Why You Should Raise Your Own Meat Birds From Hatch to Harvest!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ย. 2024
- Why You Should Raise Your Own Meat Birds From Hatch to Harvest!
Chickens are the new TP. No, don't use chickens as toilet paper...there are probably a few laws about that! What we mean is, the supply of chickens is being interrupted because everyone has started to think about how to grow their own food. Bravo to that, but...when people binge buy or panic purchase what does that leave for everyone else? This thought challenged us to find our own solution!
Hatching chickens (or any bird) is incredibly fun, and sustainable, and extremely local. In an effort (in the name of science!) we want to see what it takes to raise our own chickens from Hatch to Harvest. We have butchered our "extra roosters" but never grown chickens for meat in any sort of volume. Follow us along as we venture to know what it takes to raise a chicken from #hatchtoharvest!
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About us: We have 4 kids and a 5 acre farm here in Northern California. We have made a commitment to learning how to raise our own food, as fast as we can, in the most fun way possible. This is a journey of us learning how to provide more and more for ourselves.
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"chickens are the new tp" 😂 that was great
The Citystead my mom said her local feed store was out...usually they have them for weeks...crazy times.
We didn’t plan the Easter thing either! If we had an all black chicken probably wouldn’t have been our choice! 😂 Completely agree on the meat bird thoughts. Good stuff guys. 👍🏻
Adler Farms it was pretty magic for the kids. Yeah, we don’t have that much foresight.🤣
Nice sharing my friend. I enjoyed watching. 😃 Big thumbs up for this. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼 Stay in touch 😊 Happy Easter dear
Looking forward to seeing this one play out! We would love to grow our own meat birds.
Hey guys! We know that Cornish x are the standard...but they are kind of frankenchickens in our opinion.
So much fun!
We got so much entertainment watching them hatch...and then it’s pretty much endless fun playing with them every day!
What is the price of incubator please reply me
The incubator was about 400 dollars on Amazon. It has definitely been a good investment 😊
Awesome, that’s all I can say. Your children are so excited.
Micky Bell-Roberts they are. They are loving those baby chicks.
I know this is old, but RE: food, grow cow peas and feed them the greens; this used to be a common fodder bale a million years ago. Grow sweet potato and feed them greens and cooked roots, grow Daikon cover crops and feed them the greens (good protein source) and tubers (cooked). Create a black soldier fly setup; may need to be indoor depending on where you are in the country. You can feed the fly larva food scraps, grains, coffee grounds and more from your land. May take time to build all this up, but it's possible. I'm feeding my birds off the land and I have less than 1/16 acre growing space. I grow almost all of it for the birds, so high fodder crops and fruit trees/bushes only since I'm ketovore. In 6 months my food costs are about 1/2. San's labor and seed costs (for now since I'm seed saving) Should be almost zero by mid 23.
im so tripping on myself with wanting to do this again. my word.. the equipment available today.. not like 28 yrs back. You's just had EASTER chickens lol.. thanks for sharing this guys. lol look how excited the children are :-D
If I raised the birds I couldn’t eat them lol
yeah, it takes a little bit of fortitude.
@@4KidsandaFarm I’m mean I used to watch my grandma do it 😂
Congrats on the baby chicks!
Have a wonderful day!
Thanks, they are all healthy and doing great!
ya.. i type as i watch lol.. your right about things being hard to get... and that is only going to get worse. smart thinking on your chick start up. we used to turn out 99 at a time. honestly? other then the amount of feed? wasn't much more work then working with smaller numbers. ( just more compost lol )
Paige family Homestead Our Journey back and we want the compost too! The brooder we have is full! We will need a new spot pretty soon!
Babies! Yea! ❤️❤️❤️ What a great surprise!
Right! We love them! They are so cute!
So sweet, the kids were so fun with how excited they were. I am glad so many people are raising chickens.
It is such a joy to have them! the kids take them on picnics and things! its pretty adorable.
Cool video.. Justin Rhodes on TH-cam has really good ideas on saving on chicken feed. You can also ask your local grocery store if you can grab there throw away produce. They literally throw away by the garage can full. You could(possibly) take their cans and replace with an empty one maybe...
Also soaking your feed over night goes s long way.
I love these videos!
Thanks T! Yeah, Justin Rhodes is our Chicken idol! 😂 but you are right, so many good ways to raise your own chickens on the cheap. They are the master recyclers.
Y’all are talking us into getting an incubator 🥰
Walker Farm Fam it’s super fun...and once you get one the fun never stops! The possibilities are endless!
We love our incubator! Get one!
That was cool that for taking us along.
Your welcome! Thanks for stopping by!
Hatching time is always a cool time!!! We got dual purpose birds so we could propagate our flock without buying chicks
Which breed do you have?
4 Kids and a Farm we bought ISA Browns and Barred Rocks. We have mutt egg layers with Roosters. So we’ll see what happens... ;-)
Ours go into lock down tonight! We hatched out 18 already from a hen and our small incubator. 41 are in our big incubator. I love your variety.
well good luck...this is where it all gets fun! i think it is fun to have the different varieties...we actually have very little clue of who the rooster was...we have 5!
@@4KidsandaFarm We have 4 roosters so the varieties is fun.
the cycle of life, amazing
Great idea! Looking forward to seeing how your chickens grow to butcher. This is definitely something I'll try.
Around Michael's Barn we have butchered the “spare rooster” and we haven’t ever really been disappointed so...we may get a smaller yield but at least we get to control how we get our meat!
@@4KidsandaFarm I have yet to try it yet but plan to this year. I have some older hens that I plan to butcher and have some new straight run chicks that I plan to butcher the roosters out of when its time. Thanks for sharing!!