So Many Problems with My Chickens. I Had to do This.
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Henlo! I am The President of Chickenlandia and I want to welcome you to Chickenlandia, a magical place where my pet chickens (and a few ducks) live an awesome life. Thank you for watching this video about a drastic measure I had to take for my backyard chickens. If you're dealing with disease or parasites in your flock, this video will be important for you. Hope you love it! #chickenlandia #welcometochickenlandia #backyardchickens
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Who saw the alien? 😱👽🐔🛸
I did!
No, but I spied Mrs. Doubtfire!
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Alien eclipse😁
I did!
I've had large numbers of chickens; but retired, I keep ONE. Yes, they are relaxing. Individually. I would think that if you keep LOTS of chickens, you have to retire, rest, and deep clean their area, so you need more than one yard. You need to give it a break to renew the grass and weeds. The more chickens you have, and obtain....the more diseases/parasites. I've deleted my flock a few times in life, and usually for the same reasons. (Once was me taking a second job and having a baby) Just one, because I consider carressing a "holding chicken" one of the most relaxing activities in the world. She has a stroller, a coat and shoes for bad weather, and her own carseat. Our dog is a sibling. She's living her best chicken life.
I have two large runs. I move my 13 hens and 2 roos every month or two. The day I move them to the other side I plant oat grass in the run that is grazed down. So far so good.
The only time I’ve ever had problems with my chickens, getting ill, etc. is if I brought another adult chicken into the mix. Never ever will I ever bring anything older than a baby chick into the mix again. A friend of mine has also run into these issues. Three times she has brought in adult chickens to add to her flock and all three times. It caused massive issues. She got rid of every single chicken. She is completely starting over. So people, stick with the babies. Do not bring in adult chickens of any type. Make your own little closed system.
Same!! I’m dealing with issues from the beginning because I started with adults with issues and brought in other adult hens later. I’ve had chicks twice and they are so much healthier in general but can get sick from the adults I introduced.
@@irishlizzie I had a chicken die. My friend lost half her flock. her neighbors were getting rid of her chickens so she just thought she would take them because they’re right next-door and they’re well taken care of etc. etc. Worst mistake she made. Killed half her flock. She ended up getting rid of every single one of them. she’s gonna work on getting the ground cleared up as much as she can, she’s building a brand new coop. Completely starting over. She tried to be a nice person, but it bitter right in the butt. I have been tempted a couple times to bring in some adult chickens from other people who were getting rid of them. Luckily, I did not do it. I learned from my mistake in the past.
@@mattg6472 I do a those for my birds, and some things can’t be fixed no matter how hard you try. I still have several birds from those mature hens I got, but most of them have an issue of some sort, and it’s just a little frustrating to fight diseases and pests and parasites for over a year and lose so many. However, I’m in a semi-stable place with my flock so I’m not starting over from scratch but it makes me realize if I ever do I won’t feel bad because it’ll hopefully be better for the new flock to just raise chicks and not bring in mature hen.
I've successfully brought in adults with no problems many times. Everyone gets colloidal silver doses for 2 weeks.
Do that for my snakes. Only get hatchlings. Still quarantine, of course.
Or... You can hot steam the ground in your small space.. Like I do.. 😊
I live in the UK I have small by comparison, backyard chickens. I also occasionally steam clean coop.
I've also found parasites have a hard time living in fairly high carbon (charcoal based) environments add diatomaceous earth and happy days.
Sometimes we over think the problems chickens present. I do only have 13 chickens at the moment.
I can’t imagine having my girls in a static coop. Once you have a chickshaw, ya never go back! 😅 We move them to fresh pasture every couple days using electric netting.
Electric netting as in electric temporary fencing?
My big problem is hawks and vultures…. Idk how to let mine “free range” and keep them safe with those sky predators.
@@stephanied9629 yes, we move the electric netting every few days and as long as we don’t position it under any trees, hawks and other aerial predators stay away. We always keep open sky above. If they’re under trees, the predators will just swoop down from the trees, but for some reason it intimidates them to go out in the open.
Yeah, title was kind of click bait-y. I was concerned for you. Glad you still have your chickens.
I don't really eat eggs....but I have 20 chickens! They are such cool pets. I just give most of the eggs to my neighbors.
@andreavalentine4609 eggs in exchange for scraps 👍.(inform them what kind of scraps they can eat). My friend gives me eggs and I, myself, offered to give them scraps. I collect scraps, put them in my freezer, once a week or two I drop them off. Her girls ( I called them my nieces 😂) love the scraps, especially in warm weather's.
same here!
When I had them, Segregate first, I put vinegar in their water, oregano ( natural antibiotic) once 2 to 3 weeks after and an initial Week long dose , feed cucumber and squash and seeds for parasites. With chicks the protocol is a little different. Everyone attacks these issues a little different. I even fed meal worms for extra protein being as they are omnivores like ourselves. Saving my eggshells , drying them, bake for 30 min, cool and crumble, calcium treatment. Blessings
Fellow chickeneer here. Chickens REALLY DO BRING PEACE. I hatched my own and enjoyed every moment with them, good and bad. Chickens are therapy animals- God’s gift to destress manand womankind. ❤️🐓❤️🐓❤️🐓❤️
My chicken yard does look like the dune movie 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Hahaha 😂 Right!
I've always thought, if I had your expanse of land , what I would do to restrict the "free range" to a "guided range" in the form of partitioned off "runs within the run" so that you are rotating the used sections and the grassed sections are not overstressed. Rotating halves of halves. Dividing or parcelling off the area into four. Rotate the chickens around the four paddocks in a general program of two weeks grazing and six weeks rest. Managers of native pastures have successfully used two-paddock rotations (four-week graze; four-week rest) and four-paddock rotations (four-week graze; 12-week rest). It doesn't have to mean a great deal of extra work if you make a central area where water and feed can be permanently accessed. Look how cows are being milked by automatic milking machines that rotate. It just takes a little "Umdenken" - thinking out of the conventional. Good luck. Clover is an ideal ground cover🍀. There's Sorghum when its fully grown. Then there's sunflowers🌻. Throw in a few perennials and scatter herbs like thyme. Have you ever thought of growing artichoke. You could do so much with all that land, creating a food forest. Two trees I would definitely have in the center of my chicken yard would be a mulberry tree and a fig tree. Once the trees get big and the root base is protected, there's nothing to worry about. How about natural herbaceous cover with medicinal benefits? You could really make it a project.
I would love to do all this!
Germans are everywhere. 😂
Diatomaceous Earth is what we sprinkle around our coop, around the out side of the coop. No problems. Our chickens are free range.
I have used this before So I'm just sharing this with you in case you don't know that it causes respiratory problems big time
@@donnacollins1356 Thank you Donna.
I saw a lady give a sickly looking chicken an Epsom salt bath once....in a couple of hours the chicken seemed to recover.😊
I sooo, enjoy ur channel, and your personality as an educator of chixie girls. ( as I call my 3, year old Hens ). We are desert dwellers in a small space. Albuquerque,N.M. lol.
The Girl's double as my therapist's free of charge....I am down the hill from a feed store and surrounded by ex agri lands. Originally got them as food source during this crazed period in Usa. Fun fact: I am in love with these creatures now. The guy at feed store said "you named them right?" I said yep. He said, "you will never eat them now". Lol. He is so right! I avoided going into to the store last month as peeps arrived as to avoid falling in love w. more. Thanks for your great info. Tee in N.M.❤
P.S. I love your setup!!
You scared me! 😂 I'm glad they are ok.
Sad click bait
Also you can use sulphur in the dust bath. So effective that it protects flock mates that don't use it. Great article on Entomology Today.
The title & URLwould be appreciated if you were to supply it! (I supply URLs to sources of info i know of, & they become live links upon posting them on RUclips!)
I second the clover comment. We love clover
Much better than the thumbnail lol
I have 2 different yard just for that purpose. Greening up one side now. 6 hens 1 roo and got 5 new hens coming.
We live in NoAZ & SoCA. My husband & I go back & forth every month & my 14 girls go back & forth w/ us. They travel in our temperature controlled “Hen Hauler” trailer. So both properties get a 30 day break from being over scratched & pecked every 30 days.
I am glad you posted this. My husband and I are thinking about getting a vacation home in the woods and I was wondering if they would transport well. Why not? 😊
That's awesome they travel with you
What a great idea! We need to look into this option for our family.
I am wanting to do this with our hens from PA to WV. How did you figure out the temp controlled hen hauler? More info on that please!
Haven’t done it yet, but am including a Mylar “space blanket” layer for heat reflection trial in summer. Won’t block vent line, anyone else have success with that? I have a USB rechargeable camping fan I put in the coop on really muggy still days, really helps! They love it & move to those roosts
Ya scared us all with that title. Love your outer chicken landia
😂 Dalia, you're a stinker. 😂❤
Dalia is good, Yah!
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Sorry! 🥺❤😂
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Hahahaha. I'm a vegan chicken tender and yes, we will definitely chicken sit. haha
Vegan friends are the best!!!
Throw out a few pounds of clover! I keep hoping my free range hens will destroy my lawn, but they’d rather scratch thru all the leaves in my tree area. 👍🏻
Same here, isn't it wonderful I no longer have to weed the garden.
Chickens can clear a patch of land pretty quickly. They are a good way to get rid of a bunch of weeds.
I noticed that when I had ducks in with my chickens, they had more issues and I think that's because of the way ducks crap. Theirs is more liquid and spreads on the grass and dispenses ecoli more along the grass blades, infecting the chickens that eat it. I no longer have ducks and have not had any problems. I have acerage and allow my chickens access to my pastures and yard outside their pens and houses. I have about 75 chickens in my care. Just found your channel today! Love it!
I love your book !! We are blessed to have a farm and our chickens get to roam around and go wherever they want to adventure. They are in such good health and we just LOVE them all . They are such time wasters , I could watch them for hours. I love how our chickens venture into the barn where the hay is for our cows , make dust holes in the dry dirt they are just amazing. We found out that our chickens LOVE possum , our son traps the possum then we put this in with our chickens (obviously possum is dead) the amount of maggots this creates and our girls go mental over them. They get organic liver, kidney and meat from our farm .... love love love them .
👽👽👽👽👽👽Oh ma gosh- use that alien more!!!!
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Sectioning off into multiple runs helps a ton. 1 day per run, and the destruction is so much less. I am in FL with nothing but sand so my only real problem is sticktight fleas. I've had a horrible infestation for 8 months and have tried EVERYTHING. Diatomaceous earth, permethrin, Vaseline, dog flea baths, picking them off every night... nothing has gotten rid of them. I even tried moving them out into new coops. Now the new coops have them too. 😡🤬
Three years! ???! I was thinking ONE! My God, I must be having fun here. (Once I stopped crying over Phillipe)
I still miss him! ❤️❤️❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia so do we.
I had 12chickens and lost 4last year to yeast infection
We do so much for our hens to help them stay well
This year we had 2healthy chickens die suddenly and don’t know what happened
We hope that the rest of the flock stay well
Food grade Diotomacious earth on the food, on your dog and on any surface.
No fleas, at least.
What do you do when chickens get sore eyes?
I believe that you and your audience would appreciate the book "Funny Farm." A must read for animal lovers.
Hi green alien!
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I move my small coops twice a year... once in April/May once in October/November. And I plan on building a chicken tractor with nesting spots built in for the late spring/summer/fall. It does take 2 years for a former coop spot to return to a grassy spot as the waste degrades. I have trouble standing for long or bending over so I do not shovel up the spots where the coops were, but let the land heal itself.
I just had to tell you my chickens can't get enough of your flock block recipe.🤣 They have had the remnants of a store block in the coop for forever but as soon as I made Your recipe they They went for that one and can demolish a bread pan sized block in like a day and a half! They are spoiled little buggers!😂 Thank you so much!!
We had chickens at our house but had to relocate them to my mom's. We live in town and can't have chickens inside city limits. We only have 7 hens.
I saw that and thought lol that’s such clickbait
Can you dust an entire run with Diotomaceous earth and rake it through the top 4 inches? I think that might take care of any insects/mites lice. As for the diseases, are you talking about bacterial and fungal stuff? Resting the soil is what it takes to keep that disease pressure down?
Glad I have my movable electric fence. Every few weeks we move the boundary. Just moved the fence a couple days ago.. They loved the fresh grass. And yes the grass started to grow and regenerate within the next day.
I’ve just ordered some movable fencing.
Sounds like a great system!
Great video, I wish I could find similar content focused on ducks. I do have electric fencing and a duck tractor for the day. Need to get more fencing so I can give each place the tractor is on more time to recover, don’t really have time to move fencing around due to my work and commute. Electric fencing has given me so much peace of mind while my ducks are in their tractor as it is not entirely predator proof. In the evening and nighttime, they are in a Carolina Coops American duck coop with a lot of fine straw, which they happily go to because they feel so safe there, and also it is the only place they get their adored grapes. I’m in South Florida and my big concern is how to keep them comfortable in the heat, especially when I have to go in to the office. Today it got up to “feels like 95F, and it is only April. Someone mentioned a USB powered fan in another comment, thank you! I will look into that.
I love that you touched on this! I rotate my chickens from one side to another from spring to winter. Your birds are beautiful and happy. 💚
I'd like to know if the net really works for predatory birds? I'm building a big pen for my new chickens but we have red tails and one already killed one of my ducks, but the net seems so much easier to put on than a bunch of hardware cloth. I love that you have 2 runs now!
I need your help pretty please Ms. Dalia,
Can I ask where can I get some 100% natural hardwood chips? Would you know of any websites that sell them? I have tried going everywhere here close by in the bay area with no luck. The only thing they have always is mulch which gets super nasty and muddy (yucky). I do use horse pellets which I love and it's all thanks to you :) :) :)
Is a brand of playground wood chips that work? I will be forever grateful and thankful.
I would love to add the wood chips to their run so they can play and go nuts :) :) I hear that cedar is bad for chickens too and I fear it.
I heard great things about natural hardwood chips for chickens but I am having the hardest time finding them.
Any help, advice.information, tips I will appreciate it bunches from the bottom of my little heart.
And, apparently, I can't even comment anymore without it being hidden by RUclips!😮
oh u jerk! i was like oh no! when i clicked on video but thank goodness all is well!!¡
Who built your fence and how? Also how did you install your bird netting? I want to do this so much and was hoping you would make a video about this! I bought bird netting, but I don't even know where to start installing it.
I read a book by John Seymour who spoke about lady Dalphour's method, and that was feeding fish & mealworms, and when you're done with one run, plant vegetables in it , or regrow your grass, while the chickens eat the other grass. Because chickens love to eat grass.
Oh my word...I thought "this is probably click bait" and it's the first thing she covered 😆
Love your content! Thank you!
I'm thinking rotating monthly from yard to yard might be perfect. I wish I could do that.
Hoping to get a reply to my comment :) :) 🙏
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@@WelcometoChickenlandia Thank you bunches I'm all smiling here.
Here's my comment:
I need your help pretty please Ms. Dalia,
Can I ask where can I get some 100% natural hardwood chips? Would you know of any websites that sell them? I have tried going everywhere here close by in the bay area with no luck. The only thing they have always is mulch which gets super nasty and muddy (yucky). I do use horse pellets which I love and it's all thanks to you :) :) :)
Is a brand of playground wood chips that work? I will be forever grateful and thankful.
I would love to add the wood chips to their run so they can play and go nuts :) :) I hear that cedar is bad for chickens too and I fear it.
I heard great things about natural hardwood chips for chickens but I am having the hardest time finding them.
Any help, advice.information, tips I will appreciate it bunches from the bottom of my little heart.
Good attention getting video title.
What can I use to spray my chickens for mis and lice hat I do have to throw my eggs out
It's the change of territory, so that is why they are a bit put out in the other run. But with more grass, they should settle into it fairly quickly. They know their home turf.
Given you have a run each side of the coop, you could, once the old run has regenerated, try giving them a week on each side, alternating. That way they should bond with the other run just as well.
Chickens like both to be stimulated, but also like routine and familiarity. Weirdos. Okay, cute friendly weirdos.
We saw dune 2, pretty good haha
All one need do is look up "Regenerative Farming".... Cows poop in field then move to the next. Chickens move into old cow field, comb through (spread) the poop and eat all the bugs and BAM. Perfect soil to farm on. Move the cows into next pasture and bring the chickens on in and just keep repeating that process. Sure you'll be free ranging and sure the risk for losses are raised, but that's just "nature" doing what "nature" does and has always done. Sorry gang but they are SUSTINANCE and NOT "pets".
Thanks so much for sharing! ❤️🙏❤️
Don't use Diatomaceous Earth. It does create lung problems. For Parasites add 1.5% - 2% Artemesia annua (Sweet Annie Wormwood ) to their feed. You can use A. absintium but you probably shouldn't just feed that full time. Do some research. There are some good studies on the benefits for parasite control plus you'll save on feed.
Excellent video's. My wife and I are just starting out, down this chicken road journey, and it is great to have some really good insight. Awesome videos. We are also here in the Pacific Northwest, Aberdeen area. Thanks so much!
I would love to do this. Not sure logistically I can. I could try limited free ranging.
This is what I am planning, I have 2 coops, one has two runs ,so it will be easy ,I'll just open only one . The other coop is larger will much larger run and with it I have a temporary fences and I am useing sunflowers 🌻 and milo and let wheat grass grow, these plants once started are good for a full season,the milo heads stuck in the fence between the runs lets chickens on both sides peck at them . ❤
Well after this transformation maybe you can rebrand yourself as the queen of chickenlandia
I have been using some large 'salad bars' in my run to help grow some grass and sprouts for them! I move it around every couple of weeks. My run is 10x22. We can't free range anymore because of random predators during the day. I also bring in new dirt once a month. I spray their coop with essential oils weekly. So far I'm not having problems after 3 years!
Which eo's do you spray?
What EOs and how much do you spray?
I'm sorry, I didn't see the first person that asked! I make a sprayer with 2 cups rubbing alcohol, water to fill to the gallon mark, and then add 20-30 drops each peppermint and tea tree. Sometimes I'll switch things up and do lavendar, rosemary and/or lemonbalm (just depends what I have on hand)
I only use doTERRA or young living oils. (I just personally feel they are superior)
Edit: I saturate spray roosts. I remove the pans of hay from the nest boxes and saturate the wood in the boxes (I don't spray the hay.) and basically mist spray the rest of the coop.
Great information as always. We recently gave our flock to a woman in Yakima. It was a very hard decision and still makes us sad but we are contemplating moving and need to prepare the property for possible sale. We will get chickens again eventually.
I have a chicken that got picked by one of my other chickens and was bleeding very badly on her comb. I sprayed blu-kote on it which stopped the bleeding but now my chicken is unrecognizable to the others in the flock due to her purple head and they are attacking her. What can I do? She spent the night in my shower on a 2 x 4 but this can’t continue obviously.
How large is your run? Thanks
Ok you have little green alien peeking in and ufo darting across the screen!! Oil of oregano.
The truth is out there! 👽🛸🐔❤️
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Absolutely! How refreshing to see you on board! 🛸👽😇🤸❣️ Liking your lifestyle! Thanks for sharing.
I had dust baths for my chickens and do spray the chickens and I think you can plant certain plants to keep bugs away. Keep the food up off the ground. Rake over and turn the ground if you hve grass, they are probably trying to turn it over themselves to remain clean
I'm roofing my new chicken pen my run isn't a big as yours but I'm going to add on to mine
Yikes! You scared me 😮😂. p.s. I bought your book/ 🥰
You had me worried. Thank you for all you do!
You are so welcome and thank you!! ❤️❤️❤️
Hi Dalia do you know if seeds that are pelleted are safe if chickens eat them. I want to work in their pens and plant some stuff. I think I have a big bag of clover and a big bag of wheat grass. Just any kind of greens for them and there but it’s pelleted seeds and I am concerned I want it to be safe for them because you know they’re going to eat it lol thank you.
I live down south I think my chickens have mites now
Move daily to a paddock that has a day's worth of fresh grass OR use a deep bedding method. See Joel Salatin
Hallelujah woman! Scared us for a hot minute!
How do you still have grass even do you have chickens? My hens ruined all my grass.
Joel Salatin solved this problem with mobile coops
That will be nice when it grows out. Hopefully they won’t be stressed. ❤
Great video. You’re lovely. Thanks!
This was true Chick Bait.
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This is like rotational grazing! Their poop will make both plots fertile
Building my coop now and was going to transplant grass from one part of my yard to my run. Now I am wondering if it is worth the effort. Should I put straw down on the dirt instead?
I seed my new runs & grazing pens with fodder seed. They love it.
rough winter pnw yes ill give this a thought! chkns in a cul de sac! lol
I finally caught my egg eater! Rosemary, my Speckled Sussex. She is gorgeous and one of my favorites 😢 Is there any way to break them of this habit?
You can buy ceramic or rubber eggs that the chicken will try to peck but won’t break, it’s always helped me with my egg eaters
@@daniellejones2411 will try that, thanks!
Also, make sure your girls have some oyster shells available for extra calcium
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Henlo everyone!! I’m so glad she brought up if we’re new and still having the opportunity to choose where our location is going to be! I have an area that years ago before we came was paved for parking with chipped limestone. We do not use it for that currently and it’s mainly a large space that nature is starting to take over. Considering the sparse stone underneath I was worried about there not being enough soil/grass to cushion their feet. Can anyone give me advice or suggestions on if the space is good/not so good of a choice for location of my coop/inclosed run? (Will also have free range area)
Ps- thank you Dalia ❤ 🥹
i don’t think it would really be bad for the chickens feet, I’ve seen people have coops on concrete, and runs too. However, my main concern would be about finding out where all the poop on the limestone would go as having dirt and grass is good flooring simply for the dust bathing aspect and the chickens poop enriching the soil. That’s just my two cents though, hope you have fun owning chickens!
@@appleman1678thank you for that perspective!! The area is right beside a flattened field we use for our veggies, so my hope was that it would be an easy location to transfer compost and help with pest prevention… but yeah, the poop on the limestone would probably be very unhygienic and I didn’t think of that point. I could provide a dust bath but it may be a breeding ground for bacteria?
Will you seed the old yard?
Stupid clickbait 🥴
Sorry!!! ❤️❤️❤️
It got me to click
And learn, im not mad at it😉🤓
Wahoo, rotational grazing. LOL
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I saw it…. Spinning and so fancy😃
Is it the same with chickens free range part of the day?
Hi how do you introduce new chickens to your flock
That is why we are putting the chicken tractor in.
I am thinking chicken tunnel for change.
QUESTION and Love your videos! The square different colored cloths you have hanging, what is the purpose if any for them? Thank you.
They are prayer flags.
My hens suddenly stopped laying eggs. I'm not sure what's going on. I thought maybe something was wrong with their food so we bought new food. We gave them chicken treats and table scraps. They seem happy and healthy. I thought maybe it's lice or mites so we are treating them and their coop with powder. We've never had either of those before so I'd be surprised if they had any. We did have a wild bird build a nest in their coop though. The wild bird has been removed now. We don't have any signs of rats. My hens are 1-4 years old. We were getting 9-10 eggs a day from 10 hens and suddenly nothing at all. What could be going on?
Sometimes they're molting
Technically correct is still correct ;D
I need advice on how to have chickens and ducks “free range” in a large run with constant sky predators. Hawks and vultures daily scanning our property.
Besides a chick tractor, that’s not enough space.
What do u use for mites and parasites
How do you prevent bumble foot