Poor Halloumi, know you had a special attachment to her.. sorry 😢 thank you for sharing the story and Cinnamon has done an amazing job. Beautiful new chicks.. xx
Listened to Coffee w the Chkn Ladies, wonderful to hear you there. Very sorry for your loss, but congrats on all the spectacular new life! I don’t think the typical buff Orpingtons are as large here in the US, although I haven’t seen any in person, just on RUclips. I’m very sad mine didn’t make it as a chick, but as you said, that’s the highs and lows of livestock. Watching my mixed flock get older, Eleven weeks in two days, I’m still trying to figure out their pecking order..I think 15 was actually too many for my first flock, but I’m still glad I have them. I’m sorry to admit that I’m not telling apart my multiples very well at all..! Four Cuckoo Marans, three Bielefelders, two Speckled Sussex, they are pretty challenging to tell apart. The four Whiting True Blues are easy because they are so phenotypically different..very gorgeous birds..I’m enchanted with their and my Ameraucana’s muffs and beards..they make one look fierce like a hawk, one like a distinguished gentleman (let’s hope not), and one a disheveled mad scientist..another curious thing is that I don’t have any real desire to name them..I was so heartbroken when my Aby cats passed, I vowed no more pets, I tend to call all my girls “sweetheart.” The only one left in my menagerie is a Black Australorp, and she really is a sweetheart. (Well...they all are..!) I think she’s the number one. Congrats again on all the babies!
Aw! So cute seeing Cinnamon's chicks first beginning to peek out. Lovely. And so nice to have a coop cam to be able to see their natural behaviours undisturbed with mum.
We're small holders in Brazil and after rescuing a chick from our neighbors, we fell in love and decided to raise our own flock of blue Orpingtons. Your videos have been a constant source of information and encouragement. Thank you so much! If you have any suggestions about other breeds that might be good for beginners, please make a video and/or let us know. Keep of the fantastic work.
@@EnglishCountryLife Thanks for responding. You have such a lovely flock. I don't know about the laws regarding the importation of foreign breeds, but your Old English Pheasant Fowls are probably my favorite ❤️
Oh Fiona and Hugh - talk about the highs and lows…We’re so sorry to hear about Halloumi - she was a beautiful girl. ❤️ Thank you for sharing. It is so useful and interesting (and sometimes sad) ps one of our daughters was home and watched with us and she wanted to see more about Frankie so we showed her Frankie’s story. Needless to say she’s fallen in love with her!
@@EnglishCountryLife Alex (daughter!) waves back! Frankie is an absolute superstar and a great teacher of what can be achieved with persistence and optimism (and loving care) 😍
I’m really sorry to hear about Halloumi, it’s always tough to lose an animal but at least you can be proud of the life you gave her and all your chickens. On a happier note Cinnamon reminds me of a childhood friends mother, there were usually so many of us in her house that I’m not sure she knew which of us were hers but she fed and cared for us all the same. Looking forward to next week!
Oh Fiona and Huge 😢 I was saddened to hear the death of Halloumi, she was so beautiful. It was lovely to see so many healthy fluffy chicks though 🐣🐥🐥🐥 Well done on all your hard work xx
Great video. Thank you for explaining all of that so clearly. I am sorry about Halloumi. That must have been shocking and sad. Thank heaven you were able to recover some of the eggs. Bless you and Hugh for all you do! ❤️
Great job Fiona and Hugh! Just about anything that could happen did happen with the four clutches and our pro’s rose to the challenge! I am shopping for a property with ample yard and fencing and I am so excited to be venturing forth with my own Buff Orpingtons next Spring here in the US! Thanks for everything you do. MC
Thank you! We have three more hens on eggs due in a couple of weeks and a couple at least will start again in Autumn. So exciting about your property search! Do please tell us about it when you find somewhere .
Wonderful video but sad that you lost Hallomui . Is it possible she didn't eat or drink enough during her broody period? I would love to let my hens hatch out some chicks, but I certainly don't need more chickens right now. I have 10 young layers of different breeds and 6 teenagers and 10 pre teens. As you can see, unless something were to happen to them I have more than enough to keep me and my extended family in eggs and meat later on when they have stopped laying. I don't have a problem harvesting my own meats, but arthritis has made it very difficult to clean them.
Hello to my voice of calm and reasoning! Day 21 today and so far 4 sweet chicks have hatched 🤗 I was warned that it's not favorable weather and humidity for a successful hatch so I'm thrilled with the 4 plump happy little fluff balls! Alas we have a mite issue - I put diotomaceous earth under the bedding and have put ACV in their water (1.5tsp to 3l) What else can I do?
@@EnglishCountryLife I've just looked red mites up and that's sadly what I think they are. They're all over my hand after putting fresh water and food into the coop. I walk through the main chicken run to get to them and leave them. Looks like the rest of the flock aren't infested enough to see them because I didn't notice any while around them the last 2 days - but seeing as I'm walking through there and they're only seperated by a fence - this is about to spread like crazy? Those poor chicks 😕
@@kellymorgan4783 Hi Kelly. You need a two step process. Treat the coops with "Smite" once a week. Also treat the chickens with 1 % Ivermectin drops once a week for three weeks. The Smite kills those lurking in the coops. The Ivermectin kills those biting a chicken. You need repeated treatments because more will hatch. I would treat the whole flock to prevent re-infection
@@kellymorgan4783 It is Kelly as the dosage is based on body weight. When they are very small, you may need to dilute the Ivermectin to give a small enough dose.
It is really great how you've helped those struggling chicks. I try to buy the more expansive Bio eggs and hope that the chicken are having a better life experience than those kept in cages all their lives. But it can be no match to your wonderful back-yard.
Thanks for this! We love everything you put out. We used to have three ducks when we lived in Atlanta (GA, US) in the 90's. They were "house ducks"; nappies in the house and all that. It was a blast. We now live in a tiny, ~900sq/ft flat on the 28th floor of a San Francisco high rise. We have ~120sq/ft of balcony, and my GF asked if it would be a good idea to put a couple of chickens there. I think it is a terrible idea, or at least a not well-thought-through one. The City says that is fine for 2 40Lb dogs, so the permit would likely go through. We both love the Buff Orpingtons, but this seems irresponsible to me. Thoughts?
I see a numbers of issues: 1) Chickens don't cope well with wind and on the 28th floor wind will be a big issue unless the air is still all year round. 2) Chickens can only fly short distances so enough to leap a balcony but not enough to make it safely to the ground. To make a balcony safe you will have to enclose (including roof over) the entire balcony or at least the area they have access to for their safety. 3) Chickens need shelter from beating sun, rain and snow so very heavy-weight coops and shelters will need to be in place to give them shelter without fear of it blowing away. 4) Chickens need to dust or sand bathe to keep themselves clean which will be a problem on a balcony and if you do have a solution I suspect it might be an issue for your lower level neighbours who may end up with soil or sand that your hens have thrown to one side and which then blows off. Sorry but my advice would be for the welfare and safety of your hens that another solution at ground level would be better.
@@EnglishCountryLife Thank you. That completely makes sense. I never thought about the wind. You are right; it is *brisk* all the time at street level, let alone on the 28th. Now that I think about it carefully, I see that it would be miserable for a chicken who is quartered there. I anticipated your #'s 2 and 3, but I never even considered #1 and #4 (especially)! Keeping chickens in an ultra-urban environment like downtown San Francisco seems more of a challenge than I am up for. Thank you.
Hi Sandy! When we started we bought commercial coops but Hugh has had to repair these. We bought one from a local builder made from offcuts & Hugh has made the rest
Hi! No we tend to very the breeds other than the Orpingtons so have Crested Cream Legbars and Welsummers right now - it'll be something else next year!
I have a question. After watching many videos I’ve yet to see this covered. Pasty butt is a situation to watch for if we raise chicks but does this situation exist with broody hen raised chicks? Should we still be watching for this with chicks being raised by a broody hen?
I have a question for you as I have not ever had a broody hen and I have just set my first how many eggs is best for the hen to hatch? How many chick's can the average hen raise?
Hello Mysty 🙂. It very much depends on the size of breed. Very large birds like Orpingtons or Brahmas can manage as many as 18 eggs although they may break one or two climbing off such a large clutch. Standard large fowl can cover around 12 eggs & slip birds like Legbars can manage 6 to 8.
@@kellymorgan4783 it went well Grandma is her name and she is a silkie so we went with 6 eggs from road island red (4) and Easter egger (2). One never started a second one stopped in the early stages, first to hatch was on day 19 and quit a surprise now named Eggs, next to hatch was riding hood the next day on day 20 who then fell out of nest box and stressed out his mom he is fine, the last two died in egg late not sure why but the early hatch of the first and the stress from the second might of caused her to get up during "lock down" given her young age a real surprise as she was a late Nov. Chick. Sprinkles one of our speckled Sussex hens went broody next about a week after Grandma's babies hatched almost liked it is all planed out so she has 14 silkie eggs hatch day is the 5th coming up really fast. Grandma has been a great mother so far one of the cutest thing is was her teaching them to dust bath at only a week old, she is so protective that it is only recently that she has not protested her babies being touched and always heardes them behind her. If you would like pics just tell me an email as I am happy to share.
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Aw, poor Halloumi. I know you had a special bond with her after helping her hatch. So sorry to hear about her.
Thanks Orlaith
Poor Halloumi, know you had a special attachment to her.. sorry 😢 thank you for sharing the story and Cinnamon has done an amazing job. Beautiful new chicks.. xx
Thanks Donna
Listened to Coffee w the Chkn Ladies, wonderful to hear you there. Very sorry for your loss, but congrats on all the spectacular new life! I don’t think the typical buff Orpingtons are as large here in the US, although I haven’t seen any in person, just on RUclips. I’m very sad mine didn’t make it as a chick, but as you said, that’s the highs and lows of livestock. Watching my mixed flock get older, Eleven weeks in two days, I’m still trying to figure out their pecking order..I think 15 was actually too many for my first flock, but I’m still glad I have them. I’m sorry to admit that I’m not telling apart my multiples very well at all..! Four Cuckoo Marans, three Bielefelders, two Speckled Sussex, they are pretty challenging to tell apart. The four Whiting True Blues are easy because they are so phenotypically different..very gorgeous birds..I’m enchanted with their and my Ameraucana’s muffs and beards..they make one look fierce like a hawk, one like a distinguished gentleman (let’s hope not), and one a disheveled mad scientist..another curious thing is that I don’t have any real desire to name them..I was so heartbroken when my Aby cats passed, I vowed no more pets, I tend to call all my girls “sweetheart.” The only one left in my menagerie is a Black Australorp, and she really is a sweetheart. (Well...they all are..!) I think she’s the number one. Congrats again on all the babies!
Thanks John, and with yours!
Just an update on our first broody hen. She hatched 9 of the 12 eggs. She’s being a great mommy so far 3 days in. Thanks for the great content!
That's fantastic Mike, a really good result! Well done 🙂
Aw! So cute seeing Cinnamon's chicks first beginning to peek out. Lovely. And so nice to have a coop cam to be able to see their natural behaviours undisturbed with mum.
Thank you. Our coop cam is a home made recorder but it does work 🙂
We're small holders in Brazil and after rescuing a chick from our neighbors, we fell in love and decided to raise our own flock of blue Orpingtons. Your videos have been a constant source of information and encouragement. Thank you so much! If you have any suggestions about other breeds that might be good for beginners, please make a video and/or let us know. Keep of the fantastic work.
Thanks so much Greg! We do have a video that covers our other breeds
ruclips.net/video/JDaMa8FawvM/видео.html
@@EnglishCountryLife Thanks for responding. You have such a lovely flock. I don't know about the laws regarding the importation of foreign breeds, but your Old English Pheasant Fowls are probably my favorite ❤️
@@wsudance85 They certainly are beautiful birds - and very rare!
You are an excellent teacher! Thank God I found your channel 🙏
Thank you Francine 🙂. We are always happy to answer questions.
Oh Fiona and Hugh - talk about the highs and lows…We’re so sorry to hear about Halloumi - she was a beautiful girl. ❤️ Thank you for sharing. It is so useful and interesting (and sometimes sad) ps one of our daughters was home and watched with us and she wanted to see more about Frankie so we showed her Frankie’s story. Needless to say she’s fallen in love with her!
Thanks guys (waves to daughter!). Frankie is doing fantastically - absolutely loving her massive brood of tiny chicks 🙂
@@EnglishCountryLife Alex (daughter!) waves back! Frankie is an absolute superstar and a great teacher of what can be achieved with persistence and optimism (and loving care) 😍
@@geoffanddebshipton6797 We are hopeful that she may brood twice this year! Don't tell Alex that Frankie is short for "Frankenhen" 😁
@@EnglishCountryLife she would find that hilarious! 😂
I’m really sorry to hear about Halloumi, it’s always tough to lose an animal but at least you can be proud of the life you gave her and all your chickens.
On a happier note Cinnamon reminds me of a childhood friends mother, there were usually so many of us in her house that I’m not sure she knew which of us were hers but she fed and cared for us all the same. Looking forward to next week!
Thanks Ash. Cinnamon is a fabulous broody, although an old lady now
@@EnglishCountryLife an oldie but a goldie!
Oh Fiona and Huge 😢 I was saddened to hear the death of Halloumi, she was so beautiful.
It was lovely to see so many healthy fluffy chicks though 🐣🐥🐥🐥 Well done on all your hard work xx
Thanks Barb - the circle of life
Great video. Thank you for explaining all of that so clearly. I am sorry about Halloumi. That must have been shocking and sad. Thank heaven you were able to recover some of the eggs. Bless you and Hugh for all you do! ❤️
Thanks Jenny, that's very kind
Great job Fiona and Hugh! Just about anything that could happen did happen with the four clutches and our pro’s rose to the challenge! I am shopping for a property with ample yard and fencing and I am so excited to be venturing forth with my own Buff Orpingtons next Spring here in the US! Thanks for everything you do. MC
Thank you! We have three more hens on eggs due in a couple of weeks and a couple at least will start again in Autumn. So exciting about your property search! Do please tell us about it when you find somewhere .
So Sorry to hear about the loss of Halloumi. :(
Rhanks Peggie
Thank you so much for your videos, I want to get chickens sometime next year when we get moved to the farm!
Everyone needs a few fluffy sweethearts!
Poor Halloumi 😢 what happened?
Unfortunately we simply found her in the nest dead. Sometimes, rarely this happens.
@@EnglishCountryLife so sorry for you 😟
@@Anna-lz7mr Sadly it (very rarely) happens
Wonderful video but sad that you lost Hallomui . Is it possible she didn't eat or drink enough during her broody period? I would love to let my hens hatch out some chicks, but I certainly don't need more chickens right now. I have 10 young layers of different breeds and 6 teenagers and 10 pre teens. As you can see, unless something were to happen to them I have more than enough to keep me and my extended family in eggs and meat later on when they have stopped laying. I don't have a problem harvesting my own meats, but arthritis has made it very difficult to clean them.
We fed Haloumi with mash daily and she drank plenty. Could have been many things, sadly we will never know
Great video, thanks. So can I put newly hatched chicks from an incubator with a broody hen who has been broody for 21 days?
In theory yes, Its easier if she hatches a few chicks herself because "more chicks" don't seem to worry them.
I’ve done it successfully with 1 hen accepting 14 chicks! I just slipped them in over 2 nights.
Hello to my voice of calm and reasoning! Day 21 today and so far 4 sweet chicks have hatched 🤗 I was warned that it's not favorable weather and humidity for a successful hatch so I'm thrilled with the 4 plump happy little fluff balls!
Alas we have a mite issue - I put diotomaceous earth under the bedding and have put ACV in their water (1.5tsp to 3l)
What else can I do?
Hi Kelly, just to be certain, do you mean red mite?
@@EnglishCountryLife I've just looked red mites up and that's sadly what I think they are.
They're all over my hand after putting fresh water and food into the coop.
I walk through the main chicken run to get to them and leave them.
Looks like the rest of the flock aren't infested enough to see them because I didn't notice any while around them the last 2 days - but seeing as I'm walking through there and they're only seperated by a fence - this is about to spread like crazy?
Those poor chicks 😕
@@kellymorgan4783 Hi Kelly. You need a two step process. Treat the coops with "Smite" once a week. Also treat the chickens with 1 % Ivermectin drops once a week for three weeks. The Smite kills those lurking in the coops. The Ivermectin kills those biting a chicken. You need repeated treatments because more will hatch. I would treat the whole flock to prevent re-infection
@@EnglishCountryLife THANKS - and this is safe for the newly hatched chicks?
@@kellymorgan4783 It is Kelly as the dosage is based on body weight. When they are very small, you may need to dilute the Ivermectin to give a small enough dose.
It is really great how you've helped those struggling chicks. I try to buy the more expansive Bio eggs and hope that the chicken are having a better life experience than those kept in cages all their lives. But it can be no match to your wonderful back-yard.
That's really kind of you Luke, thank you
Thanks for this! We love everything you put out.
We used to have three ducks when we lived in Atlanta (GA, US) in the 90's. They were "house ducks"; nappies in the house and all that. It was a blast.
We now live in a tiny, ~900sq/ft flat on the 28th floor of a San Francisco high rise.
We have ~120sq/ft of balcony, and my GF asked if it would be a good idea to put a couple of chickens there. I think it is a terrible idea, or at least a not well-thought-through one.
The City says that is fine for 2 40Lb dogs, so the permit would likely go through.
We both love the Buff Orpingtons, but this seems irresponsible to me.
Thoughts?
I see a numbers of issues:
1) Chickens don't cope well with wind and on the 28th floor wind will be a big issue unless the air is still all year round.
2) Chickens can only fly short distances so enough to leap a balcony but not enough to make it safely to the ground. To make a balcony safe you will have to enclose (including roof over) the entire balcony or at least the area they have access to for their safety.
3) Chickens need shelter from beating sun, rain and snow so very heavy-weight coops and shelters will need to be in place to give them shelter without fear of it blowing away.
4) Chickens need to dust or sand bathe to keep themselves clean which will be a problem on a balcony and if you do have a solution I suspect it might be an issue for your lower level neighbours who may end up with soil or sand that your hens have thrown to one side and which then blows off.
Sorry but my advice would be for the welfare and safety of your hens that another solution at ground level would be better.
@@EnglishCountryLife Thank you. That completely makes sense.
I never thought about the wind. You are right; it is *brisk* all the time at street level, let alone on the 28th. Now that I think about it carefully, I see that it would be miserable for a chicken who is quartered there.
I anticipated your #'s 2 and 3, but I never even considered #1 and #4 (especially)! Keeping chickens in an ultra-urban environment like downtown San Francisco seems more of a challenge than I am up for.
Thank you.
Where did you get your coops?
Hi Sandy! When we started we bought commercial coops but Hugh has had to repair these. We bought one from a local builder made from offcuts & Hugh has made the rest
Do you still have old English pheasant fowl
Hi! No we tend to very the breeds other than the Orpingtons so have Crested Cream Legbars and Welsummers right now - it'll be something else next year!
Oh that's interesting that must be why you don't have barnevelders any more. Any news on the Swedish isobar?
While brooding do the brood hen come out to eat
They should, but if they don't come out each day, we lift them out
@@EnglishCountryLife ok thank you. I feel for the mommy chicken (as my daughter calls) lifting it once a day.
I have a question. After watching many videos I’ve yet to see this covered. Pasty butt is a situation to watch for if we raise chicks but does this situation exist with broody hen raised chicks? Should we still be watching for this with chicks being raised by a broody hen?
Good afternoon Kat, it's less common but yes, it does occur, we always keep a watchful eye out
@@EnglishCountryLife ahh thank you! My first broody hen experience so I’m trying to make sure all is set, I’m very excited!
@@katsilbaugh2876 How fantastic, it's a wonderful thing!
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We don't have any for sale at the moment. We do sell occasionally but only face to face (never by courier)
I have a question for you as I have not ever had a broody hen and I have just set my first how many eggs is best for the hen to hatch? How many chick's can the average hen raise?
Hello Mysty 🙂. It very much depends on the size of breed. Very large birds like Orpingtons or Brahmas can manage as many as 18 eggs although they may break one or two climbing off such a large clutch. Standard large fowl can cover around 12 eggs & slip birds like Legbars can manage 6 to 8.
Hi @Mysty - how did it go? How many eggs did she sit on and how many chicks hatched? Hope you enjoyed the process - it goes by SO FAST!
@@kellymorgan4783 it went well Grandma is her name and she is a silkie so we went with 6 eggs from road island red (4) and Easter egger (2). One never started a second one stopped in the early stages, first to hatch was on day 19 and quit a surprise now named Eggs, next to hatch was riding hood the next day on day 20 who then fell out of nest box and stressed out his mom he is fine, the last two died in egg late not sure why but the early hatch of the first and the stress from the second might of caused her to get up during "lock down" given her young age a real surprise as she was a late Nov. Chick. Sprinkles one of our speckled Sussex hens went broody next about a week after Grandma's babies hatched almost liked it is all planed out so she has 14 silkie eggs hatch day is the 5th coming up really fast. Grandma has been a great mother so far one of the cutest thing is was her teaching them to dust bath at only a week old, she is so protective that it is only recently that she has not protested her babies being touched and always heardes them behind her. If you would like pics just tell me an email as I am happy to share.
What happened to the hen that passed
Sometimes on rare occasions hens simply die with no symptoms. It was very tragic.
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Sadly we can only sell to people who collect, we don't ship birds
Why is it so hard on some hen's to lay on eggs. What makes them die? It's so sad.
Sadly its a very hard time & just occasionally one doesn't have the strength. Its always heartbreaking
hi mam
Welcome to the channel