I have several and I will tell you from my 25+ years raising all breeds from jungle fowl to Americuena, and I have kept them in coops and free ranged. I prefer free range there nearly zero cost to keep them, aside from Laying pellets and maybe some of a good mixed feed(with various seeds from pumpkin to sterilized cannabis seeds) which could cost at most 30 bucks a month. But, there is virtually zero cost with free range. And eggs galore. My girls lay ALL YEAR ROUND specifically because I allow them to free range. And this can be done if you own land, more then an acre, preferably. As to assure neighbors dogs or cats can't get to them. Another key to keeping happy hens....Keep them beside your house, so they see you everytime you go in or out, it assures safety with them. Chickens are SO much smarter then people give them credit for.
I think most would love to grow food for themselves if they could but the cost is too much...might be "virtually zero" with free range for you maybe bc of your pre existing wealth, whether it is generational or not.
@@dianaskripko2179 they are called Rangers, very affectionate breed and good egg layers. Mine died few years ago.. now I am stuck with one of the annoying breeds
Lots of protein, they do take from their own bodies to make their eggs, so the more you give them, the less they take from themselves. Protein, the calcium, let them free range as much as possible, getting bugs and stuff. Also they are garbage disposals, you can feed them pretty much everything you eat. Typically they don't eat onion or citrus I've found, but we keep a scrap bag in the freezer, and ALL the leftovers go to them, left over rotisserie chicken carcass? Toss it to them, left over turkey carcass from a holiday meal? Yep, they'll love it. Doesn't matter if it's moldy or past date. They utilize it. Have had chickens for 15 years with no issues.
@@memefaison6007I had a quick look online and it doesn't really seem like you can speed up their laying much. If they're healthy and have adequate protein and calcium they'll lay eggs and if they don't they'll take a break. Laying one almost every day is already a remarkable feat for a chicken since their pre domestic ancestors would be lucky to make 20 a year.
It’s my understanding that a hen can produce one egg every 24 hours max, but that’s not the case for every breed or bird. From the amount she’s getting it sounds like all 8 are laying at their max already. Once they begin to age that max goes down so I think if all 8 are at their peak of laying and diet and all else is ideal they can only lay that much. If you want more eggs you’d add more hens. Or add breeds that tend to lay at that daily max. Again, I’m still learning so I could be wrong but that’s what I’m finding.
Being self sufficient and resilient will always keep you above recession. While not everyone has this opportunity having food produced at a low cost of maintenance is a life saver.
wonderful! don't expect them to lay full year in the following years however. the ones we have (vyandotten chicken) laid eggs regularly for maybe 1 1/2 years, now they're in their retirement years, which is like (fingers crossed they stay healthy) 10 years of probably one egg per week or maybe month. I'm sure you know what you do, I've just seen way too many people get chickens during the pandemic to save money and be super disappointed in the performance
I’m paying almost $7 for 18 eggs right now -_- living in an apartment. Me and boy friend both eat eggs for breakfast sometimes added to other meals for misc stuff. Definitely saving money!
Eggs are perfectly clean if you take care of your chickens' environment 🙄 mine are always spotless. They only get covered in poop if you live like poop. 🙄
Been wanting chickens since 2014. Hopefully can start living that dream next year after sorting some house stuff out! What do you do with the eggs? Sell?
Wow! Twenty eggs here in a tray cost nearly twelve dollars (nzd )! Thing it's time I start with a few chickens and pay them to produce our eggs 😂 rather than buying from the supermarket!
We have 11 chickens, 4 approaching 1 year and the rest approaching 2 years-old. We are getting 7 to 10 eggs a day thru most of the winter months. We are reducing our feed costs by fermenting wheat for three days which also swells the wheat to more than double. In addition we are reducing our layer feed by also sprouting some wheat which grows 4 times the grain we start out with. We are now only feeding about two cups of layer, two cups of fermented grain( which is double to 4 cups) two cups of sprouts (which is 8 cups after sprouting) very healthy and we feed the egg shells back to the birds for the calcium they need to make good shells around their eggs.
Plus, the eggs taste better than store bought. I used to volunteer at a co-op, and in return I’d get a dozen eggs and a bag of produce every week. Every week I had at least a few double yolks 😋
A fresh egg lasts about two weeks unwashed.. once washed they must be put in the refrigerator because the protective layer on the egg has been removed. Fresh eggs last for about 2 months in the fridge. Now think about that the next time you see the best by date and ask... are they already that old or are they trying to make people buy more often?
Our chickens free range as well but with snow and gloomy days sometimes they just don’t want to co operate that’s ok. We don’t have to buy eggs and our eggs are super large and clean.
I have about 20 or more chickens! I did have more but the fox put a whoppen on them last year so I don’t have as many as I did. But during the spring/summer we’d get about 2-3 dozen eggs a day!😮
I have 11 hens, it costs me $23 a month in feed, $5 a month on oyster shells, $12 a month on straw for seed and bedding, I'm getting anywhere from 11 to 9 eggs a day, about a doz and a half every other day.
I so want chickens! (❤the different breeds, some are just Uber cool looking), I just sadly do not live in a space where it is possible, but one day if I move, I’m doing a self contained solar powered coup that auto waters, etc & definitely having a few chickens..😊👍
Yeah but how much was the big coop? We have 8 chickens. Get plenty of eggs but the initial cost of building the coop and the enclosure was pretty steep. I bet we have 800 bucks in it.
@@Alepoudiitsa you can get that by buying from a local small farm you can get to know your farmer and if there a dope guy like me they will be more then happy to tell you how they are kept you might save some money by doing it yourself but consider how much your time is worth and you need to also winter them we use a 800sf high tunnel just the tunnel was about 17k so unless you already have a multi million dollar farm estate that came with a chicken coup id leave it to the pros
That probably includes bedding since bedding should be changed often. Everything for chickens can be bought in bulk from feed stores and often locally through a co-OP or getting together with a few chicken owners to make larger purchases. $15/week is expensive for only 8 hens. If you wanted to save a lot of money and had a little storage space, you would be looking at around $5 per week to cover bedding, layer feed (providing you don't free range and just save that cost, too) and vitamins for around 10 hens. Edited: Many people just sell their extra eggs and then chickens are profitable. You won't make a lot on so few hens but you can easily offset your own costs.
Holy fuck and this is hoenstly probably a billion times cheaper then jsut buying eggs brisn and feed see cheaper plus you can make a profit ont he eggs and get stuff back it’s jsut crazy and cool
I have about 120 pecker heads and sell 200 dozen a month up here in canada at $7 CAD per dozen and have a waiting list 4 weeks for grass finished pasture raised eggs
I have several and I will tell you from my 25+ years raising all breeds from jungle fowl to Americuena, and I have kept them in coops and free ranged. I prefer free range there nearly zero cost to keep them, aside from Laying pellets and maybe some of a good mixed feed(with various seeds from pumpkin to sterilized cannabis seeds) which could cost at most 30 bucks a month. But, there is virtually zero cost with free range. And eggs galore. My girls lay ALL YEAR ROUND specifically because I allow them to free range. And this can be done if you own land, more then an acre, preferably. As to assure neighbors dogs or cats can't get to them. Another key to keeping happy hens....Keep them beside your house, so they see you everytime you go in or out, it assures safety with them. Chickens are SO much smarter then people give them credit for.
I think most would love to grow food for themselves if they could but the cost is too much...might be "virtually zero" with free range for you maybe bc of your pre existing wealth, whether it is generational or not.
@@wawis231 they were talking about in comparison to the $15-$30 she says she spends every week in the video. obviously chickens aren't free
Thank you for that info. That's my dream for the future( 2024)
@@wawis231🙄
@@wawis231trust someone to come up with an idiotic statement. Congrats, you won today's donkey of the day
Love our chickens!!!!!
My excitement for our chickens on someone else’s post is getting more likes than my own videos 😂😂😂😂😩😩😩
you have the best kind of hens, they are reliable layers and very cute
What are the best kind of chickens to buy for a beginner?
Hi, can you please tell me what bread chickens you have? Recommend? Ty 😊
@@dianaskripko2179 they are called Rangers, very affectionate breed and good egg layers. Mine died few years ago.. now I am stuck with one of the annoying breeds
@@thisbeautifullifeofmine brown sex linked
@@dianaskripko2179 sexlinked hybrid like a genetically modified hen
Put oyster shell powder in their water. They'll lay more eggs. The calcium in the shells helps them make eggs' shells.
It won't make them lay more, it'll just help with the creation of the shells.
@@ilene79 okay, I heard that it helped.
So, what helps? What gives them more yellow to lay eggs?
Lots of protein, they do take from their own bodies to make their eggs, so the more you give them, the less they take from themselves. Protein, the calcium, let them free range as much as possible, getting bugs and stuff. Also they are garbage disposals, you can feed them pretty much everything you eat. Typically they don't eat onion or citrus I've found, but we keep a scrap bag in the freezer, and ALL the leftovers go to them, left over rotisserie chicken carcass? Toss it to them, left over turkey carcass from a holiday meal? Yep, they'll love it. Doesn't matter if it's moldy or past date. They utilize it. Have had chickens for 15 years with no issues.
@@memefaison6007I had a quick look online and it doesn't really seem like you can speed up their laying much. If they're healthy and have adequate protein and calcium they'll lay eggs and if they don't they'll take a break.
Laying one almost every day is already a remarkable feat for a chicken since their pre domestic ancestors would be lucky to make 20 a year.
It’s my understanding that a hen can produce one egg every 24 hours max, but that’s not the case for every breed or bird. From the amount she’s getting it sounds like all 8 are laying at their max already. Once they begin to age that max goes down so I think if all 8 are at their peak of laying and diet and all else is ideal they can only lay that much. If you want more eggs you’d add more hens. Or add breeds that tend to lay at that daily max. Again, I’m still learning so I could be wrong but that’s what I’m finding.
Second thing after a food garden, chickens are my number one must have if I ever have space.
Yes! They are the best, this was my first year and its been great!
@@itsbreellis I’m so jealous.
And hungry 🤤
Last year was my first garden and this year is my first chickens.
Make it happen!
Chickens are wonderful creatures.
First time I watched for the eggs.
Second time I watched for your outfits :)
Third time I was curious about the hen house
My tia has chickens in her yard, best chicken soup ever
Being self sufficient and resilient will always keep you above recession. While not everyone has this opportunity having food produced at a low cost of maintenance is a life saver.
wonderful! don't expect them to lay full year in the following years however. the ones we have (vyandotten chicken) laid eggs regularly for maybe 1 1/2 years, now they're in their retirement years, which is like (fingers crossed they stay healthy) 10 years of probably one egg per week or maybe month. I'm sure you know what you do, I've just seen way too many people get chickens during the pandemic to save money and be super disappointed in the performance
You girls are doing a bang up job
That's awesome! I'm growing a new appreciation for eggs now that they're so expensive :))
Not Really in. Wallmark cost. Pack of 18 egg. $ 1.85
I’m paying almost $7 for 18 eggs right now -_- living in an apartment. Me and boy friend both eat eggs for breakfast sometimes added to other meals for misc stuff. Definitely saving money!
If your in a apartment consider some quail!! Most people can have them no problem in smaller spaces! Might help you guys some!
Wow! $7 for just 18 eggs?! I spend half my time split between both the UK and Germany and they’re nothing like that here. Not even half that.
If you're in the United States try Sam's club or Costco.
I love your chickens
She really went all little house on the prairie with that dress lol
your chicks are so cute!
And you know exactly how they were feed and treated
Awesome waytogo Gurls!!❣️❤🫶
I Love chickens🐔💖💖
Your girls are very cute, dear. 🐓
Beautiful 🥚
I love chickens! Can’t wait to buy a house to get them again!
Those eggs look super clean
..a little to clean to be harvested at that moment...
Eggs are perfectly clean if you take care of your chickens' environment 🙄 mine are always spotless. They only get covered in poop if you live like poop. 🙄
Been wanting chickens since 2014. Hopefully can start living that dream next year after sorting some house stuff out! What do you do with the eggs? Sell?
I ❤ your style, BTW 😂
Wow! Twenty eggs here in a tray cost nearly twelve dollars (nzd )! Thing it's time I start with a few chickens and pay them to produce our eggs 😂 rather than buying from the supermarket!
Oh for sure. I bought a dozen for $6 almost $7
Beautiful hens.
Bodybuilders: that'll last me a day
😂
Growing food for them at home could possibly reduce that weekly cost as well
This chickens look exactly like the ones my grandparents had. 🥲
Holy moly that's alot of eggies!
We have 3 dozen eggs right now from our backyard chickens. ❤ Where is your red and white dress from? It’s so lovely
Thank you! I believe I got it from Dillards 5-6 years ago its one of my older ones but one of my favorites!
The girlie's are so cute❤️
We have 11 chickens, 4 approaching 1 year and the rest approaching 2 years-old. We are getting 7 to 10 eggs a day thru most of the winter months. We are reducing our feed costs by fermenting wheat for three days which also swells the wheat to more than double. In addition we are reducing our layer feed by also sprouting some wheat which grows 4 times the grain we start out with. We are now only feeding about two cups of layer, two cups of fermented grain( which is double to 4 cups) two cups of sprouts (which is 8 cups after sprouting) very healthy and we feed the egg shells back to the birds for the calcium they need to make good shells around their eggs.
We also have a goose
Oooooh look at all these chickens!
I just paid $15 for 5 doz eggs at Costco on Friday! Think I need a few hens in my backyard in Hawaii 👀🌴
Actually that should be more cost friendly that to built a couple and work to maintain your chickens and feed them.
Wow nice idol
12 dollars is a 100 egg in my country but food for chicken is way cheaper too soo it's always a win
Man I want chickens....
In UK you buy 12 free range large eggs with £2.5 so for 51 the total cost would be around £10
Your chickens very heldi and happy 😊
They look like isa browns
So wholesome.
Plus, the eggs taste better than store bought. I used to volunteer at a co-op, and in return I’d get a dozen eggs and a bag of produce every week. Every week I had at least a few double yolks 😋
I loved the chicken super close-up. What a face!
Its also better for the environment, eggs is similar to beef in that category and now you can recycle most stuff!
I have a dozen hens and room to let them free range during the day. They lay amazingly. Supplement feed when needed.
Chickens 😍
I struggle to eat a dozen eggs before they expire, and 80% of the time they expire on me. I don’t even know what I would do with all those eggs😅
Hi.. Boil them and store them in fridge..and have them when you want to have it in a period of week.
Fresh last longer
A fresh egg lasts about two weeks unwashed.. once washed they must be put in the refrigerator because the protective layer on the egg has been removed. Fresh eggs last for about 2 months in the fridge. Now think about that the next time you see the best by date and ask... are they already that old or are they trying to make people buy more often?
Try baking things as well 😊
Love this lifestyle
Wow she saved that much ? You got to be yoking me
Our chickens free range as well but with snow and gloomy days sometimes they just don’t want to co operate that’s ok. We don’t have to buy eggs and our eggs are super large and clean.
There is no better egg than a Happy Chicken sgg
That dress is gorgeous!!
Not to mention the fertiliser they produce or even compost if you have the right setup
In today's prices that's like $10k in eggs
Don't forget the $4500 spent on chicken coop and supplies.
Those eggs are so clean ... dot dot dot
I have about 20 or more chickens! I did have more but the fox put a whoppen on them last year so I don’t have as many as I did. But during the spring/summer we’d get about 2-3 dozen eggs a day!😮
😮
Wow
NIICE!!!😀👍...HOW MANY HOURS ARE THEY ALLOWED OUTSIDE THEIR COUP??? AND WHAT DO YOU DO WITH SOO MANY EGGS WEEKLY??🐓🐓😍🔥🙏👑➕📖🔥
🥹😍
Why did I have to buy in an HOA? 😩😭
We are so moving… I need a greenhouse in a chicken coop ASAP. Hopefully I can find land with a pond. 🙏🏽
Yes!! That sounds amazing!!! HOAs are so annoying when it comes to stuff like this
start a soldier grub farm and you can save even more
What do you use for feed?
❤️ it
I have 11 hens, it costs me $23 a month in feed, $5 a month on oyster shells, $12 a month on straw for seed and bedding, I'm getting anywhere from 11 to 9 eggs a day, about a doz and a half every other day.
Good yield. It say your doing something right.
impressive
I used to raise chickens it was fun and plenty of yummy eggs
I so want chickens! (❤the different breeds, some are just Uber cool looking), I just sadly do not live in a space where it is possible, but one day if I move, I’m doing a self contained solar powered coup that auto waters, etc & definitely having a few chickens..😊👍
Do you use extra lighting for them to produce? Wondering cus my ducks stopped laying🥲
Yeah but how much was the big coop? We have 8 chickens. Get plenty of eggs but the initial cost of building the coop and the enclosure was pretty steep. I bet we have 800 bucks in it.
I try to justify that by thinking that I list I know what thoses chicken eat and how the live
@@Alepoudiitsa you can get that by buying from a local small farm you can get to know your farmer and if there a dope guy like me they will be more then happy to tell you how they are kept you might save some money by doing it yourself but consider how much your time is worth and you need to also winter them we use a 800sf high tunnel just the tunnel was about 17k so unless you already have a multi million dollar farm estate that came with a chicken coup id leave it to the pros
You can buy them for $200 on Facebook market place
@@Yui789essswhy when you can make it yourself for $1,800?
Good job
😍💚🐓🐓💚🤗🙏
Are you actually using this much eggs? It's like Easter preparations amount
Yup. I give some to friends and family on occasions!
I get like 10 eggs per minute in townstar.
Girl modestly dressed on a video - A rare sight.
And the eggs are just better quality
Nice!
I have the same basket. But no chickens are a hobby not a money saver 😂 I've put many hundreds of dollars into chickens
Your neighbors must love you! I mean you cant eat that Many eggs in a weak right?
That cheap a week untill bedding and hay need to be bought, or supplements lol.
That probably includes bedding since bedding should be changed often. Everything for chickens can be bought in bulk from feed stores and often locally through a co-OP or getting together with a few chicken owners to make larger purchases. $15/week is expensive for only 8 hens. If you wanted to save a lot of money and had a little storage space, you would be looking at around $5 per week to cover bedding, layer feed (providing you don't free range and just save that cost, too) and vitamins for around 10 hens.
Edited: Many people just sell their extra eggs and then chickens are profitable. You won't make a lot on so few hens but you can easily offset your own costs.
I'm getting between 6 and 7 for my 14 chickens it's still cold out for them to lay normaly
Hiii, what breed are these chickens?
Kitchen scraps should be a big part of their diet
They work harder on the weekends go figure haha
Where is that boy. Yo!
How much did that coop and run cost???
Somebody's slacking when you don't get 8.
How did you manage to get those eggs shiny & clean. Mine always found it with lil bit of poop. 🥺
DON'T FEED PURINA OR THE CHICKENS WILL STOP LAYING EGGS
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Me when I have to use my fingers instead of my toy
That is really cool 😎
One can really save lots of money by having their own chickens .
Your chickens are cute 🥰
How much does chicken feed? And how often do you reup on chicken feed?
If you are doing this purely to save money, please don't. The chickens deserve the best of the best.
R u drunk or high? What do u mean they deserve the best of the best?
Holy fuck and this is hoenstly probably a billion times cheaper then jsut buying eggs brisn and feed see cheaper plus you can make a profit ont he eggs and get stuff back it’s jsut crazy and cool
Next move is to get some chickens. I would be rich in eggs baby
I have about 120 pecker heads and sell 200 dozen a month up here in canada at $7 CAD per dozen and have a waiting list 4 weeks for grass finished pasture raised eggs
What on earth are you calling a grass finished egg? That's not even a healthy diet for a chicken, if you just mean lawn grass.
Where l live l would love to grow chickens . How do I know if l can grow them here zone 6a.