Feeding Time! What and When to Feed Your Chickens

Ashley rules the roost! She shows viewers what, how, and when to feed their avian friends. Learn more in Keeping Chickens with Ashley English, available April 2010.
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"VERDICT An excellent, straightforward how-to book for those who wish to have a solid understanding of what it takes to raise chickens successfully for egg production." - from the Library Journal review of Keeping Chickens with Ashley English.

[@angryagain68]

fyi. oyster shell is not for a chickens crop. It is for the calcium egg laying chickens need. Some say that the get plenty if you only feed them layer feed, but if you also free range, they need a calcium supliment. You can also crush up egg shells and recycle them to your birds. Chickens use small rocks in their crops for grinding their food up. You can purchase special grit "rock" at any feed store.

[@PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

great video, thanks for sharing

[@sewardsteve]

We have 5 chickens, they lay pretty much 5 eggs a day. They will kill for a meal worm but eat almost anything! They are an absolute joy and sooo easy to look after!

[@OurBucketListHasHoles]

Thank you for posting :-) Take care-Debbie

[@doylerhill]

Thanks! informative.

[@AussiePharmer]

Yes definitely. You can get 'poulets' or 'point-of-lay' chickens which means they are just about to lay eggs but haven't started yet. If you really want friendly birds that are very tame or have personality then get them earlier in life. Mine respond to 'girls' and know that it's feeding time. They also know when i am weeding the garden and wait to eat the salad. My favorites are Rhode Island Reds: quiet, very tame, and numerous large brown eggs. Good luck.

[@corneater23]

So cute.

[@CJFRANKS7]

Thanks :)

[@Wildirishmanbiker]

Nice vid, good healthy flock

[@angrynhpatriot]

now in the summer time...do they feed themselves or do you still feed them in the morning...and if you do feed in summer do you give them less?? thanks any info is appreciated

[@remoman]

I'm from Australia and out backyard ISA Brown's forage all day in the dirt for bugs, grubs etc.. how do the chickens forage in snow?

[@sickprojects]

Can you use mussel shells instead of oyster shells? I have 10 chickens which are 3 months old.

[@michaelweedmark2774]

nice birds, i plan on getting a malay!

[@isaacowusukusi7878]

Are layers and laying mash the same please help me.

[@xINVISIGOTHx]

1:32 what other color would yolk be?

[@shirleymae30]

I have heard somewhere to never feed chickens potato or potato peelings, that it could kill them, Is that true ???. Also, do you ever add a bit of vinegar to their water, to keep it from freezing ?. I am unsure of how much, and what type of vinegar to use ?.

[@MrArunn]

hey there i got some chickens, i'd like to know what breed the black chicken is at 0:36 i have the bantham version thanks

[@thelgharion]

i remember my grandpa grinding conch shells to powder and adding them to the chicken feed. never really knew why. i thought it was just to make the hens lay eggs with stronger shells.

[@francesg3304]

Egg yolk is yellow, but when hens are fed, or can eat greens, or carrots, for example, the yolks are darker yellow, or even orange, and taste much richer than the normal store-bought eggs. Buy some free-range or yard eggs, and the normal white eggs in your grocery store and compare.

[@MrBagginsEsq]

@MrArunn I think its an austrolorp.

[@jackiebarker4041]

Grit is not the same as oyster shell. No protein? Veggies are great but brown eggs have yellower yolks anyway

[@CJFRANKS7]

I'm thinking about getting chickens, but i don't want to get day old chicks or full grown chickens. Are they sold at an age betwen that?

[@rajivsporkslede7860]

That breed is Buf chickens. I have at home kelso chickens.

[@CockatielChicken]

it could be green?

[@yidish1]

how can i contact you about chickens

[@Benedict347]

a there institution that offer poultry scholarships that you may know..thanks

[@PabloEscobar-hd6mu]

I feed my chickens black soldier flys 1lb a day. Little of grapes little of rice and popcorn seed and or scraps they like to eat grass and roam around the yard eatin what ever they come across.

[@alexch3618]

my chickens used to eat locusts and centipedes and earwigs.

[@Animalshortening]

now this is more like it

[@HappyLifePet]

my pet chickens are picky eaters. they don't eat dried cracked corns we bought at the feed store. I think I spoiled them by giving them too much blueberries and breads!

[@joelcoxon4613]

I always feed my chickens pasta, rice and vegetables and they love it. Sometimes I give them some ham, as they always love a piece of ham.

[@janeDoe-ru2xy]

***** I don't even cook my oats, I just pour in a little hot tap water and stir it up, I don't leave hardly any extra water in the dish. By the time I get on my coat, boots and all and walk out to the hen house, it's cooled down to room temp or cooler and it's soft. I check to make sure it's cool enough before giving it to them.

[@PIGGYPUNCH]

+Joel Coxon I know right, they eat almost anything.

[@edwardgingerwillis7181]

Corn, Whole Oats, Black Sunflower Seeds. Oyster Shell, Grit and Mealworms . They need protein.

[@sallychandler2632]

No. They can break apart the veggies and then digest them in their gizzard (stomachs).

[@vahidm6119]

Where’s the meat?

[@treekopowergaming56]

my hens like corn

[@thelgharion]

wouldn't it be better to grind those carrots and vegetable stuffs/

[@corneater23]

She said it they don't you bring the food to them.

[@BrandonEvans10001]

U guys if they dont sell it at a store like tractor supply and they dont say its for chickens tgen dont feed it to them. Dont feed the morsell shells ir watever buy oyster shells for chickens at store.

[@bigdog7914]

Lizards, cheese, canned dog food, loves BBQ time!

[@jonathan.writes]

Those are probably the luckiest chicken in the world.

[@yawarabid]

u can change ur luck

[@yawarabid]

they r very happy

[@froglegs4910]

your music so lousy noise

[@globalufo4234]

Sponje bob music ? Lol. I wanna to kiss her face.

[@treekopowergaming56]

my hens like corn