Molting 101 🐔 What Every Chicken Owner Should Know
Вставка
- Опубліковано 3 гру 2024
- It’s molting season 🪶 Which means your chicken coop is probably covered in feathers and you’re wondering how to get through it. Your flock might look a little scruffy, but don’t worry, it’s all part of the process. In this video we’ll cover some of the most common questions related to molting and discuss the importance of good high-quality @purina feed during this difficult time. We’ll also give you some helpful tips and debunk some of the most popular myths around molt. If you’ve made it through this video and still have questions, let’s hear them in the comments and I will do my best to get back to you ☺️ 
@purina #Ad #Molt #Chickens #Chicken #Hens #Feed #AnimalNutrition #MoltingMadeEasy #PurinaFeedGreatness #TheShilohFarm #Poultry #BackyardPoultry
Hi from Australia! I love your channel. I used to have a 40 acre rural block, high (1000m, 3281 feet) eucalypt forest on a ridge, not at all farming country but we did have a kitchen garden, raise chickens and look after the native woodland. Your videos bring back such fond memories.
Sir - EXCELLENT video! You provide educational value with point-by-point detail. ✔ You bust open some myths ✔ and provide reassurance to backyard chicken owners✔. Your production value is TOP NOTCH with clear sound, varying backgrounds and gorgeous chickens✔. I’m not a fan of placing ads inside videos, tho you did the Purina promo with homespun charm and salesman performance - it was a teaching moment for me.✔ Yup, I provide Purina layer feed for my girls. They ignore comm’l feed during the summer as they free-range on my ppty & find oodles of bugs, frogs, small snakes and (yay) even voles. Your reassurance is important! That first morning opening up the run and seeing hundreds of feathers - I thought a bird had been attacked! My initial sign of molting is the drop-off of egg production. The second thing I notice is the girls get very timid and scurry between the shrubs and tall grasses (I have lots of natural cover for the birds). Maybe they know they’re more vulnerable? The third thing is their change in feeding habits. My girls have been very predictable, so their disinterest in evening “dinner” was a surprise (that anomaly seems to be ending at about 2 weeks). Ya got talent, kid! I’m subscribing to see what else you create.✔ Thank you for a great video - no extra yammering, just straight, good chicken education! Oh, bonus points for hemp as bedding.✔ Deep litter hemp is darn magical. Absorbs the stink. Stir it around once in awhile and that bedding has lasted over a year in my henhouse.
Keep up with the humor and very valuable info😢😊❤
is this packet stuff better overall than just letting them graze freely?
That’s really such a good question. Since I’m striving for “clean protein” in my egg production, I’ve wondered the same thing. I have no answer for you…or for me🤷🏻♀. My compromise is to let my hens free-range during the day and to supplement them with comm’l feed, a blend of 8 seeds (including sunflower) and some freeze-dried mealworms & black soldier fly larvae. I get gorgeous, strong eggs with large, marigold-color yolks. What is your experience?
👍👍👏
Thank you