Chicken Round-Up
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Today is chicken round-up day, when we catch our laying hens to move them from the winter house to our eggmobile, and bring them out to pasture for the summer. With over 300 laying hens, it is a big job, so we enlist the help of our kids to catch and carry chickens. We set up the eggmobile in the pasture, and explain how our pastured poultry system works: eggmobile design, the fencing we use, and the benefits of keeping laying hens on pasture.
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-We do not ship our farm's products
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Wow, time just flies as I watched the same video of the chickens going out on pasture a year ago.
They also say raw milk is bad for you but my family and most of our relatives grew up drinking it and nobody ever got sick from it.
Love how all of your chickens are pasteurized.
Best farmer of the Century folks. Period!
Boy the eggs would sure taste good with all you do to keep your chickens happy. Well done.
Thumb up for the bad jokes!
Seeing the tire flopping like that reminded me of my dad. Plus, he had a Farmall tractor, too. Good memories. thanks
love the sound of the old tractors. the bad jokes are fun. always look forward to your videos.
Great video!
The jokes may be bottom of the barrel but not once have I heard you lay an egg. 😂
Pulmonary fibrosis used to be called "farmer's lung". It's a lot like emphysema in that it takes many years of breathing in small particulate matter to turn into a chronic condition. I'm sure you are immune to salmonella, but please understand that while pulmonary fibrosis may not be infectious, it is eventually deadly- my grandmother and dad both died of this disease. It's not a pretty death either- it takes years and is excruciating. Please wear a mask whenever you're exposed to a lot of poultry dust. I love your channel and I want you around to make videos well into your 80s. And for the love of God, learn to fell a tree safely! You are an incredibly smart man and I've learned a great deal watching your channel, but a few of the things you do worry me. Please use your intelligence to take care of your health as well as your farm. I wouldn't take the time to write this if I didn't admire and care about you, Pete.
Over 100K Great Job Enjoy the Videos
I always learn something from you. Keep feeding my mind, please.
You should consider square head screws
PS, I enjoy your jokes
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Loved the jokes.
I was sure that the answer to the envelope joke was going to be ‘e’!
Sal menella, isn't he that Italian guy who lives up in Utica?
Heard enough squawking for the day. Rooster said to the hen. Bad joke.
When I was a kid we had chickens, when it as time to move the chickens, we waited until after dark and while the chickens were asleep we picked them up by the legs and moved them to a new perch in another chicken house. is that even feasible?
How do you keep raptors from getting your chickens
How do you identify the older hens who have stopped laying, or dramatically slowed down? I would imagine you cull those.
by breed
Two skunks, a red tailed hawk, and a couple opossums gave thumbs downs to Pete's video today! 😉
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Star or square head are better then Phillips.
Question......what about UFOs air lifting a few chickens??
When chickens lay eggs how do you know if theres a chick inside or if its ready to sell?
Put a touch to egg . Or if no male chickens there will be no chick
32 min on post and 1858 views.
I Love your videos and your family being in them with you. Keep them coming.
8:50 Suggestion...if you install French cleats on the nesting boxes, you will not need to mess with screws in the future. The boxes simply lift off. Easy / breezy!
Hey Pete, maybe try Robertson screws - the Canadian 'square head' #2 most often stays right on the driver as you use it. Not sure if you can get 'em out there, but I love 'em.
Wouldn't use any other screw - Robertsons are the best!
Although the French cleat system would work well too.
Pete and Hilary, I am pleased to tell you that your wish has come true: we DID "enjoy this video!" Thank you for all your hard, skilled labor.
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Your jokes remind me of Hee Haw when the barn board came out and hit them. Remember that?
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A star screw is a Philipps screw in Canada! We all prefer the Robertson screws also known ais a « square head» screw in Canada. Tork screws are nice but more pricey and less common around here
You got a good woman there! Laughing at your jokes 😂
Pete, I’m a little OCD and that flat tire is driving nuts...😂
Just a tad flat-lol!
I would send go fund me money to get that tire fixed.
Howdy Pete! Ya know - You can tune-a-piano, but you can’t tuna fish!
Fish go to school for music! 😃
We had a talking catfish thing that said that
I have had pet fish in the river, so cool!!🐔🚜
And I wondered where the bad jokes came from?
Maybe Screw-in Circular Eye Holes on the tops of the nesting boxes and hooks might make it more straight forward than screwing...Just juggling stuff as you get older ain't worth it..
hate Philips screws i only have a box 3/4 left and im never using them again now for Roberson or square drive i have a few cases in the odd sizes other than that im all over to torx drive
i love bad jokes
I raise my own chickens, and once you have eggs from your own, you realize how much better eggs can be...the yolks are so rich!
Try making calf slobbers “meringue” with “country eggs” they whip up really high compared to store eggs. Can’t beat them.
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I guess you didn’t understand my reply as I don’t understand yours. Since I was a little boy an elderly friend of the family called the meringue on a pie calf slobbers. The first time my wife made meringue with eggs that we got from a friend who had just started keeping keeping chickens her meringue was twice as high as normal.
Great video! Came for the DAD jokes! lol
Liked and commented to push the rope errr .... Your video to the top of the suggestion.
It's not the "sick" part like you think....you can still inhale those histo or endotoxins. Maybe when you're younger it might not get you, but you ain't a spring chicken anymore....the last thing you need is angry, inflamed lungs as you get older or overweight.
What about histoplasmosis from the chickens? It’s a problem here is the Ohio River valley. Love your chicken systems.
Good morning Pete I've been watching just a few Acres Farm for a couple years now and I've been wanting to meet you to come to your Market but I also heard that you're not going to be filming that's not the point but I want to come to meet you and to buy some of your product I plan on making a trip later on this year probably in the the fall and I hope to meet you then at the market keep making videos and I'll see you then
I'm glad you are doing this with the chickens, however the only chicken I like comes from the Colonel.
Hey Pete, I heard a turkey gobbling, but I thought you only got turkeys later in the year?
the turkey was laughing at the jokes
I always had problems backing a wagon. We put hitch on front of tractor. Made is easy.
I would still wear a mask to protect my lungs from breathing chicken crap dust.
Save yourself the headache of star head/torx screws and get yourself some Robertson screws their way better
Best time catch and move chickens is at night. You don't have to chase them just walk up and pick them up .
Very interesting video Pete! It’s great that you explain why you do things the way you do!! It was great to see the kids helping. Wishing Hillary a very happy Mother’s Day!!
Pete you and your family are such a great family hard working good people thanks for sharing buddy god bless
Pete, do you think putting those box on french cleats would be easier?
Pete you should try Robson head screws. Your not that far from the Canadian border.
It's Robertson not Robson.
Damn I was hoping I'd be able to try out a new kind of screw head
Awesome video mr and mrs Pete and family.
With over 300 hens how do you decide which ones go to stew and are replaced with new stock ?
We did that today too! We do it at night, works better for us.
Nobody does the Dad Jokes better than you!! :)
so honestly how often do you forget to close the eggmobile doors ive been know to forgot every few days or so ive had to run out in my skivvies more than once because i thought about it at bed time
I agree that Phillips head screws are terrible. I have a couple boxes I keep pushing off as well. Lol Thanks for sharing and stay safe.
Hi Peter. Jokes are what we look forward to! I'm amazed how well your routine works. Have a great day! Be well.
You guys work hard, I enjoy watching your videos. Those piglets and their mama pig is cute. 😊
Happy chickens always going on camping holidays
decided to do lunges to get more exercise....
it was a big step forward! /budumtiss!!!
Use Robertson screws , Canadian made
How about a wall bracket or hooks or something like that for the winter brooder and the egg mobile, to mount the nesting boxes. for easier removal and mounting.
You have such a lovely family. What a wonderful place for your sons and daughter to grow up at.
The dad jokes are gold! Lmao! Love it!!! Such a wonderful guy
Happy farming everyone Godbless
Railroad crossing without any cars - now spell that without any Rs.
love the sound of the old farmall.
Great video!! I loved watching you guys catch the chickens 🐓
Your daughter is just like you.
I agree
Norway like Japan has a no-tolerance policy on salmonella. If a test is positive the farm has to be completely shut down and sanitized.
Same with MRSA in pigs.
So it is infuriating that our neighboring countries have given up the fight, it is completely doable and it means we are by far the european country with the lowest antibiotic use per lb of meat.
I've seen online in RUclips I think you're the best out there that gets it done I like the way you do it simple stupid we're getting in the farming we need to do it that way...
Just found your channel and subscribed great info!!
but i never get sick until you do
I don't know anything about chickens , why don't you have a similar setup for the broilers except without the laying boxes??? That looks so efficient an easy to me ! Thank You for your knowledge, Great videos !
GOD BLESS !!!
Viewer from India 🇮🇳 great to see your style of farming
@@amandar7719 Farmer here are not educated and no one has a you tube channel about farming
Watch your head Sir.😆. Chickens got there revenge.✌🏻. Happy farming. God bless.
I love seeing all the impatient chickens jumpin in the egg boxes while you're screwing them up! They clearly LOVE their little homes!!!
Pete, midwest guy here. St. Louis to be exact. I WILL make the trip some day to your farmer's market in Ithaca NY. Would love to shake your hand and thank you for educating me about where my food comes from.
i pick em up by the legs. i also pick em up and carry em like a baby. the only difference is i dont have help catching or feeding 30+ quail,4 ducks, chickens and chuckers. chuckers are very difficult to catch but im the only one that can professionally catch chuckers in my house. plus if you need any incubation information i can help ya as we have a 1000 chicken egg incubator and have exsperience
Mr. You seem to be very good at building things. Just an idea. Why don't you make an area were you can add a ramp inside the building and were you can add a small room (I guess kinda like a hall way)on that building so you can just push the chickens into the chicken mobile. It might not stress the chickens as much. You can back up your egg mobile to the hall kinda thing. Kinda like one of those ramps for the cows to be loaded. It might save you time.
I've seen a few youtubers don masks to do chicken chores and warn their audiences how important it is to do so. Seems odd. Can't say I buy into their fears. But then again many of them are people who lean pretty heavily in directions I don't, in other ways as well, vinyl as a component of a coop build, chickens as pets, and or just a tendency to spend on their chickens as a modern day hobby and an outlet for consumerism.
We all have our own philosophical outlook. I have s second job at a rural king. Today a customer at the register told me we had a protester at the back of the store trying to convince the other customers that the baby chicks ought to be running free through the store. Apparently her message wasn't hitting home. 😂
some folks worry about picking chickens up by their legs. Heck, when my niece was young I would pick her up by her ankles and carry her or swing her around and she would say... do it again, do it again. Just to put things into perspective. haha.
Hey Bill, where'd you go for vacation? Hi Bob, we went to the Johnsonville factory, I swear you never saw such a place!
I am curious. If we left the chook food out in the open and uncovered trays as you do here in New Zealand the consumption would go up by 50% over night due to the wild bird flock, sparrows and the like and we would also be over run with rodent pest i.e. rats and mice. We use lidded feeders with a weight operated treadle which the chooks cope with very well and it does very well in keeping free loaders out. How do you cope with this problem if you have it at all.
As a kid helping my parents with chickens we always used a "catcher." It allowed catching without greatly disturbing the others. Perhaps slower than your family helper method. The "catcher" was commercially made; about 4 foot of heavy wire with a bent hook on one end to catch a chicken foot. The other end was a wooden handle for the operator.
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Star head/torx screws are all i prefer to use on anything anymore. If you're gonna re use or remove them, spend the money on good coated ones or even stainless steel. And for re use, coat the threads with bar soap. Cuts way down on friction heat and breakages. In my opinion..........
Great video Pete. I learned how to carry a chicken!!
I use all star bits now also. Just saves so much time!! Phillips bits strip so easy any more.
We always had a hook (about 4 foot long with a bend at one end) that could catch their legs when we cornered them out on the loose, it helped and did not hurt the bird..
We kept about 35 hens in a coop and they had about 4 acres of barn yard to roam around. They typically stuck to about 2 acres near the coop. Boy do I miss those orange egg yolks.
We have a bald Eagle family nearby our farm, so I’m pretty sure broilers in chicken tractors are going to be our safest way to go.