"Vegetarian chickens" Funniest phrase I've ever heard. I started with 6 and was up to 74 at my highest and STILL had more customers than eggs. I currently have 11 hens and give away my excess to our low income patients with children at home. In these hard times, we need to help each other out. One small suggestion - you might want to crush your eggshells before adding them to the compost pile. Easier to break down, easier for chickens to eat, & doesn't teach them to eat their own eggs as soon as they lay them.
Stick those eggshells on a baking sheet right next to the eggs. Let them cool, toss them in the blender to break them up really well and feed them back to the chickens as well.
I've saved shells in the freezer until I've enough to fill the dehydrator. I run them through a spice grinder and jar them until I get ready for the garden. Only have a quart and a pint jar of ground shells so far, and six dozen will fit into a pint jar. We've been recycling everything back into the animals as we can.
We sell by the dozen to our local feed store. I had 8 hens, 8 roosters, and just added 20 pullets. Soon spring will hit & a art will be out front with for sale eggs. We'll see how it goes. Since Christmas 8 hens produced 360 eggs through NY winter not too shabby.
You always have great information in your videos. When considering number of chickens, you also have consider that hens will typically only lay eggs for 2-1/2 - 3 years but they live for 7-9 years. In order to have constant egg production, you have to add to your flock every other year. From the time that a chick is hatched to when it finally starts producing eggs is about 6-8 months depending on the breed. When we initially planned for our flock, we had no idea how many roosters we would end up so we had to create a plan to house the roosters.
I'm a single person household, & I have TWENTY hens & 3 roosters.... AND... 3 turkeys.... AND...3 pot belly pigs (not by choice, I "inherited" them from irresponsible neighbors). Oh, & I have 2 dogs & TWELVE cats (most a product of another neighbor that moved & abandoned about 25 ferals, which over a period of time I was able to catch them & get them spayed or neutered, & home kittens in between... which I still feed).
@@nilasspasov8417 Awww, well thank you. It's not easy, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I can't stand to see anything go hungry or be hurt...or even scared for that matter. It's my mission in life, I suppose... LOL. Thank you for the kind words. 🙂
@@SandyJBerry No, this is not only "kind words", this is totally admiration what you do .How many people can say : It is my mission in life. So, yes, you are symbol of love , nature and humanity . Angel of the world !!! We need them all over the planet !!! Thank you!!!!
Love your guys channel! We have 20 hens and bought 16 chicks from Family Farm and Home. Hoping we have a surplus of eggs to bless family and friends with and sell a little when we can. Sorry about your chicken, btw! It's always hard to lose one from your flock.
My husband & I have 14 chickens...We average 10 eggs per day...5 to 6 dozen per week...I dehydrate & powder 4 dozen per week & store in a vacuum sealed qt jar for hard times.
However many I have....that's how many is too much LOL. I have four coops, a heated shed for my micro bantams, and several bantam house chickens. Somewhere around 100, so I think your kid was spot on! Chicken math is REAL! 😆
I am also a family of 1, broke my R leg on the ice just a few weeks ago....does make it fun to get out to the coops. JK I have 9 hens & 1 rooster. & I have 4 ducks. I spoil them, but feel bad that I can't get them out for play time with my broken leg. I share with my neighbors, Colorado Mountain dogs who are both over 100 pds. & my cat. Thank you for the video.... very inciteful!
Your right on chicken math istarted wit 5 🐥 added 3 more n in 10days im get a roo some hens goin across tha state drop off n start up my own again when I return jijijiji
What is the purpose of adding rosemary amd rep pepper to their feed? I can see the nutritional yeast as a supplement. Are the herbs for antibacterial properties?
Rosemary, I have researched is a natural antibacterial & red pepper helps clear phlegm or keep chicken passage clear. A tiny dash of cayenne to their food does the same.
I have 50 between two coops. Making changes this season to breeds I keep. Will be selling my 4 Brahmas ( roo and 3 hens). Will also reduce the ISA's I have and get rid of the Buff orpingtons (1 roo and 3 hens). By summers end my flock will be all French copper marans in one coop, and a few ISA's with Bresse in the other. Pretty much going to streamline what I have. Bresse for meat/eggs/chick sales and the french copper marans for eggs/chick sales. I enjoy my chickens but the "mix" is no fun if you want to keep genetics clean and be a more self sustaining flock. I will only keep 1 roo in each coop here on out, and I will keep a spare each roo in a third coop that is portable and winterizeable. Eggs sold to eat, are not enough to hardly cover the feed, so selling chicks/pullets will at least make the flocks a little more profitable. At least now at this point, selling hens brings you a couple extra bucks over what you have into them. So selling down the flock won't be as painful.
When I first heard the term chicken math, I thought the person was talking about real math, like space needed for chickens and how much food they eat etc. I about fell over laughing when I found out what it really was. I know I'm very susceptible to that happening to me.
I had 4 hens but I want more hens to produce more eggs so I ordered 8 one day old chick last week ( I thought I ordered 6 but it was 8 😂 ) then I just ordered 6 hatching eggs a few days ago 😅 because I think we need a rooster😂😂😂
Well, it all starts out innocently when you first get one. Then you get another one so they can entertain each other while youre out with your daily job or in school, then somehow 4 more get added in. Then one day, youre screaming on Animal Cops, shouting "dont take mah bay-bies! These 27 angels is all I got!".
Chicken math is real!!! Our household is only 2 adults and 2 teenagers. I added more hens a month ago. My wife confronted me about it… “you realize we have 10 chickens now right?”. Uh, yes… I can count to ten. Then she said “you realize that’s potentially 70 eggs per week right?” Uh… well… I didn’t think about it that way 😂 Oh well, there are plenty of neighbors who appreciate excess eggs 😎
There is no such thing as too many chickens. 🤣 Back when my kids would show chickens we could have 200 birds. That was usually just during the hatching season. Last few years I have been keeping 20 to 25. This spring I am trying a new breed. Already got two orders of 25 chick’s each order and have a third order coming this month. All from different breeders. They are straight run and I can tell so far it’s about 50/50. They are a duel purpose breed so all the extra roosters will be going in the freezer. Hoping to have at least 30 birds from the new ones when all the culling is done. 🐣🐥🐣
I love the coment you can never have to many chickens! I started with 25 meat birds and 10 hens. Then the chicken math hit me square in the face! I went to bed one night and woke up to 6 ducks, 11 turkeys and countless other chickens. Best I can tell I probably have at least 300 or a little more. Of these I would say 100 to 150 are meat birds. They are all young still so I don't have any eggs yet. Turkeys are my favorite!
I want 5 or 6. But not ones that must lay daily. If they lay 2 or 3 a week, will b enough for me & dad & I'll have a pretty flock. Want them mostly fir therapy
@@AcresOfAdventure yes. Fortunately we are on ministry property and cannot go too overboard. However, I have 22 eggs in the incubator now. Some are experimental!!! We have 12 hens and 2 roosters right now. All Brahmas. Plus one Cornish cross hen. Those are the experimental eggs. Mwahahahaha!
Chicken math is my malignancy in multiplication only. I’ll never tell how many of those beautiful creatures scratch and peck around my property because the government doesn’t need to know that, lol. I have no need for pesticides or antidepressants and probably won’t have much grass to mow! Crazy chicken lady? I am a certifiable basket case. I have one rooster who attacks my dog and another who appears out of nowhere to rescue her! Not only will that one never be eaten, I may even buy him a headstone!
Let me know in the comments how many chickens you own or wish to own! We have 14😁 Also do you believe in chicken math?
Approximately 135. That Chicken math will get ya! 😂🤦🏼♂️🤷♂️
70 down from 100 after some die off and predator attack, eyeing a move to 500 or 1000! How's that for chicken math
We went from 20 to 40 to 55 within less than a year. AND we are talking about getting 20 more 😂
Currently have 4, but feeling the chicken math!
"Vegetarian chickens" Funniest phrase I've ever heard. I started with 6 and was up to 74 at my highest and STILL had more customers than eggs. I currently have 11 hens and give away my excess to our low income patients with children at home. In these hard times, we need to help each other out. One small suggestion - you might want to crush your eggshells before adding them to the compost pile. Easier to break down, easier for chickens to eat, & doesn't teach them to eat their own eggs as soon as they lay them.
Thank you Lori, we are bad at taking the time to crush them down but we should!
Stick those eggshells on a baking sheet right next to the eggs. Let them cool, toss them in the blender to break them up really well and feed them back to the chickens as well.
Great tip!
Chickens, the pet that poops breakfast! Fun video, thank you! Mike
I've saved shells in the freezer until I've enough to fill the dehydrator. I run them through a spice grinder and jar them until I get ready for the garden. Only have a quart and a pint jar of ground shells so far, and six dozen will fit into a pint jar. We've been recycling everything back into the animals as we can.
That is a great idea!! We night start doing that too for the garden.
We sell by the dozen to our local feed store. I had 8 hens, 8 roosters, and just added 20 pullets. Soon spring will hit & a art will be out front with for sale eggs. We'll see how it goes. Since Christmas 8 hens produced 360 eggs through NY winter not too shabby.
That's what I do with my extra eggs (after giving away to those that I give to)... except that I usually boil mine & crush them up, shell & all. 🙂
I bet the chickens would love it that way!
I love your channel! Chicken math is real!!! We have 12 and want more. We feed the eggs to other animals too!!
You always have great information in your videos. When considering number of chickens, you also have consider that hens will typically only lay eggs for 2-1/2 - 3 years but they live for 7-9 years. In order to have constant egg production, you have to add to your flock every other year. From the time that a chick is hatched to when it finally starts producing eggs is about 6-8 months depending on the breed. When we initially planned for our flock, we had no idea how many roosters we would end up so we had to create a plan to house the roosters.
You can crush up the eggshells and give them back to the chickens or feed him to the pigs are good for them to
You can never have enough hens. Picking up some red pullets next week to add to my legbars.
Oh, your chickens are so beautiful ❤️
Thank you Teri!
@@AcresOfAdventure you're welcome 🤗. So, for you guys, what was first, the 🐔? or the 🥚?? 😆
I'm a single person household, & I have TWENTY hens & 3 roosters.... AND... 3 turkeys.... AND...3 pot belly pigs (not by choice, I "inherited" them from irresponsible neighbors). Oh, & I have 2 dogs & TWELVE cats (most a product of another neighbor that moved & abandoned about 25 ferals, which over a period of time I was able to catch them & get them spayed or neutered, & home kittens in between... which I still feed).
You are an Angel in this world. How do you menage to keep this small "zoo" in a single person household ? BIG LOVE to you!!!! And GOLD MEDAL !!!!
@@nilasspasov8417 Awww, well thank you. It's not easy, but ya gotta do what ya gotta do. I can't stand to see anything go hungry or be hurt...or even scared for that matter. It's my mission in life, I suppose... LOL. Thank you for the kind words. 🙂
@@SandyJBerry No, this is not only "kind words", this is totally admiration what you do .How many people can say : It is my mission in life. So, yes, you are symbol
of love , nature and humanity . Angel of the world !!! We need them all over the planet !!! Thank you!!!!
Love your guys channel! We have 20 hens and bought 16 chicks from Family Farm and Home. Hoping we have a surplus of eggs to bless family and friends with and sell a little when we can.
Sorry about your chicken, btw! It's always hard to lose one from your flock.
Ur chickens are lucky they have a huge run! It would be cool to plant some shrubs and fruit trees in there with them!! A little chicken forest lol
My husband & I have 14 chickens...We average 10 eggs per day...5 to 6 dozen per week...I dehydrate & powder 4 dozen per week & store in a vacuum sealed qt jar for hard times.
Depending on your storage space you could preserve them. I think it's called water glassing.
I have a hen sitting on 6 and the flock is 12 hens and a rooster. Just got to have those baby chicks in the spring…lol
We have 18 in an incubator right now😁
However many I have....that's how many is too much LOL. I have four coops, a heated shed for my micro bantams, and several bantam house chickens. Somewhere around 100, so I think your kid was spot on! Chicken math is REAL! 😆
I am also a family of 1, broke my R leg on the ice just a few weeks ago....does make it fun to get out to the coops. JK
I have 9 hens & 1 rooster. & I have 4 ducks. I spoil them, but feel bad that I can't get them out for play time with my broken leg.
I share with my neighbors, Colorado Mountain dogs who are both over 100 pds. & my cat.
Thank you for the video.... very inciteful!
I have done this before!!! They love it!!
Another great video, we just picked up 4 this Saturday.
Awesome!!
What happen winter time do you have use heat?
Where you get the chicken to buy?
Where did you buy the incubator?
Your right on chicken math istarted wit 5 🐥 added 3 more n in 10days im get a roo some hens goin across tha state drop off n start up my own again when I return jijijiji
We have a bakers dozen laying hens. 1 rooster. 1 peacock, and sadly no more turkeys 😢
Chicken math is real!!! And I'm guilty!!! 😳
What is the purpose of adding rosemary amd rep pepper to their feed? I can see the nutritional yeast as a supplement. Are the herbs for antibacterial properties?
Rosemary, I have researched is a natural antibacterial & red pepper helps clear phlegm or keep chicken passage clear. A tiny dash of cayenne to their food does the same.
mine are only a few weeks old, waiting for my first eggs for sure...
I have 50 between two coops. Making changes this season to breeds I keep. Will be selling my 4 Brahmas ( roo and 3 hens). Will also reduce the ISA's I have and get rid of the Buff orpingtons (1 roo and 3 hens). By summers end my flock will be all French copper marans in one coop, and a few ISA's with Bresse in the other. Pretty much going to streamline what I have. Bresse for meat/eggs/chick sales and the french copper marans for eggs/chick sales.
I enjoy my chickens but the "mix" is no fun if you want to keep genetics clean and be a more self sustaining flock. I will only keep 1 roo in each coop here on out, and I will keep a spare each roo in a third coop that is portable and winterizeable.
Eggs sold to eat, are not enough to hardly cover the feed, so selling chicks/pullets will at least make the flocks a little more profitable. At least now at this point, selling hens brings you a couple extra bucks over what you have into them. So selling down the flock won't be as painful.
Love this video. Have 14 and just ordered 10 more! 😂
When I first heard the term chicken math, I thought the person was talking about real math, like space needed for chickens and how much food they eat etc. I about fell over laughing when I found out what it really was. I know I'm very susceptible to that happening to me.
I had 4 hens but I want more hens to produce more eggs so I ordered 8 one day old chick last week ( I thought I ordered 6 but it was 8 😂 ) then I just ordered 6 hatching eggs a few days ago 😅 because I think we need a rooster😂😂😂
Well, it all starts out innocently when you first get one. Then you get another one so they can entertain each other while youre out with your daily job or in school, then somehow 4 more get added in. Then one day, youre screaming on Animal Cops, shouting "dont take mah bay-bies! These 27 angels is all I got!".
I started with 8 and now I have 57 😂😂 chicken Math is a real thing.
Chicken math is real!!!
Our household is only 2 adults and 2 teenagers. I added more hens a month ago. My wife confronted me about it… “you realize we have 10 chickens now right?”. Uh, yes… I can count to ten. Then she said “you realize that’s potentially 70 eggs per week right?” Uh… well… I didn’t think about it that way 😂
Oh well, there are plenty of neighbors who appreciate excess eggs 😎
what kind of pigs do you have
There is no such thing as too many chickens. 🤣 Back when my kids would show chickens we could have 200 birds. That was usually just during the hatching season. Last few years I have been keeping 20 to 25. This spring I am trying a new breed. Already got two orders of 25 chick’s each order and have a third order coming this month. All from different breeders. They are straight run and I can tell so far it’s about 50/50. They are a duel purpose breed so all the extra roosters will be going in the freezer. Hoping to have at least 30 birds from the new ones when all the culling is done. 🐣🐥🐣
I love the coment you can never have to many chickens! I started with 25 meat birds and 10 hens. Then the chicken math hit me square in the face! I went to bed one night and woke up to 6 ducks, 11 turkeys and countless other chickens. Best I can tell I probably have at least 300 or a little more. Of these I would say 100 to 150 are meat birds. They are all young still so I don't have any eggs yet. Turkeys are my favorite!
Eggs last 4 months. In the fridge maybe more. Save for winter instead
We’ve water glasses some before but right now we sell extra ones just to get money back for feed
Pickled eggs, freeze eggs,
Those are good ideas. We want to try and pickle some!
I want 5 or 6. But not ones that must lay daily. If they lay 2 or 3 a week, will b enough for me & dad & I'll have a pretty flock. Want them mostly fir therapy
I got 20 lol never had them before
Let the fun begin!
Now, in theses days.
Never.
You can never have too much chicken '$
It would be great if you could point out each breed that you have and Tell us what they are.😊
I will try to remember, we did make a vlog talking about breeds!
I'll look for that video. Thanks
Chicken math. ❤
It is too true
@@AcresOfAdventure yes. Fortunately we are on ministry property and cannot go too overboard.
However, I have 22 eggs in the incubator now. Some are experimental!!!
We have 12 hens and 2 roosters right now. All Brahmas. Plus one Cornish cross hen. Those are the experimental eggs.
Mwahahahaha!
👍
That's what I do when we have too many eggs!
Chicken math is my malignancy in multiplication only. I’ll never tell how many of those beautiful creatures scratch and peck around my property because the government doesn’t need to know that, lol. I have no need for pesticides or antidepressants and probably won’t have much grass to mow! Crazy chicken lady? I am a certifiable basket case. I have one rooster who attacks my dog and another who appears out of nowhere to rescue her! Not only will that one never be eaten, I may even buy him a headstone!
Red pepper flakes?
What’s your question?
They didn't ask, so I will. What do the red pepper flakes do for the chickens? Is it pest control? What's it for?
Eggstra 😊
Love your videos. but can you clean your hat and jacket from hairs ? its driving me crazy 😂
🤣 when you have a Great Pyrenees you kinda just live with it, that coats fabric sticks to everything🙈
I don't need more than 10 and I have 32.
💯🪱
Sell em
We sell extra ones just to get feed cost back
Sell your eggs. Recoup some feed money.
That’s what we have been doing with this egg fever that has been happening here
Nice video but I think your egg-laying chickens are actually “gals”, not “guys” and would appreciate the honor of being called gals. 😊❤