Every Chicken Keeper Needs THIS For Their Flock

[@RoslinLassie]

Great tip. I have a little pen which has been used for a broody pen with chicks, a hospital pen and a quarantine pen. I have a little hutch that can fit 2 hens in or w hen and babies but I can remove if I need it to break a broody. It’s big enough for them to move about in at about 6ft by 2ft but small enough to keep in my lean to shelter at the back of my garden. Always comes in handy 👍🏻

[@BockBockBouquet]

It’s crazy the amount of uses having a little pen for, really comes in handy! I can’t imagine what we would do without one. Whenever we get messages about hurt or sick chickens that’s always my first question if they can isolate them to start getting better. Really should be apart of a new chicken owners checklist of supplies to have on hand, along with a good first aid kit 😊

[@PLJS2018]

I have 2 different coops. 1 for chicks that I can put a heat lamp in, then the other one we transfer the About 8 week old to until they go to Main Hen House. And we use them for sick pens as well. We also have a large dog crate we use when we run out of spaces. From another video : We tried the head of cabbage on the string and they devoured it. It took all day but it was gone by night time! It was a great treat for them. We’ll be doing it again for sure. Thanks guys for the great videos and helps! Sorry I’m late I just found out I didn’t watch all of it Evidently I got interrupted.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Great set up! Thanks so much for watching and tuning in! I’m about to go out and hang some more cabbage for them now 😄❤️🐔

[@pick4u2]

wow, mind blown, awesome and down to earth, much love

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks so much! ❤️

[@bethnia9053]

The little curtains for the nesting boxes! My girls need some! That's so adorable!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks! These are a little beat up now from a couple of seasons ago. We made a video specifically on how we do the curtains and the easiest way to do them here on our channel

[@Nikki29405]

I’m always excited for Sunday’s so I can watch your videos!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Aw thanks so much and thanks for watching!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@Alphastarcar]

I didn’t know that only the females quack. Thanks for sharing! I learn a lot from your channel. Thanks again! Also, thanks for pointing out that an extra pen is recommended for injuries, etc... Your channel is awesome!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Yes that’s the easiest way to determine the gender before adult feathers grow in (males will have a curl on their tail) the females are that traditional loud quack! And males have a raspy whaaa. Oh the pen is excellent for that! If a chicken sees blood they will continue to peck the wound open or bully the injured chicken, they can cannibalize each other. Keeping them in the pen while their wounds fully heal insures they are safe. Thanks so much and thanks for watching!

[@kristinj8271]

So cute! My Flys traps are working great!! Just hard to shake them out afterwards. The hole is so small.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you! So glad, we love ours! We use a small stick and gently smack it lol they come out a bit easier that way 😊

[@kristinj8271]

@@BockBockBouquet ty, I'll try that tomorrow.

[@wild4202]

I hope you fed those flies to the chickens 🐓!

[@BockBockBouquet]

We do usually, unless it got rained on or we think they were not preserved or dried correctly. We try to make sure to not feed spoiled rotten or moldy things. But if nice and dry then yes

[@wild4202]

@@BockBockBouquet Ok great tip thank you!

[@sweettoothmomma2621]

Cute and helpful video! How many chickens do you have? How much food do you go thru? And how many eggs do you get daily?

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks so much! I think at any given time as we hatch and sell little ones, about 60-80 birds. Our flock is 60. We go through 250 lbs of layer feed and chick starter combined a month. We collect about 2-3 dozen eggs a day. We do have older retired hens and roosters so not everyone lays 😊 they are pets so not expected to lay

[@d.a.tsun5104]

Hello BBB. I need your advice. This year is my first year raising chickens and my husband got carried away. We originally only adopted 7 laying hens from a neighbor who moved out of state. 1 passed 1 week after arrival, 1 turned out to be menopause. so that left us 5 egg-producing hens and I was fine with that. 3-4 eggs per day was more than enough for my small family. Then 3 months later all of a sudden husband brought home mail-ordered chicks (6 B/C Marans) and 2 weeks after that 22 more chicks arrived also in the mail (wyandottes and ameraucanas). Those 28 chicks survive and healthy, but 11 of them turn out to be cockerels. That's like 1.5 hens per rooster. I don't know what to do with those roosters. I tried (am still trying) to sell them but no one want rooster these days. I have to put most of them in separate pen far away from the ladies because they started getting into competition and not only the hens but also myself got attacked. While I'm not intimidated or scared by their being roosters - guarding their flocks and attacking what they perceive as threat, I know how to subdue those over-active mini-dinos, I am still overwhelmed and I don't like to see them cooped up in that separate pen way in my backyard like a bunch of prisoners. They are beautiful birds - esp. the B/C Marans, they are 2x larger than the wyandottes and ameraucanas, they look too 'regal' to be penned in. At the same time, I don't want the ladies stressed out either - they were and they stopped laying from being chased around and ganged up by 3-4 roosters at once, in this heat, until I took those roosters to the far-away coop 3 weeks ago. And there's also a matter of feeding cost. What do I do with them?

[@BockBockBouquet]

Oh no! That’s a lot of boys. It may take time but you can find good homes for them on Craigslist and Facebook groups. Bachelor pads do usually work as housing all boys together they normally do not fight if they don’t have competition for hens. But I understand feed costs being too high and wanting them to have their own flocks and a better life. I would just keep posting adds or hang a poster at local feed stores to hopefully find them new homes. Eventually the right person will see the ad and give you a call

[@CoyoteMuleOwned]

Niffler like from HP ! Love that name !

[@BockBockBouquet]

Yes!!! We love Harry Potter and Fantastic Beasts, we just had to name her Niffler the day she hatched! We have some other Harry Potter names in our flock, made a video all about it 🤓

[@BirdistheNerd]

Didn't know you had ducks! They are so cute. Ordered the fly catcher after one of your videos and it works too well. We were catching so many flies, but also fireflies, butterflies, and daddy-long-legs. We're in WV, so you'll catch more than flies. They work great though. Thank you for all the great advice.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Yes we have just hatched a bunch of call ducks in our recent videos, they are so sweet and cute! 🥰 oh yes you have much more bugs than us in the desert lol we caught a moth once. We use chicken poop plus water as bait so luckily we don’t catch bees. I would be sad to see a firefly, butterfly, or daddy long legs in there! Thanks for tuning in!❤️

[@BirdistheNerd]

@@BockBockBouquet We were very sad, and promptly removed the non-fly critters (Although some flies got away then too)! That's a trick in itself! The fly catchers are awesome though!

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@BirdistheNerd glad you’re enjoying them :)

[@ASSAN8888]

Those ducks were going to town on that cabbage😯...do they leave any for the chickens? Bare bottom pens or anything for that matter are the way to go!😁

[@BockBockBouquet]

Haha we noticed that too! It’s strange because they usually all join in together normally lol.

[@Ya_Boy_Hayden]

get well soon, Ozzy

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you ❤️❤️

[@PLJS2018]

Good morning from Southwest Georgia! Duckling is so cute. Got a question where did you get the fly trap? And could you feed the flies to the ducks and chickens ? I would see if the animals liked them flies. ❤️❤️

[@BockBockBouquet]

Good morning! Yes, we have given the dead flies to our chickens and ducks as a snack, but when they are more fresh. This batch of flies had been sitting there for a while now and thought maybe we should skip it this time and just dispose of them. The traps are from FlyFixed.com , we have been using them for three summers now and are a game changer. We have a few of them in our yard and some in our goat pen too! You can save 10% with the discount code: BockBock at checkout.

[@saadagha1698]

Beautiful 😍

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks!

[@marblesfdy1336]

Very good

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thank you!

[@angelanelajuly2961]

I forget how dry it is there. I live in the rainforest. Everything grows moss molds and staff. And stays warm enough to let it grow forever.

[@edge7074]

I have a new chicken issue for you. About anweek ago I notices one of my americanas acting weird, moving slow. Watching her I noticed lits if times she bends over to get some food she spits out a watery liquid. Not sure what to do for her, she wants to eat, but she spits up lots of times when she trys. 🤔

[@BockBockBouquet]

Feel her crop, is it hard and full or is it empty? It should be filling up during the day and like a softball at night. In the morning check before they have eaten to see if it is empty as it should empty overnight. Is there an odor? Could be a sign of impacted or sour crop. Mucus coming from the mouth could also indicate respiratory illness if you notice other respiratory systems. Sorry your hen is not feeling well ❤️

[@edge7074]

@@BockBockBouquet it is soft as she has not eaten much lately, she hes started eating some lettuce this morning. But every 5th ir so times she puts her head down to puck something up, she throws up a bit of liquid. Quite a lot. I have her in a separate cage for her when the others seen her like that, they attacked her. So she is isolated. No odor. The one thing i can think of about a week ago i sprayed some heavy weeds on the property and maybe she got into it? She was fine before that. If so is there anything to do for her. She seems somewhat better than the lasf couple days.

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@edge7074 sorry we are just seeing this, how is she doing now? Did she recover?

[@edge7074]

@@BockBockBouquet no, I'm afraid not. She did briefly after I used the bullet food processor and powdered her food up and mixed it with water and fed it to her making her drink. She perked up and started drinking on her own and eating that day, but the following day she passed. The worst part is not know why she got that way all of the sudden.

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@edge7074 I’m so sorry for your loss ❤️ sometimes things are out of our control 😞

[@tammykaltreider]

Happy 4th of July weekend y’all 🇺🇸!

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks we hope you have a fun one!

[@sapper72783]

I was going to say I think I'd be more afraid of giant chickens but as I thought of that I remembered a time my ducks caught a bullfrog they all savagely attacked it.

[@BockBockBouquet]

I was thinking that too! Our ducks zoom around at night hunting beetles and it got me thinking what it must be like to be that beetle lol. They also catch flies mid air. They are probably much more terrifying if giant lol

[@veroyhijasl9088]

Hi i have a question i have a chick that is 3 months old but walks wobbly what can It be?

[@shawna4057]

What kind of rooster is Winston and Ozzy?

[@BockBockBouquet]

Winston is a Blue Laced Red Wyandotte. (Well technically a Splash Laced Red, but that’s still kinda a blue laced, just a lighter blue) and Ozzy is an Ayam Cemani 😊😊

[@shawna4057]

@@BockBockBouquet thank you for your response, they are very handsome :)

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@shawna4057 thank you!

[@Dsaf_fan_0w0]

ducks my ducks just hatched 🤗 I named it pico

[@Jeuxvids1]

Did you know that ducks should not be with chickens because ducks cause serious diseases to chickens especially for your rooster through water and excrement, They don't have to be with each other, Vet told me this, Good luck, Beautiful video

[@sapper72783]

I don't know I've had chickens and ducks together for almost a year and they've been pretty good since then.

[@michellemichael1676]

Our ducks and chickens share a run but not a coop. And the run is HUGE so the ducks stay by their pond and the chickens stay on their side where it is very dry. There have been no issues at all. From all the research I did, if you do it right, there isn't a problem.

[@BockBockBouquet]

Thanks for watching! I’ve always kept them both together since very young growing up on my parents farm and we’ve never had issues. I know many people have always kept them together, probably since the beginning of their domestication. I wouldn’t worry, maybe just good husbandry is key as we clean their ponds often. 😊

[@Jeuxvids1]

Chickens should not drink the same water with ducks, And all the places where ducks roam, chickens should not roam and eat any on that land, Chickens should not share with ducks land, water, food and they don't sleep together in the same place, This is all from my personal experience and the results of the tests I did At the doctors I went to because of the infected chicken, These diseases that take time to show symptoms, Most of them affect the digestive, reproductive and respiratory systems and in the cloaca functions, You can put with chicken all kinds of other birds such as Peafowl, Guinea Fowls, Turkeys and Quails, except Ducks and Goose keep them away, Anyone read my comment, I gave you this advice so that your chicken does not suffer what my chicken suffered before, And I put what Kelly or Ricardo said in parentheses, I shared my experience that's all , prevention is better than cure and I wish health and wellness to all 🐓❤️

[@BockBockBouquet]

@@Jeuxvids1 Aw I’m sorry something bad happened to you and your flock ❤️ we have been fortunate to never have a problem. (I wouldn’t want to raise quail and chicken together for risk of bullying and disease transmission as they are more susceptible and very tiny). Sometimes there is inherit risk in everything. We free range our flock and wild birds spread disease and they are exposed too, from sharing waterer. Weighing risk is hard at times, but such is life ❤️ thanks for your input and sharing

[@timschannel910]

Nice dress.

[@CC-fo7tr]

Niffler was on vacation

[@BockBockBouquet]

😂🦆

[@elspethrgray7154]

Today I learned only female ducks quack!

[@BockBockBouquet]

We just posted a full duck video today with a lot of information :)