How I'll NEVER Need to BUY CHICKS Again (& you can too!)
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 9. 03. 2021
- I spent lots of money at the feed store each spring buying chicks, so I've decided to start making my own instead. ;) Here's how I'm creating a more sustainable chicken operation (plus a cool trick for telling if your chicken eggs are fertilized or not!)
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get you a few bantams, the can't sit but 4 or 5 large hen eggs, but they will sit and sit and sit, we had chickens for 50 years and never had to buy a chick, we would keep 100 to 150 hens all the time, if your hens want sit, get the bantams
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Hey get some black star chickens at TSC for meat chickens and eggs
Yay for sustainability!
Iâve hatched my chicks for a few years now, itâs very very cool. I love candling them. I think the biggest mistake Iâve learned the hard way is : donât open the incubator during hatch! Youâre gonna want to to see the chicks but DONT! If you let the humidity drop during hatch it can basically dry up the inside of the pipped eggs and shrink wrap the chicks trying to get out. Very bad. So sad to have a fully developed chick not be able to get out and suffocate itself because I was opening the lid too much. They can live without food or water for up to 3 days! Leave em in there for at least a full day to dry off and if you feel you need to, a quick reach in and a spray of warm water to maintain humidity can work. Sorry if this sounds overbearing, I know Iâm just a random YT comment. But rly! Itâs a harsh lesson to learn. â€ïž
Thank you for sharing! I just purchase a clear incubator and a turner to see the process and not touch the eggs! It had a temperature AND humidity gauge and humidity holes to fill when necessary. No need to open the lid! Canât wait to try it.
This just happened to us and I am really beating myself up over it. đ© A painful lesson.
I just let my hens hatch them and take care of them, they seem to be healthier than if you keep them under lights. I have what is called dual purpose chicken, white brahmas. They are huge and they lay great eggs and the roosters that hatch go into my freezer.
I agree! I have a mixed flock of dual purpose chickens. The momma hens do a great job and i prefer to let them hatch them.
Dont the hens sit on the eggs and hatch them?
This is what I do. Don't need to do all this work, just let chickens be chickens.
@@joanjarrette8691 some do some don't. It depends on breed and if they're broody enough. Also there are "personality" characteristics that come into play on the individual level.
@@AJ-ox8xy Yes, absolutely. We have Phoenix hens which are a really flighty but broody breed and they will hatch our chicks and are great mothers. Another good breed for broodiness that is dual purpose is the Orpington. We've had great success with them. My brahma's are great egg layers and the boys make a good meat bird, but so far I haven't seen one get broody or hatch her own eggs. However, once the chicks have hatched they get involved like a big sister chicken and help with the clutch.
You could always attempt to hatch eggs under some chickens and note the ones that are successful and her chicks and go onto to breed her and her chicks again. That way you could attempt to breed broodiness back into a line of chickens, and keep them epecially for breeding.
So true.
I'm really confused. You must have money to burn buying a incubator. Pretty simple if you ask me me. Let the hen and roster do what comes natural. They make baby chicks. I have never in 35 years of raising chickens once thought about a incubator. No heat lamp, no nothing. Let the hen do what comes natural. This is the problem today. Everyone has to buy these new whiz ban gadgets, certain feeders, certain water gadgets. etc..
What would you do if you had cows wanted a calf ? Maybe go buy one.
I was getting ready to incubate some of my chicken's eggs and then one of my hens went broody! I moved her to a chicken tractor and she is sitting on 7 eggs, can't wait to see how things go in another couple weeks.
This is the best way. If you hatch enough eggs under a broody hen is more profitable than if she just layed eating eggs.
By far the best way.
Almost as if God knows what hes doing better than we do.
Great video! I'm just starting to incubate my girls eggs and I can't wait to get my second batch of chicks. , its so satisfying and I love that I can get my own chicks right from my own flock. So much fun!
I keep bantams for my incubators. They're super stars at it. Plus I have a few mama's (full size) that always come home with surprise chicksđ đ€Ł wether I like it or not đ
Thatâs what our plan is also. We got an incubator last year. Barnyard mixes are fun because itâs a mystery egg. Thanks for sharing!
Nice!
From cockadoodledoo to anycockldoo.
We got a couple of Buff Orpingtons and Cochins to be our broody chicks. We just leave a few eggs in the nesting boxes and once one of them goes broody, we put her in a separate place with a dozen or so eggs under her. We had them hatch out 2 batches for us last year.
How exciting. Can't wait to see your part 2 on this!
If you hatch out a batch of chicks each year, you'll also get eggs throughout the winter as those chicks will reach maturity around that time. No light required!
Yes! I bought my chicks in late April last year and they starting lying in October or so and laid all winter long! It was awesome!
Love my barn yard mixes! Of course I tried breeding true but was not aware of the 2-3 week period for hens lol
They can hold it much longer. Some people have separated hens from the flock 2 months and still end up with a random cross lol
I did this last year and it is wonderful to no longer need to buy chicks! I bought a incubator last March and it has provided us many many chicks throughout the year and ducks! This year our local farm stores are always out of chicks so I sure am glad I can hatch my own now ...life safer!
Perfect timing Jill! I just bought a new-to-me incubator, and just placed a handful of barnyard mix eggs in it. Also thinking about trying quail. Love your videos, I always learn so much â€ïž
I have had chickens for many years and I learned a few things from you today . Thank you ! I love all your videos !
Awesome! Such great learning for your students. đ
Canât wait to watch your incubator journey! Iâve always wanted to give it a shot but it makes me nervous. We processed a mean rooster last fall and he was a buff Orpington, so also a dual purpose breed and while we didnât break any records on size of processed bird, the meat is definitely a higher quality!
I've hatched 77 chic's this year, sold all but 5, added to my flock..it's a chore, but very rewarding
This year we got a bonus opportunity. We donate hatching eggs to a local school, they hatch them as a class project and return the babies!
just from experience with many incubator hatches, you'll want to rotate those on the outside to the inside, that gives you a much better hatch rate. Cheers
If all else fails try Silkie chickens great mothers type chicken and Broody type lots of people are having great luck of silkie hatching ducks turkey and other chickens eggs just to let you no
we're never without silkies
I 100% agree and was going to say this :) I currently have silkies in my incubator (and some polish) for my 'fun bantam pretty pet' chickens this year for that purpose. I just feel like if we ever had a power cut like Texax did and we were still needing to continue with food sourcing a mother hen doesn't need to be plugged in to make more chicks LOL and they are SUCH good mothers. I've used silkies AND Bantam Cochins as mothers, they are such good mothers and so sweet and patient (they'll even hatch out other species of birds, the darlings.)
I also just got a new incubator that reads moisture levels and beeps when it's low, I'm not to hatch date yet, so can't attest to it's quality, but my still air foam old timey incubator has been giving me lower and lower hatches of late (for my quail) and now seeing how often this new one beeps to add more water I think I was just not keeping it as moist as I THOUGHT I was. Oh and this new incubator has a fan , which is also supposed to be superior to still air, as the temp/humidity is more accurate and even.
Good luck! I bet the 'dual breed' meat will be SO much better than the cornish cross. It will taste more like 'old fashioned' chicken :)
I keep speckled Sussex and Dorkings for foodies. They are large hens and can cover a lot of eggs. They are also great momma hens. My favorite is the Dorkings.
Broodies not foodies.....ugh!
Bantams are great too. Mine went broody pretty much instantly after starting to lay. I have some Peken bantams in my flock
You might want to look into the Bresse chickens. They mature more slowly like a lot of heritage breeds, but their meat has some intermuscular fat and they are good layers.
Oooh, I definitely will!
Coming from a farmer thatâs been farmering for A long time youâll love hatching your own chicks. A suggestion donât try to pure breed your chickens. There harder healthier and you can gear your flock for duel purpose a lot easier
Can't wait for the next part loved this video
Yes! This almost exactly what I plan to do with my duel breed also. I just chose a broody breed to eliminate the incubator. But I'm not looking to breed for a profit, just yet, either though. When I do I will probably do both. I'm excited to see how this new venture works for you!
Thank you for the lesson on telling the difference!
Excellent video! I have pure chicks and a rooster! Doing this this spring. Loved reading all the comments too!
Here is a super hint that I have learnt..., don't over fuss with humidity. Just make sure it has some water in the incubator when you first put the eggs down and make sure it doesnt dry out..., on lockdown (day 18) put about an extra 100mls of water in the incubator..., my last batch 15/15 Silver Laced Wyandottes.
Another great video, and I think you are thinking the right way about your chicks and hatching your own eggs. We will be doing that with our eggs this year, too, and hopefully, we will be able to add some good chickens to our flock and also to be able to sell the rest.
The Brinsea incubator you chose is a great one to start with! I use it for my pure-bred, show Bantam Polish. I have a cabinet sized incubator and separate hatcher, but I find that particular model from Brinsea super handy to use for small hatching batch.
Can also candel the eggs and if you have a red spot, it is a fertil egg.
I love your videos! You are my favorite homesteader! â„ïž
Dont discount nature's instincts with old breeds. My chicks were from mail order hatchery originally. We're off grid, so electricity is not an option. We have 2 breeds, 2 roosters. Dominiques and Buckeyes. Males separated with a mix of females. I pick a hen or two from each batch that breed matches rooster and put girls in separate pen. I check daily for about a week, but they usually settle in. Once in a while I'll get a hen that won't sit, but keeps laying, and pull her because usually there are too many eggs to hatch out. Much easier, less fuss.
I don't know if you know about water glassing, but that is an excellent way of preserving eggs so that when you go through a drought you still won't be without eggs ... Costco doesn't need your money ... I'll be checking out your course, thank you for sharing!
We just bought the Nurtura 360. It's really easy it's like set it and forget it, well almost you have to put water in every day.
Easy peasy. Good video thank you.
This is my plan for this year too!â€ïžđŁ
It was a huge thing when mom ordered the chicks. I so looked forward to seeing them they were so cute.
I would choose Delaware over Barred Rock for your dual purpose meat/egg birds. They have predominantly light colored feathers and are easy to pluck and present a nice carcass. They also grow fairly quickly.
Thats awesome I finally found a random trio of delaware chickens that im hoping to use for a breeding program to produce my layer and personal meat birds every year and sell the culls and offer simple ish tractors to thw community as well. Awesome vid I enjoyed seeing it!
You can also control genders when hatching. Look at the smaller end of the egg: the more rounded ends are >most likely< hens while the more pointed end are >most likely< roosters. Yes...we've done this and yes, it really works. And, while having pure bred chickens is great...we have found that cross breeding will usually get a better chicken. For instance, we purchased Buff Orpington's because it was said they were good layers, setters, mommas and meat birds. Meh...not so much. BUT...when our Buff Ladies began crossing with our Game Rooster...that's when the Buff's starting laying better. They also were way more likely to set and raise a fairly large brood of chicks. We had one Little Momma who would raise about 3 batches of 10-12 chicks every year. She'd hatch about 98% of the eggs she sat and about that same percentage of the chicks would live to adulthood. Now, we try to keep a Game Rooster to cross with all our hens because we find that breed tends to make every other breed better. Good luck with the incubator! Your only true foe will be power outages. This year, we've given our incubator to our youngest daughter and her husband as it seems their power company is a little more dependable than ours. They will soon be hatching out a large number of chicks for us and them. (fingers crossed)
Thatâs bogus but keep that old wives tale going.
Just put the chick upside down in your hand. If it turns over it's a hen, if it just sits there, it's a rooster.
How is the game bird for aggressive to humans?
@@chriswaters2327 In our experience, our Game Roosters are mostly aggressive critters that invade their space and other roosters. But, we've never had a Game Rooster be aggressive to humans. Our first one was actually a Rooster who had been fought. He was undefeated. (no, I don't condone this practice. But it's sometimes "a thing" in our rural area...even if it's illegal.) Roho was allegedly 4 yrs old when we got him; he was 15 when he died. He'd protected his Ladies from numerous coon and possum. He'd bowed up at cows and horses. He'd whooped numerous puppies and dogs. But >never< attacked us. In fact, you might have more to fear from a Game Hen with chicks than a Game Rooster. You better have on boots...long sleeves and maybe even gloves if you're going to take >that< Momma's babies from her!
@@lechatbotte. I beg to differ as we've used this method of controlling our poultry genders when incubating for years! The lady who taught this method to my husband had several of the HUGE commercial incubators making a large portion of her living from selling chicks. This is how she separated her eggs. No, it's not perfect, but Ms. Sandy said she figured it to be somewhere between 80-90% accurate. Might wanna actually have some experience before you start dissing information.
and my crosses were big. but then i used Freedom Ranger Rooster. when you figure out the home feed let me know! near San Diego just expensive
"I have read the instruction manual several times" đ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł I love it!
You're great. Thanks so much for all of the laying chicken content you put out!
I'm older than dirt and have never used an incubator. I always keep a couple of good Broody hens in the flock and let them do all of the work!
I have heard that the pointer ones are more likely to be roosters and the rounder one's ( on the tip) will be hens. Also Silkies and Buff Orpington's tend to go broody and stay till the job is finished.
Wow! Great video. Thanks for sharing.
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We are planning to do this also. My daughter wants to breed Buff Orpington's and Australorps and sell the extras birds.
Woah, i didnât know about the 2wk fertile thing. Thank you! đ€Ż
We hatched baby chicks this year. So rewarding after watching eggs for 21 days to finally have them hatch. The kids love it too!
Eeeek this is exciting đŁđŁđŁ
Major storm coming your way...... 2 ft+ snow? Best wishes and stay warm! : ) Liz
When collecting eggs, we store them under the sink(has proper temp and humidity) until we are ready to put in Hatcher
Very good idea...thx
My Buff Orpingtons are hatching their own. They are great moms and are a large breed dual purpose.
I loved incubating chicks. My granddaughter also hatched some of my eggs last year. Between the two of us we hatched 50ish chicks last year. Bard rock was the result. Lots of rooster for meat. Have fun.
Are you high altitude? I learned that is hard to hatch eggs at higher altitude (weâre 4000) Part of the solution was to find eggs that were laid in our altitude and the second was to raise the humidity(we also live in a dry area). Iâm hopping to get a good broody hen to hatch my next batch.
I was today days old when I learnt about blastoderm and blastodiscs. Thank you.
Out of all the types of hens that I've had, the only ones that actually brooded on their eggs and hatch them themselves were bantams. So if I wanted eggs to hatch from a larger size breed, I would put the eggs under my bantam''s and that would actually work too. Or you can get a few Muscovy ducks and they like to brood on eggs as well.
That works for me too. I keep 4 Bantams for just that reason.
Me too. Have one mumma now and one on eggs
I love those incubators.
Hopefully going to do the same with my wyandottes if they dont sit...cant wait to see how yours turn out
That's so funny, I literally just put my first eggs in my incubator an hour ago!
Subbed to your channel to keep learning each day here. My chickens are one month and four months duck is making a nest waiting and hoping
I have the same plan! I only have rhode island reds now but just started last August and got a few more raising my first rooster now and have a small incubator been working on the second coop..now I know how to separate them and hatch pure breds! I would like to expand my flock
Just a thought, there are "slow grow" cornish and other dual purpose meat hybrids available on the market. They would be far better, and faster growing to butcher weight than what you're currently raising.
If youre wanting to stay with the Wyandotte or plymouth rock, i would seek out a line of heritage birds or even a heavy line of exhibition birds. Youll be much happier with the results than using the hatchery lines you currently have.
Exactly! I want to raise meat chickens but donât want to be stuck always having to buy hybrid birds. Iâm considering trying the Delaware breed as a sustainable meat bird breed âŠ. đ€đŒ
I love to use my Broodies to hatch chick. Try some bantams. They have a high success rate and are so easy to do!
Humans have a way of complicating things that nature had already perfected. I was thinking broody hens were the answer. Thanks for letting us know that bantams will sit on eggs. A few bantams may replace the incubator.
I am in love with your videos, I love animals of all kinds, with chickens, ducks...Muscovy my duck of choice...and turkeys being some of my favorite farm animals with goats coming in next!!!!!! One thing I do to help with "incubating" besides my electric incubator is to have a few hens of breeds still known to go broody. I love Silkie chickens and they are a top breed for cuteness, and broodiness...they also sell out super fast. 2 other breeds that are also still known for going broody are Australorps and Orpingtons. You could keep them separated in their own coop without a rooster of their kind or even IF having their own roosters, one can still add eggs under them from the other breeds, as they would still be pure bred just "adopted out"...LOL!!!
Turkey hens are also known to go broody, even without a male around to fertilize her eggs!!! All 3 chicken breeds I mentioned and turkey hens make excellent mommas even to mixed hatches.
Oh and Muscovy ducks are quiet, go broody 2 or 3 times from spring to end of summer especially if babies are removed within/after two weeks and they are excellent Mums as well. Their wings must be clipped though if expecting to keep them in open pens. Muscovies also make excellent meat birds!!!!
For dual purpose chickens you might want to try Delaware chickens, ( Hoover Hatchery)..I have 3 breeds right now Black Star ( sex link)., Sapphire Gems...and picking them up the Delawareâs..really have that weight the others do not..and the Delawareâs are beautiful and nice.
Great ideađ I am planning on getting Chantecler chickens as they are dual purpose and go broody. Keep the hens for eggs and roosters raise for meat.
Great plan!!
So that is how you tell if they are fertile. Thanks for I have wondered about that. I keep Cochin bantams just for setting on big eggs.
Have you thought of creating a system where you can grow the soldier fly larva ?? after few months you can create a cycle so you will save enough protien for your chickens for winter.
Great video thank you!
venison for dinner has me rethinking meat birds also. Your video has great hints and tips to put this into action. Thanks
Looking forward to seeing how this works out for Jill.
I keep a few game hens and game hens love to set. First, I find there nest. If the nest is in a predator prone area, I remove the eggs and destroy the nest. If it's good spot, like in my barn, I get a small nest box, place the eggs in the box, and place the box in the nest location. When the hen goes broody, I replace her eggs with the eggs I want to hatch. If and when I need to, I can pickup the whole nest box, hen and eggs or chicks and move them to a sheltered pen, especially if she hatches several chicks. This way the hen does most all the work. One hen hatched 15 chicks last year. This works well for me anyways.
Excellent! I do the same with my chickens.
You can keep Cornish cross you just need a Cornish too and white rock hens.
Wrong it's more to breeding a cornish cross than crossing the two rohad island white is one of the breeds used and cornish is a small% of the breeding
Hi Jill, our city in Southern California allows us to have 3 egg laying hens at least 40â from the neighbors house. Can you show how to do tiny backyard chickens.
Thank you
I have 16 eggs that have one week left in the incubator before they hatching. đ It's my first time hatching our own. We bought 6 chicks as well, hopefully for the last time, as we want certain breeds in our barnyard mix. From here on out, we are hatching our own. We always bought from the store because we are vegetarians, so we have no use for the [many] roosters you get from hatching eggs yourselves. However, we too want to close the self sufficient loop more. So we will figure out what to do with the extra roosters when the time comes.
Sounds good, I canât do it because I canât have a rooster. I live in town, but I feel lucky to have that at least!â„ïžđđđșđžđ€
If you can try White Rocks for your dual purpose birds, my Mom had great success with them for meat!
Iâll be darn. I learned something new. Now I need to get an incubator. Thanks
We did the economical (Chinese) Hatcher, now we have a Brimsea that actually works. Costly but it workâs reliably
I'm blessed to have several broody hens (Silkies in that barnyard mix somewhere). My problem is that all the other hens still want to lay in that same box the broody hen is setting in. So in their arguing.over whose turn it is, an egg or two will get stomped on it kicked out of the box, etc. I fixed that problem by scooping up the hen and her eggs and put her in a.plastic tote with holes drilled in it and have her food and water. Those big giant clear totes work will and I just stack them. Lots and lots of holes in the side, though. Moisture will accumulate, otherwise.
I learned to minimize disturbance and i started candling on lock-down day
i write the date laid on each egg with a pencil so i know. i also sell extra eggs to friends
Been self sufficient in the chicken department for yeeeears .
Have such a special group of hens now (mixed origins) and don't ever go without eggs anytime of year Northern maine. Australorp, americana, aracauna, sliver laced and cochins for brooding
Now THAT is handy!
Hope you folks are watching Coghill farm. They hatch a bunch.
I have two Silkie chickens that usually get broody, and I let them hatch the eggs.
I do have leghorns, barred, and amerikanaus chickens as well, but I am NOT letting the big hens sit on the eggs.
I am disenchanted with the big chickens...but love my silkies.
I will start next month with letting the silkies sit on the eggs.
I love laced wyandottes. We tried to hatch eggs once but it didnt work. Guess we gotta try it this way.
Snowmageddon headed your way. I live South of you in Greeley, CO. They're are predicting an historic storm! Be careful out there. Even though I live in Colorado, I'll be in Georgia.
Did you know you can actaully dry hatch. I've recently learnt it. Doing it first time with quail due tomrrow. You only add water at lockdown. Candelled the quail last night and they alive and grown well in shell. So will be interesting to find out if I get a low number of chicks with splay or none with them.
I have always thought of getting some laying breed roosters and caponizing them for meat birds. Capons are almost a lost art but My grandma told me they were better mommas than hens would sit eggs and had much more flavorful meat.
Great info i liked it
Get a few ultra broody..cochins they hatch and raise.
If you have a fluffy chicken you may need to trim butt feathering for best fertility
Your lucky. Your chickens use more than one box. I have ten birds that only use 1 of the 6 the identical egg boxes I have. They line up yelling at the one in the box, but luckily for me and them they don't kick the laying hen out while she's doing her thing. They just loudly voice their opinion of the current layer. Been this way for over 6 months. They look inside them, but rarely lay in it. When they do it's a three alarm emergency and they drop the egg in minute lol.
An option to consider for meat birds is to breed your own sex links. Cockerel & pullets can be separated at hatch, and hybrid vigor will decrease the grow out period and provide more meat on the birds you butcher.
One thing we learnes along the way was to rest the eggs for 2 - 3 days if we bought them from a different place- apparently the bumping from the road trip needs to settle before they get placed into the incubator - actually made a huge difference to us
How long
We are doing the same too
You could save a couple weeks on your plan by introduced the chosen rooster as soon as you separate the hens. The rooster can take up to 2 weeks to woo his new ladies. Then you could wait a week or so less time. That way all the previous mating's would be gone and the new rooster would be doing his job. Then in the beginning we will not have unfertile eggs to try to hatch in between the roosters. Yes would love to be able to fund this property, but only have 1/4 acre and not enough room for the things I want.
We just hatched 28 chicks and 3 turkeys next. My hens I have some wonderful new egg colors comming. Copper marins an calif.whites and they have white festhey feet. New bird for me. And they have not gotten pasty butts. It's been so far good but 15 eggs not hatched waiting a few extra days just to be sure.
Great video with useful information. We have also been in the situation of having an egg glut and wasted lots of eggs. What do you do with them all?