Three things your chickens need to be healthy and have nutritious eggs

There are three things chickens need to be healthy and lay nutritious eggs.
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[@rogerknight2267]

Awesome video. I let my four red leghorns free range at least an hour or so every day. I hang out with them to keep the hawks off of them. True story. One day one of my girls came out from under my wood rack with a four inch moccasin in her mouth. The snake went through a very violent death. She walked around for hours with a snake tail hanging out of her mouth until she finally got it all down. I swear I thought I her her belch. LOL!!

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

😂👍

[@audreyvann5336]

Not as exciting, but a friend had a little drainage trench off a pasture running near her coop. The chickens would dig up crawfish to eat.

[@audreyvann5336]

My daughter loves digging up grubs for the chickens. We grew kale for them this year, and they get very excited when they see us heading over to pick some!

[@tx.beekeepinglady5274]

I will keep Kale in mind. Thanks for the tips.

[@jpage1331]

My chickie babies love kale 🥬 they tried to devour my plant.. 😂 I said well I know I have to keep them away from my kale.. 😂😂 and I was wondering about grubs.. I’m all the time digging up grubs and finding in my wood piles.. but wasn’t sure if they would/could eat them.. I have humongous Grubs around here too.. I have almost got the babies pen built.. and been taking them in and out daily.. man they get so excited when time to go outside.. it’s so funny.. they know the routine.. 😂 and if I’m slow to take them outside they let me know.. 😂😂 my chickie babies are spoiled.. ❤

[@TeresaO-PHD-Coach]

My ladies also love grass fed raw beef. We also give them all of our meat bones to pick clean and scrambled egg treats.

[@tanyaparker-callsign.kk7ic238]

New chicken owner much to learn got baby chickens Rhode Island Red new subscriber here✊🏾❤️❤️❤️✊🏾

[@monikas5125]

I’m in the process of getting chickens chickweed is growing all over here on my property so good to know that I can feed it to the chickens. Thank you

[@yvonne3850]

Thank you, I'm in the mood for some 🍳 all so. 🦋🌺💖

[@ronatwell5379]

I have raised chickens for years. And many breeds. May I put in my 2 cents worth? The only damage I have witnessed to my hens by roosters is the feathers being pulled from the back of their heads. All other feather loss on their back, tail, & vent area are from the hens picking them off and eating them. Once they get a taste for feathers, they can become voracious at feather pulling for their own consumption. And like your Lilly, once they have picked down to the skin and blood appears, then they go to town on picking at the bloody areas until you can have very deep wounds with large areas of skin missing. I just sold a hen this week who lost so much skin from her back that I wondered if it could even heal. Well she did heal and was a great layer for 3 years. I do have flocks now that seem to only pick off the ends of the feathers leaving birds with a fuzzy look. As they continue to pick at them, they start to get feathers pulled out of the skin and that's when the blood shows up. I think roosters get blamed way too much for rough looking hens. My 2 cents worth.

[@juanitabeaudoin2746]

I keep the shells of the eggs we use. Let them dry. Crush them. Coarse grind them. Mix with regular feed.

[@FrenchCountrysideLife]

Nice one Pete. We've got six Hens here in France . We can't get the grub terra here but instead I use dried mealworms. They love them. They free range here in the garden. Just today I saw one of them running around with a little toad in it's beak. Congratulations on the 100k subs. Well deserved.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you 👍

[@ronshook5194]

Thank You, and the CHICKENS of the World THANK YOU. So many new CHICKEN owners,.... need to learn today.... new subscriber.... 72, retired zoo keeper, GREAT advice.... very cold here, no natural greens till spring, snow , ice, still on ground.... I have to buy , kale, cabbage, sprout seeds.... Etc. I have over 200birds,from TINY SERAMA to LG WYANDOTTES, Buckeys.... getting some blue Australorps. In May. All the best to you... really like your set up.! Here in the Adirondack mountains of upstate N.Y.... heavy snow, ice.... TOTALLY different management issues.... very cold winter... this winter this yr. Many days below freezing some below 0 F.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you 👍

[@lovenotes5299]

They sell wheat seeds you can grow fodder for your chickens inside

[@MA-mh1vs]

I added rabbit pellets to my chicken feed, they seem to really like it and it is a way to add some greens even in the winter. I am thinking on breeding meal worms for both the eating of kitchen scraps, using their poop as fertilizer and food for the chickens.

[@ScottyJohnson17]

Hey Pete, I was born and raised in Nacogdoches. Don't know where you are, but if you are in East Texas you probably have heard of Nacogdoches. I just found your channel. When I was a child, we had 4 chicken houses with 14,000 chickens in each one. It was a commercial project. Lots of work. Probably not the love factor that you obviously employ with your operation. Looks like you have some mighty fine laying hens there.

[@KajunHomestead]

Great looking chickens, I love raising chickens and love the fresh eggs.

[@FireDude13]

You are a wealth of knowledge Pete! thanks for sharing! I'm behind on your vids... need to get caught up!

[@kennethhuff7158]

I save and toast my egg shells crunch them up and mix with my feed the girls and boys love it.

[@ritabrunetti381]

Hello Pete. The chickens look healthy and now that Spring is here, more eggs to enjoy!! Be well.

[@shahedayeasmeen8089]

I have been buying chicken scratch and chicken crumbles and mix them together. Some said chicken scratch is not enough. I give the chicken mealworms. I may buy the grub terra next time. I am new in raising chickens. But I will definitely grow the chickweed too. Thank you for your tips.

[@bbtruth2161]

Greens, scratch and larvae .... exactly what mine get fed. Two of which are hard to come by in winter in MN, but I make sure they get them. And they will mess up a mouse in a hurry. My ladies get a little beat up sometimes too, they usually sort it out and back to good after a bit.

[@genehunsinger3981]

I like the fact that you seen fit to name your chicken. LOL.It's cool,besides,,,they have personality.KEEP teaching us,and thanks.

[@darrenlewis7001]

Great to know about the chickweed. I have a lot of it growing around me..

[@rebelstudio2493]

Chickens looove pak choi too. It turns the yolks and dork yellow color also.

[@typolive8663]

Thank you! We found it very helpful 🙂God Bless🙏🏼

[@georgep9052]

Great video as always. One concern though. The Australorp hens look like they are in a really bad shape. You might start losing hens due to injuries. Relocate the red hen to the Australop flock (during the night) and put in that coop the extra roosters until you cull them.

[@kathyreese4052]

I agree. Those roosters are far too rough on those hens.

[@andrewdaly9503]

Blue light electric shock bug zapper with added bug attractant placed in the coop will keep them very busy and entertained, I also have one over my fish pond.

[@winniecash1654]

I thought about getting a zapper and I'm glad to come across your comment. After the bugs are zapped they fall to the ground? And, do you have it just inside the coop or do you also put one outside? I was worried about killing the good bugs, like bees. I don't know if the zapper attracts the good and bad bugs. And what about flies? Is it safe for chickens to eat flies?

[@ColRubyDimplesManacha]

My silkies pitch fits over chickweed, they love it!

[@lauramorgan2003]

Thank you for the information

[@MA-mh1vs]

Look into chicken saddles. They protect the hens backs from the roosters. I have used them with good success on hens who needed some time to heal. That way you do not need to separate the hen.

[@SchoolLCB]

Pete there's probably a hen or a rooster that are they picking the feathers of one of your rooster. I would put him alone for a while until he grow his feathers back.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Yeah I noticed the naked rooster too.

[@centraltexashomestead-mike4956]

Great site Pete!!!!!! We just got ours started. Mike.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Awesome thank you 👍

[@mister-action1]

You can grind up the shells and mix them with some scrambled eggs. Good calcium that way to.

[@stevebillow395]

We are lucky to free range our birds so far. If it rains I keep them cooped up because they dig worse than hogs and then my dogs help them dig and really makes a mess

[@garywilson473]

TY

[@markengelson9051]

Ya those poor girls. We don't have any roosters, just egg layers and we do a mixture of wild bird seed, layer crumble and give them dried meal worms, sometimes the fly larvae

[@reneec9947]

That's good to know, we have plenty of chickweed here! Thank you :)

[@christineortmann359]

It grows in several different places here in Illinois in our yard- I let it grow all year long for chicken treats

[@abderrahimelalami6708]

does it grow in snow too?

[@libraryladydi]

Re, your single lady. Give her one friend. After a few days add another. Do this up to 5/6. Then try sending them to flock and switching them for a different group of 5/6 for a few days. Return those to the flock.

[@skipdegraff6547]

I'd totally put wheels on that shed and move it around the yard. Wheel 8 inch to a pivot bolt and then about a 6 ft 2x4 fir leverage lift up tire goes down and roll on bro

[@skipdegraff6547]

I did a 16x8 chicken tractor Skip DeGraff on KZbin

[@d.j.robinson9424]

Another great video Pete, always good information. Have you ever considered a small composting worm bed, I know they go crazy for them .? 👍👍💚🐔🐔💛

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Yep, thought about that👍

[@spoonnwithsunshinehomestead]

Great video for us beginners. Thanks for sharing 👍🏼

[@TheGoodHeart1000]

Excellent video!

[@ghostridergale]

Chickens will eat gardener snakes too! Funniest thing I ever seen! I was working out on the field and happen to come across a smaller gardener snake under some taller weeds I was pulling up. Before I could do anything one of my chickens eagle eyed that snake and snatched it up and ran off with it in the blink of a eye with the snake wiggling around on each side of her beak! Then the other chickens noticed what the hen had and they all went after the hen with the snake wanting a share too! Never seen that snake again! Sure surprised me though! 😂

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

Yeah, not only my chickens, my rabbits and goats love it, matter of fact I do too. I nibble on it almost daily and even include it in salads. I've had to separate and re-introduce hens. What worked for me was to take the top dog (one) hen and put it in with it and let them get to like each other, then add another hen and then another until when I re-introduced them there were several instead of just one. Yeah they all fuss for a while but they usually end up with a different pecking order and usually fixes the problem.

[@michelleschweizer9000]

Nice dogs!

[@gunnyd9282]

They'll fight over the small lizards!

[@McA48]

Great stuff

[@noahriding5780]

If chickens or ducks can't produce eggs on a laying mash from a mill, what is the likelihood that the mill is cheating with watering down the feed? Thanks. Your video was very helpful. And the very red yolks in the eggs looked good.

[@pamcarter6595]

Very nice..

[@garyb4929]

Great video. My chickens free range about 80% of their time. We do still throw some stuff in pen. The ducks love most same stuff & quail really like fresh cut grass. I had noticed also, that the birds will avoid some insects.

[@SamYamn]

greens(chickweed), seeds and bugs = bright orange yolk filled with nutrients.

[@alexmunoz4809]

Delicioso que son los omelets with those fresh eggs

[@claytonmorris6669]

What do u feed your chickens in winter to keep them laying eggs

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

We just feed them egg layer feed all the time. There's really not much you can do to make them lay more eggs in the winter but maybe add a light in the coop on a timer to lengthen their day light.

[@kathyreese4052]

Yes, they are omnivores! Kudos to you, best eggs ever 👍

[@rickydowell4195]

Need to get rid of some of those roosters. They will team up on a specific hen and do a number on her. The backs of the hen will get bald and get tore up from them mating. They can kill the hen from that

[@Olatunji_homesteady]

Nice job 👍

[@ghostridergale]

You weren’t kidding when you said you have chickens! LOL I have 42 chickens myself and that’s plenty for me! Although my chickens do have a mind of their own and decide to go and hide and have baby chicks from time to time and they show back up with anywhere from 3 to 12 baby chicks in tow! So the chicken population does increase whether you want it to or not sometimes! 😂

[@ndush1ndush]

We also talk to our chickens & give them names...

[@jeffcore7631]

Hey Pete what do you do with your egg shells? Mulch? Chicken food?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

We smash them up and either throw them in the compost pile or just put them in the garden soil when I'm tilling.

[@reneebrown2968]

I'm wondering why you don't build a inclosure over your beds so you're chickens can eat right from the plants and fertilize at the same time. It would be easy to keep them in or out depending on what time of season it is. It will make your life easier. No till, the chickens will do it for you.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

That chick weed grows good here in Florida you can also eat it yourself so to the black soldier flies…

[@SK-nd7db]

I love your videos! How many acres do you have? My husband & I hope to get a small house in the country, but I wonder are we too old now. We're in our mid-60's but we're pretty healthy.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

You're not old, you guys are only 5 years or so older than me. We have 20 acres but I only manage a few acres around the house and garden. The rest I cut with my tractor brush hog. I would urge you guys to find a clean comfortable house you can manage on at least three to five acres minimum and start a serious garden and a few chickens.

[@SK-nd7db]

Thanks so much Pete! That's the nicest compliment I ever got! You've given us motivation to start our homestead, as opposed to others that said we were too old! THANK YOU!

[@thisorthat7626]

@S K, I second Pete's advice and would like to add that one thing people aren't considering is when you are working on a farm, you are getting plenty of exercise and spending time outdoors. Both are very good to help improve our health. Eating a diet of home grown veggies, fresh eggs, and breathing clean air will help keep you young far better than prescription drugs. Having a reason to get up in the morning (got to feed the chickens), and a sense of satisfaction that you are adding value to the world, also improves one's health. There are so many reasons you will enjoy country living as long as you pace yourself. Go for it and enjoy your life. Blessings.

[@rebeccalwood5785]

I am 73 and Hubby is 81. We have 14 chickens and they keep us up and around. Just educate yourselves a bit so it isn't harder than it has to be. You can appreciate the different personalities and antics that they provide for your environment.

[@katrinawoody6268]

Which breed of chicken I would like to know has the quietest rooster I would love my hands to hatch out their own babies however where I live I cannot have an extremely loud rooster

[@issuesthatmatter2825]

How well does this work in Wisconsin? I keep seeing alot of homestead channels but most are not in my climate.

[@bobbradham8740]

Where do you get the stellaria media seeds? I have not found a good source.

[@nicholasnapier2684]

Just take a pair of pliers you can get it off just like the nail on you grow back on them you just take the old spur off.. Difference we clip our nails..

[@ilsedejong3816]

Awesome Pete. B. Thank-you for your advice and God Bless you and Your family! XxxX

[@oneofakind5668]

So would it help if we cut the sharp ends off roosters' claws like we do dogs and cats to help prevent the damage to the hens backs?

[@SK-nd7db]

You look so young! I thought you were in your early 40's!

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Thank you 😊

[@markcroucher3977]

So Pete, you don't feed layer pellets or crumbles?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Yes I do feed them their regular layer pellets as their base, but everything else I mentioned is extra for them.

[@codymadison9993]

What’s a good chicken breed for NY where it gets very cold in winter?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

There are many. Make sure they are a dual purpose chicken because they are usually fatter and have better feather coverage. Black Australorps, Rhode Island reds, barred Rock, but my favorite is the black Australorps because they lay lots of eggs. Also as long as they stay out of the wind in a coop, they'll be good.

[@codymadison9993]

@@petebeasttexashomesteading Awesome! Thanks so much for the info.

[@jessalynncarnes5489]

My first batch of chickens were all babies-only 5. 3 were Roosters and 2 were hens. It was bad. One day I found on of my hens dead while roosting at night…I think she was mated to death. 😢. So I did some research and found to prevent this problem, you should only have 1 rooster for every 10 hens. They will be well protected from predators, but not over-mated. Any extra roosters should be slaughtered and put on the dinner table.

[@juliebarnett9812]

Other than Lilly, do the different sections of chickens mean something??

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

No, I just want to keep the breeds separate for now.

[@juliebarnett9812]

@@petebeasttexashomesteading Cool, that makes sense. Thanks! God bless.

[@SamYamn]

1:49 that audio transition thoug.

[@bigwooly8014]

I've also seen my chickens eat a small snake.

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

chickens need gravel and or oyster shells that is very important to grind up there food. they will also eat small snakes. that's one of the reasons i love'm lol

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Yep, I have grit and oyster shell in the coop they peck at too.

[@lonigirl8807]

How often do you give them oyster shells?

[@PRINCESSDREAMYLYN]

@@lonigirl8807 I usually keep a dish in a dry location in the coop as well as sprinkle in their pen. i also buy natural fish aquarium gravel in different sizes because it's been cleaned and sprinkle in an area for them to find as they peck around. baby chicks i offer grit i give my Cockatiels. they decide when they need it and offering them verity seems to work well for me.

[@BADEB58]

Qualcosa a cui ho pensato per molto tempo. Non potreste ingrandire il parco dei vostri polli installando dei grandi rettangoli di terra supplementari, davanti e sul lato della loro gabbia, circondati da una rete metallica e ricoperti da reti utilizzate a tal fine per i predatori provenienti dal cielo? Questo darà molta più libertà ai polli che non possono godersi il vostro grande spazio purtroppo. Forse ci avete già pensato e c'è qualcosa che non vedo, ma vi do comunque questa suggestione, se me lo permettete. Grazie ancora per tutti i tuoi video. Mi sto divertendo molto a guardarli.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Nel futuro, potrei mettere reti per uccelli intorno all'area in modo che i falchi non uccidano i miei polli se decido di liberarli.

[@noahriding5780]

For the separated chicken, maybe you can use that one as your breeder hen to be broody on eggs? That's the most efficient thing to do... I mean she's already separate right? So why not?

[@mimi27513]

In my experience you can’t make a hen go broody. They either want to or they don’t.

[@rebeccalwood5785]

A broody hen can stop eating to keep the eggs warm and rotated. That is why broody poop smells so bad and so large a pile. I have seen mine double team the nest so each can have a meal and rest up until her next turn.

[@mimi27513]

@@rebeccalwood5785 they are amazing. My broody hen put a bad egg out of her nest. It was either stepped on or just not developing, but she put it out front. I put food near my broody hen. I have water, too, just not close to the nest. She wouldn’t want that water near her eggs.

[@tonij9089]

Where did you order/buy your runs from?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

It's in the description under the video but I'll put my affiliate link here. amzn.to/355WHjE

[@52msdiane]

Where do I get chickweed? Never heard of it? Only for ckn food? Thx! 😀

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

It grows wild here in the winter and early spring in east Texas. You can also order it online and plant it in the cooler months. It is very nutritious and you can add it to your salad.

[@52msdiane]

@@petebeasttexashomesteading thanks!

[@dillmanfamily7207]

what feed brand do you recommend? :)

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

I use organic chicken feed from tractor supply. We use Nature's best organic starter/grower crumbles for the chic's

[@stevetranCA]

Do sell your eggs for hatching?

[@patrapper7367]

Video starts at 3:39

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

Ps...what breed are the black hens that layed the basket of eggs?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Black Australorps

[@vladimirpopovic8136]

What breed is that, Australorp?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Australian breeders developed the Australorps from Black Orpingtons. They kept the excellent egg-laying trait of the Orpington and mixed in features from the Rhode Island Red, White Leghorn, and heritage breed chickens, including the Minorca and Langhsan.

[@ceepark114]

I can't believe you grow chick weed as a cover crop! We have that as a terrible weed here in WA. If you don't get every root and leaf out it will grow back. Our chickens free range half the day but still need scratch and layer feed.

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Here chickweed only grows in the late winter and early spring. So it works out nice.

[@freedomring3022]

food, water and adeqaute shelter. Those are the only 3 things you need. I have been raising chickens for over a decade. Anything beyond that are extras. Nothing wrong with it if you enjoy doing it, but don't over think this. They are birds.

[@paulsoutbackgardenaustrali7674]

R live mealworms any good 4 them..??🤔

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

yes but not as much calcium as the Grubterra black soldier larva.

[@colleenrodamer9497]

Did u grow ur chick weed from seed? If so where did u get it

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

You can buy it on online but mine came in with the horse manure I used. Only grows here in late winter and early spring temperature.

[@peggytuma9734]

why do you have so many pins for your chickens?

[@evelynrogers7145]

Get them hen saddles to protect them from the roosters

[@killahk94]

Mine ate a frog the other day

[@brendadoherty3060]

Get aprons for your hens

[@PineGeri]

They need grit too

[@aaronfoodie3916]

We dispatched our rooster. Was misgendered as a chick never wanted one. It hurt our fav hen bad, sliced her down to the bone on her side, shes fine now. Wasnt going to let that happen again, even tho he was handsome

[@oneofakind5668]

You said they occasionally eat a mouse, lol try eating their own, eating snakes and any other meat they can get hold of, they also love stealing my dogs bones and pick meat over grain any day, the only thing they won't eat is fish.

[@LisaG442]

The rooster is calling his ladies to come eat I heard K2 in the diet transfers to the eggs which is beneficial to human’s health

[@highbrass7777]

So you do not need to give them mineral?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

Minerals are in the feed they eat. I do have a tray of crushed oyster shells set out for them to have a little extra calcium for the hens.

[@besirago8544]

What is chick weed?

[@laven111]

How do you deal with fire ants. ?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

I usually stomp on the mounds or use a hose and flood the mound and they move to a different location. I haven't had a problem with them near the chicken runs.

[@mlw8998]

Chickens are carnivores. Some are better at catching mice than cats are. Nice vid.

[@PineGeri]

Why is one bird isolated from the others?

[@petebeasttexashomesteading]

It was beat up by the other chickens real bad.

[@PineGeri]

@@petebeasttexashomesteading poor little fluffy butt. Am getting chickens this fall…need to do coop/hen house first. Am in Az, 5600’ elevation not desert…P.S. am from Amarillo! 🌹

[@gingerparr277]

If a chicken sees blood on another chicken they continue to peck at that blood and eventually kill that chicken, so to save its life it’s Necessary to isolate it until it heals