THANK YOU to Carolina Coops for making a future chicken daddy's dream come true - Matt and his crew were some of the most awesome people I've ever met: carolinacoops.com/
Beautiful chicken coop and chicken run, especially you can get eggs outside. the wire mesh you used was perfect for young chicks and chickens, and avoid small wild animal to steal eggs.
Buff Orpingtons are so so sweet and docile. I like having colorful eggs myself, so I like to keep some olive eggers and black copper marans as well. I have found barred rock hens to be pecky, but they are a good heavy breed. If you want a chicken you can handle and love on orpingtons all the way. I am hoping to add some lavender ones to my flock!
I was lucky, I was able to convert a play house the previous owners of our house left behind into a walk-in coop for just the cost of some paint and 2x4s. My wife wanted it gone because it had some serious haunted dollhouse vibes but I ripped all the cutesy trim off, painted it barn red, and she agreed it was no longer creepy and could stay.
To follow up on breeds, I love my wyandottes and brahmas. They're bigger, slower growing birds but I don't need 6 eggs every day so I'd rather they have a longer productive life even if they only lay every 2-3 days. Orpingtons, barred rocks, and easter eggers types are good too. They're really more trouble than they're worth, but I also love polish, not very productive and tend to get picked on but too silly not to love.
I have an old play house and I'm trying to decide between coopifying it or building my coop against the inside wall of my barn. (I have extreme winters in a windy place so the wind shield of a barn would help keep them warm) So hard to choose...
@@Tsuchimursu if you want you could build using the old dollhouse but due to the extreme weather I would build a smaller-scale deal inside the barn and just use it as a winner house and let the playhouse be a summerhouse
During a hurricane my chicken coop got a hole in it and when we got back home we only had one chicken left her name was Red because she was a Rhode Island red but we all called her “what what” because that’s what it sounded like she was saying all the time and she turned into a pet and would sleep on our porch on a rocking chair with a pan underneath her “we potty trained a chicken” she would follow me around the garden and just watch what I was doing would jump in my lap and lay down and if I pointed to a weed or bug in my garden she would pull it out or eat it. I miss her 😌
Definitely go for a variety of hens as opposed to one breed, there’s so many wonderful, BEAUTIFUL breeds out there why limit yourself to one or two? Plus, all this different colored eggs are GORGEOUS in the kitchen.
I've been extremely happy with my 6 - Buff Orpington, 5 - Rhode Island Red and 4 - Plymouth-Barred Rock hens. Great egg layers, and calm, docile birds.
Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Amerucana chickens are best for beginners. The Orpington is the "golden retriever" of chickens imo, the barred rocks I have owned have always been friendly and sweet and the Amerucana make green tinted eggs, great conversation starter
My first chickens were these same breeds with a couple gold laced Wyandottes. Best part about bared rocks is that they lay through the winter. So far they've only stopped during molt. Love them! 😍
Barred rocks are a great dual purpose bird, good eggs and they get heavy. Would also add to the recommendation above the Black Australorp. They are great, sweet and friendly but a little shy.
Please don't buy from the big chick supplier companies. Everyone wants female chicks so the thousands of unwanted male chicks go into the trash cans or chippers. Get eggs from your neighbors and hatch them yourselves.
Awesome coop! I have Australorps, Orpingtons, and Easter Eggers. My Easter Eggers are the sweetest and lay more consistently than all of the chickens I have. The Orpington and Australorp are good layers too.
I have had many types of chickens, and the Ameraucanas are the sweetest and hardiest of them all. They lay blue eggs (not every day), and are very cold hardy (it got to -22 this winter). Even the rooster was a sweetheart, and let us pick him up and hold him. We have one hen that follows us around more like a dog, and will fly onto your lap for cuddles.
Australorps are your go to all around chicken. They did great in Calle Tania, CA where some of our very good friends live. They lay massive eggs, they do great, they're also very good at going through gardens without hurting the vegetables within the garden. You can also harvest them for meat if you want because they're big birds. They're very gentle and love people. If you can have one, I would suggest a small rooster to be with your hens because they really prefer being with a rooster for protection. You can get crow bands that go around the roosters neck and blocks the ability for them to crow. They do make bantam sized versions of pretty much all breeds of chickens, so you can look for that as well.
for sure get an easter egger and a copper maran! super pretty eggs! and for looks, a silver laced wyandotte is beautiful! plus, you cant go wrong with a rhode island red and plymouth rock!
Great coop! That would take up almost half my yard. Nice to have someone build it for you! Can't wait to see what chicken breed you decide on. I had Barred Plymouth rocks and Rhode Island reds. Both nice friendly chickens. Gotta watch out for Cooper Hawks, aka chicken hawks. Very agile flyers so they can get around most obstacles,They will take out you chickens quickly. On another note - hey guys I am going on 69 this year and I use the hand saws all the time. No big deal lol. I have taken out a peach tree as well as an orange tree. My sons will take out the trunks and I finish off removing the large root base. I only use power tools when necessary, mostly my blower because I hate sweeping!
At my parents' one of the best hens turned out to be factory farm rescues of Leghorn breeding... they are good laying fowls and they ended up living and producing for years, the last one is 6 and still going strong. But that's a risky venture, they often die of previous exhaustion despite receiving good care and are more likely to carry illnesses so quarantine is an absolute must The next best ones were Dominant Blue (the Blue x Barred Plymouth Rock crosses) and leghorn crosses
Buff Orpingtons are really sweet and good with kids Americanas are friendly too with fun colored eggs Bantams are smaller and hardy So many more breeds, lots to choose from Good Luck!
That is one beautiful and fancy hen house and yard. We learned the hard way. A small ready to assemble coop was too light weight so we fastened 4x4s along the base. We got 6 chicks and when they were half grown the mesh wire was breeched anyway by a predator pushing in on a corner of the screen. 2 chickens lost. We reinforced with more wire. Later a 10x10 dog kennel topped with wire fence and surrounding the small coop created a larger yard for 4 remaining chickens. But it could be squeezed through by raccoons that found any large space in the chain link. Thankfully, I locked them in the smaller house at night. Later a newer 10x16 coop built with lumber and good wire had a space large enough for a predator to squeeze under the gate. Lost the final chickens after all this. Today we have hardware cloth (wire) surrounding the first coop with the dog kennel. Fastened with zipties. And there is 12 inches of fence below the entire perimeter. Cinderblocks buried next to that on outside. Chickens still dig so well that if that wasn't there, they'd have more intruders. Racoons regularly try to get through the outside but end up just taking the dirt out of the cinderblock centers when they dig. Second coop needs more improvements to be safe to use again. Currently have 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Silver Streaks. Getting 3 to 5 eggs a day. Not sure who the holdout is. But it is still way too many eggs for just me and the hubby. Expensive eggs after all this, but they are great and the hens are fun to watch and get to know. When my garden was infested with caterpillars I tossed them in the coop and the girls helped me get my revenge. Be sure to check what NOT to feed chickens. NO TOMATO vines. NO white potatoes of any kind raw or cooked. No avocado or asparagus.
Not planning on getting a coop anytime soon or amassing such a lovely garden, but watching this... *chef's kiss* THAT'S a nice coop! Can't wait to see the girls in action! Congrats on all!
Buff Orpington’s are a great starter chicken. Very mild mannered. They will even come and sit in your lap. They’re also good layers. The best chickens I ever had for egg production were red stars, also called red sex links. Beautiful bird and great eggs.
Golden Buff Orpingtons. They are very tame and affectionate if you spend time with them as babies on up. Mine come when I call them, they love hugs and scratches on their heads. They jump in my lap when I'm sitting down. (Although that could sometimes be a problem when they have poop on their feet.😳) They are good brooders if you get a rooster.
Love this! I didn't know coops could be so high-tech. Is there any plans to ensure that predators can't dig their way under the coop's walls? Also, love that you mentioned the compost system. I was wondering what was happening with that project
Yes a hardware predator apron will provide approx 2’ of digging protection around the perimeter of run. That us the same 1/2 wire grade and (I believe) it is tacked up to the bottom of the run making this installation predator-proof.
I will add prairie blue bell eggers and olive eggers to the suggestion box. The blue bells lay blue eggs and are very varied in feather color so they make for a pretty flock. The olive eggers lay green or brown eggs. Both are active foragers and lay a large number of eggs per year and their "medium" eggs are still larger than most serious bought "large" eggs. You can't do wrong with some of the others I see already recommended too (barred rock, Rhode Island reds, Americanas, orphingtons, and wyanndotes).
Dude, Kevie! I'm so fucking happy for you. I'm glad you can have chickens in SD. I love Rhode Island Red and Plymouth Rock. I learned a lot about chickens so I could mess with a new co-worker. The only thing I ever said to her was chicken facts. She probably thought I was psycho. HAHA Love your coop and so happy for you, brother. Cheers
That coop is BANGIN’!! Oh-so fancy by standards up here in Mendocino County. So, you looking for some breed recs, eh? There’s a breed that i saw on a neighbours’ property and had to stop and ask what those jet black beauties were. Black Australorps, a good sturdy breed that came from crossing the English Orpingtons and something from Australia! Great temperaments, excellent layers of big, brown eggs. Then there are Aracaunas and Ameracaunas, both coming from Chile and the latter being a hybrid of Easter Eggers. Their claim to fame are the gorgeous blue and green eggs they produce, and how! Lots of hen fruit from these ladies. My info is from experience and from reading up, i do not claim to be an expert! Good luck, dearheart!
Congratulations on your awesome coop! My favorites are buff orpingtons, ameraucana, black australorps, and Plymouth barred rocks, and cuckoo Marans. The cuckoo maran lays beautiful dark brown eggs and the ameraucana lays the gorgeous blue eggs. All of our girls are completely gentle, but we did handle them a lot when they were chicks.The more you handle them the more they will be like pets. You are going to have so much fun!😊
Welcome to the world of backyard garden chickens! That's a really nice coop and I'm sure it cost a few bucks more than I would spend. My coop and run are made from recycled lumber, a repurposed dog run and some hardware and other stuff I had laying around. It has served my chickens well for more than 10 years. My current flock consists of a black sex link (Jett), an Easter egger (Little Red), a white leghorn (Twitch), a Rhode Island red (Ginger) and a Golden Comet (Goldie) -- all good laying hens with fun and distinct personalities. I give them many of my garden scraps and even grow a few things just for them, including sunflowers, kale and alfalfa!
I almost didn’t recognize Jacque without his garden hermit hat on, but the helmet was smart, good job you guys. I love seeing the progression of the epic garden
I’ve read that you’re supposed to burn the stump. For some reason if you burn it down to soil the roots will decompose faster. (I’m assuming if there’s anything above the soil the tree still thinks it’s a tree and so continues trying to absorb nutrients.) How do I know this? No clue. I live in a freakin’ condo so I don’t even own a tree. Likewise I am watching chicken coop videos and without a chicken to my name. Thus is the power of the Epic channel. 😂
@@melissasullivan1658 You could sprinkle spores on it but the likelihood of it actually colonizing the stump would be low. Better option would be to drill holes into the stump and insert/pour a colonized substrate into it.
congrats! imo carolina coops are the best designed coops. unfortunately they're not in my budget so i built my own and copied them to a large degree. i can vouch for how well that design works and my chickens have been safe and happy. ps with only 6 chickens you will never need to actually clean out the coop or run. mine is going on 5 years and all i do is add hay/straw and just take out finished compost as needed.
also i'd rec getting easter eggers as they're friendly and don't overheat as much as larger dual purpose birds plus you'll get pretty eggs. order them vaccinated for marek's disease from a reputable hatchery.
Oooh this looks super cool! I... have to imagine this was expensive enough that putting the price tag in the video would turn more people off than interest them. Which, to be clear-- whatever you paid looks like it's worth it bc the looks so good! And I don't just mean aesthetic. I live in almost- the- desert where it gets below freezing during winter (got down to 0° F some days the week before last) and 95-100° F over summer, so I doubt I could care for chickens without powered climate control... but it might be worth checking if there are any already adapted to this environment.
That is the most awesome coop! Greenhouse will be here soon tho so my spring chickens will have to make do for awhile. I think that may be bigger then then my garden shed lol
I adore my buff Orpington, blue Cochin, and rhode island reds. Great personalities. The Cochin can be a little noisy and is somewhat broody. My Easter Eggers are a little more assertive, but still social and lay green eggs. All seem to be pretty good layers…
My chickens came last Friday. I have 5 Silkie Bantams. They are small when full grown and only lay 2-3 eggs/week each. The eggs are 3/4 size. I didn't want to end up with too many eggs since it's just my daughter and me. Of course, they don't lay when they get broody and Silkies tend to be broody. Silkies have a great temperament, are funny, and tend to be quieter than many other breeds. My coop isn't quite finished and neither is the run, but it's DIY. Unfortunately, I can't draw a straight line with a ruler, cut a straight line with a saw, and level isn't happening - but I doubt the chicks will care! It's got many of the features of your fabulous coop, but mine is "Rustic". If you read this, here's some info that might be helpful: grind the starter crumble because even starter crumble is too large for the chicks the first week. Use a very shallow dish or lid to a jar as a food bowl. Be prepared to wash their butts the first few days. It's common for newly hatched chicks to get pasty butt (where the excrement sticks to their vent) and if it's not washed off (use warm water and part of an old t-shirt), they can die because they can't potty. Even in San Diego, the newly hatched chicks will need a brooder heater (I got the radiant kind from Tractor Supply $42) for a month or so. You won't want them in the new coop for the first 6 weeks. You'll want them in the house. The garage is okay if no cars are parked in it. I also ground up the oyster shell scratch (they don't really need it the first week, from what I understand) but only give a tiny amount.
My ISA hybrids are great layers, very friendly & enjoy digging for bugs. I have to keep them out of my garden during the growing season, I hide treats in our compost pile so they help turn it for me. I'd put a dry dirt bath somewhere in your coop, so you can add diatomaceous earth to the ash, sand, dirt combo they enjoy bathing in.
Roots and refuge on RUclips has done several videos at Murray mcMurray hatchery. One specific to watch is their top five chickens. They discuss temperament and egg color
Yay! Carolina coop looks awesome and super functional. I keep looking at the water tank in the back ground and wondering if I missed a video on that??? Anyone know? Is the water filtered before entering the tank?
I got hens coming again over the next few month Kevin I sold my 50 hens and 12 ducks when I moved. But miss quality eggs so they are coming back. Nothing as elaborate as this awesome coop though
Please don't buy from the big breeding houses. Everyone wants female chicks so the thousands of unwanted male chicks go into the trash cans or chippers. Get eggs from your neighbors and hatch your own.
Jealous! I started with 3 Wyandottes because they can stand the cold, I believe down to 5°F. Their body shape is perfectly proportioned, they are really pretty. The Colombian is white with a black necklace around it’s neck. The red-laced blue tip has striking coloring especially in the sun, like an oil slick, and my Silver-laced is classic and so sweet. They also are a breed that will lay eggs year-round when the other hens have stopped laying due to winter! I wanted year round eggs. Each produce approximately 200 eggs a year! x 3, leaves me eggs to give away. They are medium size eggs light tan to ruddy pinkish. have fun they are so amusing. Just today, a neighborhood cat and 2 squirrels were in the yard socializing with them. Well, eating their scratch. Cats are supposed to be not their friends ha!
Bared Rock, Americana, Orpingtons, Road island red cant go wrong. Very good layers in my experience. Congratulations on the coop man looks great. Can't wait to see a video on the girls 🐔
Thats good to know. I live in Northern California obviously lol and it can be pretty warm in the summer here and it can be a challenge for the little lady's.
YAY! Finally! That is such a beautiful and well designed coop! Regarding chicken breeds - highly recommend Murry McMurry for your chicks. Breed wise - research yourself what you want. Also be aware - free ranging in your yard they might help themself to your massive garden (they will eat lettus, strawberries and other veg)
We are 3 months into our Carolina Coops build. We find issues with the instructions and parts every day. The latest is the top part of the double Dutch door is 2 inches too short.
THANK YOU to Carolina Coops for making a future chicken daddy's dream come true - Matt and his crew were some of the most awesome people I've ever met: carolinacoops.com/
I would love something similar.
If I ever can afford it, I want one.
Have you ever seen polish chiken I specially love the silver laced one they lay a bit less eggs but they're soo cute !
We had a blast! We know you will love your coop and your new chickens
Wow didn't realize you guys were so close! Hello from Wake Forest!
Idk what I love more about the beginning of this video, the sweet sound effects with the sharp tools or “Lumber Jacques.” Coup looks amazing!
Are there any measures in place to prevent predators from getting under the gaps between the soil and the coop?
Yup, I'll be showing that soon
i was wondering that too. Didn't see a wire fence skirt like Jacque's coop.
When CC does the install, they always put a good predator apron.
@@dr.westwood Thank you!!!
I too wondered that.
AAAH! Congrats, Kevin! So happy you finally have a chicken coop. Can't wait to meet the Epic Feathery Friends 🥚🪶
Thanks Genevieve!
Beautiful chicken coop and chicken run, especially you can get eggs outside. the wire mesh you used was perfect for young chicks and chickens, and avoid small wild animal to steal eggs.
I KNEW IT! Love @Carolina Coops. If you LOVE eggs, get some Black Austrolorps, Plymouth Rocks, Rhode Island Reds, or Leghorns. Great egg layers.
Will look into!
@Epic Gardening when you're ready for meat birds, let me know. We can tell you what to get and even show you how to send them to freezer camp.
Buff Orpingtons are so so sweet and docile. I like having colorful eggs myself, so I like to keep some olive eggers and black copper marans as well. I have found barred rock hens to be pecky, but they are a good heavy breed. If you want a chicken you can handle and love on orpingtons all the way. I am hoping to add some lavender ones to my flock!
I was lucky, I was able to convert a play house the previous owners of our house left behind into a walk-in coop for just the cost of some paint and 2x4s. My wife wanted it gone because it had some serious haunted dollhouse vibes but I ripped all the cutesy trim off, painted it barn red, and she agreed it was no longer creepy and could stay.
To follow up on breeds, I love my wyandottes and brahmas. They're bigger, slower growing birds but I don't need 6 eggs every day so I'd rather they have a longer productive life even if they only lay every 2-3 days. Orpingtons, barred rocks, and easter eggers types are good too. They're really more trouble than they're worth, but I also love polish, not very productive and tend to get picked on but too silly not to love.
@@johncaswell2648 Please upload a video of your converted doll house. That'd be awesome!
I have an old play house and I'm trying to decide between coopifying it or building my coop against the inside wall of my barn. (I have extreme winters in a windy place so the wind shield of a barn would help keep them warm)
So hard to choose...
“Haunted dollhouse vibes” 😂
@@Tsuchimursu if you want you could build using the old dollhouse but due to the extreme weather I would build a smaller-scale deal inside the barn and just use it as a winner house and let the playhouse be a summerhouse
During a hurricane my chicken coop got a hole in it and when we got back home we only had one chicken left her name was Red because she was a Rhode Island red but we all called her “what what” because that’s what it sounded like she was saying all the time and she turned into a pet and would sleep on our porch on a rocking chair with a pan underneath her “we potty trained a chicken” she would follow me around the garden and just watch what I was doing would jump in my lap and lay down and if I pointed to a weed or bug in my garden she would pull it out or eat it. I miss her 😌
That chicken was the best dog ever I'm sure
So excited to see your homestead coming together 🥲
It looks SO well designed and well made, well done Carolina Coops!
Thank you!!!
Finally- I need these ideas and input for my DIY coop myself that the wife has been wanting me to build.
Hope they help!
Same.
@@robbhays8077 Check out the DIY video that Jacque has on his channel.
Definitely go for a variety of hens as opposed to one breed, there’s so many wonderful, BEAUTIFUL breeds out there why limit yourself to one or two? Plus, all this different colored eggs are GORGEOUS in the kitchen.
Oh my! 😍Dream chicken coop! You will love having chickens! But yes everything wants to eat your chickens 🐓
That is an Epic Coop!!! The girls will love it. You’ve got room for a nice big flock there!!! Very well done.
I've been extremely happy with my 6 - Buff Orpington, 5 - Rhode Island Red and 4 - Plymouth-Barred Rock hens. Great egg layers, and calm, docile birds.
Americana's. They so far are the friendliest with what I have experienced
I know nothing about chickens or coops.. but you make me want a Carolina Coop and chickens!!
Buff Orpington, Barred Rock, Amerucana chickens are best for beginners. The Orpington is the "golden retriever" of chickens imo, the barred rocks I have owned have always been friendly and sweet and the Amerucana make green tinted eggs, great conversation starter
My first chickens were these same breeds with a couple gold laced Wyandottes. Best part about bared rocks is that they lay through the winter. So far they've only stopped during molt. Love them! 😍
Wyandotte tribe assemble!!! I'm a Wyandotte by blood..so I should have one for free...thats how that works right? Haha they are fantastic chickens
Buff Orpingtons are my absolute favourite chickens, I call them my BFG's
Barred rocks are a great dual purpose bird, good eggs and they get heavy. Would also add to the recommendation above the Black Australorp. They are great, sweet and friendly but a little shy.
Please don't buy from the big chick supplier companies. Everyone wants female chicks so the thousands of unwanted male chicks go into the trash cans or chippers. Get eggs from your neighbors and hatch them yourselves.
Awesome coop! I have Australorps, Orpingtons, and Easter Eggers. My Easter Eggers are the sweetest and lay more consistently than all of the chickens I have. The Orpington and Australorp are good layers too.
I could not recommend blue australorps more. Really pretty birds, reliable egg production, quiet, and friendly.
I have had many types of chickens, and the Ameraucanas are the sweetest and hardiest of them all. They lay blue eggs (not every day), and are very cold hardy (it got to -22 this winter). Even the rooster was a sweetheart, and let us pick him up and hold him. We have one hen that follows us around more like a dog, and will fly onto your lap for cuddles.
That’s a badass coop! I’m in the planning stages of building a coop so this was very helpful!
If I win the lottery I'm getting a whack of these for all my breeding pens.. those coops are so amazing.
Australorps are your go to all around chicken. They did great in Calle Tania, CA where some of our very good friends live. They lay massive eggs, they do great, they're also very good at going through gardens without hurting the vegetables within the garden. You can also harvest them for meat if you want because they're big birds. They're very gentle and love people. If you can have one, I would suggest a small rooster to be with your hens because they really prefer being with a rooster for protection. You can get crow bands that go around the roosters neck and blocks the ability for them to crow. They do make bantam sized versions of pretty much all breeds of chickens, so you can look for that as well.
for sure get an easter egger and a copper maran! super pretty eggs! and for looks, a silver laced wyandotte is beautiful! plus, you cant go wrong with a rhode island red and plymouth rock!
Love this. I will never be able to have chickens so living vicariously. :)
Great coop! That would take up almost half my yard. Nice to have someone build it for you! Can't wait to see what chicken breed you decide on. I had Barred Plymouth rocks and Rhode Island reds. Both nice friendly chickens. Gotta watch out for Cooper Hawks, aka chicken hawks. Very agile flyers so they can get around most obstacles,They will take out you chickens quickly. On another note - hey guys I am going on 69 this year and I use the hand saws all the time. No big deal lol. I have taken out a peach tree as well as an orange tree. My sons will take out the trunks and I finish off removing the large root base. I only use power tools when necessary, mostly my blower because I hate sweeping!
At my parents' one of the best hens turned out to be factory farm rescues of Leghorn breeding... they are good laying fowls and they ended up living and producing for years, the last one is 6 and still going strong. But that's a risky venture, they often die of previous exhaustion despite receiving good care and are more likely to carry illnesses so quarantine is an absolute must
The next best ones were Dominant Blue (the Blue x Barred Plymouth Rock crosses) and leghorn crosses
Buff Orpingtons are really sweet and good with kids
Americanas are friendly too with fun colored eggs
Bantams are smaller and hardy
So many more breeds, lots to choose from
Good Luck!
That is one beautiful and fancy hen house and yard. We learned the hard way. A small ready to assemble coop was too light weight so we fastened 4x4s along the base. We got 6 chicks and when they were half grown the mesh wire was breeched anyway by a predator pushing in on a corner of the screen. 2 chickens lost. We reinforced with more wire. Later a 10x10 dog kennel topped with wire fence and surrounding the small coop created a larger yard for 4 remaining chickens. But it could be squeezed through by raccoons that found any large space in the chain link. Thankfully, I locked them in the smaller house at night. Later a newer 10x16 coop built with lumber and good wire had a space large enough for a predator to squeeze under the gate. Lost the final chickens after all this. Today we have hardware cloth (wire) surrounding the first coop with the dog kennel. Fastened with zipties. And there is 12 inches of fence below the entire perimeter. Cinderblocks buried next to that on outside. Chickens still dig so well that if that wasn't there, they'd have more intruders. Racoons regularly try to get through the outside but end up just taking the dirt out of the cinderblock centers when they dig. Second coop needs more improvements to be safe to use again. Currently have 3 Rhode Island Reds and 3 Silver Streaks. Getting 3 to 5 eggs a day. Not sure who the holdout is. But it is still way too many eggs for just me and the hubby. Expensive eggs after all this, but they are great and the hens are fun to watch and get to know. When my garden was infested with caterpillars I tossed them in the coop and the girls helped me get my revenge. Be sure to check what NOT to feed chickens. NO TOMATO vines. NO white potatoes of any kind raw or cooked. No avocado or asparagus.
You finally joined us crazy chicken folks!
So happy for you!!!
Best coop I've ever seen 👍
Road island reds! Great egg production and meat birds.
Not planning on getting a coop anytime soon or amassing such a lovely garden, but watching this... *chef's kiss* THAT'S a nice coop! Can't wait to see the girls in action! Congrats on all!
Buff Orpington’s are a great starter chicken. Very mild mannered. They will even come and sit in your lap. They’re also good layers. The best chickens I ever had for egg production were red stars, also called red sex links. Beautiful bird and great eggs.
Buffs like to brood.
Totally rad chicken coop! 🐓
Golden Buff Orpingtons. They are very tame and affectionate if you spend time with them as babies on up. Mine come when I call them, they love hugs and scratches on their heads. They jump in my lap when I'm sitting down. (Although that could sometimes be a problem when they have poop on their feet.😳)
They are good brooders if you get a rooster.
Omg! I LOVE this coop!!!
I would get leghorn chickens. They are so sweet. My kids and I intend to get more this year
Love this! I didn't know coops could be so high-tech. Is there any plans to ensure that predators can't dig their way under the coop's walls? Also, love that you mentioned the compost system. I was wondering what was happening with that project
Yes a hardware predator apron will provide approx 2’ of digging protection around the perimeter of run. That us the same 1/2 wire grade and (I believe) it is tacked up to the bottom of the run making this installation predator-proof.
Dewalt 20v tools are amazing. The 60v is even better!
Much nicer than my first apartment🤣🤣🤣💕
Thank you for showing more chicken videos. Can’t wait to see your chicken journey. I wish to have chickens myself someday.
Golden comet, Barred Rocks. They are heavy producers. And their pretty. And they blend in so your other wild game wont notice them as much.
MY GOD I LOVE IT WHAT A BEAUTIFUL CHICKEN COOP .KEVIN YOU HAVE DONE A LOT IMPROVEMENTS IN YOUR PROPERTY, YOU ARE A RICH GUY . 💰 MONEY MONEY MONEY.
I will add prairie blue bell eggers and olive eggers to the suggestion box. The blue bells lay blue eggs and are very varied in feather color so they make for a pretty flock. The olive eggers lay green or brown eggs. Both are active foragers and lay a large number of eggs per year and their "medium" eggs are still larger than most serious bought "large" eggs. You can't do wrong with some of the others I see already recommended too (barred rock, Rhode Island reds, Americanas, orphingtons, and wyanndotes).
Dude, Kevie! I'm so fucking happy for you. I'm glad you can have chickens in SD. I love Rhode Island Red and Plymouth Rock. I learned a lot about chickens so I could mess with a new co-worker. The only thing I ever said to her was chicken facts. She probably thought I was psycho. HAHA Love your coop and so happy for you, brother. Cheers
I have a RIR now!
@@epicgardening Nice dude! I hope you enjoy them eggs. Cheers from Idaho. :)
Nice!!! You’re going to need to put stones or rocks at the bottom along the entire run because there’s a gap and they can squeeze through it.
That coop is BANGIN’!! Oh-so fancy by standards up here in Mendocino County. So, you looking for some breed recs, eh? There’s a breed that i saw on a neighbours’ property and had to stop and ask what those jet black beauties were. Black Australorps, a good sturdy breed that came from crossing the English Orpingtons and something from Australia! Great temperaments, excellent layers of big, brown eggs. Then there are Aracaunas and Ameracaunas, both coming from Chile and the latter being a hybrid of Easter Eggers. Their claim to fame are the gorgeous blue and green eggs they produce, and how! Lots of hen fruit from these ladies. My info is from experience and from reading up, i do not claim to be an expert! Good luck, dearheart!
Congratulations on your awesome coop! My favorites are buff orpingtons, ameraucana, black australorps, and Plymouth barred rocks, and cuckoo Marans. The cuckoo maran lays beautiful dark brown eggs and the ameraucana lays the gorgeous blue eggs. All of our girls are completely gentle, but we did handle them a lot when they were chicks.The more you handle them the more they will be like pets. You are going to have so much fun!😊
What an incredibly well thought out coop. And so pretty too.
Winner winner chicken dinner 🐓🥚
Welcome to the world of backyard garden chickens! That's a really nice coop and I'm sure it cost a few bucks more than I would spend. My coop and run are made from recycled lumber, a repurposed dog run and some hardware and other stuff I had laying around. It has served my chickens well for more than 10 years. My current flock consists of a black sex link (Jett), an Easter egger (Little Red), a white leghorn (Twitch), a Rhode Island red (Ginger) and a Golden Comet (Goldie) -- all good laying hens with fun and distinct personalities. I give them many of my garden scraps and even grow a few things just for them, including sunflowers, kale and alfalfa!
Wow, that is a very nice coop
Love the coop!🐣🐥
Congrats 🤩Nice chicken coop!!
I almost didn’t recognize Jacque without his garden hermit hat on, but the helmet was smart, good job you guys. I love seeing the progression of the epic garden
You’re making me want a coop and chickens….but I am an affirmed cat lover. I need a cat playhouse….that’s what I need.
Ahh!!! I was waiting on the chicken video, congrats!!
I’ve read that you’re supposed to burn the stump. For some reason if you burn it down to soil the roots will decompose faster. (I’m assuming if there’s anything above the soil the tree still thinks it’s a tree and so continues trying to absorb nutrients.)
How do I know this? No clue. I live in a freakin’ condo so I don’t even own a tree. Likewise I am watching chicken coop videos and without a chicken to my name. Thus is the power of the Epic channel. 😂
We cut it into a cross hatch pattern to achieve the same effect, but we'll see!
@@epicgardening that is good to know! Happy worms soon.
You can get shrooms to decompose it fast
@@wybuchowyukomendant what would you do, just water it down and sprinkle spores on it?
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You could sprinkle spores on it but the likelihood of it actually colonizing the stump would be low.
Better option would be to drill holes into the stump and insert/pour a colonized substrate into it.
I can't wait to see more chicken content!!
congrats! imo carolina coops are the best designed coops. unfortunately they're not in my budget so i built my own and copied them to a large degree. i can vouch for how well that design works and my chickens have been safe and happy. ps with only 6 chickens you will never need to actually clean out the coop or run. mine is going on 5 years and all i do is add hay/straw and just take out finished compost as needed.
also i'd rec getting easter eggers as they're friendly and don't overheat as much as larger dual purpose birds plus you'll get pretty eggs. order them vaccinated for marek's disease from a reputable hatchery.
Glad to hear you got a design like theirs!
Oooh this looks super cool! I... have to imagine this was expensive enough that putting the price tag in the video would turn more people off than interest them. Which, to be clear-- whatever you paid looks like it's worth it bc the looks so good! And I don't just mean aesthetic.
I live in almost- the- desert where it gets below freezing during winter (got down to 0° F some days the week before last) and 95-100° F over summer, so I doubt I could care for chickens without powered climate control... but it might be worth checking if there are any already adapted to this environment.
They seem pricey until you really understand what you're getting. Definitely worth the investment if it's within your means.
Chickens don’t need climate control of any kind.
I love my ameraucana chickens. They lay blue eggs and are pretty friendly. My Polish are super noisy
When is a 2022 garden tour coming out? Great job on the coop by the way. Love the channel.
Next week!
Get silkies. They're friendly and docile and so, so fluffy.
That is the most awesome coop! Greenhouse will be here soon tho so my spring chickens will have to make do for awhile. I think that may be bigger then then my garden shed lol
Check out the Aussie Bantams, perfect for the heat, SD shares a lot of climate with us.
Love Jacque ❤️❤️❤️
Nice coop. My dream coop for sure. Only thing that looks tacky too me, is the fact the hens stairs/ladder isn’t one complete piece to the ground.
I adore my buff Orpington, blue Cochin, and rhode island reds. Great personalities. The Cochin can be a little noisy and is somewhat broody. My Easter Eggers are a little more assertive, but still social and lay green eggs. All seem to be pretty good layers…
My chickens came last Friday. I have 5 Silkie Bantams. They are small when full grown and only lay 2-3 eggs/week each. The eggs are 3/4 size. I didn't want to end up with too many eggs since it's just my daughter and me. Of course, they don't lay when they get broody and Silkies tend to be broody. Silkies have a great temperament, are funny, and tend to be quieter than many other breeds. My coop isn't quite finished and neither is the run, but it's DIY. Unfortunately, I can't draw a straight line with a ruler, cut a straight line with a saw, and level isn't happening - but I doubt the chicks will care! It's got many of the features of your fabulous coop, but mine is "Rustic". If you read this, here's some info that might be helpful: grind the starter crumble because even starter crumble is too large for the chicks the first week. Use a very shallow dish or lid to a jar as a food bowl. Be prepared to wash their butts the first few days. It's common for newly hatched chicks to get pasty butt (where the excrement sticks to their vent) and if it's not washed off (use warm water and part of an old t-shirt), they can die because they can't potty. Even in San Diego, the newly hatched chicks will need a brooder heater (I got the radiant kind from Tractor Supply $42) for a month or so. You won't want them in the new coop for the first 6 weeks. You'll want them in the house. The garage is okay if no cars are parked in it. I also ground up the oyster shell scratch (they don't really need it the first week, from what I understand) but only give a tiny amount.
I've never seen a better chicken coop. Well done
Very cool coop. I would get a couple of Americuana, Bardrocks and Rhode Island Reds. The Americuanas will Lau green eggs.
My ISA hybrids are great layers, very friendly & enjoy digging for bugs. I have to keep them out of my garden during the growing season, I hide treats in our compost pile so they help turn it for me. I'd put a dry dirt bath somewhere in your coop, so you can add diatomaceous earth to the ash, sand, dirt combo they enjoy bathing in.
I have a Carolina Coop and it is an amazing product :)
Roots and refuge on RUclips has done several videos at Murray mcMurray hatchery. One specific to watch is their top five chickens. They discuss temperament and egg color
Yay! Carolina coop looks awesome and super functional. I keep looking at the water tank in the back ground and wondering if I missed a video on that??? Anyone know? Is the water filtered before entering the tank?
This is a beautiful coop!
I got hens coming again over the next few month Kevin I sold my 50 hens and 12 ducks when I moved. But miss quality eggs so they are coming back. Nothing as elaborate as this awesome coop though
I can't wait for you to have the again Tony!
@@epicgardening Already got the run waiting to be built. I just need to build the coop section. but looking forward to having them back in the garden
Please don't buy from the big breeding houses. Everyone wants female chicks so the thousands of unwanted male chicks go into the trash cans or chippers. Get eggs from your neighbors and hatch your own.
The hilton of chicken coops
Jealous!
I started with 3 Wyandottes because they can stand the cold, I believe down to 5°F. Their body shape is perfectly proportioned, they are really pretty. The Colombian is white with a black necklace around it’s neck. The red-laced blue tip has striking coloring especially in the sun, like an oil slick, and my Silver-laced is classic and so sweet. They also are a breed that will lay eggs year-round when the other hens have stopped laying due to winter! I wanted year round eggs. Each produce approximately 200 eggs a year! x 3, leaves me eggs to give away. They are medium size eggs light tan to ruddy pinkish.
have fun they are so amusing. Just today, a neighborhood cat and 2 squirrels were in the yard socializing with them. Well, eating their scratch. Cats are supposed to be not their friends ha!
Love it!!!
Very beautiful
Wow very nice congrats!
This is chicken coop is such a dream setup.
Bared Rock, Americana, Orpingtons, Road island red cant go wrong. Very good layers in my experience. Congratulations on the coop man looks great. Can't wait to see a video on the girls 🐔
I would add White Leghorn to the mix. They tolerate heat really well and lay almost year-round. (I’m in Texas and my WL is an egg making beast! LOL)
Thats good to know. I live in Northern California obviously lol and it can be pretty warm in the summer here and it can be a challenge for the little lady's.
I’m in Houston and our hot, humid summers are horrible. Princess Leia never skips a beat.
Oh, I hope he's not too hard on Jacques! 😂 This looks great and def a beautiful coop!!
Rhode Island Reds are great all purpose chickens
I'm a fan of Bielefelders
Cool!
I love Carolina Coop. The first time I saw them I fell in love with them. I can't wait till the day I can have one. So happy for you. Enjoy!
You definitely need a Chirp 2.0 (Buff Orpington?)
Silver laced Wyandotte were my favorite when I had girls!
won't raccoons be able to get through the gaps under the frame? there's quite the gap there.
That will be addressed in a future vid :)
YAY! Finally! That is such a beautiful and well designed coop!
Regarding chicken breeds - highly recommend Murry McMurry for your chicks. Breed wise - research yourself what you want.
Also be aware - free ranging in your yard they might help themself to your massive garden (they will eat lettus, strawberries and other veg)
Was wondering when this video would post
We are 3 months into our Carolina Coops build. We find issues with the instructions and parts every day. The latest is the top part of the double Dutch door is 2 inches too short.
Brahmas are a cool of a chicken that you could get I’d have hundreds of I could!!!