CHICKENS ~ FREEDOM RANGERS

[@frankirwin2377]

Our cats, dogs, horses, cows all got along because they where there. Even our lamb blended right in and of course started racing with the two dogs to greet the school bus. Love seeing chickens out and about.

[@TheWonderwy]

Thanks for the video. Watching them move around and listening to them was meditative. I am so relaxed now.

[@chelinfusco6403]

That was a relaxing video. Your chickens look great, the cats are lovely, and your garden... wow! I can't believe it is October and your garden still going strong. So many colors, so lovely. Thanks for sharing.

[@moniqueslikkerveer6158]

It's almost meditative to look at those chickens. LOVE from The Netherlands!

[@BelindaTN]

Another good use for chicken coops id for cats and kittens that may need to be confined or separated for some reason. My daughter is in the process of acclimateing 2 very young kittens to her farm. She first put them in a cleaned out horse stall, but one is getting out and the stall keeps them from interacting with the other animals. Which was great for the first week. The coop keeps them safe until they get a little older and get used to their new environment. Great for introducing them to the dogs and it keeps hawks from getting them. They can safely check out the animals around them, while having a safe place to hide or check them out through the wire. So she can move them back and forth between the two places, and turns them out when they are outside to keep an eye on them. My other daughter has used her coop for puppies and dogs that need to be temporarily confined.

[@LittleCountryCabin]

Thanks for the update! I can't wait to try these. I have always believed that allowing chickens to free range as much as safely possibly is so good for them. Better eggs, better meat, which makes them better for us. Not to mention how it's just good for the farm in so many ways. Love y'all! Have a blessed day!

[@evegreenification]

I've done freedom rangers for years and love them.

[@gypsymama9487]

Watching and learning what is good for me homestead. and your videos are helping, thank you

[@sheilaperl4155]

Doug, thank you for the welcome! I don't have a homestead but I do grow tomatoes and herbs on my balcony and try to buy local. I really enjoyed hearing about and seeing your new breed of chickens!

[@dennisst.germaine3497]

Love this video, thank you for the span of video on the birds only, it's like watching aquarium fish....very calming. Always love the kitty bombs in your vids also. Be Blessed and see yah in the next vid

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

www.freedomrangerhatchery.com

[@Qwazier3]

Tried growing the purple and pink sweet potatoes this year. It was a bust. The web site said not to cut back the vines and let them do their thing. Well, they did their thing across my yard and over the neighbors fence. They loved the purple vines. So that part was a success but I think the plants spent so much time making vine that they forgot to produce potatoes. I got a half of a 5 gallon bucket full from 9 plants. Next year I will keep them in their raised beds.

[@eaglecamphomesteadswfl9006]

Thank You

[@mainecritter3292]

Hello, Just love the harmony of the chickens having a good time exploring the free range with the cats just walking by like, "whatever". Stay well my friends.

[@mrs.fig4016]

So excited! I got my calendar in the mail yesterday! Thank you so much! Now there's a little piece of Doug&Stacy in RI even though Doug's never been here!! Lol!

[@darrel1954]

Great video Doug and Stacy, I have never heard of Freedom Rangers, Thanks for sharing

[@georgiabell3640]

Thank God for these videos , see how much I have missed

[@vinnettepope8255]

They have really grown a lot, and they look very happy 😊 and healthy.

[@stephenbradley6258]

Thank you for sharing this great video adventure and the building project on the freedom rangers. Have a great day

[@lisabooker6405]

I could watch animal videos all day! Your raised beds still look AMAZING! WOW! Looking forward to the sweet potato reveal too. Thanks for sharing. Love hugs and Blessings! ~Lisa

[@HoosierDeb444]

Gorgeous birds! They look very sturdy and well-proportioned. Even their legs and feet don't seem as 'frail' as most other breeds. I can see why they do well with foraging.

[@1timby]

Doug, you've created the next craze. You can set up a camera for folks to watch chickens free ranging....LOL

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

lol

[@debbie2663]

Watching the chicks was so relaxing!

[@jred1838]

I raised this variety once and I agree they were wonderful! I will say they were more difficult to pluck.

[@chantaln6843]

Those chickens 🐓 look delicious 😋

DOUG AND STACY, CLEARLY NICE PEOPLE.

[@fizalaheji4478]

They are gorgeous birds!

[@MarkWYoung-ky4uc]

You are exactly right. The Rangers look and act like healthy and happy chickens as compared to the Cornish Cross. They are also beautiful chickens.

[@katielakefarmandcottages5685]

That is a good idea Audrey. I will check that out as well.

[@hollyhock3945]

I have never been around live chickens but I love watching them and hope to have some within a year.

[@LumnahAcres]

Olivia asked if we could only raise heritage meat birds next year. She said she doesn't like the flavor of the cornish now. Its amazing how kids now

[@50shadesofgreen]

great looking chickens for six weeks old !! strong and healthy !! garden is looking superb too guys !! thanks for sharing

[@landonreynolds3054]

Thanks for sharing the video on the Freedom Rangers. Right now, we're just getting started with a variety of different breeds of chickens, but as we move forward, we'll be gearing toward one or two breeds. Eventually we hope to have anywhere from 300 to 1,000 chickens on our farm, all pastured and organic of course. We'll certainly have to consider the Freedom Rangers. Again, Thanks for Sharing!!!! Love your informative and fun videos!

[@NicoleSenaEvans]

FREEBIRD!!!🐔☮️❤️🎶 The $50 chicken coop video was the first video of yours that I ever watched!

[@jkhenderson1]

They're so beautiful and have grown so big! I will try these when I get my coop next year. I can't wait! Thank you!

[@mneff69]

Our neighbors out at are farm free range their chickens. They use a small trailer with a chicken coop build on top. He moves a trailer around to follow the cattle. During the day he lets them out to feed and then at night they just go back up in the coop.

[@thepreparedchristian3147]

If you drive to Lehmans stop by and say howdy...we live on the way...we go over every April for our anniversary...

[@sweetbirdme]

Good Morning my friends . Those are some Happy,Happy Freedom Rangers,!! Loving the kittie bombs, ,Lol Everything looks so green and nice,, The garden looking Great.. Can't wait for the sweet potato harvest, your going to have alot in there. . Have fun with the rest of your traveling journeys,, I'll be there in spirit. .Lol Sending Lots of Love from WA. .=-)

[@BlessedFarm]

Great looking meat birds I'm going to get a few dozen and give them a try thanks for sharing them with us. Kent&Sheri

[@coleriedel751]

Just started our own small flock of Freedom Rangers, but it's a bit colder up here in interior Alaska so we have to raise em in our heated garage for a month or so as they get bigger.

[@acebuggers2744]

For some reason watching chickens is always fun. I think my favorite is when we feed ours yogurt and then they have to wipe their yogurt covered beaks on the grass...or even another chicken and their ability to strip a watermelon down to the skin, ours love melons!

[@DustinDean]

our chickens also love squash that we had left over in our garden. they get a ton of greens .

[@decolonizeEverywhere]

looking forward to seeing how the purple sweet potatoes did. i've been growing regular ones exclusively for the greens, in pots on my front porch. the pots are small so the vines grew very well. they are one of the few greens i can tolerate because they are low in nickel. i use them in place of spinach, kale, etc. so yummy!

[@ConchoPearl]

I love to watch the morning rushes when they are let out to range. I watch a video called 50 ducks in a Hot tub. lol Anyhow he He has over 1000 ducks and geese he lets out every morning and it is so fun to watch them when they start going out.

[@LifeinFarmland]

Looking great! We were really glad we moved away from the Cornish cross. Wish we could make it out to the conf.

[@anitavinesett3180]

Hey Doug & Stacy, Been watching the video's on the run this last week with OT at work but, thought i would say a quick hey how ya doing and love the video.LOL I swear that cat looked right at the camera when he walked past the chickens like he knew he was being filmed.It was cute Stacy when you put the food out they wanted to follow you instead.Thanks for sharing.

[@countrygalinthecity]

We'll be there...can you bring us just one of your purple sweet potatoes? 😀...

[@jeep4ron]

We just let ours out this week end too..... there cute. Never had chickens before. I’m loving them. Nice video you two.. as always..

[@bigboyblue7181]

We have a coop inside a 8x10x6 dog run and I covered it. We let them out everyday but they always end up down by the road. Ours are Rhode Island Reds.

[@brock7872]

Love Your Channel Guys! Homestead Homie For Sure!

[@deltawhiskylima5095]

I've never heard of them before, thank you for posting this video, I will check them out. God bless.

[@LangFamilyFarmsLA]

We just finished our run with freedom rangers and REALLY enjoyed them. Very hardy and yours look great and healthy. Processed them at 10 weeks and average weight was about 4 lbs cleaned. Yours look even a bit bigger I think. We also did tractor first and then free ranging the last few weeks.

[@eaglecamphomesteadswfl9006]

I harvest mine at the 9-10 week about 5 to 5 1/2 lb. These guy also seen to go broody and hatch out pretty good.

[@Thelooneyfarm]

we use a hanging fish scale with a cord loop for weighing our birds! works super great!

[@staceyvegamarkum4071]

Loved the chicks, I was waiting for them to start pecking the camera! I'm excited to hear you'll be at Lehman's, I will try to make it there to see you. Until then, God bless you!

[@YouCantEatTheGrass]

They are sticking close to home, lol

[@mileydisfunes4120]

My cat , live with my chickens... she goes under the coop n sometimes up n wash them all day ... no problems at all...

[@shonitagarcia3222]

Awwww, They are so cute! I miss my chickens. I had to sell them when I moved.

[@cosmyccowboy]

i quickly learned 2 downsides to free range chickens, #1 is that you cant have a garden and free range chickens unless you fence in the garden! #2 is that you have to easter egg hunt every day and as soon as you find the nest they move it! i now let mine out about 3 hrs before sunset every day.... they will go back in at sunset and i just close the gate sometime before sunrise!!!

[@Combat_Pyro]

Jeff Logue free range does not mean unlimited range. If the birds have access to pasture, bugs, Sun, wind, rain, fresh water, and plenty of room, they can still be considered free range and be confined to a specific amount of land. For example, 100 chickens can be indefinitely run free range and limited on an acre of land. That is free range. If you’re still opposed to any form of confinement then it’s a personal philosophical choice. Letting chickens run free without any form of confinement is an additional risk to the chickens themselves. By providing a form of enclosure you provide them with a form of protection from predation as well. Chickens like to have their eggs in a safe place. If you raise them to laying age confined into their coop and small run with access to nesting boxes they’ll lay in there. After they start laying in the coop you let them free range into a larger protected area. Your problem with the Easter eggers is a problem specific to them, that’s one of the reasons why they’re called Easter eggers. Yes the eggs are colored, but they also like to hide them everywhere. When you get them laying in their next box, try leaving one or two eggs in the nest overnight for them to lay the next day, if you clean the nest out they’re more likely to move it. You can buy some ceramic eggs and paint them to match The eggers colors and only ever leave the fake eggs in the box so the birds think the eggs are still safe. Or get a different breed of bird.

[@TealHouseFarm]

They're looking great! Thanks for sharing guys...I've only ever used the Cornish, but I'd like to branch out more. Keep up the great work!!

[@bigboyblue7181]

We have 3 chickens that produce 3 eggs a day. Dixie, Penelope and Rosie. Our girls.

[@ebenwoodsfarm1693]

Thanks for the update. I'm thinking about doing meat birds and trying to decide on the breed. Your video just made my mind up.

[@annstockton7753]

Just ordered some for my neighbor thanks for the link.

[@ChristopherAMacleod]

Thanks for this. I want to raise some Freedom Rangers here, in the city, next year.

[@southernhen]

Best meat birds ever! We recommend them to everyone, wait until you taste one! Also, I know there are other Hatcheries that claim they sell this breed....trust me they are not the same. Only get your rangers from the link Doug and Stacy provided, that’s the only way to get a quality red ranger. 💖

[@peewees6199]

Thanks for the video. Patara at Appalachian Homestead likes the Buffs. We're in Northern Florida so I think we'll try both at first. God bless!

[@1gr8lpta]

Can't wait to get ours this year.

[@homelifetogether6781]

I miss my chickens! If I get some more, I will definitely try this breed!!

[@lorismith2484]

Our chicks are about 5 weeks old and will put them in chicken coop full time next week. Night low Temps getting warmer.

[@jacqualynwilloughby8133]

LOVE YA'LLs Fun Videos!!!! I Have Always Raised My "C X R's" With Regular Pullets...Growing Up They Learn By Seeing & Doing...They Grow Sooooo Much Better (for me)....May Consider Acquireing Some "Rangers" Into My Farm Stock...Thank You Guys!!!! Looking Forward To More Helpful Stuff Ya'll Are Doing!!! YEAAAAHHH!!!!!

[@lauracostello1878]

I can not get over how big their chicken feet are!!! I haven't had a chance to raise chickens yet and that shocked me!!! LOL!!! But now I need to research that kind of chicken because I already had my top three breeds on my wish list and I had never heard of Freedom Rangers before. 😃

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

remember, they are meat birds not regular hens =)

[@lauracostello1878]

OFF GRID with DOUG & STACY Yes!! Big difference between layers and fryers but when you tried to weigh that one today, I was like What big feet you have my dear!!! LOL!!!!

[@Beck0419]

Good morning!!

[@darlenep5206]

We Dug up our Sweet potatoes Last week .. We got Quite a Few , But Not as many as Last year .. This year we did Starts Last year we did Plants? . .Now Time to Plant Garlic !!!

[@lindaspade1540]

Loved watching the chickens. It looked like they were slowly getting braver and wandering a little further away from their coop. Any trouble getting them back in the coop at night? I was always amazed that my chickens right from the start knew to go back to the coop for the night. Well, all except one. She wanted to join me in the house. Haha

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

nope, that is the safe zone and they return at dusk

[@shakeriad]

I just love the freedom rangers. I know this is years down the line but do you still raise freedom rangers for meat birds? Just wanted to say you both are amazing and love you both. Keep giving us food for thought and loving us enough to tell us the truth no matter how harsh it is. You guys are a blessing. Thank you so much for all you both do.

[@mporter1961]

lol the chicken cam!

[@KerryStoots]

Your chickens look amazing!

[@lauracurtis2289]

purdy chickens! I would love to raise them but I am afraid I would get too attached and not want to harvest them! Thanks to you both for all you do. So informative and I tried your soaked pancakes Stacy and they were so yummy. Went and got goat's milk and making yogurt tomorrow. You are both inspirational! Question do you have a manual grain grinder that you use? Any opinions on which one to get and I would like to do nut butters with it too. And, Stacy are you going to do a vid on a Homestead Homies Thanksgiving dinner? As Doug would say " COME ON NOW...DO IT!"

[@countrygalinthecity]

Can't wait to meet you!

[@jeep4ron]

Oh ya our sun oven will be here Friday.... Ya Ya..

[@arkyhog6529]

Good morning and great video

[@BanDanaGramma]

Nice Video! I'll see you at the Homesteaders of America conference this weekend! With Love From BanDana Gramma!

[@darlenep5206]

Thanks Guys No you're talking my Lingo.. I got some Red Rangers Last year .. ( Same thing?)They Grew twice as fast as my Barred Rocks .. But I got 8 roosters .. When we Culled them .. One was 7.5 lbs Dressed out !! This year I got ISA browns , they are Sweet and Great Egg layers.. We Still have one Red ranger Rooster .. HE IS Huge .. he looks like a Turkey , But Beautiful , and "Kind of) Sweet ( for a Rooster )

[@TealHouseFarm]

p.s. We're going to Topeka too...excited to see you there!!!

[@Tsiri09]

They look hardy and easy to manage.

[@DNGJustSnakes]

Balk balkbbalk baaalk. Balkbbalk...lol... chickens look good

[@christineosborne9789]

Hello excellent video. Thank you.

[@realcookin3720]

I free range my Cornish rocks and they act like chickens. Mine just don't sit and eat they forage great. However I was going to try some freedom rangers late fall so they will be ready in spring

[@pnbwelch]

Have to give these a try.

[@carolkimbell5174]

Love your videos!

[@christiebetts4970]

Good morning!Two of my hens are Red Rangers.I think maybe they are the same as yours.Wonderful temperament.My grandaughter can carry them around and tbe best foragers.

[@charliesmith643]

Questions: When will you butcher them? You mentioned in an earlier video that you would probably only do on an "as needed" basis rather than for the freezer. Starting around how many weeks? Do you eat your guineas? Eggs?

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

maybe by the end of the month, people eat guineas but so far we have not and the eggs are similar to chicken eggs

[@jimfort9712]

It's nice to see them free to move about. Hawks are always a pain up where I live. Got any tricks to keep the hawks from getting comfortable around the homestead?

[@DustinDean]

one thing you can do is string fishing line across the coop and do silver streams3 on it and that should keep them away

[@sheilab29]

Since these are heritage breed, wonder if you can raise a batch as egg/chick suppliers, incubate and have a steady supply of meat birds

[@_treva2292]

Oh i love chickens

[@richardbohlingsr3490]

Nice looking birds. It's going to be interesting to hear what you think of the meat when you try them. I would think they are less fatty than the Cornish. Are you thinking of hatching your own chicks.

[@katielakefarmandcottages5685]

That would probably be the Canadian side. That is what the hatchery said. I have not checked from my side yet.

[@katielakefarmandcottages5685]

We check if we could get the Freedom Rangers shipped to Canada. We can't but we can have them mailed to a mail drop on 👍🏻USA side and pick up. There will be a $100.00 charge at the boarder.

[@solidwoods6995]

Who is asking for the tax ?

[@adm6785]

Lois Wilson- What about shipped hatching eggs? I've seen them for sale on ebay all spring and summer. None for sale right now but they're usually on there a lot.

[@dawnkirklin6837]

Love from AL

[@hellenjones5129]

Love the video I was wondering you guys are out doors a lot. Do you guys were any sunblock I wouldn't be surprised if you guys made your own sunblock but was just curious. Have a blessed day Doug n Stacy

[@OFFGRIDwithDOUGSTACY]

zero nada

[@chantaln6843]

QUESTION: Do those chicken taste better when you cook them? They look more robust and healthier.

[@kellylynch3775]

Freedom Rangers photo bombed by cats! Lol. Enjoyed the video with informative content. I'm curious to see how meaty or fat they are at processing time. Will you do a rundown of what they are fed and how much foraging? Thank you and blessings.

[@cosmiccowboy3063]

Patriot chickens🤠