Set Yourself up for Success with Baby Chicks // Homesteading
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What do baby chicks need? I ordered chicks, and they came IN THE MAIL! As part of our permaculture plan on our homestead, these chicks will grow up and move through our fields and clean up after the livestock have grazed the pasture. This will relieve fly pressure and manure will get stirred into the soil. The chickens will leave behind their own fertilizer, and as all the animals rotationally graze, the pastures will get better and better with each passing season. In this video I build a chick brooder using an old packing box, some zip ties and hardware cloth. I talk about how to acclimate new chicks to their environment, how to regulate heat in the chick brooder, and what to do about pasty butt. Moving to Nashville has been a huge endeavor, starting over with all things farm has kept me very, very busy the past few months, but I certainly am not going to complain about all the baby floof we've got around here right now! Murgi
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I'm Anne of All Trades. In NASHVILLE, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. Whether you've got the knowledge, tools, time or space to do the things you've always wanted to do, everything is "figureoutable." I became "Anne of All Trades" out of necessity. With no background in farming or making things, I wanted to learn to raise my own food, fix things when they break, and build the things I need. 8 years ago I got my first pet, planted my first seed and picked up my first tool. Get a better roadmap of how to grow deep roots and live the life you want subscribing to this channel and look for NEW VIDEOS EVERY WEEK!
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Thanks so much for being here friends! Hope you find everything you need to know about bringing new Chicks home! What kinds of videos do you want to see next? Comment below!
Anne of All Trades are you going to have a water harvesting system for the garden?
How to stop cats getting into my chicken pen! The cat wants my chickens for dinner and after multiple adaptions, said fence is now 8ft high!
Cant wait for some Gardening videos and obviously more Animal videos! Love your Channel!!
Love to see something about your longer term thoughts for livestock. How much property you have and what can it support etc?
When the new building gets built, we will definitely do water collection off the roof, but for the time being I'm working on either digging a well or putting in a spring house.
Anne you are living the life many of us dream of. It is scary but keep the faith and keep moving forward. Love the content!
Thanks so much! Will do!
Hi Anne, I would love to see a video of the chicks cutting their way out of the egg. It never ceases to amaze me when nature works all these ways to make sure that animals of all sorts can hatch and grow no matter if it is in air or water cold or warm.
do a quick google search, it's pretty fascinating! I'm hatching some eggs right now, and I'll try to catch it on camera, but they are sneaky :)
Important question - where do you buy your hoodies with the leather patch logo? You're awesome!
Naketano hoodie from Germany . Discontinued - like many other great brands, possibly still available on Ebay / Amazon
Comment on the light not being adjustable. That's what you call thinking outside the box. You are so awesome! Love it!!! More Milkdud please!!!!!!!
Haha Country ingenuity at it's finest! I'll tell her you are missing her!
Lucy scaring Anne is the funniest 😂.
It scared me too. Pigs can be mean and dangerous.
KarlBunker nah she’s harmless, but a funny character ;)
nothing better than chicks on the farm especially the ones without wings!!!!
I like the chicks better when they are chickens and aren't so needy haha!
“Weirdly, it’s... mulch.” My new favorite line. 🤣😂🤣😂
hahaha
Great video nice info about chicken 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome stuff Anne, thanks for sharing! 😃👍🏻🐤🐣🐥👊🏻
My pleasure 😊
Sometimes... *I am soo bored in the Lockdown...*
I come to AOAT video's ... *just to get a break & view the BLOOPERS...LOL*
Love how you are always thinking outside the box. Thanks Anne.
Always!
We raised hatchlings in the living room fireplace for the first few weeks, then moved them to the garage, and then finally to the coop. It was easier to keep them safe and warm in the fireplace than anywhere else, and we could tend to them easier. A board propped against the fireplace opening kept them in, but I like your method too. We just found it easier to keep them warm inside the house. My grand daughter (with the goats) has chickens too.
If it works, it works! Glad you guys had so much fun with the chicks!
"I don't want to hear a peep." 😄
Chicks are exciting, and I _loved_ the mulch-delivery drama.
haha it was a rollercoaster!
Glad you reacted appropriately to a sign of aggression from Lucy. Pigs _can_ be dangerous and we don't want to read any more of those sad newspaper articles.
nah she is pretty harmless, but she can definitely startle those around her when she gets bossy!
So Anne holding a little chick and beaming a smile into the camera...which one is CUTER?!? Why both or course! ;)
awwww
Thanks for the information, we are just starting our chicken adventure.
Btw, a grinder with a zip wheel works fantastic for cutting plastic.
hahah that probably would have worked much better in retrospect ;)
A great way to adjust light height is with a length of chain. We lower water buckets in horse stalls when using the space for goats or our mini horse. This works great for heaters as well.
Haha that is a great solution too
That's cool to get the little chicks, we finally had some baby geese hatch after a few years of them abandoning the nest, had 7 hatch on Friday!
hazzah! Geese are tough to get to hatch!
Nice tips...now everyone will be trying to raise chicks🧐
I hope so! Nothing feels better than being part of the production of the food you eat!
Very interesting. Thanks Anne.
Glad it was helpful!
We just got ours a week ago. They are so cute! Good luck with your baby chicks!
Thank you! The videos are a bit behind because of production time, so the chicks are almost ready to go outside now!
Love listening to all the peeping. Flashed me back to an episode of I Love Lucy when they ordered so many and they were running all over the farmhouse❤❤❤
hahha that is one of my favorite episodes!
Woohoo more baby animals! 👌🏽
Milk Dud looks quite comfy there, and so does Lucy! 🤣🤣🤣
Great tips on keeping chicks. 👍🏽
Cheers.
Thanks so much! 😊
My second-most favorite fastener is a hog ring. They make awesome hinges if you make bare cattle panel gates or fences because they last longer than zip ties, which is of course my #1 favorite fastener. Baling twine - I save it, but rarely actually use it. #3 is a t-post wire clip (get a clip bender if you don't have one; I love that thing)
hahah I go through quite a few zip ties around here too :)
@@AnneofAllTrades BTW - try brightly colored zip ties. When/if they break, you can see them in grass, etc and pick them up so the birds and babies don't try to eat them.
I'm glad that Surf Shark is sponsoring you, you deserve it. Do you know that lots of web backends have commonly available VPN detection libraries (they map exit points), and sites from bank of america to the BBC will refuse to do business with you if they detect a vpn? Of course I, (and the EFF), decry this as an attempt to do away with privacy, but it still is *_HUGELY_* common.
Love having Chickens. My layers are Rhode Island Reds. They got decimated by a fox before we found the holes under the fence and closed them. Down to six active layers, but I have eight chicks in the stock tank. Hoping for at least four or five more layers this Fall, but our luck has gone to roosters in the past, so may have a lot of birds named Stew... I didn't know about those ceramic heaters. I'll have to get one for the hover. Love your bloopers!
Aw man! That's the worst part of having chickens. We just got a couple livestock guardian dogs for just that reason. And the bloopers are my favorite part!
An important sign of comfortable chicks (warm or cold)is they will gt and stay quiet.
Also true!
I’ll bet that’s a scary confusing ride being shipped in that box bouncing around in a mail truck.
Lucky for them, their destination was you, where they will be cared for better than anywhere else I can think of.
awww!
Plus finally, thanks for you and for this channel. Loved it for years.
Glad you enjoy it!
I just found you, because of the video with 3D Printing nerd. Love your content, and the animals are super cute.
Much love from Germany
Awesome! Thank you!
I can't wait to see them grow! ❤❤❤
They're already getting so big! I'll have to post another update soon.
Very informative and interesting. love all that you do.
Thanks! Glad you enjoy it!
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The chicks are adorable and fresh eggs are the best! I'd like to see more baby cow 🐮
Absolutely! have you already watched the Milking video? Fancy is the real star of that one.
@@AnneofAllTrades I have! ❤️❤️❤️
6:24 Safety squints, ENGAGED! :-) I've caught myself in that situation quite a bit, lol :-)
You and me both!
Very Cute👍
Thank you 🤗
Let’s not forget duct tape as farmers third favorite way to bind things…😂
Preach!
New awesome merch idea for T-shirt quotes "And all that jazz" ... I've noticed and have been hearing you say that very phrase a bit more frequently lately...
hahaha funny the things you notice when a camera turns on, my videographer teases me about my common sayings all the time, but until she pointed them out, I didn't even realize I was saying most of them!
Saw the title and thought it said "The checks are here!" . Been the talk of the neighborhood lately.
hahah wouldn't that be nice
contact tree trimmers and the power company in your area. ask if they give the shredded tree limbs etc away. They have to dump it somewhere if its on your property they get rid of it and you get good mulch.
been doing that for years, I had about 10 semi trucks of it in my garden in Seattle by the time it was all said and done, I was just excited about the prospect of some pre-composted mulch, as that is something I haven't been here long enough to do myself yet ;)
Another great video.
I appreciate that!
This is so exciting 😃😃
The farm is growing!
Should be a fun time! You are growing the farm.
The link from here to IG is broken.❤💯💥
Should be fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
Congratulations 🎉 Chickens are so much fun and they provide Breakfast lol. Enjoy Peace Be With You ☮️
Truth! They're so fun to have around!
My wood shop generates tons of sawdust and shavings. I mostly work in walnut. Can I use walnut waste around my ducks?
Love the channel.
Frank
Nope, I try to keep all my walnut shavings clear of my animals. It’s unlikely milled, dry lumber has toxic levels of juglone, but I’d rather not risk it
Loved the roller coaster of emotions at the end! Who does your filming?
haha me too! Entertwine media! Her website is linked in the description! She does a fantastic job.
Oliver must feel like I do when I am looking at a closed Krispy Kreme store.
hahahahahaha
Anne we always put rocks in the water so the chicks want drown.
Thats a great idea when you've got a deep water dish! These shallow ones don't let their heads get deeep enough in for that.
Hi Anne, my partner has been watching your videos for such a long time and always comments how much he loves your blue hoodie with the big oversized collar. Could you let me know where you go it from so I can try and get one for him. Thank you & thank you for your awesome videos!! 😊
That's awesome! Tell him thanks for the support! They are Wanakome. I don't know where to get them anymore because the company I used to get them from went out of business, but if you search the brand name you should be able to find one.
@@AnneofAllTrades Thank you so much! I've managed to search that and found them! Really your videos are amazing, learnt so much, been inspired a lot and will always support!
Just a question on the beak dipping (I have no experience). On TH-cam I see two camps, the you have to dip the beaks camp, and the I've never dipped beaks camp. How confident are you on the necessity of the dip the beak advice when some people with years of experience say they never dip beaks? (They might well have a higher death rate or not, I don't know which is why I ask. Is your advice based on actual data?)
I've always done it with my chicks, data or no, I'd always rather have done it than come out to find dead chicks because they couldn't figure out the waterer.
I dont know if you noticed, but during your shooting of this video, your doorbell was ringing constantly. :D
hahahaha
nice to meet you :) just subbed your page!
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I hope this doesn’t get your goat, but it looks like your having a swine time letting your homestead run a fowl! Lol the chicks are cute! We will take 2 dozen eggs in a few months... doorstep delivery to NJ
hahaha! The other chickens are thankfully already laying, and keeping us very well stocked!
LOL😊👍👍👍👍
That's all so cool. thank you for sharing. I do have question, and it's maybe been discussed previously and I missed it. Are you a vegetarian? I would think it would be painful to name and raise little chickens, goats, cows, and pigs then put them between two slices of bread....
Nope! The reason I farm is so I can be a part of the solution not the problem when it comes to food production.
My barn cat is Garfield so I don’t need the top on the container?
haha
They're so cute
I hate going into tractor supply at this time of year, all those little chicks calling me Cheap.
hahaha little jerks!
That was funny. Lol
So glad you enjoyed it!
Was the yellow flashing over the whole screen at about 8:30 intentional? It's kind of unpleasant... unlike the rest of this video, which was super fun to watch :)
awww man! Technical difficulty. Definitely not intentional, but nothing I can do about it after the video is published unfortunately! Thanks for letting me know
I came to the comments section precisely for this reason. Glad to know it wasn’t intentional, it hurt my eyes X_x
What breed(s) did you get?
red rangers!
What chicks did you get, are those Leghorns?
Red rangers!
I'm not an expert but isn't that black box to small for that many chicks?
swdis00 ahem...too!
With all due respect, I'm certainly not an expert either, but I've been doing this a looooonnng time ;)
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I’ve got a small metal water trough I drilled holes in the bottom for a buddy to grow tomatoes in ,he brought it back if ya need it.
thanks for the offer! The chicks are actually almost ready to go outside now, these videos take a bit to edit and produce after filming them ;)
8:21: "refinish dd pieces fry stupid goof"?
haha is that what the closed captions said?
@@AnneofAllTrades No, the Post-It on your monitor. 😁