Chickens are out of the coop for the first time

[@BeckyBaird-hs1ki]

Hi Pete! A fellow east Texan and loving all your expertise/words of wisdom. Thank you!

[@deanwa8581]

Chickens are so entertaining. I love my flock. I hatched out a dozen a month ago and need to get them in with the "general population" chickens down at the coop soon. My old girls aren't laying as much especially now with the time change and it has shorter daylight hours. With 9 hens and 2 roosters, it is now more of a hobby than for food production LOL The feed prices have really gone up in the last few months. I try to keep my barrels topped off so the feed will last a while. I really enjoy your videos. I used to live in East Texas and now I am in North Texas.

[@fayfaust5954]

I love my chickens and I love this video. I am also a Texan - South Central, I know what you mean about predators, hawks, owls, raccoons and possums I have them all and so I can't free range my chickens either. I often call my dogs and my chickens my therapists who keep me sane. I am 71 yrs old and live by myself and love animals and I talk to my dogs and chickens ALL the time - my neighbors think I'm nuts but they give me pleasure so I don;t give a tinkers damn. I love your videos so please keep them coming!

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you 👍

[@deloresochoa6235]

Thanks again Pete....my youngest great grand daughter went around all day saying, " I'm smiling from beak to beak!" lol! GOD bless you and your family.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

🤣👍

[@WeepingWillow422]

Lololol I think they like the coop you made them so much they don't want to go anywhere else. "Nope, we're good. We'll just hang out in here." I was having a bad day, but this made me smile. Thank you, I needed this today.

[@letsgrowtexas7391]

This was so cute to watch! Love their personalities!

[@WeepingWillow422]

I know, right?! Did you see how they were looking up at him, watching him like they were wondering what he was doing?

[@jeffcore7631]

Those neighboring roosters want to check out the new chicks in ‘person’ 🐥 🐓 you have a lot of patience I would of pushed a couple out the door

[@amsohn1]

Pete, they are looking great!! Love your set up. Thanks for sharing. Blessings

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you 👍

[@thehamlinwoodshop]

Great job with your chickens Pete. Thanks for the video!

[@eozen81]

Wow, those lucky chickens are on the run finally 😁 I understand them, I would NOT be too excited to leave my place if it was a like a kingdom ☺

[@deannalynne1626]

Absolutely love your channel! I was in the fight or flight mode for several months last year and in to this year, but the more homesteading channels I watch (and actually know that there never was or will be a country as great as the USA), you and several others have given me the calm, level headedness and gumption to make it work right here! It doesn't hurt being from Texas...we won't give up without a fight. We have two acres and although we are getting older, we still have some living and teaching to do to hopefully help future generations. Looking forward to building a greenhouse like yours except a little smaller. Is there anything you would change about it? Keep up the excellent videos!

[@PopleBackyardFarm]

chickens looking good

[@davidvelen9835]

Smiling from beak to beak :)

[@Yeshuaschosen]

So cute!

[@ritabrunetti381]

Hello Pete. Your chickies are looking good. Best of luck with your new hens!

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Hi Rita, Thank you so much.

[@ritabrunetti381]

Whenever you give Grub Terra, I think of my daughter's chickens. I've begun to but this product and it seems to be a great supplement. Though my daughter, Suzanne, tells me I'm spoiling the hens. No I'm not, my husband and I get some of these eggs and I want those hens to lay great eggs. They do. Nice large yolks. Thanks again for introducing me to Grub Terra. Be well.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

We've noticed that the hens are laying more eggs since we've been giving them Grub Terra.

[@Thewhiskeypour]

Yesterday was the first time in a week of having the coop open for mine chicks to come out. I took the food and water out of the coop

[@michaelbobbiharris2587]

Good video. Nice set up

[@stevendoul]

My chicks go outside when they sart to get feathers I got my chicks in March I couldn’t let them outside because of snow they are outside right now it is about 40 degrees and they are loving running around and eating grass u just have to get the chicks used to the cold weather

[@brendasas8440]

👍🐔yay a chicken video🐣

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

👍🙂

[@a1f1l65]

They are looking great ... You will have more eggs than you know what to do with soon!

[@Goby11]

Thank you for your video, it is very helpful. I was thinking to purchase same type of run you have and place small coop inside. But my only concern is that door radii create a gap for predators to get in. What's your thoughts on that? Racoon specifically.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

You should be fine because most of the predators come out at night when the chickens will be safe in the coop. The run will be mostly to protect them from hawks.

[@kimhuynh9763]

Hi Pete My chick and I need help. I’ve 9 chicks they are 5 weeks old. One of them is very sick, she’s a smallest one of them all. I feed them twice a day have enough water, what did I do wrong? The sick chick still alive laying but barely moving. I need help to save her please

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

It could be many things but here are some websites you can check to see what there symptoms are. poultrycaresunday.com/chicken-diseases/ www.ecopeanut.com/chicken-diseases/ morningchores.com/chicken-diseases/ I hope this helps.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

You should learn the Mother hen language for encouraging the chick and use it everytime you visit the chickens to check and to feed them. It's like getting untamed sheep to accept your call "sheep,sheep, sheep" or pigs by accept the call to follow with "pig, pig, pig." All associated with food. If you don't know what it sounds like, get a clucky hen to brood and hatch out some chickens and watch and listen ....and learn. The coop looks really good. Maybe there is only one rooster.

[@brucealvarez9263]

Figure closer to 22-26 weeks.

[@kar21ol96]

When you pointed to the fan, what was the fenced off area at the top?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

That was so they don't fly up in there and possible storage.

[@georgevillanueva2437]

Love your videos Pete. What breed of bird is your rooster?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you, the rooster is a blue Andalusian. He's very aggressive and the hens are too thin and lay medium sized white eggs only in the spring through fall. Not great meat birds or egg layers so thankfully I only have two of those hens.

[@lilyli2460]

No one refuses freedom unless they never tasted what is the freedom.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

👍

[@d.a.tsun5104]

I'm aware this comment is 1 year old and based on these cute chickies, but watching how we, humans, are now in the US, this statement should be revised: No one refuses freedom as much as those who live in freedom. Like Ayaan Hirsi Ali said, "(Americans) grew up in freedom, and you can spit on freedom because you don't know how it is not to have freedom." I came to the US 24 years ago from a country with 'democracy' and 'freedom' words being a flimsy concept. I learned the true meaning of them here along with the word 'independent/independence'. Lately, however, I see the walls closing in on us and sadly, most of you (my american born friends) don't even realize it. I'm sorry to rain on your comment. I love watching this channel too. Your comment stirs up this sadness in my heart for this country I now call mine, once a great country. I fear its future.

[@richandkristi]

I would love to know about your coop door. Got a link?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Here's the link to the Ladies first chicken door www.ladiesfirstchickendoor.com/

[@richandkristi]

Haha! I think you even said that but I thought you meant it as a description, like “babies first birthday” not a brand name.

[@lesliecard7083]

When will you add the one chicken who gets picked on? Forgot her name so she is not all alone anymore.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

We are thinking about putting Lilly back in with the original flock soon, but honestly I think she loves being alone because she's laying eggs almost everyday.

[@maxinedurling3425]

you should have put the older chicken in for a week she would have come out and they would have followed her

[@sheri023]

that's what I was thinking, too.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

I worried that my older chickens would pick on them or even kill them being that they are very small yet.

[@evelynrogers7145]

Funny

[@germanlily8133]

🌸🌿🌸🌿🌸💗💗💗👍

[@greenacresorganics7922]

I don't think you should have the chickens so close to the mature birds. Mature birds can carry diseases that can be devastating to growing chicks.

[@gedzila156]

If you want to teach chickens how to drink Bring a chicken that learns how to drink and put it with them