The most important thing in raising chickens for eggs is choosing the right breed. Chickens vary from below fifty eggs per year to around 300 or so by the breed. That's best case scenario. Second thing to get good egg production is day length. You have to supplement light to keep the chickens laying year round. Third is proper feed. That can be as fancy as you want to get or as simple as laying pellets.
We do almost everything you suggested, except de in the food. I might add some split peas to their mix next time I make a batch. Great tips that will keep your chickens very happy. Also note that if roosts aren’t higher than nest boxes, the girls will sleep in the nest boxes because they feel safer up high. Great video. Well done.
Found it !!!! Damn I paid more for my layer feed! Glad to see you are fermenting your feed. It takes longer for me to ferment now cuz it’s colder outside. What I’m super excited about is your larvae farm!!!!!
I keep the egg shells and smash them into micro pieces inside a bag ..add them back to the feed, free range them also and give them boiled barley...I might try buying the whole grains too as my chickens ignore layer pellets, they love corn, sunflower seeds and anything seedy
A year later I've honed it to a mixture of 5 cooked grains Wheat, barley, sorghum, crushed corn and rice, plus raw black sunflower seeds ...I cook up enough for a couple of weeks and keep it refrigerated
My chickens have only been laying eggs for about 3 weeks now. Out of 12 chickens they're up to 6 a day now. I put a light in their coop at night. I'm giving them warm food sometimes, before bedtime. I give them grit and they just ran out of their calcium, so I'm going to give them ground egg shells. I'm hoping they'll continue to give me eggs through the winter.
Found your channel through your Edit channel. As a chicken momma too, we find letting the chickens free range really helps, as well as lots of oyster shells in their feed. I think we'll give the DIY mix a go though, as it is certainly cheaper than 40 pound bags of feed! Worms are a big thing we give ours, so I'm also interested in the fly bin.
My mother in law has chickens. I'm in Cali right now with her. With 12 chickens (4 littles that are learning and just now old e other to Start laying eggs) I've gotten 2 eggs all day. She has a chicken (maybe more) that does peck the eggs and eat the yolks. I'm gonna show her this and see what she thinks. Ty for your FREE time and FREE advice!
Hey Sven, I thought it better to comment here on chickens instead of in the film class! I used to have chickens, each hen would produce an egg a day! White Leghorns or RhodeIsland RedsI only fed them mash with water in the morning, the rest of the day they could roam the garden, scratching up the compost/insects. Super healthy with big red combs.
Try sprouting wheat for about 3 days until the roots are about as long as the wheat seed add this to your soaking feed. Volume of sprouts to your other soaked feed about 10% to 15%. Another tip again sprout the wheat spread out into a tray water a couple of times a day until the wheat grass is about 2 to 4 inches then give to chickens complete with the root matting😊
and it seems that an added diet of ACV activated charcoal (biochar) is great for the calcium buildup in the chickens to give the eggs a harder shell and improves the health of the chickens.......an idea I read on line from Africa.....
My chickens are very very spoiled. So I constantly need to change their menue… Like grinded corn, carrots, nettles, salad, just very little fruits. And they love nuts… Peanuts 🥜 or sunflower seeds…the good stuff. I make them incredibly crazy ‚party platters‘ 🤣 But they are tiny Seramas and even wintertime and snow we have eggs. 😊 my neighbors don’t 😜
I keep reading to feed the chickens mealworms or BSFL in very limited/small quantities, like a spoonful a day, for each hen, because it could damage their liver or kidneys or whatever because of their high protein content. Do you think this is true?
I found DIY fly larvae boxes/traps here on TH-cam. The one that seems to work best is a combo plastic tote box & PVC pipe-to-milk-bottle setup. No link Themtube deletes them anyway.
This was a very helpful video. I'm just curious about the overall time investment in preparing the new feed vs. the old feed. Even if you save money on materials your time is worth something isn't it? Perhaps factoring that it might lessen your overall savings.
Maybe I missed it, but could you please show me where you can get the magnetic door to open at night. I am interested in that. Thanks for your time in advance, and great video!!!
Hi . I'm so glad I came across this video. You have just confirmed my theories. Fermented feed is far better and bsf farming can really help increase protein intake. Do you perhaps have a compost corner for the stuff that doesn't go into the bsf bins . Thanks again and God bless you brother
With the economy the way it is with increasing food prices every week, I would be hard to invest that kind of money into equipment for 7-8 hens, although I am going to try the special grain mix and the fermenting. I'm getting 0-3 eggs a day. Not enough for our 3 families living on our farm. Was thinking of buying more pullets but with my hens being under 2 years old it seems a bad idea. The hens have a HUGH chicken run with voluntary grasses. They also get table scraps. They are free fed lay pellets. I had a nest box for each one but they insist on all laying in one or two of them. I actually think they wait in line, lol! Found one egg on the floor in front of the main nest box! Silly birds, but I love them. I do have a very old hen that lays green eggs. She is free range plus her food dish always has lay pellets in it. She's houses at night with a Bantam hen, they are pals and roam together. Both lay well. It's the main flock that dilly dallies around with egg production. Could you recommend a grinder for me? Thank you! Love your beautiful hens!
So I see the Modesto milling bag on here and I think you live around Modesto as well, but then I realized on the link you provided for feed they sale the Modesto milling feed on there. Just to let you know Modesto milling has everything you listed and cheaper direct.
This helpful.. thanks. I do commercial laying with Isa brown. I affirm with the extra calcium and protein, to avoid using bone calcium and to replenish protein during molting and feather loose. Also, I ensure they get the maximum amount of light a day, btw 16 to 18 hours light per day. It also helps to stimulate egg production. Great video
Wow... I just found out that fly maggots were very benefecial to chicken.. thanks I have tried feding it to them..ill go get some more maggots in the banana spoilage dumpsite in the banana packing plant near our place..
REMEMBER: You CAN make 🐔lay more eggs in many way. BUT, just like HUMAN ♀️, we are BORN w/ all the eggs in our body we will EVER have. So if you force eggs out by all that work, or adding light in winter, ur 🐔's will run out/slow way down of eggs far sooner than if you let nature run it's course. Up to you. Either way, you'll get a certain # of 🥚s. It's kinder to let them live and lay naturally & get the rest they deserve.
It’s not about “forcing “ them to lay more eggs. It’s giving them proper rest and nutrition to support a healthy chicken. This is in no way bad for the chickens.
If your he s are only laying 2 to 4 eggs a week you got the wrong chickens for laying😂. Barred rocks will lay quad that amount golden comets lay even more . Really your choice of chicken for laying eggs matters if my barred rocks slow down i add hot peppers to their diet. The purpose is to ward off parasites. Bam they go to laying like crazy again
Organic chicken feed???? Corn is organic along with wheat,bean,rice, sunflower.......I believe u paid for the word organic and have the same feed I have for half the cost.
Just buy chicken scratch..it has all the same ingredients but i pay $13.00 for a 50 lbs sack..and crumbles at 16% i pay $15.00 for 50 lb sack....cheaper at a feed store then the headache of ordering your supplies
The most important thing in raising chickens for eggs is choosing the right breed. Chickens vary from below fifty eggs per year to around 300 or so by the breed. That's best case scenario. Second thing to get good egg production is day length. You have to supplement light to keep the chickens laying year round. Third is proper feed. That can be as fancy as you want to get or as simple as laying pellets.
We do almost everything you suggested, except de in the food. I might add some split peas to their mix next time I make a batch. Great tips that will keep your chickens very happy. Also note that if roosts aren’t higher than nest boxes, the girls will sleep in the nest boxes because they feel safer up high. Great video. Well done.
Found it !!!! Damn I paid more for my layer feed! Glad to see you are fermenting your feed. It takes longer for me to ferment now cuz it’s colder outside. What I’m super excited about is your larvae farm!!!!!
I keep the egg shells and smash them into micro pieces inside a bag ..add them back to the feed, free range them also and give them boiled barley...I might try buying the whole grains too as my chickens ignore layer pellets, they love corn, sunflower seeds and anything seedy
A year later I've honed it to a mixture of 5 cooked grains
Wheat, barley, sorghum, crushed corn and rice, plus raw black sunflower seeds ...I cook up enough for a couple of weeks and keep it refrigerated
Wow Ali did a great job on the final edit!
My chickens have only been laying eggs for about 3 weeks now. Out of 12 chickens they're up to 6 a day now. I put a light in their coop at night. I'm giving them warm food sometimes, before bedtime. I give them grit and they just ran out of their calcium, so I'm going to give them ground egg shells. I'm hoping they'll continue to give me eggs through the winter.
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Found your channel through your Edit channel. As a chicken momma too, we find letting the chickens free range really helps, as well as lots of oyster shells in their feed. I think we'll give the DIY mix a go though, as it is certainly cheaper than 40 pound bags of feed!
Worms are a big thing we give ours, so I'm also interested in the fly bin.
Hi, thank you for the video, it was very helpful. Please where can I buy Corn and wheat for my chicken?
It's tried and tested layers pellets are best for laying eggs . That's why commercial egg layers are feed on it.
Only if chickens eat them. Mine just pick thru food and leave the pellets there 😢
My mother in law has chickens.
I'm in Cali right now with her. With 12 chickens (4 littles that are learning and just now old e other to Start laying eggs) I've gotten 2 eggs all day.
She has a chicken (maybe more) that does peck the eggs and eat the yolks.
I'm gonna show her this and see what she thinks.
Ty for your FREE time and
FREE advice!
Hey Sven, I thought it better to comment here on chickens instead of in the film class! I used to have chickens, each hen would produce an egg a day! White Leghorns or RhodeIsland RedsI only fed them mash with water in the morning, the rest of the day they could roam the garden, scratching up the compost/insects. Super healthy with big red combs.
What about egg shells for calcium?
Try sprouting wheat for about 3 days until the roots are about as long as the wheat seed add this to your soaking feed. Volume of sprouts to your other soaked feed about 10% to 15%.
Another tip again sprout the wheat spread out into a tray water a couple of times a day until the wheat grass is about 2 to 4 inches then give to chickens complete with the root matting😊
I want to get "roll a way" egg things to put in my nesting boxes. Also wr have wood pieces on my coop I lift up for fresh protein.
and it seems that an added diet of ACV activated charcoal (biochar) is great for the calcium buildup in the chickens to give the eggs a harder shell and improves the health of the chickens.......an idea I read on line from Africa.....
My chickens are very very spoiled.
So I constantly need to change their menue…
Like grinded corn, carrots, nettles, salad, just very little fruits. And they love nuts… Peanuts 🥜 or sunflower seeds…the good stuff.
I make them incredibly crazy ‚party platters‘ 🤣
But they are tiny Seramas and even wintertime and snow we have eggs.
😊 my neighbors don’t 😜
nice video thank you for giving your ideas. From Philippines here starting to raise chicken at my backyard.
Thanks for the wonderful information you share🎉
I keep reading to feed the chickens mealworms or BSFL in very limited/small quantities, like a spoonful a day, for each hen, because it could damage their liver or kidneys or whatever because of their high protein content. Do you think this is true?
I found DIY fly larvae boxes/traps here on TH-cam. The one that seems to work best is a combo plastic tote box & PVC pipe-to-milk-bottle setup. No link Themtube deletes them anyway.
Thanks a lot for this video very helpful..to my small chicken farm...
This was a very helpful video. I'm just curious about the overall time investment in preparing the new feed vs. the old feed. Even if you save money on materials your time is worth something isn't it? Perhaps factoring that it might lessen your overall savings.
i'd say it adds an extra 45 minutes per month to mix it.
@@BackyardBoogi not bad!
I would say enjoy your time.
It’s not a problem to spend time with the hens ? Why would it be ?
Great tips! I'm going to have a think about making my own food mix too! 🐔❤
Can you do a video about the larvae farm please 🙏🏼?
Great. What is the name of that warm bin? Where i can find this?
Check out the video description fir links to the bin
Great mix but in tropics freeze extra. Humidity makes mold
Maybe I missed it, but could you please show me where you can get the magnetic door to open at night. I am interested in that. Thanks for your time in advance, and great video!!!
Link in the video description
Hi . I'm so glad I came across this video. You have just confirmed my theories. Fermented feed is far better and bsf farming can really help increase protein intake. Do you perhaps have a compost corner for the stuff that doesn't go into the bsf bins . Thanks again and God bless you brother
Wow! Great job on the nesting boxes
With the economy the way it is with increasing food prices every week, I would be hard to invest that kind of money into equipment for 7-8 hens, although I am going to try the special grain mix and the fermenting. I'm getting 0-3 eggs a day. Not enough for our 3 families living on our farm. Was thinking of buying more pullets but with my hens being under 2 years old it seems a bad idea. The hens have a HUGH chicken run with voluntary grasses. They also get table scraps. They are free fed lay pellets. I had a nest box for each one but they insist on all laying in one or two of them. I actually think they wait in line, lol! Found one egg on the floor in front of the main nest box! Silly birds, but I love them. I do have a very old hen that lays green eggs. She is free range plus her food dish always has lay pellets in it. She's houses at night with a Bantam hen, they are pals and roam together. Both lay well. It's the main flock that dilly dallies around with egg production.
Could you recommend a grinder for me? Thank you!
Love your beautiful hens!
Thank you for your video and about chicken egg / from Philippines new watching
Very good informative video regarding feed for My Hen .. Thank you
It only takes a couple days to ferment feed in an uncovered bucket?
Can you list where to buy what feed and prices?
Very good explanation pls keep it up
Thank you for sharing this with me my question is step no is not clear to me
I was just thinking of this myself about the feed
So I see the Modesto milling bag on here and I think you live around Modesto as well, but then I realized on the link you provided for feed they sale the Modesto milling feed on there. Just to let you know Modesto milling has everything you listed and cheaper direct.
Thank You so Much💕
Nice and informative ❤❤
Thanks
Nice video,thanks.
Thanks 🙏🏻
How can I get oyster shell?
Hi Mr could you please help me I'm having problems with my chickens they are fully grown but don't lay eggs
very good and informative video
Thanks 👍 bro for your informative tips about how to get more eggs
On the male chicken more power God bless..
Can you share where you bought your field peas? Also what type pf wheat do you use?
Very good ideas 💡 😀
What if my chickens don't have sunlight can they lay eggs please reply first time keeping chickens : weak English
Nice sharing 😊😊😊
This helpful.. thanks. I do commercial laying with Isa brown. I affirm with the extra calcium and protein, to avoid using bone calcium and to replenish protein during molting and feather loose.
Also, I ensure they get the maximum amount of light a day, btw 16 to 18 hours light per day. It also helps to stimulate egg production.
Great video
I just checked the price of those feed on the website you provided, and the price doubled
@Backyard Boogi, Do you need a separate
system for them to mate to breed more larvae?
Wow that's amazing
My chickens lay small eggs what must I do
Mine too are you are not the only on one what must we do
Wow... I just found out that fly maggots were very benefecial to chicken.. thanks I have tried feding it to them..ill go get some more maggots in the banana spoilage dumpsite in the banana packing plant near our place..
German hen female egg laying stop??
Bardzo dobę video 😃👍🤗
Grinder machine available
Great tips, gonna have to tell my granny who has 80 chickens 🙂
What take suppliers name and address please
Wow you had also rex?
The Australorp breed holds world record 364 ayear😮
I love chickens
Super
I used your feet remedy and fit it to my chickens they started laying two eggs a day
One chicken of mine gave a small egg like a dove egg
Cool
My Hens Do not Daily Putting Eggs 3 days One egg Or 2 days one Plez Give Me a Sojection this
thanks. I'm looking to buy a few one year old hens if anyone wants to sell to me.
Shouldn’t they just eat bugs?
I used to have up to 12 eggs par 2 days now i get 3 and less
The problem with soy is that 95% of it has roundup in the DNA. fresh is always better. whole grains do not lose nutrition.
REMEMBER: You CAN make 🐔lay more eggs in many way. BUT, just like HUMAN ♀️, we are BORN w/ all the eggs in our body we will EVER have. So if you force eggs out by all that work, or adding light in winter, ur 🐔's will run out/slow way down of eggs far sooner than if you let nature run it's course. Up to you. Either way, you'll get a certain # of 🥚s. It's kinder to let them live and lay naturally & get the rest they deserve.
It’s not about “forcing “ them to lay more eggs. It’s giving them proper rest and nutrition to support a healthy chicken. This is in no way bad for the chickens.
You wrong here.
@@ShamimUrrahman-hb5py contact your state university agricultural department and see for yourself
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If your he s are only laying 2 to 4 eggs a week you got the wrong chickens for laying😂. Barred rocks will lay quad that amount golden comets lay even more . Really your choice of chicken for laying eggs matters if my barred rocks slow down i add hot peppers to their diet. The purpose is to ward off parasites. Bam they go to laying like crazy again
How do you feed the peppers?
Honestly, its a lot of work too.
good
we want 1000 eggs for fertile you are using in incubator
Why is your chicken coop so dirty !? Yikes
Ohhhhhhh okey so that how I get eggs ok ok
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Organic chicken feed???? Corn is organic along with wheat,bean,rice, sunflower.......I believe u paid for the word organic and have the same feed I have for half the cost.
They slow fosn because their bodies are not supposed to give this many eggs in their life time.
Too much work for 3-5 extra eggs a day. Must be easier way
Just buy chicken scratch..it has all the same ingredients but i pay $13.00 for a 50 lbs sack..and crumbles at 16% i pay $15.00 for 50 lb sack....cheaper at a feed store then the headache of ordering your supplies