Becky, love the vids. One awesome thing about a Rooster that you forgot to mention that I know you know, but to me is a big deal, is that they protect the flock. All that noise is for a purpose. They yell "Bird of Prey! Everyone, get under something!" "Ladies, get in the house, it's getting dark!", or "Ladies, the neighbors dog is out again!", and then they walk around the perimeter to check things out and make sure they are all safe. Usually the first ones out in the morning and the last ones in at night. Well done, Roo, well done!
Becky I enjoyed watching this video. Thank you for taking the time to do it. Sorry about the stupidity of some people commenting on your videos or those feeling the need to criticise you while not actually having the guts to make a video themselves. Please ignore the critics and keep going! Your chickens look great, and I find your tips very helpful.
Thank you Becky. Just bought 4 baby chicks today. So excited to watch them grow up and give us fresh non-GMO and chemical free eggs. Now I have to find all the chem-free chicken food for my babies. You do a great job with your videos. Keep them coming !!!!
Hey Becky I've been watching you for a while, and I finally got chickens because of you!! We have a Rhode Island Red, white Orpington, laced Wyandotte, French Marian, a mix breed, amaricana, Cochin rooster, and Cochin pullet, and a silkie.
as far as the grit if they free range they get the grit themselves, but you can save your eggshells and bake them,( I leave them in when preheating my oven) crush them up and throw them back out into the pen for them to scratch and use as grit, the feed store also carries oyster shell for this reason so much cheaper than buying it in a box like that. I throw a cup out into the pen ever so often. I am using my egg shells in my garden and compost. I buy a bag of oyster shell and just throw a cup full or two out with the chicken scratch ever so often. I try to keep a little in the dirt for them when it disapears I throw out more. Thnx for sharing I enjoy your videos.
@@sdwags8536 right Oyster Shells and egg shells are the calcium to make strong shells on new laid eggs. I have one hen who constantly lays with shells so tender they crack open when I pick them up. For grit we bought "baby grit" and then "regular grit" when grown. I still have alot in both bags and have had chickens 3 years. You can serve it separate in a dish, or throw in dirt. The talent of chickens is scratching in dirt while identifying each little dirt speck. Like "piece of sand, piece of poop, piece of dirt from garden, bingo! Piece of grit!" Mine even pick a microscopic piece of dirt up to examine it, and throw it back away. This is why chickens need toys, they are bored out of thier skulls alot.
Hi! Becky, I enjoyed your video. i like your style of talking. Your talking is very sweet. Thanks for tip how to differenciate between male and female. I am starter. I have just one roaster and hen. Thanks a lot. Nasirali Marvi
Thx Becky! We just got 3 chickens and 3 ducklings...and I love to watch your videos..I didn't know you could feed grit to chickens so great I had some so I went out and gave my girls some along with tomatoes and left over bread ;)
I just recently got my baby chicks,so right ow I watch every video or read any articles that are related to this. Your videos ae very informative!!! Thanks!!
Hi Becky!!! I discovered you when I was 10 years old and this is the first video i watched😭😭.I love your videos soo much and I really used to like chickens😇.Now I'm 17 years old and I came back to your video today and it brought back all the memories😭😭😭.Love you dearly🌹🌹💝💝❤️💐💐💐✨🎉🎉
Thank you for the Great tips. One thing I have found to be really handy when raising chicks is a small plastic kids pool,its perfect for keeping them inside,its roomy and smooth and holds the heat really well and when they are older,just throw some orange snow fencing over it and that will help keep the older ones from winging their way over the wall. You can put a couple of small cardboard box's inside and they'll use them for sleep and they feel protected!
Hey Becky, I enjoyed the video...keep doing what you do!! You seem like a very nice lady, as well as a benefit for the earth. For all of the people leaving hateful comments here...I hope you realize that your hate and anger originates from an issue with yourself, and not what this lady is or does. Being hurtful to others is one of the most despicable human characteristics there is. I suppose it can help to make the weak feel stronger, but it's a pathetic way to build an ego.
Becky I love watching your videos you are so "down to Earth" and non clinical. Meaning you don't know the clinical term/word or name for something and you are not shy about admitting it. You explain very simply what you are trying to get said. I love that so much! I agree with some of the other posters in other videos I have read/watched, you should start your own reality show! You would have a great following whether on youtube or public broadcasting and you might even be able to get someone from Animal Planet to pick you up! Keep posting you ROCK IT, GIRL!!!!
That was a very smart looking rooster and i just love them i have a red rooster in my home 12 years old and he is realy realy big and fearless. The best of the rooster is the tail feather which make them beautifull. I treat him as one of our family. He loves to eat chopped onions , cabbage, homemade bread, raw or cooked rice. Wakes me up in early morning with very loud crowing. Yes roosters are dominating and very smart bird indeed. Thanks for the nice video.
Dear Becky, I just love your videos. Its really inspiring. I live in the heart of New York CIty in a tiny apartment and I m sooo tired of living in the materialistic society. I wish I can move to a secluded area where I can live a simple life as u r living now. Keep posting more videos in the future.
my brother had a pet white rooster when he was very young...We all loved it...IT acutally protected my brother ....against what it thought was danger. So cute to watch
Becky, I fell in love with you at the get go. I've been "pecking" around youtube trying to find quality homesteading/small farming videos and happened upon this one. I'm now a subscriber and can't wait to watch them all! Great job, Becky!!!
Hi Becky, loved your clip on the roosters and chickens , my rooster is aggressive we have raised him since a new born we can't get to close or he'll fly up at usI he and all the chickens are free range and we love them so much! They are about9 months old.
Becky, I am living a similiar life in PA. I LOVE your videos! I just bought a HOOFJack because of you and I thank you because it helps me very much. I also bought the tools to trim my own hooves. Not confident enough just yet, but you really inspire me, so thank you. I wish that we were neighbors!
Hi Becky, I hope all is well. I finally got my babies. I loss one chicken and 1 duck. now I have 11 chickens and 1 duck. I have found I get better advice from you than I do the store that I purchased my babies from. This is very sad. Thank you for the videos.
Great video. Chickens sure are fun to have at home! I did just want to state, it's really not good for chickens to have moldy food. Also, I would suggest cooked rice rather than uncooked.
My sister and I think you look really familiar . My sister and I where born and raised in Florida And love all animals . I've been in the country for about a year . I love you're videos .
Wondered if anyone had some tips on getting our chicken manure compost pile to degrade quicker. We are using pine chips, watering it and turning it yet it is not doing any breaking down at all. Ideas?
WOW that really helped Thank You for making this video :) and another thing so if the male chicken isn't there to fertilze the eggs they will not hatch is that right??
I have a question; I'm going to start raising chickens and I plan on having a nice coop. However I live right by a set of fully functional train tracks and the trains will blow their whistles at least 10-20 times a day. Will they get used to it if I hatch them myself versus buying them as chicks or will they still have a hard time laying regardless? Thank you for your time.
You have the right idea. Modern living has made almost everyone in the Western World complacent. When it all falls apart a LOT of people will wish so much that they had this knowledge. Cool videos.
this show is very inspirational and it has inspired me to get chickens and i"ve always wanted a farm and im on my way to owning one thanks to you becky
Did you raise your chickens from eggs in the incubator? If not, where did you purchase them? I am looking into raising chicks for fresh eggs, but don't know where to start!
thanks! This is a really good help to me! I have 2 Delawares that i just got a week ago from my Tech. Ed. teacher and this gave me a head start! Thanks for the video :D!
I am very interested in raising chickens with free range or pasture system. It will be able to eliminate stress, making us live longer, and of course, chicken is more happy if they raised with more humane way. Eggs and meat produced are certainly more qualified, because it comes from animals that live in happy. that's nice video, thankyou.
@SpringMist1 If you have say One hen and one roo all of your eggs will be fertile as long as he is shall we say Producing if you have more then one hen, One roo can mate with upto 10 hens Now mine for example has taken only 6 to be his Mates so just because they can does not mean that they will.. I hope this helps you out.
Hello Becky ,how are you ,my name is Dorothy Chipare ,l am from Zimbabwe .l love what you do at your homestead .l am also planning to keep chickens and pigs .l am trying to build coops & hogs maybe in August ,2018 .l shall be getting in touch with you about my progress
that's crazy, I always say that. lol They're the perfect size to provide a decent sized meal or two, they run only slightly faster than a human, they lay eggs almost every day as long as you feed them, they're pretty and entertaining. And we didn't have to domesticate any of these traits into them. They just came like that. It's like they were made just for us.
@@jacksont9455 Yep, and when they get old, instead of dying from sickness and rotting body, they can easily be picked up and with 1 chop sever their head for a quick painless death.
Your rooster jackley looks awesome his spurs look like they are preventing him from running as fast as he possibly can run i looked online and a way i use to trim the galves of the rooster is easy and not painful as cutting them with a gauge and saw all you do is you may know your a pro just in case all you do is take like a pair of wire cutters big ones and scribe at the base of the galve all the way around and give little pressure and the entire galve will easily pull off it will be lil blood
Did you make a video of building your coop? I'm new to your channel, and cannot find the video if it's created...also I am HOOKED on your videos, humor and knowledge.....Love it & you! :-)
OMG big mistake this years roosters are getting fattend up and eaten and the females are my layers since I am ten my dad gets the males to eat and sell then I get females
A few things, 1) The thing on the head is not a crown, it's a comb 2) the tail feathers on the rooster are called sickle feathers 3) hens do t need quiet! I have 20 hens, lots of noise and I get about 18 eggs a day 4) if you give your chickens ANY type of mold, they are just like people mold isn't good! They get sick with an illness called sour crop and it usually is fatal! 5) you said things about chick food, chick food does not have calcium!! Calcium causes major problems with chicks liver and kidneys!! And it is not good to only feed your chickens corn, ground or not. It is not sufficient as a main source of nutrients! 6) when you went into the coop, the don't use the nesting boxes because they don't wan the other chickens to see them, they think it is safe! Hens will and do share boxes! 7) the reason your hen ran away when you went up to it in the box isn't because it was stressed, you didn't socialize it enough! My hens let me pet the and they run up to me weather I have food for them or not and they let me pet them 8)
@@v.c.105 don't use a heat lamp in coop because most coop fires are started by them. Just think of a couple of chickens flap at night, a feather is loosed, catches the air and wafts to the heat lamp, catches fires, drops to the floor, all your darling birds are cooked. But you must have heat lamp or source of heat at all times for your little babies, who are not in coop unless their Mom hatched them, in which case she will regulate their temperature. In your baby brooder, the temperature they need first week is 95%, and then reduces each week. You make it so baby can get away from direct heat if needed.
I love chickens and the eggs you get from free range chickens are delicious and tend to be rather large I once had a triple yolker from one of the 45 I look aftet, half the time I cannot close the carton due to the size
Becky Helpp!!! So about a week ago I noticed one of my hens started to have a really messy butt. Like there was just so much poop all over the features and around the vent. So I gave it a bath and wiped down her butt and made her nice and clean (I used NO soap just water) After I gave her a bath I kept a close Eye on her I noticed she was very less active compared to the other hens. I just got her, Maibel, last Fall right before the winter. So when Spring came all my other chickens became more active beside Maibel. She would just mope around or stay in one place. She still ate and drank but she also walked a little funny. She was also pooping very little in little drops and it kept seeming she was trying to push soemthing out. So I did some research and diagnosis Maibel with having an Egg Bound egg. So I started giving her a bath everyday for about 20ish minutes, put vaseline in her vent, gave her some oyster shells, yogurt, her usual pellets and water, also some cantaloupe and Honeydew, I also put her in a cage isolated from the hens and put her in my dark, quiet basement. The thing is i could never see the egg or feel it, but I could feel this large mass between her legs, mostly towards her right leg (maybe why she has been walking pigeon toed), Also where that mass was located the skin was bluish. I also started to massage around her vent, between her legs and belly towards the vent to help pass the "egg". I've been doing this for about a week now and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!!!! Her walking has been getting worse and she has a hard time walking and jumping. When I brought her outside to get some fresh air the other hens started to peck her. She is pretty old like 5 or 6, and I just recently got her from my family friend, so I don't know how she usual is. But anyways after that I began doing more research and would check on her constantly. I noticed the meat surrounding her knee bone was very low compared to the knee bone itself, making the bone pop out (meaning she's underweight right). The thing is she has been eating this whole time, not so much drinking now, but she has been eating!! But that mass between her legs hasn't gone down. I began giving her some DE yesturday just incase if it's worms or parasites that has been causing this and she did eat it. But now today she can't even get up she's just been scooching around!!! I had to put the food up to her in order for her to eat it since she's been struggling to move around. She keeps getting less active as the days come, SOMEONE HELP!!! AND HELP ME DIAGNOSIS THIS!!!
Ms. Becky, roosters are one the most proudest species on earth. Just look at the gamecock, they have beautiful shiny plumage and they walk like they own the world. The tiny crown on your chicken is call peacom. The one on the rooster is a ranch comb. There several different kinds of crowns, another name for them is combs.
I noticed that her chickens get the small pebbles and such from the dirt or sand they are in. But even so, that size grit she is using is great for baby chicks. As for the other people, Becky, I think you are doing better at your job than most. Some people just need to chill out when commenting to you and LOOK at what you are actually showing on videos. Yes, Chickens NEED LAND! Its not like they would be kept in an apartment building! I may be just starting out on raising chickens, but I come to realize, getting myself slowly out of the rat race and into a more practical place of living is exactly what Becky teaches. Thumbs up to you Becky. Just remember though, Jesus first.
Should not feed your chickens whole corn, it's hard to digest. You can purchase cracked corn which is better for them. Can also add your crumble and grit!
I have 5 chickens and they all have their own private laying spots but they lay their eggs all in the same nest and sometimes they will lay in the best together and lay them😂😂
Hi Becky, my name is Chris, our chickens are all about 6-8 years old, and they won't eat their crumble any more, but they are all healthy and happy and love to forage the yard and come for treats. And my australorp Molly, had two huge clumps of bone dry poop stuck into her butt feathers, we ended up cutting out, cut it was just so enmeshed in there. What can we do about them not eating their crumble?
Becky thank you for giving me info that I need I really appreciate you for making blogs/vlogs about your homestead and about you. Now I know all about chickens and I got some Australian chickens. But when will they lay eggs?
Hey Becky,i love your videos about chickens but i also like raising guinea fowls.You have some information about them?if yes please create a video about guineas.Thank you.
I have been giving my hens plenty of calcium, that really increased production! However, I still have some feed that our feed store mixed at 20% protein. I think that's what started our egg binding problem. (We switched to box store 16% protein feed crumbles). My question is what can I do with my feed to use it up for my hens? Will it matter as long as I keep up the calcium? I did start fermenting some of it.
I have six isa brown hens and had until recently one rooster. They were laying six eggs per day until we had to send the rooster to my brother as my housemate couldn't live with the noise he made. since then, (about three weeks) we have not had a single egg. This is peak laying season here, and I wonder if there is anything I can give the hens to see them lay again?
I'm loving all of your chicken videos! I'm vegan and only want to get them to eat the grasshoppers which destroyed my garden last year! How old do they have to be before they start eating them? thanks so much!
Becky, I SEEN YOU A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND ENJOY YOU VERY MUCH. Oops caps were on and I wasn't shouting. Oh well I'm writing this to say thank you, and just fyi, it's not a crown, it's a comb!
I love how sassy the rooster gets while she is trying to talk about him....adorable!
I grew up on a chicken farm, and this Video brings back old memories. Grate information.
Becky, love the vids. One awesome thing about a Rooster that you forgot to mention that I know you know, but to me is a big deal, is that they protect the flock. All that noise is for a purpose. They yell "Bird of Prey! Everyone, get under something!" "Ladies, get in the house, it's getting dark!", or "Ladies, the neighbors dog is out again!", and then they walk around the perimeter to check things out and make sure they are all safe. Usually the first ones out in the morning and the last ones in at night. Well done, Roo, well done!
I know, right? My Roo is so thin because he's on guard watch and pacing around looking so much he won't even stop to eat.
Becky I enjoyed watching this video. Thank you for taking the time to do it. Sorry about the stupidity of some people commenting on your videos or those feeling the need to criticise you while not actually having the guts to make a video themselves. Please ignore the critics and keep going! Your chickens look great, and I find your tips very helpful.
Hi ! This is Bill from Iraq. Thank you for these nice videos! It is also easy to understand you because you speak clearly!
Omg, I just watched half of this video and am laughing so hard at the noise the rooster makes while Becky's talking. So funny! Thanks, lol!
He is funny! He would cluck every time she started talking. Mine sing the egg song with the girls and it's Soo loud and fun.
Becky, you are so awesome!! I just got my first chicks. I'm so happy I can watch your videos. 💝
This was the first vid i watch of her. I inspired me to get chickens. Now we are on our 4th generation!
Thank you Becky. Just bought 4 baby chicks today. So excited to watch them grow up and give us fresh non-GMO and chemical free eggs. Now I have to find all the chem-free chicken food for my babies. You do a great job with your videos. Keep them coming !!!!
Hey Becky I've been watching you for a while, and I finally got chickens because of you!! We have a Rhode Island Red, white Orpington, laced Wyandotte, French Marian, a mix breed, amaricana, Cochin rooster, and Cochin pullet, and a silkie.
I really like her..she seems like such a nice woman
your'e right
as far as the grit if they free range they get the grit themselves, but you can save your eggshells and bake them,( I leave them in when preheating my oven) crush them up and throw them back out into the pen for them to scratch and use as grit, the feed store also carries oyster shell for this reason so much cheaper than buying it in a box like that. I throw a cup out into the pen ever so often. I am using my egg shells in my garden and compost. I buy a bag of oyster shell and just throw a cup full or two out with the chicken scratch ever so often. I try to keep a little in the dirt for them when it disapears I throw out more. Thnx for sharing I enjoy your videos.
+tsx3214 seriously!?!?!!?!
+Wags1985 David yupi
@@sdwags8536 right Oyster Shells and egg shells are the calcium to make strong shells on new laid eggs. I have one hen who constantly lays with shells so tender they crack open when I pick them up. For grit we bought "baby grit" and then "regular grit" when grown. I still have alot in both bags and have had chickens 3 years. You can serve it separate in a dish, or throw in dirt. The talent of chickens is scratching in dirt while identifying each little dirt speck. Like "piece of sand, piece of poop, piece of dirt from garden, bingo! Piece of grit!" Mine even pick a microscopic piece of dirt up to examine it, and throw it back away. This is why chickens need toys, they are bored out of thier skulls alot.
I think she is a wonderful lady how cares about chickens a lot.🐥🐣🐤
Hi! Becky,
I enjoyed your video. i like your style of talking. Your talking is very sweet. Thanks for tip how to differenciate between male and female. I am starter. I have just one roaster and hen. Thanks a lot. Nasirali Marvi
Becky is fun to watch! And explains everything! My friends love Becky like I do!
the rooster has pretty eyes.
He looks like he's in the fire nation
Love your channel! I’m a new subscriber and just got 12 new Road Island Red chicks yesterday! Your information has been so helpful, so thank you! 💕
I have two rosters and I have 30 chickens
I loved this video so much
Thx Becky! We just got 3 chickens and 3 ducklings...and I love to watch your videos..I didn't know you could feed grit to chickens so great I had some so I went out and gave my girls some along with tomatoes and left over bread ;)
Genny Zammit can you roast a duckling? the Chinese do ,but I don't know any recipes. maybe you could roast one of yours and do a video. good luck
Genny Zammit she helps me to!
;)
billybonewhacker yes ducks are tasty but i have ducks for their eggs, so no roasting videos for my ducks..lol
I love how she says "chickybabies"
Ahhh the vat19 fan lol I watch vat19 too
I just love your channel Becky! You helped me build my new coop! I have 3 chickens and hoping to get some more! Keep the videos coming!
I just recently got my baby chicks,so right ow I watch every video or read any articles that are related to this. Your videos ae very informative!!! Thanks!!
very informative.. we are building a coop & learning about raising chickens in the down time.. I love what Becky is doing.. kudos to her!
I LOVE Your videos! Keep up the good work and I will keep watching! Ignore the idiots and critics...you're great!
Hi Becky!!! I discovered you when I was 10 years old and this is the first video i watched😭😭.I love your videos soo much and I really used to like chickens😇.Now I'm 17 years old and I came back to your video today and it brought back all the memories😭😭😭.Love you dearly🌹🌹💝💝❤️💐💐💐✨🎉🎉
Thank you for the Great tips. One thing I have found to be really handy when raising chicks is a small plastic kids pool,its perfect for keeping them inside,its roomy and smooth and holds the heat really well and when they are older,just throw some orange snow fencing over it and that will help keep the older ones from winging their way over the wall. You can put a couple of small cardboard box's inside and they'll use them for sleep and they feel protected!
That rooster is hilarious when it cackles. Very entertaining.
Hey Becky, I enjoyed the video...keep doing what you do!! You seem like a very nice lady, as well as a benefit for the earth.
For all of the people leaving hateful comments here...I hope you realize that your hate and anger originates from an issue with yourself, and not what this lady is or does. Being hurtful to others is one of the most despicable human characteristics there is. I suppose it can help to make the weak feel stronger, but it's a pathetic way to build an ego.
Well said! I'm sure Becky doesn't deserve those knucklehead comments!
I am not leaving hateful comments. Purely comments stating she is wrong.
Ahhh Becky, my little son and I really enjoy your videos.
So much wonderful information and your sons cinematography
is great. Blessings !
Becky is is nice to see a woman who is willing to live closer to nature. Do you manage to keep up all the farm work and still do other activities?.
That was a beautiful rooster.
OhGosh you guys are disgusting 😂
all she said was that the rooster is pretty
Jennifer arisen. Who
Jennifer Alison stop being offensive to people who love roosters
@@haileyreatz9439 all roosters are at least pretty. The question is how are they with people?
A true icon I love her so much! I watch these videos and they bring me so much joy!
Becky I love watching your videos you are so "down to Earth" and non clinical. Meaning you don't know the clinical term/word or name for something and you are not shy about admitting it. You explain very simply what you are trying to get said. I love that so much! I agree with some of the other posters in other videos I have read/watched, you should start your own reality show! You would have a great following whether on youtube or public broadcasting and you might even be able to get someone from Animal Planet to pick you up! Keep posting you ROCK IT, GIRL!!!!
That was a very smart looking rooster and i just love them i have a red rooster in my home 12 years old and he is realy realy big and fearless. The best of the rooster is the tail feather which make them beautifull. I treat him as one of our family. He loves to eat chopped onions , cabbage, homemade bread, raw or cooked rice. Wakes me up in early morning with very loud crowing. Yes roosters are dominating and very smart bird indeed. Thanks for the nice video.
Dear Becky, I just love your videos. Its really inspiring. I live in the heart of New York CIty in a tiny apartment and I m sooo tired of living in the materialistic society. I wish I can move to a secluded area where I can live a simple life as u r living now. Keep posting more videos in the future.
my brother had a pet white rooster when he was very young...We all loved it...IT acutally protected my brother ....against what it thought was danger. So cute to watch
Becky, I fell in love with you at the get go. I've been "pecking" around youtube trying to find quality homesteading/small farming videos and happened upon this one. I'm now a subscriber and can't wait to watch them all! Great job, Becky!!!
Hi Becky, loved your clip on the roosters and chickens , my rooster is aggressive we have raised him since a new born we can't get to close or he'll fly up at usI he and all the chickens are free range and we love them so much! They are about9 months old.
I lived with a rooster for 17 years..he recently passed away. And I miss him so much..i really want another chicken.
Becky Your the Bomb! Straight out the coolest on you tube. . Thank You for the advice and I will be putting it to use.Many BlessingsJeff
+Jeffrey Lopez haha thank you, I’m glad you like it. 😀❤️
Becky, I am living a similiar life in PA. I LOVE your videos! I just bought a HOOFJack because of you and I thank you because it helps me very much. I also bought the tools to trim my own hooves. Not confident enough just yet, but you really inspire me, so thank you. I wish that we were neighbors!
Hey Becky! I know you have talked about "chicken predators" before. Have you had any issues with your any of your coops and chickens?
Blast from the past. Hiya, Becky
Hi Becky, I hope all is well. I finally got my babies. I loss one chicken and 1 duck. now I have 11 chickens and 1 duck. I have found I get better advice from you than I do the store that I purchased my babies from. This is very sad. Thank you for the videos.
My gosh, her rooster is SOOOOOO amazing
this is soo educational! showing this to my veterinary class.i only teach one lecture
thanks becky
Great video. Chickens sure are fun to have at home! I did just want to state, it's really not good for chickens to have moldy food. Also, I would suggest cooked rice rather than uncooked.
Becky's homestead saved my life
My sister and I think you look really familiar . My sister and I where born and raised in Florida And love all animals . I've been in the country for about a year . I love you're videos .
Wondered if anyone had some tips on getting our chicken manure compost pile to degrade quicker. We are using pine chips, watering it and turning it yet it is not doing any breaking down at all. Ideas?
WOW that really helped Thank You for making this video :) and another thing so if the male chicken isn't there to fertilze the eggs they will not hatch is that right??
Hi Becky..You have inspired me that I made a Chicken Coop for my Chickens its 4X6 meters. Do you have Chickens for sale to raise??
wow
amazing pradise
im watching this video since production its 11 years wow
very nice mam
thank you
I have a question; I'm going to start raising chickens and I plan on having a nice coop. However I live right by a set of fully functional train tracks and the trains will blow their whistles at least 10-20 times a day. Will they get used to it if I hatch them myself versus buying them as chicks or will they still have a hard time laying regardless? Thank you for your time.
Great video Becky,I'm definitely subscribing! Take care.
U have done so well becky u look so great in ur latest video
You have the right idea. Modern living has made almost everyone in the Western World complacent. When it all falls apart a LOT of people will wish so much that they had this knowledge.
Cool videos.
this show is very inspirational and it has inspired me to get chickens and i"ve always wanted a farm and im on my way to owning one thanks to you becky
Did you raise your chickens from eggs in the incubator? If not, where did you purchase them? I am looking into raising chicks for fresh eggs, but don't know where to start!
her voice hasn’t changed in over a decade..
perfect
I'm new to owning chickens can someone give me advice on how to store the eggs to eat. Thanks in advance for any advice. :)
thanks! This is a really good help to me! I have 2 Delawares that i just got a week ago from my Tech. Ed. teacher and this gave me a head start! Thanks for the video :D!
I am very interested in raising chickens with free range or pasture system. It will be able to eliminate stress, making us live longer, and of course, chicken is more happy if they raised with more humane way. Eggs and meat produced are certainly more qualified, because it comes from animals that live in happy.
that's nice video, thankyou.
I admire you Becky
@SpringMist1 If you have say One hen and one roo all of your eggs will be fertile as long as he is shall we say Producing if you have more then one hen, One roo can mate with upto 10 hens Now mine for example has taken only 6 to be his Mates so just because they can does not mean that they will.. I hope this helps you out.
What happens in winter weather? do they need to be enclosed in a warm place?
Hello Becky ,how are you ,my name is Dorothy Chipare ,l am from Zimbabwe .l love what you do at your homestead .l am also planning to keep chickens and pigs .l am trying to build coops & hogs maybe in August ,2018 .l shall be getting in touch with you about my progress
if you have 2-3 different kinds of chickens, can you have a male for ever breed? if you want chicks at some point?
it can be called comb or crown (crown-rooster comb-hen)
they are combs
No, it’s just comb. Crown is just like a “Slang”
Chickens are proof of intelligent design.
that's crazy, I always say that. lol They're the perfect size to provide a decent sized meal or two, they run only slightly faster than a human, they lay eggs almost every day as long as you feed them, they're pretty and entertaining. And we didn't have to domesticate any of these traits into them. They just came like that. It's like they were made just for us.
@@jacksont9455 Yep, and when they get old, instead of dying from sickness and rotting body, they can easily be picked up and with 1 chop sever their head for a quick painless death.
Your rooster jackley looks awesome his spurs look like they are preventing him from running as fast as he possibly can run i looked online and a way i use to trim the galves of the rooster is easy and not painful as cutting them with a gauge and saw all you do is you may know your a pro just in case all you do is take like a pair of wire cutters big ones and scribe at the base of the galve all the way around and give little pressure and the entire galve will easily pull off it will be lil blood
Your big boy is sooo handsom we have chickens too and I have to admit they are adorable and fun
Did you make a video of building your coop? I'm new to your channel, and cannot find the video if it's created...also I am HOOKED on your videos, humor and knowledge.....Love it & you! :-)
oh dear... my mom just bought 40 chicks two days ago and the sales man gave her extra 20 roosters for free.
no.. im serious brother.
OMG big mistake this years roosters are getting fattend up and eaten and the females are my layers since I am ten my dad gets the males to eat and sell then I get females
any update?
Be care full they will fight
George Santos so what ended up happening?
I've often had multiple roosters and they only fight before they've figured out the pecking order and they've never gotten seriously injured from it.
Fantastic video, Becky! I really enjoyed it. :-) You've got a fantastic personality. I look forward to watching more of your vids!
A few things,
1) The thing on the head is not a crown, it's a comb
2) the tail feathers on the rooster are called sickle feathers
3) hens do t need quiet! I have 20 hens, lots of noise and I get about 18 eggs a day
4) if you give your chickens ANY type of mold, they are just like people mold isn't good! They get sick with an illness called sour crop and it usually is fatal!
5) you said things about chick food, chick food does not have calcium!! Calcium causes major problems with chicks liver and kidneys!! And it is not good to only feed your chickens corn, ground or not. It is not sufficient as a main source of nutrients!
6) when you went into the coop, the don't use the nesting boxes because they don't wan the other chickens to see them, they think it is safe! Hens will and do share boxes!
7) the reason your hen ran away when you went up to it in the box isn't because it was stressed, you didn't socialize it enough! My hens let me pet the and they run up to me weather I have food for them or not and they let me pet them
8)
I know my silkies shared a nest box when they were broody
Don't get a heat lamp because it will burn the coop down.
@@v.c.105 don't use a heat lamp in coop because most coop fires are started by them. Just think of a couple of chickens flap at night, a feather is loosed, catches the air and wafts to the heat lamp, catches fires, drops to the floor, all your darling birds are cooked. But you must have heat lamp or source of heat at all times for your little babies, who are not in coop unless their Mom hatched them, in which case she will regulate their temperature. In your baby brooder, the temperature they need first week is 95%, and then reduces each week. You make it so baby can get away from direct heat if needed.
I love chickens and the eggs you get from free range chickens are delicious and tend to be rather large I once had a triple yolker from one of the 45 I look aftet, half the time I cannot close the carton due to the size
Nice, and informative Becky. Thanks for the video.
Becky Helpp!!! So about a week ago I noticed one of my hens started to have a really messy butt. Like there was just so much poop all over the features and around the vent. So I gave it a bath and wiped down her butt and made her nice and clean (I used NO soap just water) After I gave her a bath I kept a close Eye on her I noticed she was very less active compared to the other hens. I just got her, Maibel, last Fall right before the winter. So when Spring came all my other chickens became more active beside Maibel. She would just mope around or stay in one place. She still ate and drank but she also walked a little funny. She was also pooping very little in little drops and it kept seeming she was trying to push soemthing out. So I did some research and diagnosis Maibel with having an Egg Bound egg. So I started giving her a bath everyday for about 20ish minutes, put vaseline in her vent, gave her some oyster shells, yogurt, her usual pellets and water, also some cantaloupe and Honeydew, I also put her in a cage isolated from the hens and put her in my dark, quiet basement. The thing is i could never see the egg or feel it, but I could feel this large mass between her legs, mostly towards her right leg (maybe why she has been walking pigeon toed), Also where that mass was located the skin was bluish. I also started to massage around her vent, between her legs and belly towards the vent to help pass the "egg". I've been doing this for about a week now and NOTHING HAS HAPPENED!!!! Her walking has been getting worse and she has a hard time walking and jumping. When I brought her outside to get some fresh air the other hens started to peck her. She is pretty old like 5 or 6, and I just recently got her from my family friend, so I don't know how she usual is. But anyways after that I began doing more research and would check on her constantly. I noticed the meat surrounding her knee bone was very low compared to the knee bone itself, making the bone pop out (meaning she's underweight right). The thing is she has been eating this whole time, not so much drinking now, but she has been eating!! But that mass between her legs hasn't gone down. I began giving her some DE yesturday just incase if it's worms or parasites that has been causing this and she did eat it. But now today she can't even get up she's just been scooching around!!! I had to put the food up to her in order for her to eat it since she's been struggling to move around. She keeps getting less active as the days come, SOMEONE HELP!!! AND HELP ME DIAGNOSIS THIS!!!
I will also be bringing her to the vet soon whenever my parents can bring me
Ms. Becky, roosters are one the most proudest species on earth. Just look at the gamecock, they have beautiful shiny plumage and they walk like they own the world. The tiny crown on your chicken is call peacom. The one on the rooster is a ranch comb. There several different kinds of crowns, another name for them is combs.
Thanks for sharing. That is a beautiful rooster you have there. And some of those hens are considered game hens.
I love all of your chicken videos!
Thanks for all the help :)
I noticed that her chickens get the small pebbles and such from the dirt or sand they are in. But even so, that size grit she is using is great for baby chicks. As for the other people, Becky, I think you are doing better at your job than most. Some people just need to chill out when commenting to you and LOOK at what you are actually showing on videos. Yes, Chickens NEED LAND! Its not like they would be kept in an apartment building! I may be just starting out on raising chickens, but I come to realize, getting myself slowly out of the rat race and into a more practical place of living is exactly what Becky teaches. Thumbs up to you Becky. Just remember though, Jesus first.
Thank-you for sharing basics like this for a city girl like me. I enjoy your videos, great job!
Becky your the best when i grow up im gona have a homestead to also im getting chickens this weekend
yah right
i have them so what now
Becky what kind of whole corn do you feed your chickens? The only whole corn I can find is deer corn. Is that ok?
Should not feed your chickens whole corn, it's hard to digest. You can purchase cracked corn which is better for them. Can also add your crumble and grit!
UnboxWithMeHeatherMcD even better, don’t feed any corn. They don’t need it.
I have 5 chickens and they all have their own private laying spots but they lay their eggs all in the same nest and sometimes they will lay in the best together and lay them😂😂
Hi Becky.... can yo u do a video about cleaning the eggs before consumption and what to whath out for tips
Mortgage Financing they don’t need cleaning unless they’re covered in poop, which means you need to clean out your nest boxes more.
Hi Becky, my name is Chris, our chickens are all about 6-8 years old, and they won't eat their crumble any more, but they are all healthy and happy and love to forage the yard and come for treats. And my australorp Molly, had two huge clumps of bone dry poop stuck into her butt feathers, we ended up cutting out, cut it was just so enmeshed in there. What can we do about them not eating their crumble?
Bantam hen eggs are delicious. I fried 2 of them yesterday. Smaller but great tasting!
Becky thank you for giving me info that I need I really appreciate you for making blogs/vlogs about your homestead and about you. Now I know all about chickens and I got some Australian chickens. But when will they lay eggs?
I'm a kid and I just started caring for chickens I have three of them and one is a rooster and the others are ladies and they lay big fat heathy eggs
Hey Becky,i love your videos about chickens but i also like raising guinea fowls.You have some information about them?if yes please create a video about guineas.Thank you.
I have been giving my hens plenty of calcium, that really increased production! However, I still have some feed that our feed store mixed at 20% protein. I think that's what started our egg binding problem. (We switched to box store 16% protein feed crumbles). My question is what can I do with my feed to use it up for my hens? Will it matter as long as I keep up the calcium? I did start fermenting some of it.
i got like 1 or 2 week old chicks and I got them 5 days ago I have 2 wyandottes, a black australorp, and a rhode island red
I have six isa brown hens and had until recently one rooster. They were laying six eggs per day until we had to send the rooster to my brother as my housemate couldn't live with the noise he made. since then, (about three weeks) we have not had a single egg. This is peak laying season here, and I wonder if there is anything I can give the hens to see them lay again?
I hope you’re doing well Becky! Great video
Try the barley cultivar as chicken layer and look spectacular results in production
I'm loving all of your chicken videos! I'm vegan and only want to get them to eat the grasshoppers which destroyed my garden last year! How old do they have to be before they start eating them? thanks so much!
+Shelita Williams They will eat the garden with the grasshoppers! Especially tomatoes - they LOVE tomatoes.
+Lauren Wasinger thanks pretty lady Lauren well how do you keep them from terroizing your garden?
Go for ducks instead. Chicken will destroy your garden. Ducks won't
Becky, I SEEN YOU A NUMBER OF TIMES, AND ENJOY YOU VERY MUCH. Oops caps were on and I wasn't shouting. Oh well I'm writing this to say thank you, and just fyi, it's not a crown, it's a comb!