include dried cornflower as well in their feed and some flax seed and hemp seed to provide them with additional protein. We’ve recently placed currants and thornless blackberries into a raised bed along one of the walls so that they will have those berries during the summer this year and I grew an elderflower tree from a cutting we were given so that it has grown a canopy of shade for them in the run if they have to be locked in. Ive spent the past 14 months teaching myself how to grow them meal worms for protein as well. My husband says their eggs are the best they have ever been. My adult children tell me that we spoil our chickens way too much but as Ive said to the girls the chickens are my little family since everyone grew up and left home they became my empty nest project :)
Way to go! You are doing it all right! The rebuilding would be hard, but it certainly makes you think of how to improve! You didn’t loose your house from the fires did you?
@@Alisorganics no our house was damaged from the fire and our roof was burned. Every roof on our property was lost and had to be replaced. We lost our infrastructure ie water tanks, septic system, incoming power etc. We learned a lot from this experience and now have rebuilt one of our sheds to be fully battery powered and we’ve put on extra solar panels and installed a large battery to operate our house with back up generators. We had two 30,000 water tanks before the bushfire but we now have 70,000 litres all hooked up to sources that can run independently of the power grid so that we can fight to protect our home should it happen again. It’s been a journey to get back to this point.
@@Serendipity_Strawberry_Farm oh wow! So scary! I’m sorry you went through that. Hard lessons sure teach us a lot. Yes, what a journey. And I hope everyone is was ok going through that. 🥰
@@Alisorganics it has definitely taught us how to be more resilient. We have a small caravan now so that if we find we are in that situation again and have to leave we have the ability to come back afterwards even if we lose the house and be able to stay on our property with our animals. Last time we ended up in a shed at the local airport and our dogs had to be tied up to a tractor to keep them safe and our poor chickens had to be kept in the enclosed cages as did the cat and our budgies, our gold fish had to live in a bucket for 8 days. Im never going through that again. We have modular fencing staked under the bed of the caravan so that if we had to come back to nothing at least our animals will be able to cared for in a better situation than last time. You kind of don’t think about anything other than grabbing everyone and getting out but coming back and finding their coop burned down etc and then trying to work out where they would sleep and be safe wasn’t even a thought until it happened.
Hi! I recently found and love your channel! 💕 I finally made the step to get five chickens this year! My girls are 6 weeks old. What is the brand of pre-blended organic chicken feed you use? I’ve been using a commercial blend from our local farm store, but I’d like to try the pre-blend you showed. I just put in some raised garden beds this year, and I plan to add more next year. I plant to incorporate some of these plants! Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊 God bless!
Lots of years of raising chickens teaches you! I have one I refer to and love. It doesn’t cover raising, but more about herbs and natural care of health issues for the farm animals. I’ve used it for years for all my animals. “The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable” by Juliette de Bairacli Levy. No pictures, just old fashioned print!
I have learned so much from your videos, they are solid, straight to the point and informative. Thank you! Would you be willing to share the brand of your preblended feed? It can be so confusing knowing what to feed them. Mine are still pullets and free range and get their crumble with some scratch but I feel like I want to give them a good solid feed with grains.
@@Alisorganicsgood to know! I’ve read that play sand is too large and the sand has to be a certain grit, and then went to the hardware store and exhausted myself over which grit of sand to get 😅 Love the whole video!🌿
@@belindamanis3431we now introduce herbs to our chicks from day 1, and the chicks that hatch on farm are born into a nest full of herbs and rose petals. The ones that didn’t get herbs from the start are more picky. Keep adding them in and they’ll get used to them. Even having them brush against them or walk on them helps release the volatile oils and can be beneficial 💚
I’ll crush the garlic up over their feed. My goats didn’t eat it at first, they would push it around their grain and now they eat it without hesitation other than one doe. Miss picky pants! I have to put a clove in some peanut butter rolled in oats.
This ranks as one of the best instructional videos on keeping chickens! One year in and I’m still learning how to best care for the health, happiness, and enrichment of my flock of 11 hens, 1 rooster, and one new chick. Praying the new chick is NOT another rooster. 😅I’m saving this video as I’m sure I’ll refer to it often. Thank you Ali!
Your welcome! Our broody hen hatched out 6 chicks last fall and 4 were roosters. 😳She hatched another batch of 8 this spring and THANKFULLY we only had 1 rooster. 🐓 😊 have fun with your flock! I just love. Chickens.
And thank you! 😊
What a great tip to give herbs to our chickens! We have so much mint, that will work perfectly. Thanks for the great information!
Very informational and encouraging video... thank you! All of your videos are so appreciated! Blessings on your family and homestead Kiddo!
I love all your videos! I pray for you often. God Bless You! 🙏🕊❤️
Thank you!😊 May God bless you!
I look forward to your videos Ali, always so informative ! This couldn’t have come at a better time seems like a lot of us are under extreme heat and our chickens are stressed. Thanks for all of these tips they are much appreciated!!! Blessings!
Your welcome! We are definitely going to have a HOT week here and we have to protect our chickens the best we can. 😁 stay cool!
I’m looking forward to the day when I can have my own chickens. I am getting started by getting educated. Thank you for this. Very helpful video.
PS. Cute shirt!
You’ll love having chickens! And thanks 😊
I have to go back and watch this again taking notes along the way. Great content!
🙏🏼 thank you 😊
I love your amazingly educational channel. My girls and I learn a lot. Blessings always for continued peace and success. 🙏🏻 ❤ 🇹🇹
Thank you 😊 🙏🏼💕
Thank you for another great video! You know so much about farming... Its amazing! I am so glad to have found this channel and that you are sharing all this awesome knowledge . Thank you again and God bless!
Thank you as well! God bless 😊
You are a wealth of knowledge. I Love your videos. GOD BLESS!!😊
Thank you so much. 🙏🏼
I've been waiting for this video! Thank you Ali! Great informative video as always.
My pleasure!
Thanks for the video, I have had chickens for many years but can still learn more. Thanks!
I was searching your content just yesterday for videos on chicken care but I could only find some on breaking down their manure... I was stunned when I saw this video today.
Thankyou for sharing your wisdom with us. I look forward to your video about the tincture.
I would love to see more videos on herbal medicines for both humans and animals. God bless you Ali I am so thankful that I found you your content is priceless ❤
What timing then! 😁 I plan on doing more herbal uses! Thank you for reassuring me that is something wanted. Take care and God bless you! Thank you as well. 🥰
Very informational and encouraging video... thank you! All of your videos are so appreciated! Blessings on your family and homestead Kiddo! 🌻🐛🌿💚🙏💕
I just saw your post on the Tackle Anything Project and looked you up on UTube - Wow!!! Am I ever glad I found you - your videos are sooooo inspiring and I cannot believe you do so much on 1/2 acre!! Very impressive and amazing how you have it all set up - I work out of my barn on my less than 2 acre piece of land in northwestern Montana - looking forward to watching more of your videos and interacting with you on the Project.
@@lisaginmt8109 I’m really excited for this little project we will be diving into and look forward chatting with you more through the months! I hope we can all help each other and learn from each other as well. It’s fun!
I sometimes think “how can this little 1/2 acre can keep me so crazy busy”. Thanks for looking me up! Looking forward to next week 😄
@@Alisorganics I agree! See you next Thursday!
Chickens are so fun to raise. Thank you for the reminder. Love looking at your channel.
Yes they are! Thank you! 🙏🏼
Ali, you are my hero!
Mine, too.
Thanks for sharing! I learn so much from your videos!
Thank you! 😊 I do appreciate that.
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We lost our chicken run during the bushfires. For months we purchased herbs for them at the grocery store as we had lost everything grass and herbs that day. As a lot of the herbs grow so well for us during the summer months I dry herbs including our calendula all summer and winter so that they have their herbs every day of the year. When we rebuilt their coop we built the new enclosure around a water tank so that during the summer they can dirt bath alongside of the tank to help keep them cool. We replaced their coop with a resin garden shed installing polystyrene to the inside of the roof to help insulate from the cold of winter and the heat of summer. I purchased a solar fan which we installed inside at the roofline to push the hot air out of the coop all day. I pulled out the plastic window and installed mesh for airflow and built them an awning over the window to stop rain getting inside and using hole bits we drilled holes at the roofline of the walls for extra ventilation. We include dried cornflower as well in their feed and some flax seed and hemp seed to provide them with additional protein. We’ve recently placed currants and thornless blackberries into a raised bed along one of the walls so that they will have those berries during the summer this year and I grew an elderflower tree from a cutting we were given so that it has grown a canopy of shade for them in the run if they have to be locked in. Ive spent the past 14 months teaching myself how to grow them meal worms for protein as well. My husband says their eggs are the best they have ever been. My adult children tell me that we spoil our chickens way too much but as Ive said to the girls the chickens are my little family since everyone grew up and left home they became my empty nest project :)
Way to go! You are doing it all right! The rebuilding would be hard, but it certainly makes you think of how to improve! You didn’t loose your house from the fires did you?
And my animals have become my empty nest project as well. We always had them, but the addiction kinda took off 10 fold. 😅
@@Alisorganics no our house was damaged from the fire and our roof was burned. Every roof on our property was lost and had to be replaced. We lost our infrastructure ie water tanks, septic system, incoming power etc. We learned a lot from this experience and now have rebuilt one of our sheds to be fully battery powered and we’ve put on extra solar panels and installed a large battery to operate our house with back up generators. We had two 30,000 water tanks before the bushfire but we now have 70,000 litres all hooked up to sources that can run independently of the power grid so that we can fight to protect our home should it happen again. It’s been a journey to get back to this point.
@@Serendipity_Strawberry_Farm oh wow! So scary! I’m sorry you went through that. Hard lessons sure teach us a lot. Yes, what a journey. And I hope everyone is was ok going through that. 🥰
@@Alisorganics it has definitely taught us how to be more resilient. We have a small caravan now so that if we find we are in that situation again and have to leave we have the ability to come back afterwards even if we lose the house and be able to stay on our property with our animals. Last time we ended up in a shed at the local airport and our dogs had to be tied up to a tractor to keep them safe and our poor chickens had to be kept in the enclosed cages as did the cat and our budgies, our gold fish had to live in a bucket for 8 days. Im never going through that again. We have modular fencing staked under the bed of the caravan so that if we had to come back to nothing at least our animals will be able to cared for in a better situation than last time. You kind of don’t think about anything other than grabbing everyone and getting out but coming back and finding their coop burned down etc and then trying to work out where they would sleep and be safe wasn’t even a thought until it happened.
I learned some new things! Thank you❤️
I grow all these herbs outside my fenced garden area that my hens can nibble on at leisure. ❤ my girls!
Me too! 🐓🥰
❤great information
What a wealth of information. Thank you for sharing. God Bless you
I love your videos
This is soooo good! Thank you❤
Amen 🙌🏾
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What a great video. You know I love my flock..I learned alot...❤❤your black and white hens,splash marans??
Yes! Slash marans. They are so sweet! Thank you!
Hi! I recently found and love your channel! 💕
I finally made the step to get five chickens this year! My girls are 6 weeks old. What is the brand of pre-blended organic chicken feed you use? I’ve been using a commercial blend from our local farm store, but I’d like to try the pre-blend you showed.
I just put in some raised garden beds this year, and I plan to add more next year. I plant to incorporate some of these plants!
Thank you for sharing your knowledge 😊 God bless!
I use Whole Grain from Modesto Milling. Thank you and may God Bless you!🥰
This is great Ali! Thank you so much! How did you learn all this? Do you have book recommendations?
Lots of years of raising chickens teaches you!
I have one I refer to and love. It doesn’t cover raising, but more about herbs and natural care of health issues for the farm animals. I’ve used it for years for all my animals. “The Complete Herbal Handbook for Farm & Stable” by Juliette de Bairacli Levy. No pictures, just old fashioned print!
I have learned so much from your videos, they are solid, straight to the point and informative. Thank you! Would you be willing to share the brand of your preblended feed? It can be so confusing knowing what to feed them. Mine are still pullets and free range and get their crumble with some scratch but I feel like I want to give them a good solid feed with grains.
Yes! I use Modesto Milling Feed. They have everything. It’s wonderful feed. We order in pallets for our store and saves in shipping.
Was wondering the same! Thanks for asking ✨️
What kind of sand do you use for the dust bath? Any dirt? Thx!
This is just some local sand. I’ve used sand from the creek banks, washes and even some bagged play sand. You can use any type of sand.
I keep hearing about feeding herbs to chickens but mine won’t eat them.
@@Alisorganicsgood to know! I’ve read that play sand is too large and the sand has to be a certain grit, and then went to the hardware store and exhausted myself over which grit of sand to get 😅
Love the whole video!🌿
@@belindamanis3431we now introduce herbs to our chicks from day 1, and the chicks that hatch on farm are born into a nest full of herbs and rose petals. The ones that didn’t get herbs from the start are more picky. Keep adding them in and they’ll get used to them. Even having them brush against them or walk on them helps release the volatile oils and can be beneficial 💚
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Hi, how do you feed garlic to your livestock ?
I’ll crush the garlic up over their feed. My goats didn’t eat it at first, they would push it around their grain and now they eat it without hesitation other than one doe. Miss picky pants! I have to put a clove in some peanut butter rolled in oats.
Thanks I’ll try that
What state are you in you in?
Utah