Just as a suggestion, if you clip only one side of their wings,it unbalances the chicken. When you clip both sides, although their wings are shorter, it makes flight easier. Good luck in keeping them contained in their run. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your farm and family.
He really is something special! He quietly goes about his work, is so respectful, is so gentle and patient with his siblings and is a BEAST on the heavy equipment!
I'm with Rebecca on the usefulness of containers. As an older person I find I can no longer get down on the floor to look for items on the back of lower shelves. (or high ones, if truth be told) With containers, or trays, I can pull the whole unit out like a drawer and find what I need. You go girl!
Same here, I have everything in containers and lazy Susan’s now, keeps everything tidy, like with like and so easy to access. I also now have my juicer on a tray, just pull out tray and I’m ready to go. 😊 Rebecca being minimal and organised is the goal so do what works best for you 😊😊
Have you all found the “Minimal Mom” on UA-cam? Has great organizing tips (including using containers). Hugs to all the other organized mamas out there❤
I understand why Darcy says sorting containers are a bad thing, but our homestead wouldn't survive without them. There are just too many small things/tools that need a place to go. I like what Becky did with the shelves! Just did almost the same exact thing in my kitchen!
Josiah is showing his mettle at this time. All your children are wonderful, but him taking over while Jonah recuperates shows what a responsible person he is. You and Rebecca are doing a great job with all them.
Gideon has had a HUGE growth and maturity spurt. He is often actually helpful and we can see how much more he understands about the farm now. The kids are quite a team.
ANd in the meantime Jonah is doing what needs to be done with helping to run inside home when it's not his preferred favorite engineering & outdoor work.
For where we live, we have to have a netting over the top to keep hawks from swooping down and capturing our chickens as well as electric fencing to keep the predators out, such as possums, skunks, coyotes and foxes, especially at night. Thankfully during the day we can let them out to free range. To keep the chickens from flying we clip their wings. It is a joy to see your family all taking part in chicken farming!
We have JUST FINISHED building a chicken run exactly like yours (well, a few New Zealand adjustments). Right next to our slowly built garden and I’m about to get 6 chickens and was going to wing the chicken coop building so mate I appreciate you sharing the inside!! You’re so incredible for sharing this. Over here in the Kaitaia, NZ I am slowing implementing so many ideas of yours and experimenting and I just appreciate your knowledge so much. Thanks mate!
I do like the "Pretty Shaw"! I'm glad you raised the fence all around the compost chicken run! Nice job putting in more wood chips with the new front end loader! Too bad about the rooster and a hen getting out. I love how the chickens feed the garden with the compost and the garden rejects feed the chickens! That's great with the swinging gates and the removable post in the middle! You can get a dump truck in there! Great idea Justin! We have our raised beds on a slight hill to. We had to step all our raised beds. it really doesn't look too bad there for Spring! Thanks for this video Rhodes family!
In the seventies we had a rock shed with window that we kept chickens in. In the morning they were let out. Never lost one. They wandered around the house and pasture. Never bothered the garden. The door was closed at night. We were fifteen feet from a dirt road.
Hi, love your vlog. You mentioned putting a roof over part of the chicken run. Put on the lower fence. That would serve two purposes. Stop them getting out & the shelter aspect. Best wishes . Lorraine Australia
Quite a while ago I covered several 16' cattle panels with chicken wire and liked the result. However, when I sent to move them (I covered them individually), many of the plastic zip ties (ugh, plastic) had worn through, leaving the chicken wire "flapping". I made an 8' square pen for my roosters in my greenhouse (held together by snap clips) and this time when I covered the panels I used hog wire pliers and the little metal clips that fit them. This was a great improvement for my use :)
Our former buff orpington rooster(Mr.Fluffy) would fly up to the corner of our tool shed. Our hens will fly over the five foot field fence whenever they like. I hope this helps!
Maybe a pig/cow panel arch for vines over the top. Maybe the large holes would be enough of a physical and visual deterrent for extending wings and trying to fly up and through.
You probably should have already cut and covered the cover crop in the raised beds in order to have it completely decompose and then be ready for planting your crops. That's the point of growing a cover crop. Tops and roots decompose. Giles
For the shelter use a slanted tin roof and use it ro collect rain water so lily won’t have water chores for them anymore. And you can store their feed in a closed container underneath it aswel
New book Justin! “Mr. Rooster Flys Away”! Loved the video. Mr. Brown has come a long way! He’s fast becoming your sidekick. As always, Lily is great and so helpful! Sending love and blessings to y’all and Grandma ❤️🙏🏼 PS: I’m looking forward to the kickstart!
May I suggest that you get either a roll of shelf liner from Home Depot or Lowe's? They have clear, semi-rigid liner with bumps (to prevent dishes from sliding around). If that's not rigid enough, you can also get what's called "Plas-tex". It's a 1/16 thick panel of 4ft by 8ft, that is used to cover walls in wet areas like bathroom or laundry or kitchen. It's easy to cut using utility knife to the size/width of the wire shelving.
Honestly, just put a few tall 2x4 posts w/strong string or wire across to posts on opposite side and cover top and sides w/attached deer netting. The chickens won’t get out. I had a lg chicken area w/6ft chain link fencing, stringing support cables across, then w/deer netting sealing the top. Staked wire panels around outside perimeter on the ground - predators could not dig to get in. It was simple and looked neat and tidy. It had a reg size chain link locking door 🔐 a person easily walked through.
I love containers! As long as they look nice, that's all you see . . . instead of a lot of stuff to confuse the eye. Your shelves should serve YOU and your family, even if someone else has a different idea.
I’m surprised you didn’t set up the camera to see how the rooster was getting out 😂 I love containers! So much easier when things have a ‘home’ and everyone in the house knows where things are/belong.
A cost effective way to add height to the chicken fence is high test fishing line! We use regular fishing line above our 4 ft fence making a jump barrier up to 6 ft
You can stop that rooster and any other chickens from hopping if you take a little string and tie 3 of his primary feathers together. He'll still be able to stretch and flap but any short flights will be uncomfortable making him not want to leap.
@@highfive9835 Lol. Sure. Just depends on your chickens. Mine are nuts. Not all of them fly up there. The cat food is their incentive for getting up there. It's funny cause sometimes they let out a scream like it hurts them to fly up that high.
Josiah has matured so much and become your right hand man taking over for Jonah while he was down. When Jonah returns you will have two great workers and Dad can sit back and come up with more ideas and improvements with their input.
Josiah has been awesome these many months, but I miss Jonah. He was the man of the farm until his accident and I miss seeing him in the videos. Kudos to Josiah though because things would be much harder on the farm without him right now! Prayers for Rebecca's mom as well.
Organization solutions CAN be absolute, but I've found it depends on each person's individual living situation. Kids, no kids? Cook from scratch, prepared meals? Pile phobic or no? And then there is the personality of the person (people) using the space. Biggest favor you can do with yourself is be willing to ask yourself if a storage/organization solution is working FOR YOU. And what that looks like will change as your life changes. Set your organization/declutter goal, make plans to accomplsih it and give yourself grace to change, rethink and decide what is or is not working for you. Blessings on you all.
Justin, what if you installed hoops along the top of the wood fence and secured bird netting over the hoops to keep the chickens inside. Make the hoops a little taller than you so you can easily walk around inside the chick yard. 🐓
The chickens won't jump on the fence if it is flimsy at the top! They jump on the boards! I have seen chickens run up a fence to get on top of the boards! The flimsy fence doesn't look good but they don't jump on it! One of my fences I strung a piece of wire about six inches across the top!
I wasn't convinced about "no container" household - it's like a movable drawer of project stuff. I am PRO-CONTAINER watcher in general, but if she can explain why she feels it's got potential for clutter, I'm still listening until I see the good of it. Aren't you excited about this big build?!!
In my experience, when chickens see that they can land on a solid surface, they can fly very high!!! Having a "flimsy" sort of fencing on top of you existing wooden fence would solve the problem. It could even be plastic fencing (1-2 feet high) that you staple on top of your current set up. It won't look as pretty, but it will be a quick and cheap fix.
Hawks are too bad in our area. Our chicken run is built under heavy tree cover. Even so, we've lost quite a few to hawks. Love the design, tho. And the 4x4 inside a plastic fence piece is ingenious! My kiddos would have a blast with your kiddos. Some of the same ages. Farm kids are the best! Love yall's family, Justin and Becky! ❤️
I know Hardware Cloth is More Expensive but, I don’t have a guard dog or guard goose. And I’ve had a Black Bear in My Yard. So I Love ❤️ your fence Idea with Cattle Panels and Chicken Wire but, I think 🤔 that I would have to close My Gate in. Have a Roof on it 😃 but, if I do the fencing I might as well have a chicken coop. Do you also use the she shawl in winter for the chickens 🐓 or just Spring?
😮 @22 min there's a bird out! Oh no!!!!! Chicken math and keeping chickens in. We all feel the pain. I was thinking, if you spaced the raised beds so you could have a raised off the ground mobile system, you'd have chicken grass trimmers and no mowing. Thanks for a nice focused vlog.
Justin, I am sorry that you were injured. I hope you are improving rapidly. I sustained injuries to my spine in both my cervical spine and my lumbar spine. I have had cervical surgery and reconstructive surgery of the cervical spine. Then in 2012 I had my first lumbar spine surgery, in 2016 my second lumbar spine surgery, and in 2022 my third lumbar spine surgery. I am almost 78 years old, and I've decided there won't be any more spinal surgeries. It's important to keep your muscles strong -- they support the bones and keep the bones strong. I sincerely hope your injury heals and that you have no re-occurrences. Spinal injuries are no fun. If I had my way, no other human being would ever suffer a spinal injury, but that's not the way things go.
Make a chick-port shelter., like a car port., but for chickens. Can take an old trampoline or hoop house frame and attach it to the top of the chicken run. The chickens will have a dome shelter. Also., couldn’t you extend the height of the coop with the electric chicken netting/fencing installed along the top of the run?
easiest way for a chicken run where they cant escape just enclose it where its tall enough to walk in make small platforms to get to perches across the top so you no longer need the bulky mobile coop inside. plus then it makes it so if you wanted pigs in their the chickens can escape to the "rafter" type perchs.
Need to build some kind of cover over the chicken run. Arch it with pig/cattle panels with chicken wire. That will keep all of them from getting out. And also keeps other birds from getting in. Wild birds can carry diseases. You dont want them in and pooping in the chicken run. Sad to hear about momma pig, hows the piglets doing?
If there is a flat surface at the top of the fence, the chickens can easily fly/jump up to that and perch on, then jump out! Need to not have something they can perch on at the top of your fence. Thats why electric netting works so well!
We need help ! We live in Maine . We rent . A family of 5 ! The town told my landlord if we did not get rid of our 5 chickens they were evicting us ! We already had permission from the town . We both work at a local’s hardware store . No family to help us . We can’t find a rent to own or anywhere to go . We need these eggs to feed our family!! Any suggestions!? - Maine Family
You can be more minimal and use containers. I really actually like to have all of my "like" items in that container and take that off the shelf and then put it all back. For me it is less work.
what a great video! I just got chickens and was wondering if I'm doing anything wrong. I have a video of them on my channel if anyone could give me some feedback, thanks. ❤
I bought 2 boxes of eggs today. Get home, open the BOX, ENORMOUS eggs. One hour later, making my breakfast/lunch to go for work tomorrow. ALL doubbe youlks, hurrah, jippie😍😋
lol, Justin, you have just moved 7 people, packed your house, and put it into storage... f anyone is giving you grief about running behind in spring, they would be looking to give you hard time anyway no matter what... That is called a rude ole troll unhappy in their own life criticizing others.
Your kids are amazing young people love to see them helping out!!! Now Rebekah's containers are just fine, being a minimalist is great but for some people it may not be and containers help keep us organized. So #keeprebekahscontainers ;-)
Containers are awesome! Whoever invented them is a genius. That's a joke folks in that it's the most ancient simple invention ever. But it's still genius! So Darcy may have an issue with containers, but I don't think Becky has to pick up Darcy's issues.
A chicken requires a 5 ft fence to keep it in. I have no idea why poultry net is only 4 ft tall. The chickshaw is too close to the fence. A chicken can roost on the arm and then fly over the fence from there.
Just as a suggestion, if you clip only one side of their wings,it unbalances the chicken. When you clip both sides, although their wings are shorter, it makes flight easier. Good luck in keeping them contained in their run. Love your videos. Thanks for sharing your farm and family.
Good advice. Clip one side only.
Josiah is the prince of stepping up to meet the family needs. What a man he will grow to be.
He really is something special! He quietly goes about his work, is so respectful, is so gentle and patient with his siblings and is a BEAST on the heavy equipment!
@Sharon 🌻 ❤
Do a cattle panel arches over the chicken run covered in poultry wire on it to keep the rooster in and you can plant vining cover for it for shade
I'm with Rebecca on the usefulness of containers. As an older person I find I can no longer get down on the floor to look for items on the back of lower shelves. (or high ones, if truth be told) With containers, or trays, I can pull the whole unit out like a drawer and find what I need.
You go girl!
Same here, I have everything in containers and lazy Susan’s now, keeps everything tidy, like with like and so easy to access. I also now have my juicer on a tray, just pull out tray and I’m ready to go. 😊 Rebecca being minimal and organised is the goal so do what works best for you 😊😊
Have you all found the “Minimal Mom” on UA-cam? Has great organizing tips (including using containers). Hugs to all the other organized mamas out there❤
I understand why Darcy says sorting containers are a bad thing, but our homestead wouldn't survive without them. There are just too many small things/tools that need a place to go. I like what Becky did with the shelves! Just did almost the same exact thing in my kitchen!
Josiah is showing his mettle at this time. All your children are wonderful, but him taking over while Jonah recuperates shows what a responsible person he is. You and Rebecca are doing a great job with all them.
Jonah, Josiah, and Lilly are so wonderful at stepping up and in to help where it is needed!👍🤗😇😎❣️👏
Gideon has had a HUGE growth and maturity spurt. He is often actually helpful and we can see how much more he understands about the farm now. The kids are quite a team.
ANd in the meantime Jonah is doing what needs to be done with helping to run inside home when it's not his preferred favorite engineering & outdoor work.
For where we live, we have to have a netting over the top to keep hawks from swooping down and capturing our chickens as well as electric fencing to keep the predators out, such as possums, skunks, coyotes and foxes, especially at night. Thankfully during the day we can let them out to free range. To keep the chickens from flying we clip their wings. It is a joy to see your family all taking part in chicken farming!
I'm about to make a aerial netting cover. 1/2 Emt, 6ft tall, netting, zip ties, 6ft x 32ft
We have JUST FINISHED building a chicken run exactly like yours (well, a few New Zealand adjustments). Right next to our slowly built garden and I’m about to get 6 chickens and was going to wing the chicken coop building so mate I appreciate you sharing the inside!! You’re so incredible for sharing this. Over here in the Kaitaia, NZ I am slowing implementing so many ideas of yours and experimenting and I just appreciate your knowledge so much. Thanks mate!
It's amazing how the Chidlers have grown up to be just great young adults even Mr Brown is showing he can step up when needed Lily is such a farm girl
Lilly is so responsible. Hope she gets her horse sooner than later. 😉
Lily is the Master Milker too!!!!
I would wait till after some of the big remodel noise is done as not to spook the horse
@@CrystalGuinn they'll get used to it
I do like the "Pretty Shaw"! I'm glad you raised the fence all around the compost chicken run! Nice job putting in more wood chips with the new front end loader! Too bad about the rooster and a hen getting out. I love how the chickens feed the garden with the compost and the garden rejects feed the chickens! That's great with the swinging gates and the removable post in the middle! You can get a dump truck in there! Great idea Justin! We have our raised beds on a slight hill to. We had to step all our raised beds. it really doesn't look too bad there for Spring! Thanks for this video Rhodes family!
You're doing such a great job raising your kids, you two. ❤❤
In the seventies we had a rock shed with window that we kept chickens in. In the morning they were let out. Never lost one. They wandered around the house and pasture. Never bothered the garden. The door was closed at night. We were fifteen feet from a dirt road.
Thanks for the old style vlog. Loved it! Been praying for Grandma!
Congratulations on hitting 1 Million subs!!!! It has been so fun watching you and your family grow through the years.
Hi, love your vlog. You mentioned putting a roof over part of the chicken run. Put on the lower fence. That would serve two purposes. Stop them getting out & the shelter aspect. Best wishes . Lorraine Australia
Quite a while ago I covered several 16' cattle panels with chicken wire and liked the result. However, when I sent to move them (I covered them individually), many of the plastic zip ties (ugh, plastic) had worn through, leaving the chicken wire "flapping". I made an 8' square pen for my roosters in my greenhouse (held together by snap clips) and this time when I covered the panels I used hog wire pliers and the little metal clips that fit them. This was a great improvement for my use :)
Our carbon input- we throw in the run leaves from our yard in the fall and add any branches from trees and bushes when doing yard work.
Our former buff orpington rooster(Mr.Fluffy) would fly up to the corner of our tool shed. Our hens will fly over the five foot field fence whenever they like. I hope this helps!
Hi! Thanks for always putting out great content..... Needed this homestead inspiration today! ❤️
Great video, so interesting! Thanks for sharing!!
Maybe a pig/cow panel arch for vines over the top. Maybe the large holes would be enough of a physical and visual deterrent for extending wings and trying to fly up and through.
Very enjoyable video. You're cheerfulness and smiles are always contagious. Thank you for sharing your good vibes :)
I never noticed the grass before you mentioned it.😊 I was focusing on your direction of the video. I like the chickens run and tractor, too.
You probably should have already cut and covered the cover crop in the raised beds in order to have it completely decompose and then be ready for planting your crops. That's the point of growing a cover crop. Tops and roots decompose. Giles
For the shelter use a slanted tin roof and use it ro collect rain water so lily won’t have water chores for them anymore. And you can store their feed in a closed container underneath it aswel
For chicken shade, you could use longer post on the fence and add a sun sail between them. It would be easy to move and very cost efficient.
New book Justin! “Mr. Rooster Flys Away”! Loved the video. Mr. Brown has come a long way! He’s fast becoming your sidekick. As always, Lily is great and so helpful! Sending love and blessings to y’all and Grandma ❤️🙏🏼
PS: I’m looking forward to the kickstart!
I think the containers are useful! Great job with the organizing Bec! ❤
May I suggest that you get either a roll of shelf liner from Home Depot or Lowe's? They have clear, semi-rigid liner with bumps (to prevent dishes from sliding around). If that's not rigid enough, you can also get what's called "Plas-tex". It's a 1/16 thick panel of 4ft by 8ft, that is used to cover walls in wet areas like bathroom or laundry or kitchen. It's easy to cut using utility knife to the size/width of the wire shelving.
Containers are an absolute must for a homestead with a ton goin on! God bless organization by containers!🤣
I have a 6 ft fence around part of my garden and chickens with clipped wings went over the fence.
Honestly, just put a few tall 2x4 posts w/strong string or wire across to posts on opposite side and cover top and sides w/attached deer netting. The chickens won’t get out. I had a lg chicken area w/6ft chain link fencing, stringing support cables across, then w/deer netting sealing the top. Staked wire panels around outside perimeter on the ground - predators could not dig to get in. It was simple and looked neat and tidy. It had a reg size chain link locking door 🔐 a person easily walked through.
Our chickens go over a 6 foot fence. We have wire on top of our runs.
I love containers! As long as they look nice, that's all you see . . . instead of a lot of stuff to confuse the eye. Your shelves should serve YOU and your family, even if someone else has a different idea.
Should run a rabbit tractor around the garden to keep the grasses down. Great video!
I’m surprised you didn’t set up the camera to see how the rooster was getting out 😂 I love containers! So much easier when things have a ‘home’ and everyone in the house knows where things are/belong.
Your patience is legendary and Lilly and Josiah are workers,
Josiah says ~ 'Gideon! We need to go!!!' (I love it) ❤ And then 'Gideon, whose boots do you have on?' 🤗 I sure miss those chidlers! ❤
A cost effective way to add height to the chicken fence is high test fishing line! We use regular fishing line above our 4 ft fence making a jump barrier up to 6 ft
You can stop that rooster and any other chickens from hopping if you take a little string and tie 3 of his primary feathers together. He'll still be able to stretch and flap but any short flights will be uncomfortable making him not want to leap.
Nice setup. My chickens fly up to my second floor in the barn. 7' high.
WHAT. I'm about to get chickens. That's really good info to know, thanks for it.
@@highfive9835 Lol. Sure. Just depends on your chickens. Mine are nuts. Not all of them fly up there. The cat food is their incentive for getting up there. It's funny cause sometimes they let out a scream like it hurts them to fly up that high.
@@Hick-A-BillyLLC Must be some good cat food.
Josiah has matured so much and become your right hand man taking over for Jonah while he was down. When Jonah returns you will have two great workers and Dad can sit back and come up with more ideas and improvements with their input.
You can put an orchard net or a tree net over the top. That’s what I do when I run my chix in the garden, also to protect from hawks, eagles and owls
Josiah has been awesome these many months, but I miss Jonah. He was the man of the farm until his accident and I miss seeing him in the videos. Kudos to Josiah though because things would be much harder on the farm without him right now! Prayers for Rebecca's mom as well.
Soooooo much more enjoyable than the fast clips on your other videos!!❤❤❤👍👍👍🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽 it really helps old folks like me. Thank you!!!!
You're doing the bending over putting hay in the nest boxes while Gideon stands by telling you"that's good"....🤔🤷♂️
Organization solutions CAN be absolute, but I've found it depends on each person's individual living situation. Kids, no kids? Cook from scratch, prepared meals? Pile phobic or no? And then there is the personality of the person (people) using the space. Biggest favor you can do with yourself is be willing to ask yourself if a storage/organization solution is working FOR YOU. And what that looks like will change as your life changes. Set your organization/declutter goal, make plans to accomplsih it and give yourself grace to change, rethink and decide what is or is not working for you. Blessings on you all.
Justin, what if you installed hoops along the top of the wood fence and secured bird netting over the hoops to keep the chickens inside. Make the hoops a little taller than you so you can easily walk around inside the chick yard. 🐓
The chickens won't jump on the fence if it is flimsy at the top! They jump on the boards! I have seen chickens run up a fence to get on top of the boards! The flimsy fence doesn't look good but they don't jump on it! One of my fences I strung a piece of wire about six inches across the top!
I wasn't convinced about "no container" household - it's like a movable drawer of project stuff. I am PRO-CONTAINER watcher in general, but if she can explain why she feels it's got potential for clutter, I'm still listening until I see the good of it. Aren't you excited about this big build?!!
In my experience, when chickens see that they can land on a solid surface, they can fly very high!!! Having a "flimsy" sort of fencing on top of you existing wooden fence would solve the problem. It could even be plastic fencing (1-2 feet high) that you staple on top of your current set up. It won't look as pretty, but it will be a quick and cheap fix.
Just got a school of traditional skills ad while watching this.
Well done. Good job. Good family and your animals
I’m all for the containers..plastic sheets no.
Hawks are too bad in our area. Our chicken run is built under heavy tree cover. Even so, we've lost quite a few to hawks. Love the design, tho. And the 4x4 inside a plastic fence piece is ingenious!
My kiddos would have a blast with your kiddos. Some of the same ages. Farm kids are the best! Love yall's family, Justin and Becky! ❤️
I 100% agree with you Becky, keep the containers
I don’t find the choppy quick starts and stops of your films now very relaxing.
Only trim one wing which makes them lopsided.😮When you trim both they still have equal leverage/ lift 😂
And, it's Spring! Everyone has weeds!
Your sheep could eat your lawn for you, keep it nice n neat. Just use the premier fencing to keep them there for a day or two.
you have 2 lower gates leaning up against the main fence. It could jump up on those and then further out..
I know Hardware Cloth is More Expensive but, I don’t have a guard dog or guard goose. And I’ve had a Black Bear in My Yard. So I Love ❤️ your fence Idea with Cattle Panels and Chicken Wire but, I think 🤔 that I would have to close My Gate in. Have a Roof on it 😃 but, if I do the fencing I might as well have a chicken coop.
Do you also use the she shawl in winter for the chickens 🐓 or just Spring?
😮 @22 min there's a bird out! Oh no!!!!!
Chicken math and keeping chickens in. We all feel the pain.
I was thinking, if you spaced the raised beds so you could have a raised off the ground mobile system, you'd have chicken grass trimmers and no mowing.
Thanks for a nice focused vlog.
Justin, I am sorry that you were injured. I hope you are improving rapidly. I sustained injuries to my spine in both my cervical spine and my lumbar spine. I have had cervical surgery and reconstructive surgery of the cervical spine. Then in 2012 I had my first lumbar spine surgery, in 2016 my second lumbar spine surgery, and in 2022 my third lumbar spine surgery. I am almost 78 years old, and I've decided there won't be any more spinal surgeries. It's important to keep your muscles strong -- they support the bones and keep the bones strong. I sincerely hope your injury heals and that you have no re-occurrences. Spinal injuries are no fun. If I had my way, no other human being would ever suffer a spinal injury, but that's not the way things go.
Would love to see more of what Jonah is doing these days, while recouping.
Make a chick-port shelter., like a car port., but for chickens. Can take an old trampoline or hoop house frame and attach it to the top of the chicken run. The chickens will have a dome shelter. Also., couldn’t you extend the height of the coop with the electric chicken netting/fencing installed along the top of the run?
Hi folks hope your well what head torch were you using please
easiest way for a chicken run where they cant escape just enclose it where its tall enough to walk in make small platforms to get to perches across the top so you no longer need the bulky mobile coop inside. plus then it makes it so if you wanted pigs in their the chickens can escape to the "rafter" type perchs.
This is what I am working on! I just hatched 22 chicks and I have 6 dozen chick and duck eggs in the incubatiors now ❤
Need to build some kind of cover over the chicken run. Arch it with pig/cattle panels with chicken wire. That will keep all of them from getting out. And also keeps other birds from getting in. Wild birds can carry diseases. You dont want them in and pooping in the chicken run. Sad to hear about momma pig, hows the piglets doing?
If there is a flat surface at the top of the fence, the chickens can easily fly/jump up to that and perch on, then jump out! Need to not have something they can perch on at the top of your fence. Thats why electric netting works so well!
I used to have a 6ft fence and chickens were able to go over. That stopped after i trimmed both wings.
Chickens can fly that high. Easy. Most runs have a netted roof so predictors can't swoop down and have lunch.
Jonah, please don't overdo! Give your body every chance to heal properly. Earnest prayers for you and Grandma Beth.
🙋🏼♀️🕊 .For sure
Adding to the idea for the chicken run- permaculture says a fruit tree, as shelter and the dropfruit as a food for the chooks
could put those plantpots on top of the chicken run like before on that part to make it taller?
They got in them.
@@chelledegrasse2787 they tried it after they raised it up? would add another 6 inches
The extra details....like a boy hanging on the fence... ❤
Oh my. Can't believe you showed that egg coming out. 😮 That was hilarious
My eyes bugged out at that, I've never seen it.😂
@@sandieweatherup yeah. I've collected the evidence... woo that was intense! I am still chuckling
Yikes! Looked painful.
@@sharoncochran8508 do you know, I have an Easter Egger that keeps laying a double yolker. You can HEAR when she's laying an egg
Blessings to all!
yay all your hard work and now you hit a MILLION.
We need help ! We live in Maine . We rent . A family of 5 ! The town told my landlord if we did not get rid of our 5 chickens they were evicting us ! We already had permission from the town . We both work at a local’s hardware store . No family to help us . We can’t find a rent to own or anywhere to go . We need these eggs to feed our family!! Any suggestions!? - Maine Family
You can be more minimal and use containers. I really actually like to have all of my "like" items in that container and take that off the shelf and then put it all back. For me it is less work.
could you put bottle lambs in there until weaning?
The Great Chicken Caper! Chicken catching makes everyone look hilarious! Should always be filmed
Does anyone have experience (good or bad) on having the chickens in with goats?
👋👋👀👀❤❤, Mr Brown, where are your shoes. Yes, i have the book. Mr Brown have you been collecting the eggs? Its your job ❤
How do you make sure weasels can't come in and kill the flock?
Amazon sells the plastic shelf liners. LOL that rooster is frustrating!
what a great video! I just got chickens and was wondering if I'm doing anything wrong. I have a video of them on my channel if anyone could give me some feedback, thanks. ❤
I bought 2 boxes of eggs today. Get home, open the BOX, ENORMOUS eggs.
One hour later, making my breakfast/lunch to go for work tomorrow. ALL doubbe youlks, hurrah, jippie😍😋
lol, Justin, you have just moved 7 people, packed your house, and put it into storage... f anyone is giving you grief about running behind in spring, they would be looking to give you hard time anyway no matter what... That is called a rude ole troll unhappy in their own life criticizing others.
Isn't fresh chicken manure to hot for garden?
Your kids are amazing young people love to see them helping out!!! Now Rebekah's containers are just fine, being a minimalist is great but for some people it may not be and containers help keep us organized. So #keeprebekahscontainers ;-)
Containers are awesome! Whoever invented them is a genius. That's a joke folks in that it's the most ancient simple invention ever. But it's still genius! So Darcy may have an issue with containers, but I don't think Becky has to pick up Darcy's issues.
I LOVE containers! I have been known to collect really GOOD boxes! 🥴
Isn't there already a book of plans? I've seen him consult that book often.
They can definitely jump that fence and the rest will follow we even clipped their wings . Unless it’s electrified they can potentially jump out
🐔 Quick and easy solution, I think!! 🤔 Make a high dome with chicken wire to cover the whole run??
A chicken requires a 5 ft fence to keep it in. I have no idea why poultry net is only 4 ft tall. The chickshaw is too close to the fence. A chicken can roost on the arm and then fly over the fence from there.