Growing more food and raising more chickens
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- Now that we're getting a freeze dryer, it has opened up a whole new area for food storage. We will be expanding the number of chickens for egg production and freeze-drying most of our eggs, fruits, and vegetables. Products below (Affiliate)
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Products we use on the homestead (Affiliate)
Food storage long term
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Raising poultry
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Products we use around the homestead
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Amen. I agree with what you are saying. We definitely need to be praying for our country and Christians need to stick together. God bless what you are doing
Thank you and God bless
Love the changes should work great. As always thank you.
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Great !! Can't wait to see the new runs. 🐔🐔🐔🐔🐔🐥🐤🐣👍👍💚
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love it - I wish I can move to country side - locked to the suburbs right now, because my kids need a good schools
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Thanks Pete, sounds like a great plan. Wish I was as far along as you on my preparedness. I am working hard to get to your level. Thanks again for the encouragement. God bless TEXAS and long live the Republic !!!
Thank you and keep working at it. It's something we all should be doing to live a better life and always be prepared. God bless you.
So impressed, always, how you and your family are being smart about gardening and raising chickens. Bless you.
Thanks so much
I too am wanting to expand & raise a few turkeys but will probably use a Versatube (big box stores sell their carports) frame covered in Red Brand dog fence with the 2inx2in wire spacing. The larger frame will allow for larger doors to accommodate a tractor. The frames are rated to last 20 years.
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Thanks for all your great advice. 👍🏻 We moved here from FL and live west of Ft. Worth. I learn a lot from you about how to live and work in the great state of Texas. We have a flock of chickens that need a bigger home and you're right the $ of lumber is nuts. So I'm going to check out the other buildings you mentioned. BTW, thanks also for the tip on the wagon. It's awesome. 👌
Pete I bought an 8x10 coop for around 1500.00 nice coop then added on a 10x12 run plus they have the space under the house so ground space is like 18x 22. House could hold 30 birds easy. Then I made some roost in the run area they rather sleep out there in run area. I have wire buried around all this area plus enclosed on the top with wire and tin over that for shade. So when winter comes I close up the north side to keep wind out. I looked the other day and there were only 6 birds in the house. I do have 4 premiere one nets I let them come out in that area during the day. Love my chickens and thinking of getting more.
Sounds like you have happy birds 👍
Ain’t nothing like living in the country😃. Looking forward to seeing the chicken expansion!!!
country is best 👍
You are my inspirational🌺👍🌸
Thank you 🙂
Pete, thanks. You have ambitious smart plans. Great pics of the various harvests.
Thank you
How exciting ! Can’t wait to see the new plans Pete
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Oh you got all the cool stuff! I got 28 more chicks on sale for $1 each this summer. We are up to 45 I think. 😆 Great decision getting the chickens! It will be nice to have all that food put up! We raise rabbits for most of our meat for us and the pets.
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You ain't lying about the price of lumber! I just spent ≈$700 to build a 8'x20'x7' chicken run that I modeled off of yours. I would have spent at least that to build the coop had i not been able to pick up most of the lumber for it at work.
A slave to your job? Sound like you worked in the plants like me.
I'm trying to get to your level of food security, but I'm lacking big league. Gonna go for a garden this spring.
Keep on keeping on, from Louisiana!
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Looking forward to this new series. Best wishes to you and your family.
Thank you!
No joke on lumber prices. I built a 6x6 pump house in central Texas last month and spent $700 and I already had the main studs in place. I also just bought some lumber for a covered area in my backyard in the Houston area and spend $70 on 4 2x6s and a few 2x4s.
I'll be interested to see how the shed works, I want to expand our coop as well and get more chickens
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Nice video Pete!
Thanks!
I look forward to seeing your setup, I actually based my chicken coop off your design last year with some modifications of my own. I built mine 8x8 also. Love your videos and ideas
That is awesome! thank you 👍
Sounds like a great plan Pete, we converted our shed into a coop 10 x 10 cost a lot less to do it that way.
We had most of the wood to build in out on the inside, 2x4x8 are about 7 bucks!
So we are gonna do the same with our run as well gotta get it done before next spring.
Looking forward to seeing how it all turns out for you, will be following you to watch the how it all turns out!
Thanks you, yes lumber is really getting ridiculously expensive.
Pete, sounds good. I considered buying the additional runs for the chicks too! I use a tractor to get the chicks out on grass, but that is a nuisance. Expanding the run and selectively letting them out would be better!
Look forward to seeing your runs up!
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Pete, be sure to put the link to the runs below, thanks
Yep it's in the description under the video.
Couldn't agree with you more neighbor. Big city life isn't where its at.. wouldn't trade my country life for anything
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I have a freeze dryer and it is wonderful!! When I have leftovers of a meal I freeze it flat and keep it in the freezer till I have enough to fill the trays and then I freeze dry those meals and I have them when I need a fast meal. I am finding such good ideas to freeze dry on the you tube channel "John in bibs". I would love to sell my freeze dryer and buy one of the new ones since I have only solar power in my home and the new ones take less time to freeze dry and therefore use less power. I can't wait to see all the things you do and find out with your freeze dryer. Thank you for your videos!!
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Another great video Pete.Awesome plan!!I wonder who the one MORON was who give you a thumbs down as I type this comment?Must be a democrat.
Thank you 👍😂😂
We pasture-raise heritage (Narragansett) turkeys and American Bresse Chickens. A few suggestions for anyone getting into raising poultry:
1. For meat turkeys, go with broad breasted whites. The meat isn’t the best, but there’s a lot of it, and no black pinfeathers to hassle with.
2. For meat chickens, choose something like the Red Ranger. They grow slowly, but are much hardier than the frankenbirds.
3. Don’t raise chickens and turkeys on the same ground, to help avoid disease and parasites.
4. Control parasites with a periodic dose of Ivermectin in their drinking water.
5. When harvesting, bleed them out, don’t sever their windpipe or lop off their heads.
6. Best scald temperature is 140 degrees. If necessary, increase scald time, NOT scald temperature.
7. Remove their food source at least 18 hours prior to harvest. Allow them to have water.
8. If you have dogs, grind the poultry heads, necks, feet, liver, heart and (cleaned) gizzards for Fido. Dogs are fine with raw bones, but NOT with cooked bones.
9. If you see the birds eating feathers, it’s a signal they aren’t getting enough protein.
10. Euthanize sick birds immediately. Don’t try to be Doctor Doolittle. Most veterinarians haven’t a clue about poultry health.
11. Don’t try to incubate eggs from hybrid chickens. Garbage in, garbage out.
12. Cheap Infra-red heat lamps and holders are a waste of money. If you need heat, go with the bulbs and PRIMA HEAT LAMPS from Premier1supplies(dot)com
13. Get a gallon on TEK-TROL disinfectant. Mix up a solution to fill a “boot box” placed outside the entrance to the pens. ALWAYS wear rubber boots and ALWAYS step into the bootbox to disinfect yourself before entering or leaving the pens.
14. Incubating eggs can be extremely challenging. Our incubators are German made “Grumbach”... costing close to $5,000 each. Even with these zoo quality machines, a successful hatch is not always achieved. It took our Narragansett breeding flock years of adaptation to produce eggs that would reliably hatch at our altitude.
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Cool trick, you can use pickling lime/water to store whole eggs in a jar.
doesn't keep as long as freeze dried but good way to keep whole eggs for winter months
i got Brahmas and egg layer flock & want to do same or similar upgrades myself.
Am interested in what company your getting metal shed from. GL
That's a great idea!
@@petebeasttexashomesteading dont keep all your eggs in one basket seems applicable here.
where are you getting that metal shed from, i want one too?
Pete you mentioned the Metal Shed you were thinking about buying in Nacogdoches what company did you end up buying from looking to get something similar. Thanks
Pete, could you please provide the model
ames and links in a sticky for this video?
We just purchased the washer & dryer from your previous video.
Hi, the links to the products I mentioned in the video are the first five links in the description under the video. click "Show more"
@@petebeasttexashomesteading Not finding the metal shed, do they not have a web site?
Sorry about that, I thought you meant the other stuff. Here's their website www.doubledsales.com/PortableBuildings/ClassicBarns this will bring you to their classic barn sheds but at the top of the page you can click on "Portable buildings" and look at other types of sheds and barns.
question Pete. I see your poultry net, but even with clipped wings my chickens will go over it and I also have a couple of big dogs that snatch up chickens every chance they get. How do you keep your birds from going over the poultry netting?
Mine stayed in the paddock area, maybe mine are fat 🙂 but a hawk got one so I don't let them out there anymore.
Can you show how you freeze dry, sounds super interesting
They are in high demand right now and so there was a two and a half months wait on the freeze dryer. We should be getting it this week or the next and we will definitely do lots of freeze drying videos.
You mentionned that freeze drying works great for meat too, will you be getting meat chickens someday ?
Now that i think of it, you don't produce your meat, right ? How do you get it ? I have trouble picturing you in a big food store 😅
We don't raise animals for meat but eventually we'll have to process the older birds. If I had more property, I'd like to raise cattle to sell.
Good info Pete...Ditto on the getting out of the cities....hope they just don't bring their politics with them!
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How about Carolina coops or Amish made coops
I just searched locally, I wish there was more choices here but a shed will work fine.
why not convert current chicken run into a coop?
We will still use the old run and coop but they will have access to the new run too.
Hey Pete, when do you plant your garlic cloves in your garden? I'm in the dfw area and I want to start planting my garlic, but don't know when to start. I ordered the same type you showed in one of your videos. Thanks!
Right now is the time. I ordered mine a while back, and they should be in this week.
Ok thanks!
20 acres and not enough land for a meat source?
still any plan about having cows
No cows for us. If I had more acreage I probably would. We might get some Nigerian dwarf goats for their milk to make yogurt in the future.
What is the logic behind wood doubling in price? Makes no sense? Unless it's all imported from.....?
I've read that strong demand for new homes and tight supply because of covid have caused lumber prices to soar. Not sure what to believe.
Would you sale your coop. 6+6
I will still be using the 6x6 coop.
Hello Pete and family - truly amazing inspiration and just to iterate all of the comments below and probably to come! God Bless and stay safe to all of you guys in the USA!
Thank you and God bless you also 👍