Highly suggest the automatic door for the coop. I got one off of Amazon. Works wonderful. Definitely want to bury some hardware cloth or put predator stakes in the ground around the run. Eventually, since in Florida, you’ll have plenty of rain. I would construct a rain collection system to supply the watering system so you don’t have to refill it every couple of days.
We hang our water by a wire 6 to 8 inches off the ground. Chickens love grass so don’t put anything out side in the run. Calcium is a must to keep the egg shell harder. Solar power the coop for light at night, it helps keep predators away. Wire on the perimeter like chicken wire place it one foot around the coop to prevent predators from digging under the coop. They love left overs from the dining room table.
The best electric netting is called Pos-Neg by Kencove. I use it to contain hogs, goats and chickens. We do clip our chickens wings. God bless y’all with your returning to the land Gregory
Your awkwardness is super cute. For the chickens, you'll probably want to put a barrier such as hardware cloth around the perimeter of the coop & run to keep digging critters out. Edited to add: I would just use straw as the bedding, some people & animals can have a reaction to pine shavings.
10:51 You can use painting trays from Home Depot on the nesting boxes so the slope of the tray will send the eggs back to where the paint usually goes. You just need to slant the tray. If you get the reusable ones you can spray they down with water when it comes time to cleaning them 👌🏻
Just a heads up to keep in mind when putting up the fence around the coop..... Gators can climb fences here in Florida!! So you might want to a board to the top of the fence so it can't do over it!
You can buy an automatic door for the chicken coup that you can set it when it opens and closes. It will save your chickens as they will learn to be in at dark. I have also seen some that you can use solar power to run.
Hemp mulch is good to spread over the floor and then over the poo every other day or so. The hemp absorbs the smells better etc. once it gets about 4 “ deep transfer it to your compost pile.
You might want what they call an apron that goes around the exterior of the coop so nothing will dig under and kill the chickens. Awesome start to the farm! we named out chickens hennifer Lopez, Lindsey lohen. Roosters help protect the hens too. Make sure the ventilation up top has small holes so snaked can't get in.
Really nice coop and very sympathic family! Not sure if mites are a topic in the US, but here in Germany you read everywhere to not use hay in the coop, because the straws are hollow inside and so it's a great hiding place for mites. Merry xmas and a happy new year!
If you want to hatch your own get a rooster and my suggestion for a rooster is a buff orpington and they are like the pet breed of chicken they are so sweet
Use a solar hotwire if you want to give them some free ranging time replace chicken wire with garden cloth its harder for a predator to break i miss my chickens i loved having them
Raise your chicken water bucket up higher, maybe 5”’or so up off the ground. If not, the water spout will get dirty or fill up with wood shavings real quick when the chickens kick the wood shavings around. Find some wood blocks (again, about 5” or so high) and set the water bucket on top of the wood blocks 👍. Next thing I’d be concern about is living in that area, Everglades, plenty of snakes. Having chickens will attract snakes. So you might lose some eggs because snakes eat chicken eggs, as well as chickens themselves. Also BE CAREFUL when reaching your hands into the nest boxes collecting eggs. Might be a snake coiled in there underneath all the straw. As well as be careful in the storage room (where you keep extra feed/straw/wood shavings) because snakes like to hide in those areas as well. Maybe for snake deterrent, get some Guinea fowls. Heard they’re pretty aggressive and can/will kill snakes, again, from what I’ve heard 🤷♂️. Beautiful “Chicken Taj Mahal” 👍💯👌 !!!
Before too long your gonna think your c coop was mounted on articulating wheels to allow the run ground to expand,nourish, and regenerate. Now, for your perusal, the Kelly Young RUclips Channel DID an episode on hobby scale backyard chicken husbandry. And, for your specific information: Kelly's commercial vendor retail hen provider, utilizes the (as huge) towable wagon coop concept . The farm and contact names in South Florida are available. The channel episode # escapes my attention here. Perhaps you have what it takes to improvise and not to worry for the slowest chicken can move right along.
What do y’all do for work? Obviously all the farm stuff is expensive but I’m also impressed with how you have a cameraman already. And probably an editor if I were to guess. My wife, three kids and I live just north of Gainesville in a small rural town. We are renting 5 acres and dream about what you are doing. I look forward to more videos!
Get trays that fit inside box if u want a slant and help cleaning boxs. Put cloves garlic and some apple cider vinegar in there water helps with mites and intestine problems. Installing a moveable electric fence and consider flock dogs like marimos
you want to put your water on and your feeder on top of a brick raise it off the floor this will a help with rodents but also or help with the not getting stuff into the water , it also helps your chickens.
eh don't worry that much about the gators. I would absolutely remove them from being near the coop. fire ants such. I also have a mild allergy. I am good with a couple bites but if I get swarmed I get to feeling pretty bad. Also bing in FL, that interior is going to get hot as hell in the summer. You may need to think about a solar AC
Im english so cant relate to the threats of florida, but for the slant in the laying boxes its not really important, we have rare breed chickens kept separate from each other in different pens, some slanted laying boxes some not and rarely see eggs being destroyed in either, buff orpingtons are super friendly and a good egg layer keep them but not the commits. Would recomend either a kubota, mahindra or summit tractors , i know people have suggested looking at piney grove buti would also recomend country view acres for a great homsteading youtube channel. Finally if you didnt know when using hay alot maybe get some dust masks because the dust when working with hay / straw can lead to a respiratory problem called farmers lung which isnt fun, STAY SAFE. lovely property, good luck
Second episode and I’m here. Forgive me I don’t know you guys at all, I don’t do all the typical social media sites, have you guys got big followings before this? My man looks about 6ft6, like some American footballer😂
Just be aware, pasturing your chickens will be a big challenge, with the amount of predators you have around. Raccoons will be visiting you a lot. Bobcats, coyotes, foxes and possums love free ranging chickens also. We quit free ranging because of the amount of loss we experienced of chickens to predators. And oddly enough, hawks and eagles rarely bothered them. It was the four legged predators that were the main problem. Hope you're up to it, you may have to trap or dispatch the problem predators. Check with the Florida Wildlife Commission to see what the law is for protecting your livestock.
CHICKENS REALLY HAVE NO REASON TO BE KEPT IN A COOP UNLESS YOU DONT LET THEM OUT. YOU WILL USE HALF THE FEED AS WELL. THEY KNOW WHERE HOME IS, AND WILL EVEN RETURN TO LAY EGGS AND GO BACK OUT.
You're going to want to get some protection around the runs exterior. Laying wire mesh around the exterior perimeter prevents predators from being able to dig under the wall and get to the birds and it doesn't prevent the grass from growing to hide it.
Your chicken coop is perfect you don't need to change anything, put I metal wire under ground around the coop so the predators can't dig up the ground too get in the run
if you put hardware cloth around the run you will be fine. if you wan to let them out in the open just get a couple of rooster and you will be fine too. and don't insulate the inside the roof is fine the walls, sauna will get hot trust me.
Highly suggest the automatic door for the coop. I got one off of Amazon. Works wonderful. Definitely want to bury some hardware cloth or put predator stakes in the ground around the run. Eventually, since in Florida, you’ll have plenty of rain. I would construct a rain collection system to supply the watering system so you don’t have to refill it every couple of days.
simply is happiness Your familys is adorable.
Need to get the water bucket up off floor at list 6”
We hang our water by a wire 6 to 8 inches off the ground. Chickens love grass so don’t put anything out side in the run. Calcium is a must to keep the egg shell harder. Solar power the coop for light at night, it helps keep predators away. Wire on the perimeter like chicken wire place it one foot around the coop to prevent predators from digging under the coop. They love left overs from the dining room table.
Doing that today, thank you!!
The best electric netting is called Pos-Neg by Kencove. I use it to contain hogs, goats and chickens. We do clip our chickens wings. God bless y’all with your returning to the land
Gregory
Your awkwardness is super cute. For the chickens, you'll probably want to put a barrier such as hardware cloth around the perimeter of the coop & run to keep digging critters out.
Edited to add: I would just use straw as the bedding, some people & animals can have a reaction to pine shavings.
I was gonna suggest the same thing.
10:51 You can use painting trays from Home Depot on the nesting boxes so the slope of the tray will send the eggs back to where the paint usually goes. You just need to slant the tray. If you get the reusable ones you can spray they down with water when it comes time to cleaning them 👌🏻
You guys really need an LGD. Best option against the predators from north Florida. The best lgd for chickens is a Great Pyriness.
Just a heads up to keep in mind when putting up the fence around the coop..... Gators can climb fences here in Florida!! So you might want to a board to the top of the fence so it can't do over it!
For real?? I didn't know that .😲
Great video Brett and Ashleigh
You can buy an automatic door for the chicken coup that you can set it when it opens and closes. It will save your chickens as they will learn to be in at dark. I have also seen some that you can use solar power to run.
nice video keep them coming love from the uk merry Christmas
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in the LORD year 2025! All the best, good luck,.. Rudi.
Hemp mulch is good to spread over the floor and then over the poo every other day or so. The hemp absorbs the smells better etc. once it gets about 4 “ deep transfer it to your compost pile.
You might want what they call an apron that goes around the exterior of the coop so nothing will dig under and kill the chickens. Awesome start to the farm! we named out chickens hennifer Lopez, Lindsey lohen. Roosters help protect the hens too. Make sure the ventilation up top has small holes so snaked can't get in.
Really nice coop and very sympathic family! Not sure if mites are a topic in the US, but here in Germany you read everywhere to not use hay in the coop, because the straws are hollow inside and so it's a great hiding place for mites.
Merry xmas and a happy new year!
The coolest! Beautiful family ❤
Kabota tractors, or the new Bobcat tractors, make excellent small farm tractors. Lots of easy attach implements
Use your chicken 'poo' to fertilize your garden. : ) Cutie pie baby girl !
If you want to hatch your own get a rooster and my suggestion for a rooster is a buff orpington and they are like the pet breed of chicken they are so sweet
Use a solar hotwire if you want to give them some free ranging time replace chicken wire with garden cloth its harder for a predator to break i miss my chickens i loved having them
Nice looking chicken coop
Raise your chicken water bucket up higher, maybe 5”’or so up off the ground. If not, the water spout will get dirty or fill up with wood shavings real quick when the chickens kick the wood shavings around. Find some wood blocks (again, about 5” or so high) and set the water bucket on top of the wood blocks 👍.
Next thing I’d be concern about is living in that area, Everglades, plenty of snakes. Having chickens will attract snakes. So you might lose some eggs because snakes eat chicken eggs, as well as chickens themselves. Also BE CAREFUL when reaching your hands into the nest boxes collecting eggs. Might be a snake coiled in there underneath all the straw. As well as be careful in the storage room (where you keep extra feed/straw/wood shavings) because snakes like to hide in those areas as well. Maybe for snake deterrent, get some Guinea fowls. Heard they’re pretty aggressive and can/will kill snakes, again, from what I’ve heard 🤷♂️.
Beautiful “Chicken Taj Mahal” 👍💯👌 !!!
Before too long your gonna think your c coop was mounted on articulating wheels to allow the run ground to expand,nourish, and regenerate. Now, for your perusal, the Kelly Young RUclips Channel DID an episode on hobby scale backyard chicken husbandry. And, for your specific information: Kelly's commercial vendor retail hen provider, utilizes the (as huge) towable wagon coop
concept .
The farm and contact names in South Florida are available. The channel episode # escapes my attention here.
Perhaps you have what it takes to improvise and not to worry for the slowest chicken can move right along.
That is a really nice coop if you don't mind me asking how much did you pay for it
Chicken name: Buster Scruggs “The San Saba Songbird.”
You can use the chicken manure for your garden area. Peace out from Texas.
For Florida, those are monster bucks!
What do y’all do for work? Obviously all the farm stuff is expensive but I’m also impressed with how you have a cameraman already. And probably an editor if I were to guess. My wife, three kids and I live just north of Gainesville in a small rural town. We are renting 5 acres and dream about what you are doing. I look forward to more videos!
Get trays that fit inside box if u want a slant and help cleaning boxs. Put cloves garlic and some apple cider vinegar in there water helps with mites and intestine problems. Installing a moveable electric fence and consider flock dogs like marimos
you want to put your water on and your feeder on top of a brick raise it off the floor this will a help with rodents but also or help with the not getting stuff into the water , it also helps your chickens.
We use a find grain said in our run and coop, then you can scoop up the poo with a chicken poop shovel.
Versa nets are ones I’ve seen other homesteaders use
You probably should get electric poultry net for Xtra security from predators and get a rooster for them
Check out Piney Grove Homestead. He’s got a lot of good tractor info. They’re in northern Florida.
If the floor wood, id suggest you put down vinyl which won't absorb the odor. Great video guys ❤❤...
Feed them nutrina laying pellets or mash, and nutrina scratch feed
John Deere or Kubota tractors are both good brands. 70 horse would be perfect.
I would have almost bet money ya'll was from Texas LOL
eh don't worry that much about the gators. I would absolutely remove them from being near the coop. fire ants such. I also have a mild allergy. I am good with a couple bites but if I get swarmed I get to feeling pretty bad. Also bing in FL, that interior is going to get hot as hell in the summer. You may need to think about a solar AC
Chickens will eat almost any type of fruit or vegetable, pumpkin and blueberry are favorites they might even eat the fire ants.
Im english so cant relate to the threats of florida, but for the slant in the laying boxes its not really important, we have rare breed chickens kept separate from each other in different pens, some slanted laying boxes some not and rarely see eggs being destroyed in either, buff orpingtons are super friendly and a good egg layer keep them but not the commits. Would recomend either a kubota, mahindra or summit tractors , i know people have suggested looking at piney grove buti would also recomend country view acres for a great homsteading youtube channel. Finally if you didnt know when using hay alot maybe get some dust masks because the dust when working with hay / straw can lead to a respiratory problem called farmers lung which isnt fun, STAY SAFE. lovely property, good luck
Second episode and I’m here. Forgive me I don’t know you guys at all, I don’t do all the typical social media sites, have you guys got big followings before this? My man looks about 6ft6, like some American footballer😂
I will put gutters so you can collect rain water for the chickens
Suspend your waterer from your rafters approximately 6 inches above the ground. it will keep the water clean.
I’m from Pa born and raised! What made you guys decide to jump over to Florida! Also subbed to you guys!
Helga would be a good name for one.
Shuttle shift caboto tractor I think you guys should check full size and one figure wrench
Just be aware, pasturing your chickens will be a big challenge, with the amount of predators you have around. Raccoons will be visiting you a lot. Bobcats, coyotes, foxes and possums love free ranging chickens also. We quit free ranging because of the amount of loss we experienced of chickens to predators. And oddly enough, hawks and eagles rarely bothered them. It was the four legged predators that were the main problem. Hope you're up to it, you may have to trap or dispatch the problem predators. Check with the Florida Wildlife Commission to see what the law is for protecting your livestock.
GONNA NEED DOGS, SNAKES LOVE EGGS, ALWAYS THINK THERE IS ONE THERE BEFORE REACHING IN
FLOCK DEFENDING BREEDS WILL URINATE ALL AROUND, WHICH WILL HELP WITH SNAKES.
AND OTHER RODENTS,
DEF GET A DOG
I WOULD SAY START THAT NOW FOR WHEN THE KIDDO IS OLD ENOUGH TO BE RUNNING AROUND, THE DOG WILL BE OF AGE AND KNOW THE LAY OF THE LAND.
CHICKENS REALLY HAVE NO REASON TO BE KEPT IN A COOP UNLESS YOU DONT LET THEM OUT. YOU WILL USE HALF THE FEED AS WELL. THEY KNOW WHERE HOME IS, AND WILL EVEN RETURN TO LAY EGGS AND GO BACK OUT.
You will need rooster and electric neat for they can running in
YOU WILL ALSO HAVE TO HAVE A PLAN TO CATCH THEM,
My hens would just squat whenever I stood above them as they would with a breeding rooster.
ps more straw in nesting boxs
Bobcats will be a problem for the chickens
You're going to want to get some protection around the runs exterior. Laying wire mesh around the exterior perimeter prevents predators from being able to dig under the wall and get to the birds and it doesn't prevent the grass from growing to hide it.
Your chicken coop is perfect you don't need to change anything, put I metal wire under ground around the coop so the predators can't dig up the ground too get in the run
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if you put hardware cloth around the run you will be fine. if you wan to let them out in the open just get a couple of rooster and you will be fine too. and don't insulate the inside the roof is fine the walls, sauna will get hot trust me.