3 Reasons Your Chickens Stopped Laying Eggs
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- Опубликовано: 25 май 2019
- Healthy, happy, well fed hens should lay lots of eggs. Let's go through this one by one starting with health. All chickens need a few things to be healthy, they need to be dewormed regularly, they need grit every day to digest their food properly, and they need lots of calcium to make eggs and their muscles need it to push the eggs out so they don't get egg bound.
The second thing to think about is nutrition, the food the eat every day. Hens need tons of animal protein to make eggs. Chickens are meat eaters. When you let them free range, they run straight to the woods to dig up bugs. When you keep them in a smaller yard or in a coop you need to feed them the animal protein they need. It is up to you. You can buy dry meal worms in a bag at feed stores like Tractor Supply and Rural King. You can feed some grain free cat or dog kibble. Make sure it’s not large dog kibble because the pieces will be too big. Canned meat like sardines and tuna work good and are perfect for a winter boost. Table scraps are a great way to use up food so you don't have to throw it away.
Last but not least is the comfort of the hens in the henhouse. They need a roost, clean nest boxes and really, really important is not to have too many chickens in your coop.
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I don't even have to watch the video to hit the "like" button, because I already know if Becky makes a video on chickens, I'm gunna love it!!
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@Becky's Homestead. 7:45. Look at how absolutely trusting and calm your little chicken is in the giant mans hands. Your all adorable and a favorite to watch and learn from.
Becky you are so helpful, and down to earth!! Thank you for all your videos
I just rescued 7 hens that were dumped in a forestry block near where I live. Great advice as a couple are just starting to lay now! 🐓🐣
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You are so precise and good at what you know! Thank you for sharing! It helped me a lot with my chickens and they are laying eggs back again!
I have learned a lot from this lovely lady. Great videos Ms. Becky! Keep up the great work. 👍🏻
Hey Becky thank you for the great information these are all good things to know when I do eventually get my property thank you so very much have a blessed one
Becky you and your son are amazing people. I have learned a lot from your videos , thanks very much
Thank you! We have lots of chickens and we're still learning.
I just love you. You bring so much cheer into my life with your happy and upbeat spirit. Also i have learned so much I hope my chickens are happy as yours are
Becky I love watching your videos. you have great advice, I have learned a lot from you. My girls are all so happy and healthy.I get more eggs now than ever. We just built a much bigger run, they love it.
I love your videos you inspired me to start my own RUclips channel it will never be as big as yours 💜💜💜
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You are the chicken queen ❤🐔! I love your videos. They are very educational and informative and I thank you for helping me care for chickens! Your videos have helped me so much! God bless😍
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Many thanks also to your flock and son 😊
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Thank you for sharing your expertise.
I just found you and I love what you're teaching me! We have 7 RIR's that are 24 weeks old. We are waiting for eggs! As I've watched a few of your videos about your girls, I'm concerned that we may have too many in our coop. We built a 4x6 portable coop, because we live in a neighborhood with a standard yard. The other thing is, they love to sleep in the nesting boxes. Well, some sleep in and the others roost on the sides of the boxes. There are 2 boxes and we've noticed they like 1 over the other. We have a log for them to roost, from one side to the other 4' across, but I didn't know I could move them from the boxes to the roost. I already started calling them to sit on it today and will work on that tonight. I've cleaned out the coop and the nesting boxes
In my estimation your coop is too small for 7 RIRs. They need a foot of roosting space, for example. Chickens like to sleep in a high spot on a roost. The ones who sleep in the nesting boxes are doing it because they don't have choice. Do you have a chicken run? Big chickens need about 4 square feet in the coop and about 12 outside.
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Thank you very very much Ms Becky. Although i have chickens for very long time , many on what i heard from you now sounds so new to me and very informative. Coz now i plan to breed the hens i collected. Thanks a lot again for tips and information. 👍😊 God bless you always.
Aunt Becky, very pleasant video you did , well done !
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Thank you Becky...one chicken wasn't laying..more calcium and grits worked. Worked i just a few days. I order the Demetrius earth though and will use that too. So very happy...me and the chicken.
One of a very few channels I like Thanks for all the info 😊
Thanks for the tip on grit all the time I used to only put it down once in a while.
I just found your video helped me,and i am really excited about this
Thank you Beckys and God bless you.
Hi Becky.....I love your videos so much.
Thanx for sharing your ideas and love the way you express, thats practical tips and useful for many layer farmers 😊😊😊
Thanks for the good advice. You are a chicken guru.
My wife was against me from getting chickens, but now that we have them she loves them.
Hahaha she is a chicken convert. Tell her "welcome to the flock"☀️❤️☀️
My husband was the same.
❤ you are so knowledgeable Becky ! Thanks
Your chickens look gorgeous!
I just love how you explain everything. I truly appreciate learning from you. Thanks you.
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Thank you Becky for the information
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Becky you are WAY to cheerful while telling me why my girls ain't laying for me.
I just love your videos. You need to have this young man in more of them. I like him already.😉
Becky, we really appreciate your videos. Thank you for the wonderful information!
Thank you Becky for such a informative video.
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Thank you for sharing 🙂. You are delightful people. God Bless
Wow.. Absolutely incredible stuff from this incredible angel,,, Becky wish 2 see one day.. It's a dream
Hi Becky. Really enjoy all you videos. I even bought your book. I have a question and would like your opinion. I read that fermenting your chickens feed is very healthy for them. What do you think?
Thanks Ms. Becky! I have 9 hens and was down to 3 to 5 eggs a day and we just thought it was cold weather. After seeing your video I took some dried cat food and some left over bacon grease from a pan where we had breakfast this morning and coated the cat food with it. We also put some oyster shells out in a bowl for them. We had 8 eggs the same day after this! Going to give them some grit tomorrow. Thanks again from a newbie chicken Mom. Much Love and Blessings
Wow, that's great. I'm going to try this, thanks!
Thank you for educating me.
Hi Becky, very interesting video, I have a 1742 deep liter flock for egg production, these are very fragile I think. Do the same things able according to the 3 issues you mentioned in this video as well as the cleaning routine?
Awesome advice. Thanks.
Becky's is always so happy and enjoyable to listen to!!! Thanks for the info.
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It is her high voice
Love the way you explained
Thank you for all your help. I love watching your videos. I need all the good advice that you and Scott provide. I wish I had watched early enough that I had not made some of the mistakes that I have made. First I bought too many little doodles. They were so tiny and cute. It sure didnt take them long to get big and messy. I still dont have a coop for them. That is another piece of advice that I should have heard. You need your coop and equipment before you get your chicks. I am learning but wish I had learned before getting the doodles.
Love your information!
It's amazing and very useful becky, then what about natural way for deworming???
the crushed oyster shell are also grit for gizzards
Thank you for all your videos on hens. I only have 4 hens and a rooster in a 4x8 coop. They quit laying when my husband put a floor in the bottom instead of the dirt floor. I'm figuring it reduced air flow, and they aren't happy anymore. I'm either going to take the floor out, or drill some vent holes in the walls just above the floor.
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Great info thank you Becky
Number one age. Chickens lay for a period of time and then simply get too old. Second, fall and shorter days as chickens need long days to lay. Third is nutrition. The best egg production I've ever gotten was from feeding chickens bags of wild bird seed that I bought as a pallet close out for 25 cents a 20lb bag. My young rhode island reds are producing nearly one egg per chicken per day on laying pellets and food scraps. I do have a light over their run so the days seem longer.
Thank you so much for this great info.
Thanks for your helpful videos
Cool video. My mom's name is also Becky. We now have our own garden. I have been watching since you started.
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Thanks Becky! God Bless you
I am so grateful for your assistance. You are so nice. Thank you for taking your time and energy to show and teach us this. XOXO
Hey I love your advice about taking care of chicken
Love the vid would like to see daily vlogs
Nice vid!
In my teen years, my family had chickens. I remember finding a nightcrawler and threw it amongst them. They ran in and got a look, but wouldn't eat it. Maybe too big?
There was a beautiful blackberry bush, and I was picking berries. If I dropped one, it was gone in a second!
I dug up a piece of that bush, and now, 50 years later, its growing in my back yard. Maybe I'll get a few chicks this year too.
Ms. Becky, first I love your channel, it is so helpful. I am fairly new to backyard chickens. And I have a few questions. I thought I was doing everything right and through this video I learned that they need grit along with the oyster shells I’ve been providing!!! I feel terrible that I’ve not been providing it.
Thank you thank you thank you!!
And yes, when my girls are out ranging they LOVE the cat food.
If your chickens are free ranging they’ll find the pebbles needed.
1. Grit 2. Calcium & what was the 3rd. one?
@@lenadial4678 3. Protein.
Tnx dor the infol you make a good team.
Becky could you do a video on Myths about homesteading or maybe things you said you were never going to do but ended up doing?
Great idea!
What are your thoughts on using mash grains for chickens. There's an artisan distillery that give it away for free in our area by the barrel (100lbs+). What would you subsidize it with to provide proper nutrition.
I love your videos…..you give the best advice with a lot of common sense and easy to understand…….thank you for that…..I love chickens as a child my grandmother always kept chickens and when I see chickens free range I’m taken back to my happy place I’m now 62 and live in the city and wish I was able to keep chickens now……❤❤❤ what’s your opinion on Wyandottes? I love the brown eggs….but not so dark as the Marans…..
I love chickens too! I truly like all chickens but my favorite are Black Australopes because they are the best egg layers. ☀️❤️☀️
Hi Mrs Becky I loved your Videos your joy and love of chickens came threw with great info . Now it more like a commercial 😪
Very nice, informative video. My two girls and I are purchasing our first baby chicks in about two weeks. We can't wait! 😍
How exciting. Make sure you have your coop all built and ready and start small☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead My girls don't know we're finally getting chickens. So my dads surprising my girls in a couple weeks by bringing over a chicken coop he built.
My girls have been asking for chickens since they were 3&4, they are now 11&12. Never have stopped asking. As soon as coop is over here I'm getting the chicks, starting with 6.
Becky I’d love to know what kind of chicken feed you are using, I’m tired of using this three ingredient feed and the feed you show in this video looks like exactly what I’m looking for.
Thank you Becky!
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Waawo, i like ur teachings
If the bottom of their coops are multipurpose sand do I still need to supplement them with grit? I know they ingest sand when pecking at the ground. I also have several bowls of clean fresh oyster shells always available to them.
I'm so happy you mentioned hot dogs. Our chickens went crazy over hot dogs. I was experimenting. They were crowing so bad when I was bbqing. They went crazy! Plus i found they like cooked hot dogs moreso over cold straight out of the pkg. As do I! 😂
Hahaha spoiled chickens😂
Thanks for the video .
For additional animal protein, I will scramble their own eggs and give them back to them, especially in the winter. Or I'll hardboil them and toss them, shells and all, into the Ninja. The girls love when I serve the eggs with some raisins and/or cut up romaine tossed in, too.
So informative!
Wonderful video
Thank you for the tips
I've had been for three years now,and they have always laid eggs in a smaller storage container...
Not sure if that's good or bad... Oh well.
INFORMATIVE VIDEO .
Great video! Thank you! 😊
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I just want to say thanks for all your educating me I'm starting to have a little farm and I grew up on a farm and I love animals specially chickens or all birds and the sheep and goats or all animals your good teacher, what is deworms means kill the worms from your chekins bells
Becky! How nice to see you again (I've been a bit busy, missed some weeks of posts).
Thank you for the education, even though I'm a city gal right now, I won't be forever.
Giddy up, the country is calling☀️❤️☀️
To add calcium and add to their feed dry eggshells and pulverize in a blender. Add a heaping tablespoons and mix in the feed.
Hi Becky
Thanks for all the info
At 5:15 on the video there is 2 white and brown chickens, what bread are they please?
1 of my 3 quit laying several months ago. 1 was acting off for a couple days.
I put her by herself and feed her extra calcium, she sprung back after 2 or 3 days.i assume thats the one thats not laying.
I checked to see if she was egg bound, she wasnt. All 3 got dewormed incase she had worms.
There coop is 4x4 ontop of a 4x8 run. Iv added to the run. They now have a 8x40 run.
They have 4 12x12 nest boxes,their roost is about 3ft off the floor of the coop.
Has plenty of ventilation,cleaned out once a week.
They seem happy and healthy.
They get let out a few hours a day and they free range all weekend.
My dogs dont mess with em
I use calcium enriched layer from tractor supply & occasional treats like meal worms n stuff
You are so,so fun, & very informative Thank you
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Surely you have given me a new hope
Great video ❤️ Blessings 💗
Miss Becky, Please make videos about guinea fowls? I want to learn about them.
I need to know from her too
Nice and very informative video 🥰🥰
very helpful
imm very satisfied with ur tips😍