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You are great!

Pine shavings for my girls

Thank you for the lovely video! You can tell that you clearly love and respect your chickens!

Very interesting video! I've got orpingtons in different colours, and they are quite different from behaviour. I did not know that they were bred from totally different breeds. This explains a lot.

Thanks!

Thank you ❤

Great video and information. I love your intro. You have really shared some great nuggets of information. Thank you so much for your time. I am sure your chickens LOVE you!

I have overgrown grass in my backyard and my chickens love it they hide in the grass and runn around it

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Oh my, the girls loved it. The temperature here in middle TN is currently 96° in the shade. I went out with cold water and poured it over their food. They were so delighted. I didn't worry that I made a river on the feed because they just went diving for the feed. Then after a few minutes and a couple of stirs the feed soaked up the cool water.

Hey first wanna say i love your channel ❤❤. I have a coop that is 13x10. With 2 12ft roosts 3 10ft roosts 1 5 ft roost I have 29 hens 3 rooster Plus 9 chicks Total 41. (Free range) Ok so the chicks are 6wks old and 2 are starting to look like cockerels. Can 5 roosters live in the same coop?? Ive seen a lady that has multiple roosters in flock but she also has multiple coops.

Loved all this information. Leaned a lot! Definitely Shari this video .

Hey! my sister is hatching chicks at her school and she wants them to love her! Does anyone have any tips?

3:10 That is how i hold my older chicks but they try running but i got them by that holding position

Thank you for this info. I am just starting to consider keeping chickens on the south east side of Idaho where it does get flippin’ cold! I want to be a good chicken mama!!

I do really love your videos because of your deep understanding of chickens and your love for them. I can feel that you really give your best to give them a happy and species-appropriate life. Thus I don't understand why you don't let all your chicks hatch and grow up with a chicken mama, and suggest to bond them to a human being. It's not the same for them at all. For a human baby it would be much better to be taken care of a chimp monk than be fed by a machine, but it's not the same like a human mother either. Additionally, if chicks are imprinted to a human person, the can not spend 24/7 time with her and make body contact day and night whenever they want. They are seperated from her "human mother" again and again, experiencing constant loss (so most of them will rather bond to their siblings, which can't give them the same warmth and holding). All my chicks are growing up with mother hen in the middle of my flock, being taken loving care by her about 11-12 weeks. She teaches them everything, walking around with them outside from day 2 after hatching. You can see that their mother is so important for them, like at us humans. They grow up beloved, calm, healthy and social from the beginning. And they are embedded into the flock's social network from day 1, when the other members of the flock come to greet them with deep eye contact. (And of course you can hatch every breed you want by buying fertilized eggs.) May I ask respectfully why you decided to let chicks grow up without mother hen?

I do really love your videos because of your deep understanding of chickens and your love for them. I can feel that you really give your best to give them a happy and species-appropriate life. Thus I don't understand why you don't let all your chicks hatch and grow up with a chicken mama, and suggest to bond them to a human being. It's not the same for them at all. For a human baby it would be much better to be taken care of a chimp monk than be fed by a machine, but it's not the same like a human mother either. Additionally, if chicks are imprinted to a human person, the can not spend 24/7 time with her and make body contact day and night whenever they want. They are seperated from her "human mother" again and again, experiencing constant loss (so most of them will rather bond to their siblings, which can't give them the same warmth and holding). All my chicks are growing up with mother hen in the middle of my flock, being taken loving care by her about 11-12 weeks. She teaches them everything, walking around with them outside from day 2 after hatching. You can see that their mother is so important for them, like at us humans. They grow up beloved, calm, healthy and social from the beginning. And they are embedded into the flock's social network from day 1, when the other members of the flock come to greet them with deep eye contact. (And of course you can hatch every breed you want by buying fertilized eggs.) May I ask respectfully why you decided to let chicks grow up without mother hen?

I just get the chicks from the local feed store. They’ve already had food and water by the time I get them. i’ve had friends that order them in the mail and basically they end up losing a few. I’ve only lost one when I got it from the feed store.

I use a mama heating pad cave now. It works great. I start them off for one week in the house and then I move them out to the coop with the heating pad cavee. I’m getting some chicks the second week of September and they will be out in the coop by their second week that I have them. It will be cold out there, but they will be just fine with the heating pad cave. I highly recommend it.

I had already caught on to this. Our chickens are constantly under the porch, the cars, the kayak rack....anything they can find. Had not considered making small shelters though. Great idea

Love this ❤

Interesting to hear that sexual addiction occurs in chooks too

In South Carolina we have pine straw on a base of contractor's sand. Sand is silica and the dust is minimal.

I have 15 chickens and they all just about have this problem no roster. How do I treat this problem.

We were gifted chickens, and because we don’t have a mama hen, and I’m sahm, I’ve been “spoiling” these little guys so much. We give them cuddles, and I agree with all of the stuff in this video. I spend hours with them every day, it’s actually hard not to, they’re so dear. They still come inside even now that they’re pretty much full grown 😂 Any time I come into the garden they come flapping over to me, I love it so much

I think rather, they weren’t keeping the chickens in adequate living spaces, probably not enough space, and definitely not enough food, and this fed the bias in their studies.

Just a thought, what about placing some sand by the door where some wet does get in (help with drain off) and then put the organic matter further back. It seems like it would make the best of both worlds. I am 1 year into keeping a backyard flock and learning everyday.

add electrolytes and carbs to your list. heat especially like you said.

Hell, no wonder they like to congregate under the car hauler trailer.

Great video. Not sure why there are downvotes, the information is quite accurate.

I love seeing a grown woman playing in the dirt for the sake of her chickens😂 the pinky… nice touch

I have just discover this channel and im so happy. I have watch a lot of videos around and , you are by far one of the best if it not the best chichens youtuber. Your humanity and your way to understand the chichens is on point and so true. You have find the very right spot between farm animal and pet animal because chichen are both. Your way to teach how to find that spot is amazing and so easy to understand. Its a gift and thank you so much for your great worrk. Wish to see you around for still a long time because the chichen's lover community really need it! That all i have to say! Thank you!

In Germany we mostly use soft hay, and the hens love it.

yes i would like to know the "not" pecking order version

I don’t keep roosters cause the 2 I had just tore up and broke the feathers on my hens. After a while do the feathers grow back?

knowledge and understanding is key, thank you!

There's no avoiding sand here. We're even learning how to garden in it.

Im also looking forward to the integration video! One hen got super broody, so i snuck 4 babies under her. They're now 10 weeks old but the nuggets (as i call them) are always sticking together and haring off on their own. Their mother is actually the one that harasses them the most, driving them away from the feeder or favorite perches. It's frustrating. Btw, i love the little teacup! 😂

Fantastic channel!! Very informative! I don't have chicken yet. I'm in research mode. You deserve more subscribers. Thank you for taking the time to make these videos. 🙂

BIG BIG love! We have a flock of school chickens, and this is an amazing instructional tool for us!

Okay. I'm pretty new to having chickens. Over the past year, I've obtained 8 hens and a rooster from a family who obviously didn't "mother" them. I currently have a hen with an impacted crop, but because my chickens are so skittish, I'm having a very difficult time treating her. I see the importance of being able to handle them, but I don't know how to correct it at this point. What should I do?

oh wow! I didn't even realize I did something right! My girls have a small run, so I made the most of their space by elevating their dust bath on cyber blocks so they can have extra walking space, and they tend to enjoy that area to sit under❤😊

i have one chick but 1 and i dye green

COMMENT ON FEED , , , Feed grains bought at grain elevator is the low cost option BUT it will probably have small grain elevator type BUGS in it , , they aren't big but small and you may have a lot of them in a bag of grain , , I keep mine on a tiled floor and the pellet feed in a completely different location so it don't get grain bugs also , SUNFLOWER SEEDS ARE A BIG SAVINGS AT GRAIN ELEVATOR AS ALL THE OTHER GRAINS ALSO , MUCH CHEAPER THAN STORE STUFF ,just not as cleaned ❤❤❤

Soo wish I would have seen this video 6 months ago before I got rid of my beautiful Roo because he was getting a little aggressive towards me and my granddaughter

Yes, please make a video about the myth of pecking order, it sounds a lot like the alpha myth for dogs. It’d be interesting to know how chickens really form bonds and how they live together. Great video!

Hello. i feed my two road iland red hens , with huge cockroachs , at most of nights here. QUESTION1 : is it wrong to let them eat cockroaches?! QUESTION2 : how many hours takes time , for that eaten cockroach, to change into eggs? QUESTION3: does this effect on egg's taste?! QUESTION4: should we eat eggs made out of cockroaches? or let them to change into baby chickens?! 🐣🐥

Hello. i feed my two road iland red hens , with huge cockroachs , at most of nights here. QUESTION1 : is it wrong to let them eat cockroaches?! QUESTION2 : how many hours takes time , for that eaten cockroach, to change into eggs? QUESTION3: does this effect on egg's taste?! QUESTION4: should we eat eggs made out of cockroaches? or let them to change into baby chickens?! 🐣🐥

What do you do when you have a couple?Chickens that eat another chicken's eggs and only that one particular chickens eggs and you have always provided plenty of oyster shells, grit, and protein And collet the eggs daily.

The reason heating the floor makes a difference is heat rises, even as the brooder plate radiates downward. Tho top pressure is more emotional for them (mimics the eggshell they just hatched, perhaps comparable to human infant swaddling), and topside plate heating is reminiscent of hen warmth. But it's important to remember most of a chick's body real estate is huddled on the ground, not its back, so to recreate the natural experience, it takes more than just a top plate. If brooding space is insulated similar to nesting materials, this heat is radiated back up under the chick, along with ventilation and humidity thru e.g., straw, and more like a nest with a brooding hen. But a chick in a box or on plywood sawdust doesn't have that reciprocal heat, and tend to chill against the flooring. Just like we do when we warm up in front of a fireplace, hands and backside first, or - in chick parlet - regions most exposed to cold from underneath. They can stand under a plate but they can't stay there forever, they have to huddle on the ground at some point. It's good to have a warm nest ready underneath. Taking care of insulation underneath is a good way to dial back on grid energy. Brooder plates will adjust their temp cycle to compensate (heat lamps of course will not). If flammable nesting material makes people nervous, try a silicone nesting mat to trap warm air in the soft prongs underneath. Rinse and repeat because they're easy to clean. Mother hens carefully pick out baby poop and drop it outside the nest to keep chicks clean until feathered, so a silicone nesting mat will make that poultry housekeeping easier for us. Alternatively, dump chicken feathers into a mesh bag, and curl it like a boa around the brooder so chicks can still snuggle into down, but the feathers stay clean by washing the mesh. The same might work to quiet chicks on the road home from the post office. Even loose mesh like those grocery onions or potatoes come in, can be cleaned by hosing the whole thing - feathers and all - and drying in the sun until fluffy again for reuse. Or, just dump them and refill new.