Chickens in my Small Backyard for a Month - What I learned

Chickens in my Small Backyard for a Month - What I learned

[@WilliamLopez-ys2gs]

I should get a chicken to help my son with his algebra 2 homework

[@bel2910]

I'm watching this 3 years later. $6.00 for a dozen 🥚

[@Mountain_Spirit]

Now eggs are $10!!! 😮

[@deinse82]

@@Mountain_Spirit And now they're back down to $5. What did we learn, kids? It's that prices in a free market sometimes fluctuate, but always return to the mean.

[@FionaclarkClark]

We have 6 hens, they have 2 drinks containers always full, they drink a lot. Ours have 40 foot play area that's fenced off out the back of their hutch which they have all round access to, they have a child's plastic turtle sandpit with food grade diatomaceous earth, child's playsand, and spadeful of fresh compost to dustbathe in, they love it, it's very stable and easy to clean out. They have all day access to their chicken feed, and get a fresh salad with chopped tomatoes, chopped cucumber, sweetcorn and babyleaf spinach daily, they love cooked spaghetti, half a lettuce, sunflower seeds, and mealworms.

[@FionaclarkClark]

And in return we get 6 beautiful eggs daily.

[@foxybuddy]

@@FionaclarkClark for the efforts put on, you deserve that

[@glumGlumm]

@@FionaclarkClark is it consistent on warm weather season?

[@flowerdoyle3749]

Thanks for taking the romance out of it for me....you saved me a bundle and a giant headache.

[@eatonfam]

😆

[@carolschlick6219]

Yeah, me too! I didn’t realize they needed such a big area, or I guess I should say an “area of their own” that they’re confined to. I hate poop and flies, just cleaning my dogs doo grossed me out. I wonder if there’s maybe an easier set-up for cleaning? Then I’m thinking I can’t use a hose all year (I’m in NJ) and we have to shut the hoses so the pipes don’t freeze. Idk/still researching and contemplating it. Thanks for the information 😁

[@pag8591]

AMEN…you had me at flies

[@dianeespinoza8647]

Yeah using a type of bedding absorbs moisture out of the poop and reduces flies most people use Pine or hemp shavings. Keeping chickens in their own area is not difficult, you don’t have e to give them access to your patio furniture and for sure not the garden, they will peck at your veggies and leave you without or at least with a harvest with holes 😂 making them a dust bath usually keeps them happy. ❤

[@jetlaggedchef6806]

September 23, 2019: "If there ever came an issue where you couldn't buy eggs, well, now I had my own eggs." March 23, 2020, *EXACTY 6 months later*: He's a prophet!!!

[@vucub_caquix]

A prophet makin profits

[@Frivillig]

It's funny because it's true! 🤣

[@oldauntzibby4395]

And 2023 bird flu reducing chicken numbers and price increases on feed making eggs very expensive.

[@Joanna-xl1dv]

I was searching for this😂😂😂

[@raymondharris7226]

Thanks so much for taking the time to share all this with us. We all appreciate you.

[@raymondharris7226]

Like # 249

[@janetbransdon3742]

A deep litter system is best for inside the coop... cleaning out is greatly reduced. I use dried out grass clippings and this works well, any brown material will work, eg also leaves and wood shavings. Bonus makes wonderful compost for your garden. I love chickens.

[@7hilladelphia]

I tried this too. Eventually nasty neighbor had a fit, as I'm in a city limit. It wasn't smelly or dirty but one hen used to make a fuss whenever she laid and they complained... so I learned all I could...while I could. And yes they poop constantly, wet and awful which is why I now know why the chicken coop is always way away from the house/ back door area. Truly lovely hens but yeah, the poop is a big deal. Great for the garden tho.

[@FionaclarkClark]

We have one issue hen in a flock of 6 who is very vocal, she let's us know before laying, and after 😳🤣

[@elainemagson213]

What a lovely voice this man has!

[@crystalo3550]

Yea he does

[@ashleeyoung7840]

Oh man. I’ve been watching chicken videos for a while and I have never laughed so much. I can relate and appreciate the perspective. Thanks man.

[@jessicaabroad1391]

I don't know why I find this video so funny 😂

[@MyLittleFarm-g7f]

Here in my country I have myy Little Farm. And I have some chickens. ITS so exciting

[@shanesmith5971]

That was a really good video man. We just bought 4 of them. Really good info in there.

[@2beauty24]

I love this video 😁 you have definitely given me a great insight of what to expect. They look happy and I love that they play. My children and I look forward to having chicken 😊🙌🏼

[@JRESHOW]

That’s awesome! Yall will love them :)

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

You should have made a small, mobile, enclosed, chicken-run on the grassed areas or rearranged the structure of your back yard, or reduced the number of your flock. Your back yard looks pretty big enough to me. It was just a matter of organization. Pretty neat looking coup you made!

[@dianeespinoza8647]

Also considering a flock of bantams is a good option for smaller areas.

[@injusticeagenda]

When they play in the dirt they're actually clean themselves, you need to give them charcoal dust, you usually get it after you make an barbeque or burn wood for very long time

[@shepirate4651]

Great feedback,thx! But you may have just talked me out of getting chickens lol i was literally searching for chicken coop ideas for small backyards 🤣

[@JRESHOW]

They are great, but I would have built just a bigger space for them and not so much let them free range…

[@dianeespinoza8647]

That’s is too bad, this video didn’t show litter systems that control moisture and make flies an unlikely problem it also didn’t show the ways you keep you chickens busy and contained, off you patio furniture and kids toys 😂 there are many people that have small beautiful yards poop free ❤

[@JRESHOW]

@@dianeespinoza8647 sorry I wasn’t more helpful

[@dianeespinoza8647]

@@JRESHOW get smaller birds, the open wire cage of 5 sq ft per bird as compared to the 15 sq ft you needed with your large breed bird you had . ❤

[@elisabeth8709]

Dwarf chickens are great if you have less space, and they also poop way less! Super nice

[@JRESHOW]

Good to know!! Do they lay dwarf eggs??

[@elisabeth8709]

@@JRESHOW yes they do! They are very cute, and about half the size of normal eggs. I have dutch dwarf chickens and like them very much, but there are a lot of different ones 😊

[@cityfoodiefarm]

I agree lots of poop! Great coop with found materials! They are great pets!! Like # 231

[@MRboss11]

i remember watching a video where a guy had a solar-powered door that would swing open during the day to let the chickens out and then close at night

[@probibi7142]

I wanted to have a chickens for a second time in my little garden and thats helpful

[@Anonymous-km5pj]

They enjoy dirt/dust baths as parasite control ie. mites, lice, fleas.

[@garyg5347]

i have a water gun so i spray my chicken if they go in the patio area. they hardly go to the patio area anymore. i agree that you neeed a big backyard.

[@SimeonFlowers]

Useful experience. Thank you for sharing.

[@Texasupnclose]

I agree with you as chickens are very smart and poop a lot as I collect my chickens poop and put it in my compost pile and let them scratch through it all and mix it up in the pile. I just made a video of mine laying their eggs and your daughter might find it amazing to see as they are so careful and clean in the process. 🤠

[@minomokwa744]

You forgot to mention that it is HIGHLY RECOMMENDED !!!! not to hold less than 3 Chicken as they build a flock & they are very sociable animals. At the same time - as you said - they are smart, they are clean EXCEPT : you hold them in a too confined space & let them sit in their own dirt (like so many animal abuser do). Treat them well: they are wonderful, smart animals!!!

[@foxybuddy]

Thanks, your sharing really helps. I like to have free range eggs but I can't handle the cleaning part unfortunately

[@billwilliams9362]

As someone else , dont clean coup , do Deep Litter method .

[@krisy-in-italy]

You think chickens poop everywhere? Get yourself some geese. 🥴 I’m just starting having chickens again after many years and a much smaller outdoor area. I’ve already fenced off my vegetable garden from them and need to fence off our patio area somehow. They will still have plenty of room. They make great pets and serve up breakfast too! What’s not to like . ❤

[@HurairaHerbals]

I love your coop!

[@Spark-In-The-Dark]

You’re awesome dude!!

[@dianeespinoza8647]

I wish I would have taken more thought to bantam chickens. Now I will have to add to my chickens if I want Bantams. They take up less room, so your small coop and a smaller coop and run would be appropriate for 8-12” full grown bantam chickens 😍😍

[@jf7654]

Unfortunately bantams do not lay very much and when they do the eggs are tiny.

[@MechPeng]

Him 3 years ago: eggs are pretty cheap Him nowadays: I regret what a just said

[@Ambientes]

Great info

[@hananbanday9457]

Thanks for sharing 😊😄

[@Vlogversity]

dope video man! i've also got 2 hens in my backyard we just got this year. black australorps so pretty similar to the buff orps. i wish i could let them free range but we have bar fences with 4 inch gaps all around so they have to be confined to their coop and run. we might add 2 more next summer but we live pretty close to neighbors alla round, they are usually as quiet as a mouse but get noisy when egg laying, lol. they are the best though. fun to watch, bet its even more fun seeing them frolic amongst the whole yard

[@JRESHOW]

That’s awesome! They are great animals :) I don’t know if I mentioned in the vid but they somehow jumped our fence once and we’re sitting on our 88 year old neighbors porch. I heard her come home and she said, “what thr hellllll…” all soft spoken.. she had no idea we had chickens lol. She was cool with it. 🤙🏼

[@Vlogversity]

@@JRESHOW haha yeah ours would definitely jump over the fence as well. They are ruthless! Also smart😂they work together all day trying to figure out how to get to the rest of our yard. We have a pretty big yard along with neighbors yards right beyond fences, I’d hate to risk a dog getting them

[@saltlifegull4091]

Oh Heck Yeah! Awesome video. My biggest problem is they scratch up all my newly planted raised beds:( They will destroy new crops! Forget free ranging for mine now, as they were too destructive.

[@oldauntzibby4395]

I live in the country but we can't/don't free range our chickens because of the poop (they like to be by people so they would poop right on the porch and walkways), because they destroy any garden by scratching and eating crops (both vegetable and flowers and they also will scratch at the base of trees and expose the roots), and because predators will learn if you have unprotected birds. I have a huge chicken pen for them but if you cannot rotate the ground they are on they will turn it into bare dirt and a few tough weeds by scratching, eating, and pooping more than the grass can bear. I usually keep 2 dozen, so I need a lot of room for them. Two or three hens would need a lot less.

[@sharoncourt75]

Hahhha i have a metal baby gate i bougth to keep them of my cover patio grill and furniture, cause is fresh in the summer it was their patio not mine! So i got baby gate, please be carefull free ranging, a cat from the house on the back kill 1 of my smaller hens,just for the hell of it, if i am not home they are lock up, had to make a bigger run, my gate got blown out, it took a few times of yeling and screming at them back in to stop them, I went to a small hardware store and bough the cheapes aluminun tray, then spray with metal paint, that now catches the poop when they sleep,and I use mulch ot wood chips there, so 1 is time to dump it, goes rigth in to my plants. My coop is a bit biger, i use a clear corrugated and 1 metal sheet, I use an old bunk bed so is off the ground, this hapend: i have a voice baby monitor in the coop and a fan/heater, so I was sleep about 7am and trough the monitor I heard them screaming, I knew they where safe, I ran to my balcony and found a hawk sitting on top of the clear corrugated pecking confuse why he cant get the hens bellow 😁😆 I have alot of crows around wich I dislike, but now i learned hawks avoid going in their area, about 2 blocks there is hawks in an empty lot, now I like crows,(they kill a baby chick, but hawk can kill a grown hen) i am in the city and have hens now for almost 2 years, I hope your do great.

[@dianeespinoza8647]

I would love to see your coop , especially with a hawk on it . 😂 I bet they were screaming poor girls.

[@sharoncourt75]

@@dianeespinoza8647 the only time a seen them in the swing

[@autojohn-pu1vf]

Poop!!!!! 🎶There it is🎶Shtalata,Shtalata,Shtalata,Poop!!!!! 🎶There it is🎶

[@JS-jh4cy]

Lesson summary, chickens are birds, that poop alot, and poop 💩 anywhere

[@susannemarieschuster3974]

You need to put some hardware cloth on your run end to end no gaps raccons can rip through chicken wire like nothing

[@chip63us]

They dust themself for mites, instinct even as month old peeps

[@nuduo9255]

Soon, you gonna start buying goats, guns, and ammo ...then listening to Ron Paul.

[@Spark-In-The-Dark]

Nu Duo, except Ron Paul is controlled opposition like Alex Jones...

[@MrKbforex]

HI, Am from London, why can I buy the chickenS?

[@nenaj1]

You gotta have a lot of land for that. Where do you live?

[@JS-jh4cy]

Clip one side of their wings then they cannot get into the neighbors yard and POOP

[@fordayoutube8712]

2yrs ago I paid $1 or less or dozen of eggs now it's closer to $3

[@AnuragJLall]

So Beautiful.

[@Kate-yj6vi]

How loud would you say they are for the homea next door?

[@JRESHOW]

Not bad. My neighbors liked them. Good convo started.

[@mattmatty4670]

Cool thanks mate

[@lraffucci]

Those are healthy looking chickens. fat too.

[@shedroids]

Enjoyed your video! Have you noticed snakes or fox since you got the chicken? They say chicken attract them. Can anyone have chickens... or do you think there might be zoning laws.

[@JRESHOW]

No fox or snakes. I do live in the “city” for the most part and they do have zoning laws here. Some places make you pull a permit or something, however, I didn’t lol. We no longer have them due to the amount of poop and our yard being so small. We do plan to get some again once we have a bigger yard. They are great animals :)

[@shedroids]

@@JRESHOW Thank you, lol! It does look like they bring a wonderful life and make it charming! :) I love the part where you can get your eggs Direct! How wonderful... a truly beautiful barter. You take care of them and they give you an egg daily. Thank goodness for some life things that keep on making life so awesome.... in this time of craziness

[@wen-natureza]

Hi there! I have 4 chickens. Yes they poo a lot lol i do love seeing them since they can have a personality. I have almost 1 acre and we have a large run with coop inside. Been finding ways to keep smell down and ways to easily clean poo every few weeks. I love sand since poo dissapears into sand. Tried wood shavings but not too great since it doesn't really last. Right now doing sand and horse wood pellets. The pellets shrivel like sand and help with mud. Flies are reduced and cleaning is reduced since pellets almost become like cat litter. Horse wood pellets are natural so will put some more before fall comes around. I do see your yard small so I understand. We built them a huge enclosure so they don't get bored and are protected. Hoping you get some more one day. A bigger yard would help.

[@ruthbatt9029]

Butillfull chicken

[@crystalo3550]

They love dust bathing thats y they go in the dirt so I learned

[@Yeshuaschosen]

....I have the same problem.POOP Everywhere !

[@paulamcnama1499]

❤️ ❤️

[@sheilastutz1772]

I talk to a chicken and call her to me.

[@mickinoz2005]

Did u get rid of them or still have them

[@JRESHOW]

We kept them for about a year and after that they went to our friends farm. Too much poo

[@healthnut3165]

@@JRESHOW 😂😂💩

[@spidey_8299]

Did they eat your grass?

[@JRESHOW]

No so much ate it, but def. picked through it..

[@LaMorritaRebecca]

Adding and subtracting??? What?

[@tonydavila6594]

Dude, If Chickens bug you, You have Personal Issues... 🤦‍♂️

[@JRESHOW]

What are you talking bout Tony?

[@tonydavila6594]

@@JRESHOW You're Right, I commented prior to watching the Whole Video, Sorry Dude... 😊

[@BlackSwansFine-co6cd]

Lololololololol

[@prayingsnakefreeman2828]

Is this still going

[@JRESHOW]

No. The amount of poop was too much for my small backyard

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[@360_tours]

Thanks for your info!