sorry about your chickens Hope they are doing better

Can i fement beans the same way?

When you say these things it starts raining around here, (reference to last year) so I’m changing the coop’s bedding tomorrow, then rain tarp goes up and places for them to walk on so they’re not standing on mud. ⭐️

Thankyou sweetheart

We use a combination of shavings and straw deep litter. The straw keeps the dust down and composts really well, and the wood shavings keep it really dry. In the PNW that can be a real challenge.

I did all the natural things.... orginal 5 chicks, the magic water, clean hemp- clean area, everything was perfect... but one got it. Saw the blood. Treating now. Ughhh

bless you and Phillip

Ty chickenlandia !

I got pine shavings for coops, but it has pellets of wood with diatomasious earth embedded in them. I didn't want them to eat or breath any of that, so I spread it in a perimeter around the coop as a bug guard. I'm trying rice straw cause it's new at the feed store. It's sooooo dusty thou. Hemp sounds GREAT!! where can I get hemp bedding???

I started with 6, then one died from a disease (it starts with a c and makes them poop blood) so this year we got four more, just last night, a fox got 3 of the newer ones while they were SAFE in the brooder. I dont know how but we have one "baby" left (shes 4 months old), so she moved in with the big girls last night. 😢

We put woodchips in the chicken run to help with mud. They are great!!

You have a beautiful heart ❤😊

I got the courage to start "Chickening" from your youtube videos. Sometimes a tiny bit more specifics would be helpful.. i'm under a heap of pressures from too many irons in the fire, chickens being one of them.

Leave the shavings in the coop a year?

When you say 'turn often', how often is that? I dont have much of a sense of smell.

That coop is 4 times the size of my garden

you can actually tell the gender of baby chicks quite easily if you just hold them upside down by their feet, if they try to sit up or flat their wings it’s a girl but if they just hang upside down it’s a boy, this has worked for me without fail for a long time, it only works for the first week I think though.❤❤

I put 24 guage clear vinyl over the hardware cloth in my chicken coop for winter. I put metal grommets every 8-10 inches and fastened them with screws and washers. The grommets make it easy to remove when winter is over.

I have been studying chicken nutrition very heavily the last few years. I am making my own feed and worked with a poultry expert from Fertrell to get the balance right. I use organic chicken scratch that I ferment and then add Fertrell nutribalancer, animal fats, animal protein, and mealworms. He helped me calculate how much of each to use. I also add some nutribalancer to the fermentation water, as it contains phytase, an enzyme that breaks down phytic acid in the grains. Phytic acid interferes with the absorption of minerals and interferes with digestive enzymes that enable them to use protein. Phytic acid does the same thing in humans. Oats are very high in phytic acid and have little phytase enzyme. I know some people will find this objectionable, but grains are really not as healthy as we are told they are. They are an incomplete protein source as far as amino acids. The Fertrell poultry guy wanted me to add a lot of field peas, but my chickens refuse to eat them, even though they are split into smaller pieces. The fish meal he recommended stunk, so I suspect it quickly becomes rancid. Not feeding that... Rancid oils are full of toxic aldehydes and are inflammatory. The commercial feeds use either seed (vegetable) oils, which are toxic (to us and them) or flaxseed seed oil, which becomes rancid as soon as it is ground or pressed. I give them protein, usually mealworms, in the afternoon to ensure they have some protein without the antinutrients (phyate, oxalates, lectins, and other antinutritents) that interfere with mineral and protein absorption. I never feed high oxalate greens such as spinach or chard, as oxalates prevent the absorption of calcium, magnesium, zinc, iron, and copper in chickens as well as humans. I sprout organic wheat grass and hulled sunflower seeds and have a small mealworm farm. I rinse and bake their eggshells for a few minutes, crush them, and feed them back to them. Overall, I think this feeding regimen is economical and my girls are super healthy. Layer feed is a highly processed food. I agree that we have bred chickens to an unnatural state, but what other animals in nature need such a variety of foods to thrive? BTW: humans also don't. I do offer a small amount of organic layer crumble just in case they need something, but they eat very little of it.

This is my first time seeing one of your videos and OMG girl, those glasses!! You look glorious!!!

I started as a backyard farmer with bantams and had a “perfect” coop! The best bedding I could get was free arborist wood chips. This takes physical labor, but if you don’t mind shoveling and wheelbarrowing- nothing beats it. I got donations from a local organic grocery and so my birds were eating fresh produce every day (in addition to their feed) and generating a deep compost litter system in their run. My hen house had pine shavings. Twice a year, I dug out my run and put it in my garden. The compost the chickens made was INCREDIBLE and they stayed happy and healthy and dry. I should also mention that I would go in and turn the bedding once a month or so because the hens can’t dig deeply. This helped me monitor the composting happening in the bedding. I think this is the absolute best system and is only a concern if rats are an issue- I was lucky that I didn’t have rats. Fast forward to the last two years and I’m a pastured poultry farmer. Now I raise hens on grass 10 months of the year. They move to new ground each day. I put no bedding in their mobile coops. I also have geese in with my chickens. During the two coldest and wettest months of the year, I park my coops on high ground and use trailers full of fir shavings dumped and spread more than a foot deep under and around their coops. Out in the country I cannot get arborist chips, try as I have for the last two years. I just found someone who can deliver rough chips from a mill during the summer and I’ll get those next year- they keep the ground drier than shavings. I will add hay or straw if we get a freak ice storm and bales for insulation. I think both are prone to mold so I don’t like to use them unless it’s very temporary and I can move the coops off of them. The hens do scratch and aerate… but I prefer the shavings. I just wanted to share a bit because I think the hemp shavings are a little ridiculous at this point. They are not affordable and having them shipped from Europe is pretty gross in terms of all that fuel and the environment. Hemp certainly does stay drier but I’d love to test it against rough arborist wood chips. Free chips would always be my choice. And another point that is very important is that ALL of these materials, except sand, foster a deep litter compost opportunity. Get yourself a compost thermometer and a sturdy pitchfork and do the work! Your hens and your garden will thank you! I turn the area my birds winter in into a fertile vegetable production area. One tip I’ll give about the arborist chips is: don’t let them sit and cook! Shovel them and move them at the time they are delivered!! They will be lighter to move and less likely to mold in place. Check out the KZbin channel edible acres to learn more about having your hens help you build compost🙌🏽

Great video, I just had to isolate my molting chicken Penny because my lavender picked on her neck so bad I didn't think she was going to recover she's almost a week to it and doing lots better I did research whenever they're weak and vulnerable they pick on them.

I get so tired of KZbin unsubscribing me I wondered where you were at and I hear it said I was unsubscribed

I heard that Braggs acv company has been brought out by gates worth sussing out!

New subscriber

Leslie is very cute! Binky is like, "Follow me, kid! I will show you how to scratch like a pro!"

God Bless Our Baby Chickens!!! I have a seed business AND I REALLY, really, really, want to retire for the "how many times???" But I love my Babies! So for now, I'll keep working to buy everything MY babies ask for.

So true about keeping chickens out of factory farms. Thank you for saying that.

Sugar water works best

I would love to know how you built that amazing run/fence for the hens

Sand is for the run. Inside is not the same thing

I absolutely love you!!! Everything you are saying in this video resonates with my soul. We as humans have forgotten that we are part of nature. It is so sad how society has led many to believe that we are above nature. I'm a new proud parent of 8 hens, and I'm so looking forward to picking the sea of chickweed, henbit, and purple dead nettle from my property and feeding it to my ladies in early spring!

Keep the glasses, ditch the hot flash.

My baby chick is really really sick, not many vets in my area so I can't diagnose him, he is really just lifeless, but Alive, probably because of the other chick I have, pray from him guys please ❤

All wonderful ideals. From an old codger. Have nice warm shaving coop. Chickens. Prefer roostng out side in the run. Humm what. About those chicken's. They must be country 🐔 chickens

We use pine shavings in the chicken coop, but underneath their purches we have sand so that I can scoop the poop out with the kitty litter scoop. It’s wonderful. My husband put a one by four separating the pine shavings from the sand. Of course it’s standing up on end to create a barrier. Anyway, that works beautifully for us. I love your videos. God bless you.❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏. And I might add they have a covered run attached to the coop that is all pet moss. There is plenty of room for all of them to dust bathe all year long no matter the weather. Then attached to that is an uncovered run, which is just the grass. But we open our door every day and let them run freely in our entire yard. We have a 6 foot fence.They are actually quite spoiled. We love our girls.❤❤❤❤❤

If anyone is wondering, this also works for baby Turkeys

The problem with cedar shavings is that it has cedarwood oil which gasses out and is very irritating to the respiratory tract and toxic if eaten. I once did a research project using cedarwood oil as a solvent and had to use a special type of hood and wear a double pair of nitrile gloves to keep it from burning my lungs and damaging my skin. Pine shavings do not contain such oils.

I got your book for Christmas last year!! Love it!

🌞🌞🌞

That is kinda.. fake....

I also thought that the grass clippings from the lawnmower probably has gas fumes from the lawnmower and that they shouldn't eat it unless maybe you could rinse the grass clippings off in water maybe.

When i saw the hen saddle, I said I have a couple of that same saddle. Got it from our friend at Tractor Supply. I also have a copy of your book. Does the chicken mug come in different colors?

I had a little bit of mud problem by the chicken door so I found a bucket full of pine pellets That came with a rabbit hutch that I use for chicks, and There was a couple stink bugs hanging in there and the chickens found them rather delicious

My concern with straw and hay is the use of grazon in the growing of the plants. I put the used bedding in the compost to be put in the garden later, but hear how if they grower used the chemicals it can destroy your garden for a few years. I am using wood chips since I know it is not grown with that.

Raising offspring is so ENJOYABLE ❤😊

Lesley can be a boys name 😉

I love the pellets from Small Pet Select! bit.ly/3sC5kNc

This is so useful, 🎄 My ultimate gift would be hardware cloth to replace the chicken wire!

I had a little mud and I had an old wooden ladder so I placed it in the run to make a long “perch”