I'm glad you mentioned change with point-of-lay chickens. We made the mistake of moving our point-of-lay hens three times in the first month. Once we stopped moving them they began laying.
You guys are doing just great at creating your channel! Thanks for being vulnerable and willing to teach us timid potential future homesteaders like me 😝
@@Homesteadyshow well... 17 lol. I ordered 16 Ameraucana with substitutions allowed and the free chick... I'm still trying to figure out which are what. And some comments on the hatcheries website said they were actually Easter Eggers. I don't mind either way. So I have a lot of cute chicks that have different coloring and I hope they look a little hawk-like to avoid predators as best as possible for a chicken.
It’s 9 years since I got my first 4 point of lay hens. Daisy, Primrose, SweetPea and Phytophthera (an ongoing joke with my mum who can’t say f and th sounds in the same word - it got shortened to Toffee pretty quickly 😂😂). SweetPea is still here. Toffee only died in December. They’ve done good! Both Australorps. I’ve put both fertile eggs and day old chicks under broody hens with pretty good results. Even got to the point where I was at the limit of chickens I’m allowed to have here! I have 6 now. The youngest must be 5 or even 6. Certainly too old for winter eggs this year! I’m hoping one or two will still go broody in spring so I can utilise that to hatch out my flock for my homestead. Willow and Fluffy Bum have been pretty reliable at going broody so hopefully they don’t let me down! If not I’ll buy an incubator. I should probably have one on hand anyway, but if I don’t need it immediately because they go broody it can be a cost that I can put off for a few months. I haven’t yet decided if I’ll go for white or black Australorps yet. I remember you said that white birds are easier to pluck, but they’re a bit rare so it might be tricky to find unrelated roosters, whereas black ones are everywhere. The black ones also have a stunning green shimmer in the sunlight. They’re so pretty to look at. I’ll have to wait and see where I end up and what the neighbours have. The market seems to have picked up again this week so fingers crossed my homestead will come along soon. I have a very small list of things to still do here before selling but it’s only a couple of evenings worth. It’s looking great. I still hate it though! 😂😂
@@Homesteadyshow aren’t they incredible! How did yours go with the move? I’m guessing they were in the trailer with Ladybug. Did you keep them together in one cage or did they each have an individual box? I haven’t got a tow bar yet so they might need to go in the car for an hour and a half. That’ll be fragrant! 😂😂 As soon as I’m completely ready here and just holding waiting for the right place to come up the tow bar is at the top of my list. There are places where I’d be able to hire a trailer here and return it half an hour from the new place, and if I can whack together a wooden box of sorts to keep them safe it’ll be a much more pleasant drive! I’ll try to get the gun license sorted out while I’m still here too as there’s a range 10 minutes from here but once I’ve moved I think the nearest is a good hour. I’m so organised with packing that even if I need to finish those things off after I’ve sold I’ll be able to get it done. Of course I can’t find anything I need! Now where did I put that thing… in a box! 🤦🏻♀️
One of my best broody moms was a little black bantam cochin. She lived to be nearly 14. I could take new chicks, put them with her in a small dog crate for 24 hours, and they were HERS. Fight all the other hens for HER babies. Putting them in the crate also trained her to go there at night with her chicks, so I could close them up for safety. I have rat snakes that have come in and snatched chicks before.
@@lynnbetts4332 wow! What a little superstar! Nearly 14 is amazing! Good idea re the dog crate. I might look into that. Here they have a predator proof run attached to a shed but I might need to improvise something for them when I’m first at my next place.
@@moniquem783 It would take 1/2" hardware cloth to keep these rat snakes out. I've had them slide easily out of chicken wire when I caught them killing my pullets. I lost my broody cuckoo maran last night to a snake. I could tell from the slime on her head. A full-grown maran. They aren't small birds. I kept pulling the eggs to break her broodiness, but she stayed. Guess when the snake didn't find any eggs, he took it out on her. Only have 1 maran left out of 4. Going to rebuild my coop/run this summer, so planning on a super secure inside coop to put broody girls and new chicks. Dare a snake or rat to get them in it.
Great video! My blue laced red Wyandottes are SO BROODY! Do you guys have advice for breaking broody chickens? I already have so many new chicks from one and another has been sitting fruitlessly for nearly 2 months & won’t break.
Just move them to other place without nests, just broody hens of course, in a couple of days move them again, and after week or two they stop to be broody. My grandmother used to give them cold shower. Also, broody hens don't like light, and don't like to bi disturbed. Move them from the nest, put them outside and that's it...
@@milanradojkovic3818 My chickens are all free-range, and my girl has set up on the hay bales in the barn. Moved her to get to the hay and she stayed. Others came and laid their eggs next to her, and she gathered them up. Not even the chicken snake broke her broodiness when it got all 7 eggs. I collect any eggs every day.
#askhomesteady what would you say is the amount of work one person can manage while also keeping a full time non farm job? I’m planning on starting up my own homestead for myself (solo) and I work from home as a project manager. I’m curious how much time and level of effort for animals?
I'm glad you mentioned change with point-of-lay chickens. We made the mistake of moving our point-of-lay hens three times in the first month. Once we stopped moving them they began laying.
You guys are doing just great at creating your channel! Thanks for being vulnerable and willing to teach us timid potential future homesteaders like me 😝
Great video! We got our chicks last Friday! They are doing great! The kids are smitten with them!
Woot! So exciting! How many? What kind?
@@Homesteadyshow well... 17 lol. I ordered 16 Ameraucana with substitutions allowed and the free chick... I'm still trying to figure out which are what. And some comments on the hatcheries website said they were actually Easter Eggers. I don't mind either way. So I have a lot of cute chicks that have different coloring and I hope they look a little hawk-like to avoid predators as best as possible for a chicken.
It’s 9 years since I got my first 4 point of lay hens. Daisy, Primrose, SweetPea and Phytophthera (an ongoing joke with my mum who can’t say f and th sounds in the same word - it got shortened to Toffee pretty quickly 😂😂). SweetPea is still here. Toffee only died in December. They’ve done good! Both Australorps. I’ve put both fertile eggs and day old chicks under broody hens with pretty good results. Even got to the point where I was at the limit of chickens I’m allowed to have here! I have 6 now. The youngest must be 5 or even 6. Certainly too old for winter eggs this year! I’m hoping one or two will still go broody in spring so I can utilise that to hatch out my flock for my homestead. Willow and Fluffy Bum have been pretty reliable at going broody so hopefully they don’t let me down! If not I’ll buy an incubator. I should probably have one on hand anyway, but if I don’t need it immediately because they go broody it can be a cost that I can put off for a few months. I haven’t yet decided if I’ll go for white or black Australorps yet. I remember you said that white birds are easier to pluck, but they’re a bit rare so it might be tricky to find unrelated roosters, whereas black ones are everywhere. The black ones also have a stunning green shimmer in the sunlight. They’re so pretty to look at. I’ll have to wait and see where I end up and what the neighbours have.
The market seems to have picked up again this week so fingers crossed my homestead will come along soon. I have a very small list of things to still do here before selling but it’s only a couple of evenings worth. It’s looking great. I still hate it though! 😂😂
It’s amazing how long they can live and still produce. We have some girls that were my sons first chickens at our Connecticut farm still going strong!
@@Homesteadyshow aren’t they incredible! How did yours go with the move? I’m guessing they were in the trailer with Ladybug. Did you keep them together in one cage or did they each have an individual box? I haven’t got a tow bar yet so they might need to go in the car for an hour and a half. That’ll be fragrant! 😂😂 As soon as I’m completely ready here and just holding waiting for the right place to come up the tow bar is at the top of my list. There are places where I’d be able to hire a trailer here and return it half an hour from the new place, and if I can whack together a wooden box of sorts to keep them safe it’ll be a much more pleasant drive! I’ll try to get the gun license sorted out while I’m still here too as there’s a range 10 minutes from here but once I’ve moved I think the nearest is a good hour. I’m so organised with packing that even if I need to finish those things off after I’ve sold I’ll be able to get it done. Of course I can’t find anything I need! Now where did I put that thing… in a box! 🤦🏻♀️
One of my best broody moms was a little black bantam cochin. She lived to be nearly 14. I could take new chicks, put them with her in a small dog crate for 24 hours, and they were HERS. Fight all the other hens for HER babies. Putting them in the crate also trained her to go there at night with her chicks, so I could close them up for safety. I have rat snakes that have come in and snatched chicks before.
@@lynnbetts4332 wow! What a little superstar! Nearly 14 is amazing!
Good idea re the dog crate. I might look into that. Here they have a predator proof run attached to a shed but I might need to improvise something for them when I’m first at my next place.
@@moniquem783 It would take 1/2" hardware cloth to keep these rat snakes out. I've had them slide easily out of chicken wire when I caught them killing my pullets. I lost my broody cuckoo maran last night to a snake. I could tell from the slime on her head. A full-grown maran. They aren't small birds. I kept pulling the eggs to break her broodiness, but she stayed. Guess when the snake didn't find any eggs, he took it out on her. Only have 1 maran left out of 4. Going to rebuild my coop/run this summer, so planning on a super secure inside coop to put broody girls and new chicks. Dare a snake or rat to get them in it.
You too are so cute I love your videos
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Have you ever thought of getting quail or pheasants? Just curious.
Yes and yes, just haven’t yet
Great video! My blue laced red Wyandottes are SO BROODY! Do you guys have advice for breaking broody chickens? I already have so many new chicks from one and another has been sitting fruitlessly for nearly 2 months & won’t break.
Oh man, not really, we usually like a few to hatch stuff out, and when we don’t we just collect eggs early in the day and again later, sorry!
Just move them to other place without nests, just broody hens of course, in a couple of days move them again, and after week or two they stop to be broody. My grandmother used to give them cold shower. Also, broody hens don't like light, and don't like to bi disturbed. Move them from the nest, put them outside and that's it...
@@milanradojkovic3818 My chickens are all free-range, and my girl has set up on the hay bales in the barn. Moved her to get to the hay and she stayed. Others came and laid their eggs next to her, and she gathered them up. Not even the chicken snake broke her broodiness when it got all 7 eggs. I collect any eggs every day.
@@lynnbetts4332 yep, that's classic...
#askhomesteady what would you say is the amount of work one person can manage while also keeping a full time non farm job? I’m planning on starting up my own homestead for myself (solo) and I work from home as a project manager. I’m curious how much time and level of effort for animals?
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