Raising Chickens for Profit - Become a Chicken Breeder
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Are you looking to make money from your chickens? Small-scale egg production doesn't bring in a lot of profit. Instead, you could consider starting a few breeding flocks. You can then sell birds to other farmers and chicken-keepers for profit. Here's a few tips on starting out!
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Silkie feathers are recessive, generally hard feathers are dominant over soft feathers.
Finally after 10 years o have found it once again it's the man the CHIKEN MAN
Nice video. Been thinking of making a few videos myself because alot are starting to call me the chicken whisperer haha. I started with 17 and watched how each breed acted. Our first year we made 1000 on eggs alone. Now I'm wanting to learn more on the meet side. We now have 100 chickens(5 flocks for chicks, 3 flocks plus the extra chicks for meet.) We collect all the eggs now but we were breeding by broody hens.
Thats awesome...sounds like you're well on your way, particularly with 1000 in eggs!
That was great great information! I especially like that you encourage people to do their research. Hahaha attack of the cap hating rooster 🐔
Little Bean's Garden you should've seen the out takes - he was going crazy! Lol! Thanks for the comment. :D
I am interested in breeding and I have been trying to find out if you can breed with a broody hen with a full time job as everywhere says you need to tend the the chickens and eggs at least 3 times a day, I was wondering if you know and could tell me whether it would be possible to breed chickens with no one home between 8am and 4:30-5:30 pm?
I love your little rooster, he's so cute. :)
Lots of people feed roos for dog food. My large breed dog is healty and happy and loves raw chicken. I just freeze it or cull then skin and post add online. People will buy
Thanks for a tip :)
Rooster is American tut tut. .... great video, thank you.
Ahh, you got me. I know...I do fall into that trap!
Very good advice..that rooster lol.
Hii! I've been thinking about breeding my silkie rooster to my two barredrocks, but I'm not sure what the best way to do that would be. Those two hens love trying to eat their eggs, and I have one silkie hen that's broody BUT the barred's like to peck at her while she's nesting. I might borrow an incubator from a friend, but I'm concerned that the hens won't like the hatchlings.. should they be okay?? I don't want to hatch chicks and have them get bullied by their moms! Thank you so much!
Do they ship internationally I need some Rhode Island chickens
I have a black barbu silkie mix and it might have heritage of yours
*me puts a whole bunch of lavender bantam eggs under my pekin bantam
* they hatch........
*there are 19 lavender bantams
*me again: YoUr So sMaLl hOw DO NiNEtEeN ChICKs FiT uNDeR YoU?
Haha! This is totally me too. 😅
I have been breeding for 3 years now , have up to 7 pure-breds
BushWalker I am interested in breeding and I have been trying to find out if you can breed with a broody hen with a full time job as everywhere says you need to tend the the chickens and eggs at least 3 times a day, I was wondering if you know and could tell me whether it would be possible to breed chickens with no one home between 8am and 4:30-5:30 pm?
How do you find buyers? When we post online. They take the post down because they don't allow selling animals.
Is it just me or can anyone else hear this guy
hi..how did u accrue capital.
Your barbu roo is so cute oh my goodness. I couldn't take him getting upset seriously lol, he's too cute and tiny. Started with a mixed flock this year - 6 girls and 1 surprise roo (which we can keep where we live). I had the original intention picking them to have variety, I really wanted rainbow eggs! So we have the roo Dale Grubble who is an Isbar Silverudd Blue; our Isbar Silverudd girl Petunia; our Double Silver Laced Barnevelder girl Magnolia; our Cream Legbar girl Poppy; our Lavender Orpington girl Iris; our Speckled Sussex girl Tulip; and our Golden Laced Polish girl Hellebore. Hellebore developed scissor beak at about 2 weeks old, and we were already so attached so we did a bunch of research and wanted to try to continue raising her as long as her quality of life is still good - and it is! We've made a lot of accommodations for her, like trimming her head feathers so she can see better and making their food more nutritionally diverse since Hellebore can't really forage. It's nice, the other girls do a pretty good job at preening her when she gets messy, and I clean up whatever remnants after. They're all about 5 months old now and everybody is doing fantastic! From the look of our girls' waddles and combs, Poppy will probably be the first to lay and it should be any day now. Been doing lots of research on chicken genetics, and there's so many options. I think I've narrowed it down to either dual-purpose birds with pretty plumage, and maybe a separate flock for breeding my own Easter Eggers (which is in high demand where I live, there's more backyard flocks here than chicken farms). I do like the idea of crossing a high-melanin breed like Ayam Cemani with a pretty heavy layer breed. There seems to be more of a demand for purposefully crossed chickens out here, and less-so the pure breed varieties. I still want to do more research though, and I would probably only want to breed Poppy, Iris, Tulip and Petunia. Hellebore is automatically out because it would be inhumane to knowingly hatch out chicks with the scissor beak gene. Magnolia we got from a small breeder, and we didn't realize until after the fact that they don't vaccinate their Barnevelders for Marek's and that Magnolia is a 3/4 bantam cross. So I don't think that she would be an ideal candidate for good chicks - even though she has the sweetest personality. I think I would get full sized and vaccinated Barnevelders in the future though! This is a very long comment, so forgive me for being long-winded. There's just not a lot of content out there about how to start breeding chickens from a small scale, and your video was helpful - so thank you!
Want to breed silkies thanks
Do you need any licences???
I’m from the U.K. in the north.
Greta vid!
No licences required to keep or breed chickens in the UK currently. They are classed as livestock and not pets, however, so make sure you know all the regulations
best way to start breeding chickens?
buying fertile eggs or start from buying rooster and hen?
Depends on the experience you wish to have. Both can fail or succeed.
Can I get some eggs from those cute rosecomb you holding
Where do you sell your chickens and hiw do you advertise it
Isaac Pullan hey Isaac, I mostly sell at local auctions or private sales to people from poultry groups on Facebook.
Thank you
Isaac Pullan no problem!
Isaac Pullan ?
Compared to a Silkies egg how much smaller is a Barbu d'Anver's egg please?
+fiona R they're about 2/3rds the size :)
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What breed of chicken is that black rooster?
He's a Barbu d'Anver - one of the Belgium bantam varieties.
BLACK AUSTRALORP CHICKEN
Loving your videos, recently me and my partner want to get into our own small holding as we want to be as self efficient, and we just stayed with quails at the moment. X
Thanks so much! Self sufficiency is so rewarding so good luck. :)
Thank you, my partner grandad was farmer from both sides and It nice to know were your food coming from and not just chemicals. X
Exactly. Couldn't have put it better myself.
Where abouts you based American or uk
UK here.
You can buy a rooster colar and in one week or so your rooster will stop crowing.
Velcro does a good job and for $1.00.
"I hate culling"
Yeah i hate it too... I just feel that its not right.
Sorry what was the breed of your little rooster? It wasn't quite clear enough.
Does he crow loud?
He's a Barbu d'Anver - one of the belgium bantams. And yes, he makes up for his small size with a VERY loud crow!
Thank you he is an adorable little rooster. Very pretty little chooks its ashame they don't lay more eggs. Keep making your videos they are great. I have always had chooks but I would like to breed some to sell.
Good thing it was not a "Make America Great Again" hat. What's that chicken name, Obama? Anyway, great info, thanks!
america was never great and can't be great with all these pale devils walking around oh and the name of that rooster is trump. I hope is clear enough!
I cant hear him
put your sound up
Which breeds of chickens can you sex by looking at the egg?
Sadly there aren't any. There are breeds which you can tell as soon as the chick has hatched, however. These sex-linked chicks are one colour for males, another colour for females.
I've heard that pointy eggs are cockrels, and rounded eggs are pullets, but I don't really believe it. However there has been experiments to see if egg temperature effects the outcome, and it does! www.publish.csiro.au/cp/AR9600664. please note you are not changing the sex of the chick: The male embryos cannot survive colder temperatures
Ooooh thank you =)!
Who do you sell the chickens too and for how muchand please don't say that you are selling a whole chicken for $16 because ain't nobody buying a chicken for no $16 when you can get it from the store for three and four dollars
I know you have a strong accent, but I sense you are possessed with a homosexual spirit...