Bielefelder Chickens!!
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- čas přidán 28. 07. 2024
- In this short video series we are going to talk about the different chickens breeds that we raise at KC Farms. Chickens have always been known as the gateway animals to homesteading. They are super efficient animals and serve so many great purposes on the farm.
In this video we talk about our Bielefelder Chickens. This is the newest breed we have on our farm. They are a large dual purpose breed that are good for eggs and meat. Our birds are 17 weeks old and are already the size of our year and a half old welsummers. They a docile breed that are not skiddish when we come into the pen.
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We are talking about all of the chickens that we raise at KC Farms. Let us know what breeds you have or are thinking about getting and why!!
I have been raising these chickens for a couple years and love them. They are clod and heat tolerant here in Middle Tennessee. We free range ours. Vary their diet with with worms and grit, and dust for bathing.
Living in Alaska, and love love love my Bielefelders 💜 They started laying at 6 months and lay all thru the winter
Thanks for sharing
I purchased a few Bielefelder chickens in June I absolutely love the breed. Beautiful birds
They have easily become my favorite chicken! They lay very well and they have noticed they have the orangest yolks out of all our chicken breeds. So I am assuming they are foraging the most
@@KCFarms mine haven’t started to lay yet. How old were yours when they startup lay?
Ours started laying at 23 weeks
Those roosters are gorgeous! I've fallen in love with the Speckled Sussex breed, they're supposed to be docil as well and so far the hens are very docile. I've got 6 Sussex roosters that are coming of age to breed ....got to get rid of some once I determine which of them I will keep. I am trying a new breed to me which is the Russian Spangled Orlov. These girls have been a treat! They gallop like horses when the run and they run often as they play in the tall grass. I've never seen chickens play but these do. It's hilarious to watch them. They snake their heads from side to side when they play hide and seek. They also are known to be docile and so far they are. I have to keep from stepping on them as I feed them. As to their value for eggs I have yet to see, they mature more slowly into egg laying as the Bielefelders do.
I'm so excited mine are coming in 10 days
Bielefelders lol
Excited for you they are awesome chickens!! Getting ready to do a 1 year update video on them!
@@KCFarms looking forward to it, thanks 😊
My belifender rooster is the sweetie 💕
Pretty birds
They’re definitely pretty!! Hope they lay sooner rather than later! My whiting true green started laying at 4.5 months and I’m grateful because I know my cuckoo Marans is gonna take at least till 6 months!
Those are 2 breeds we’d like to add
KC Farms would highly recommend the Green. Have a Whiting’s True Blue coming this week, so hopefully she is a good producer too! The cuckoo Marans is a paranoid nut job, so hopefully her eggs make up for her crazy 🤣 and maybe laying will make her mellow out a little like it has with my other lady.
They lay later ~6 months but they lay very well😊
Jasmijn - mine started to lay at about 5.5 months (I feel quite lucky lol a friend’s waited till 7 months!) 🙌 and has always laid huge eggs, even from the start, which is so awesome! She lays less than my Whiting True Green, but still about 5 eggs a week in the Summer time.
Thanks for the info. 😊
You are welcome! They are a great breed!
We got some mystery chickens from someone who ordered rangers from rural king. Most. Of them look like this breed except for one Easter egger.
I’ve never seen those chickens before, they are lovely. One we get our land (fingers crossed) I would love some bluebells, black australops, light Sussex and silver Wyandotte’s 😃
We have a couple Sussex as well they are very nice birds. Never heard of bluebells but they sound fun.
KC Farms they are pretty and big ladies, kind of a light blue/grey body with a darker head 😊
What color eggs do they lay?
Um, kinda like a pinky brown
Ours is 6 months old still no eggs.... beautiful these was our first breed our 3 year old walks in and picks them up so calm
We got our first eggs at 23 weeks I was super excited
@@KCFarms added y’all I was looking up this breed. I knew was behind for sure. Looking forward to all the updates
We have another up date coming soon! We have a broody mama!! I can’t speak highly enough about these chickens!!
Thanks for following along!!
I personally like the Rhode Island Reds. I have 7 of them. Since I handle them a lot when they were babies, they are really docile just like your chickens. Only thing is the rooster is still very aggressive. He’s going in a pot when he starts crowing as I am not allowed to have one in town.
Rhode Island reds are great layers!!
Im about to probably have the same rooster problem. Im supposed to get a free surprise breed, and it will probably be male. Guess I'll just axe it when it starts crowing unfortunately.
I have 7 chicken. Full black.
Hlo. Im from india.. Super chicken..😘😘i luv it...
Thanks
May I ask you what hatchery you purchase your chicks from? Looks like nice quality. Love your channel. Thanksa keep healthy and well and have a good day.
We got these from Murray McMurray. I know that Valley Farms Hatchery is carrying them this year as well! We have had great success with valley farms you should check them out!
Thanks for following along!!
@@KCFarms You are welcome my friend!
How much do you feed per chicken? We’re hoping to get some this year to use as meat birds and I’m currently doing feed math.
Is that electric fencing you have there around the yard? I am thinking of putting something up around my coop, I was free ranging but lost some birds to what I think was a coyote. Just got some Bielefelder hens to replace some that I lost. They look like nice birds.
Yes it is premier 1 fencing we love it. Bielefelders are fantastic hope you enjoy them!
Hi, I'm Tom from SE Missouri out in the country near (65791). I am getting chicks coming in the mail next Friday. 2 males, in case one dies and 14 Females,,,,,All bielefelders. I wanted to ask, If I end up with 12 hens, How many eggs should I expect daily ??
Believe it or not, these chicks were some of the last chicks that Murray MacMurray had left on the last week of sales.
I guess folks dont want to feed them.
Thanks for your post.
Hey Tom good question. We have 21 females one of them is broody So she isn’t laying at the moment. Out of the the 20 hens yesterday we had 13 eggs and today we had 15 so I am very impressed with them. I would guess you would get 7-10 a day once they start laying a full speed:) ours just started laying so I don’t feel they are at peak production yet. We love them can’t wait to start hatching out more. And the males haven’t attacked us yet!!
Thanks for following along
I have two roosters and four hens, they just started to lay. How soon did yours go broody?
We got ours in the fall and they were broody the following spring
Hello, great video, where did you buy the chicks or the eggs from?
We got our from murray mcmurray
Thank you for the info, I subbed 😊
Appreciate you following along
Have they laid any eggs yet? I have three Bielefelders about the same age and no eggs yet
Funny you ask we just got our first egg yesterday at 23 weeks! We are going to do an update video this week
Someone dropped a bielefelder rooster at my horse's pasture about a month ago. This is my first time caring for chickens. He's the only one. He makes interesting noises. One being a very loud MOO---wah. MOO---wah MOO----wah sound. Hollering that for a couple minutes Wednesday mid-afternoon. He was out of my view when he did that. Have you heard yours do that? Do you know what their reason for making that sound is? Just curious. Mine is very skittish but I imagine it's because he was just dumped at an unfamiliar place without his buddies. He crowed a lot the first day or 2. Now, not so much. My horses and I love having him around. I just feel bad for him not having his hens or buddies. He seems to find plenty to eat but I got some chicken scratch after 3 days for him also. Thanks in advance. Great video. Thank you for the information.
I have never heard that sound from ours. Ours are a little hard to catch and always try to move away from us if we try to catch them but they have never attacked us like other roosters we have owned. So as far as skittish that sounds kind of normal. They seem to forage very well at our place so I’m sure he will find plenty to pick through as long as he can find access to fresh water he should be good. You can always throw out fruit and veggie scraps as well that he can pick at. We appreciate you following along hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions
@@KCFarms thank you so much. I have a year round spring fed creek my horses drink from so he has been. I spent 2 hours during the night trying to google that sound. It is possible of could have been something else in the woods but in the 5.5 years I've been there I've never heard this before. I sounded like his voice if that makes sense. Same loudness as his crowing. It's going to drive me crazy until I figure it out. I wish I'd thought to record the sound bit think I was actually riding a horse and just assumed it was one of his noises. Lol. Oh well. Thank you so much for taking time to respond. I am following you y'all now. Oh. I didn't mention, I don't live where my horses are ( or the rooster). I rent that pasture/land so Im not there most of the time. Just 30 minutes to several hours at most a day.
It’s funny you say that about the noise I did hear a funny noise last night putting the birds up at night and it was coming from the woods but it wasn’t a chicken. Hope you figure out the noise
@@KCFarms thanks again. I will get to the bottom of. Lol. It's driving me crazy. Where are y'all? I'm in Franklin, TN. About 30 miles south of Nashville.
We are in Crossville, TN. Moved up here from Florida about 2 years ago to get out of an HOA and start raising our own food it’s been quite an adventure wouldn’t trade it for anything. My daughter has been asking us about getting horses I may have to bug you about some info on horses😂
Our Belfeilder Rooster is aggressive and it’s so disappointing. He is beautiful but I don’t think I have the energy to protect the kids from him all the time. Our Rhode Island Red Roo is so much calmer. But I don’t really try and pick up his hens
Ugh that is a bummer. We have been lucky and ours just run away from us. We haven’t been attacked yet. 🤞
@@KCFarms Do you find that not over handling when they are young helps or hurts aggression later on in roos?
Honestly we rarely handle. Sometimes my daughter finds a favorite and handles them but we don’t really interact except to feed and get eggs. Unless they are in when we go and pet the pigs.
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