Hey Matt my wife and I raise chickens too and we had an identical problem with our chickens a few months ago. What we discovered is the Leghorn chicken (white one) was aggressive towards the others and actually killed one of ours before we figured it out. I would recommend pulling the white chicken out and see if things improve. That's what we did with it's and all our chickens are back to normal. Plus I know how much you dislike that white chicken. We laugh everytime you talk about it because we feel the same about our white chicken. Hope that helps
Charles Mesnard good call. It's all about the breed. I favor the Astralorp, Orpington & Wyandotte. So many breeds with mild temperaments, why bother with the others. Ok, there are good reasons why, but not in my backyard. (:
This is pretty similar to what we had happen, but the only difference was we caught it happening on a camera we had setup so we had fried chicken one of the following nights.
The plucked feathers are the chickens going through what's called a "pecking order". It's normal with female hens. There's no way to make them stop. It's not bugs. If you want to treat the gorund or the dirt, use diatomaceous earth. The size of the opening for the nesting boxes are fine. The chickens don't really care. Hope this info helps. Happy chicken farming!
Your chickens are bullying each other. Ideally, you'd have a rooster in the flock to maintain dominance, but without one, the hens are fighting to be the top dog, so to speak. The white one is probably the meanest one and no one is messing with her.
I would go with option 2; big old school muscle car needs a big old school engine. Regardless of whether you decide on a 454 or 502 big block, I would still super charge it.
The chickens are just pecking themselves or each other. It’s definitely not mites because if it was there would be feathers missing from all over their bodies. My chickens have the same patch of feathers missing from their backs except for one so my best bet is that in every flock there is a dominate chicken that pecks the other. Yours unsurprising is probably white chicken. Also the nesting box opening is plenty big enough. If it wasn’t they wouldn’t be laying in it.
Chickens dominate the others by pecking and jumping on each other's backs like a rooster would during mating. Most likely white chicken is the culprit. There's always that "one" in a group of hens...kind of like women. It's a pecking order. I'd put out grit or crushed oyster shells and more roaming/scavenging time and space for bugs. Feather loss would be sporadic all over their bodies if it were mites.
Nick Crawford if they are molting it wouldn't just be their butts missing feathers. Their chests and upper necks would be bare or patchy as well. They also wouldn't be scratched up. They're doing it to each other to establish a line of dominance. The more torn up you are, the weaker and bottom of the ladder you are. White chicken is queen since she's the least messed up.
Hey Matt what your seeing in the chicken more than likely is just them picking on each other and pulling feathers. This is frequently called the pecking order. If you still have concerns about mites the two things you can look for are: 1) mite eggs. They look like very small white specks they will be near the comb and under the waddles. 2) the more direct options would be to look for the mites themselves. The will be small orange specs crawling around the skin near the base of the feather. Most commonly you'll see them under the wings or almost always near the vent. If you have them my personal method to treat them is a good garden/poultry mite dust on the birds, coating there legs in vegetable oil, and coating the comb and waddles in coconut oil. Also never hurts to sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the coop.
call the roadkill guys and colab an engineswap/supercharging! Have finnigan and freiberger shoot the 500 magnum once each on demoranch for everything that goes wrong :)
Scott Wiggins I'm a bit of a pureist about numbers matching or at least engine matching cars. I'm sure he wasn't looking for a Skylark GS but thought it was an SS regardless No stroked 350 is "muscle". So many of my friends have come to me with ""muscle cars" to tune the old fashioned way which are just rebadged cars. Like his. Rebadging cars is a scam. It should be illegal. I hope you find your dream car one day, and love it. Just don't make it a fake. March 1 tomorrow. Please register for marrow donation as per Demolition Ranch That's right, same guy looks after abandoned pets (vetranch) this, and my favorite guns. Bethematch
It's as though I want my engine and chassis numbers to match. Yet my DNA to be anywhere.(bethematch) I will fight for your right to do up any old car... until the wrong badges are on it lol. Keep loving almost everything mate. I'm close enough to Canada to say eh instead of thank you. So thank you, eh.
If I'm not mistaken, in your coop, you built two perches one in front of the other. In my experience, the ones in the back will peck at the ones in the front. Chickens will not normally face each other when sleeping. Perches need to be separated.
HELPFUL COMMENT! Chickens are attracted to red/pink. They attack at pink or red so the other ones are probably pulling out their feathers and attacking. Tsc sells a purple cream (chickens can't see purple) that will make it so the chickens won't attack. Also, don't let the girls go in the coop with red or pink nail polish. I've done this in my sandals and the chickens attack at them!! Hope this helps!!!!! Sincerely, a chicken expert😊😊😊
Oh and the boxes are plenty big enough. Buy eggs at the store and put them in there. It should help trick them into laying. Grew up with 70 chickens at a time. Always worked!
Jeah When I pick my eggs I always leave one because if I don't do that my chickens think their laying place got atacked or something like that and they will find new place to lay eggs but the problem is that they will hide egs in bales and I couldn't never find them.
Jessica Dean i think sometimes its natural to have chickens have a featherloss.. But you are the expert here :p Btw im an expert chicken catcher... the best way to catch them is go from the top not from the sides :p...
Matt, make sure the white chicken is a hen, not a rooster. My dad has had chickens for around five years or so, and whenever he gets a rooster by mistake, it will try to mount the hens, causing the hens feathers to get ripped out in that same spot on all of them. The white one could be a hen and just asserting its dominance by mounting the others as well. Just some food for thought.
as the owner of a 70 monte carlo SS as my first car and one of the best , the true ss came with 454 engine ,bucket seats and floor shift , but that is still a good looking car and wish I had mine back
LS7 swap the monte carlo, easily equal in rumble to the big block, 500+ horses stock and reliable as all hell. Plus they recently dropped the crate price to under 15...
Matt, Option 2. do what I was going to do. Drop a 454 in it, call the car "Casull" but keep it naturally aspirated and tune the carb right. If anyone doesn't know what the 454 Casull is...look it up
MATT CHICKENS you have an over aggressive chicken usually the one that has the feathers still is the aggressor but most of the time there is more than one picking on the other chickens. Sometimes if you remove the aggressive chicken it will stop but sometimes another one just take that place. it's probably the white one
Definately. Put a 572 in it with Holley EFI and a procharger. You definately have the space in that living room they call an engine bay on the Monte Carlo.
The chicks are Red because of there "picking-order" the highest chicken dosent get picked(the white one) and the last one is getting picked the most (the Black one). This is normal for chicken you dont need to treat this. Have a nice day.
It looks like Matt's actually worked his arse off to attain his dream life. I know a lot of people who wish for his life- but only a mere fraction of them are willing to put in the work to achieve that dream life status.. . myself included, lol. I swear, Matt's got more energy than any 5 kids I know COMBINED!!! It's not hard to see what drew Mere to him
There are multiple options stress (seems unlikely), molting (unlikely pattern), mites, lice and/or feather peaking (because of boredom or deficiency in the food). Feathers and eggs are predominantly protein. Adult chickens require diets between 15-17% protein depending on which chicken resource you rely upon. Protein deficiency's are not uncommon, bugs can help, come breeders will supplement with cat food. Also grits are very important so they get enough calcium. Chicken can get bored very easily, try to make food harder to get, sprinkle in in between pine cones or hang a piece of lettuce high up, so it is hard for them to reach, make a treat ball etc. Chickens love the color red. Chickens love to peck at red things including blood. Chickens can become cannibals if left to their own devices. Blu-kote can help with that!! You are treating for mites and lice so that is good. Consider giving your ladies a dust bath, it help them clean there feathers and eradicate mites and lice. They love it, of course it does have to stay dry. Good luck, hope this helps :)
Birds molt when seasons start to change. If it is mites try adding a sand box with sand so they can dust bathe. Birds LOVE dust bathing and it helps rid mites.
Not sure I'd trust that 383 if someone can't even put valve covers on tight. Who knows what else is wrong in there. Given your noise preference, big block seems to be the right direction. Plus nothing says that you can't supercharge one of those. Moar boost!
Option 2. And as for the sound you should get some high flow cats and replace all the cats (you can easily reach, cut and weld) with highflows and either replace the mufflers with some short 8"or 6" cherry bomb glass pack mufflers or if you aren't worried about price get some borla mufflers
The Monte Carlo has a carb with a manual choke that needs to be set before cranking to start when cold. Just step on the gas one time before cranking. That will let the choke close so it will start up without having a long crank time when cold. When the engine gets warmed, you don't need a choke, so it will start right away, without stepping on the gas. Just an old guy talking.
Matt, you ever heard of a 396 big block? Reliable and dependable, just make sure that the headers have clearance on the steering box. You will also have to swap/modify the front engine mounts, maybe a bigger radiator, fan with cowling....but.....it will give you what you want! Also if I remember correctly a 454 is just a small block that has been bored and stroked to the max....correct me if I'm wrong?!?
That's not molting. Molting is not concentrated like that, and wouldn't hit every chicken in the exact same spot. Your laying boxes look fine. I would tend to think it's either an infestation, like you suspected, or you've got a bully in your flock. Check for one that doesn't have a bald patch. If you find one, that's your culprit.
Matt if you put crushed lime stone on the floor of the run they will have dust baths in it and that naturally kills any mites but you will probably find they are just pecking each other LOL they do silly things like that .
454 with 12:1 compression, running the fitech 600hp self running TBI, long tube headers, X pipe, flowmaster super 44 mufflers, eddlebrock dual plane intake manifold, and a nice set of heads. A new camshaft with wider lobes will give you a better rumble.
Yeah, I raise chickens have most my life. Personally I wouldn't worry about it unless it gets really bad. Feathers come and go and chickens don't always look like show hens. If you get a rooster they can be pretty hard on the feathers.
The white chicken is running the coop. I’m pretty sure I saw him turn one of his pockets inside out and had one of the others grab onto it then lead him around the yard. Thug life.
Why not do a supercharged big block? Combine the best of option 1 and option 2 :) good luck in whatever you decide to do with it and also I can’t forget a good luck to you and your family! Thank you for the awesome videos :)
(Plz like so matt can see this!!!!!!!!) Dude check all the bolts and screws in the engine for your/familys safetys sake...more of them are bound to be loose and its better to check than have half of your engine fall apart while driving....and check the lugs on the tires...they may be loose considering that someone just finger tightened some of the bolts in the engine
a ummm "how would you want to tighten A Phillips screw?" i dont know maby with a Phillips head screwdriver or drill-bit....or maby just replace them and put bolts back on...then tighten them with a socket wrench....were not in the stone age and we dont have to hand tighten screws you know? We have tools for that kind of stuff buddy...entire stores devoted to tools...that should answer your "question"
I’ve had chickens sine before I could walk, they look like there picking each other’s feathers out, every thing is fine just give them some grit and oyster shell, they eat there feathers for protein, if they have mites you can see by looking though there feathers!
Brother man use diatomaceous earth food-grade put it in a tub grab the chicken rub it the powder throughout their feathers it's a lot healthier for them peace my friend
Had hens for about 5 years, had this feather and skin problem in basically all of them. We sprayed them like you did but also after changing the bedding, spread a mite powder in it, which was much more effective than the spray.
It looks like the chickens are pecking each other 2 feeders might help a bit. Ivermectin a drop on their back for mites and lice every 3 months and sprinkle diatomaceous earth in barn will keep parasites and flies under control. Also the openings are fine for the boxes if they were to small the chickens would just lay eggs under the boxes. :-) Love watching all the channels! :-)
Chickens don't peck each other's backs like that. They go for the head and neck. After all this time living together the chickens should have figured out the pecking order already and not have a lot of problems, certainly not a whole bunch of fights all at once between all of them to cause so much damage. It looks like self-inflicted wounds over irritation from mites. They can reach back and peck at themselves, sort of like how we itch ourselves. The thing to do is treat for mites, clean up the coop, new bedding, and hopefully that will fix the problem.
Only one of my chickens had it, and it went away on its own. But regular molt feathers are on the wings. You can also look at the pigment of the feet and if they're pale they might be molting.
Rookie mistake never ever clean a gasket off with metal (mental scraper etc.. ) You can cause little scratches witch then can lead to leaks! Plastic scrapers work great!
Sam Wagner I am not an expert , at all, but from my experience in small engines, it's either replace the gasket with a new one or use rtv in place of a new gasket, not both together (although this might be ok, I've just never done it) Matt probably knew he scratched the surface and probably doesn't care since it seems he will most likely replace this engine.
It's very possible that at night each chicken is plucking other chicken's feathers out but if it's mites you can buy a bag crushed up oyster shells that they will roll in that kills the mites
The weight of the 454 bends the cross member of the frame and screws with your front end alignment. You can keep it from doing that if you throw some cash at the frame and suspension though.
One of the hens will take the place of the rooster as the dominant chicken, and they have a literal pecking order. One hen will peck all of the others, the next won't peck the dominant one but all the rest, so on and so forth.
I'd go with Option 2! Bigger engine to start with And you will still be able to do modifications. If you need the classic feel. Otherwise option 3 i would personally choose because i always like getting new things :)
Pecking by other chickens usually on there backs is usually caused by stress, boredom or protein deficiency. Or heat stress. Hope this helps. You can debeak your chickens to stop this. It's done a lot with egg laying chickens also with turkeys. But regrowth can happen.
Green Lightening debeaking them only takes off the top part of there beak and normally only about 10%. This stops them from being able to pull feathers out. But they can still defend them selfs and eat/drink. And I would take it that they don't sleep in there nesting boxes so they have the whole chicken coop to sleep in and wouldn't think it would cause fighting between them. Just my thoughts. And just trying to help.
matt from what I know you should keep the white chicken away from the others for a week and if the missing feathers gets worst then ask the pros but if it doesn't then it's probably the white chicken but still ask the pros just to make sure
procharged LSX!!!! so reliable, so powerful, so smooth.... that said, if your not gonna be draggin it the big block with a hot cam will give all the chop you'll ever want
502 w/ weiand 8-71. You’ll make 800-1000hp easily. You’ll also be able to spin your tires doing 80, if you so wish. I would do an air locker in the rear, simply because having that diff on the highway will make it much more enjoyable to daily, and you’ll still be able to munch rubber at the flip of a switch. Also, a four link rear end and new control arms in the front along w/ coilovers will allow you to keep all that power moving in the direction you want it to.
The chickens can pluck each other if they are in a tight space. If they have lice then give them dry sand to make sand baths it helps to get rid of the lice. The openings are the writing size but if they can't see each other and it's warm they will lay more eggs.
Tractor Supply or some other feed store will sell a product called "blue kote". It is an iodine based product that will help keep the area clean. The bigger benefit is that is stains the skin BLUE and the hens stop picking on each other. Feather picking can result when hens are in an over crowded environment or stressed. It can get started when the hens are over mated. Once the skin is exposed, the other hens will continue to pick feathers. Use "blue kote" with care because it will stain your clothing too!
Muscle Car Man dude it’s 2018😂forced induction technology is at its peak and you can put a modern supercharger on a car in any climate and you’ll be fine
Option 2, but drop in a 396 with a low profile super charger. Leave the fiberglass hood in place, swap out the transmission for a turbo 400 and swap the rear end for a posi-traction with 373 gears.
We've had that problem with our chickens in the past & it was for 2 different reasons. The first was cause by our rooster. I don't know if you guys have a rooster but we separated him from our girls & gave them time & their feathers came back. The second was because of mites. We solved it by giving them diatomaceous earth to dirt bath in. It was an easy but very affective solution. If you don't see any mites it could be molting... Sometimes when they molt they'll pick at each other causing the redness. Good luck!
One of the chickens is plucking out the others feathers. We had a bird that did that once and got rid of her and it fixed the problem. Supposedly a rooster makes them all calm down.
Chickens will peck and eat each others feathers out of bordom and lacking protein. If blood appears on the chicken they will pick the bleeding chicken to death. Feed extra meal worms to raise protein levels and give extra snacks/treats to keep them busy. If the chickens dont have enough room in their coop it can also cause feather pecking problems. Each chicken needs 3ft square are inside the coop. And a 1square foot area for the nesting boxes. Any other questions about chickens for me just ask i raise them for eggs as well. I have alooot lol. Love all your channels and videos! Keep it up!!! ....more guns tho.....
Option 2 Get the big block you'll love it and there way easy to work on for beginners so when you want to teach your son about cars and most importantly you get to say it has a big block to cool
A question board for chickens appears to show that is not an uncommon problem and is usually some form of pecking issue. One person had some luck adding fat to their diets and some protein as well as adding some enrichment (hung a cabbage up in the afternoon for them to attack.) Apparently, feathers are high in fat. Try adding some suet to their feed and move their run around a bit so that they can get more bugs (they kind of pick it clean in fairly short order.) The poster wasn't sure whether it was the higher protein, added fats or the enrichment but it worked so I'd go for all three. Some are choosing to roost on the ground from the holes I see in the video so you might want to vent the nesting boxes better - they might be too hot. That would irritate the skin and make it itchy, leading to plucking. Kind of like hot spots on dogs.
Hey Matt I have some chickens too and I wanted to let you know that the chickens do that in their lifetime because they spur themselves and that is what takes the feathers away but mostly the males spur the females but it can go both ways too. And you can't really do anything to stop them from spuring each other I figured out that it's just part of what they do. Keep up the good vids 👍👍
My son and daughter in law used to have chickens, and yes, they tend to both spur each other *AND* peck each other, (supposedly) trying to assert dominance. It's supposed to be worse if they're confined into too small of an area, so perhaps, if you could figure out some way to give them a larger area to run in during the day???
I think for what you're looking for, you'd be happiest throwing a big block in it and eventually a bigger cam and upgraded valvetrain if you really want it to make noise
If you're engine swapping, the 454/502 conversion is more period correct and makes for s more believable restomod. But the 502 introduces issues with frame flex on launches, as would a high-powered LS swap. Monte's are built to cruise, so a high horsepower/high torque engine may require some rigidity improvement in order to prevent warping in the frame. However, as the 70 chevelle shared its frame with your car, and was available with a 454, a well mapped engine build of that type, with a good posi-trak rear end and a hand fitted exhaust would maybe give you both the power and sound that it sounds like you want.
I think you should do option 2 but not just option 2 I think you should also super charge it. It’s gonna be super fast and have that beautiful rumble and make the rear possy so big car big block big rumble and super charged that sounds amazing
Don’t know if this comment is a repeat, but as someone who had a ‘72 Chevelle SS with a factory small block, a big block is a direct drop in, I did not even have to chance the frame motor mounts to drop the $150 402 ci in my old toy. Miss that old car sometimes.
Option #2 - Big Block. Go with a ZZ502 crate engine from Chevrolet Performance www.chevrolet.com/performance/crate-engines/big-block-zz-502-deluxe 508 HP / 580 lb-ft Torque. Nice choppy sounding idle too.
You've already got a good base start with the 383. Supercharge it and put a mild cam in it. It'll be a great engine and will get better fuel than a 454 or 502.
Hey Matt my wife and I raise chickens too and we had an identical problem with our chickens a few months ago. What we discovered is the Leghorn chicken (white one) was aggressive towards the others and actually killed one of ours before we figured it out. I would recommend pulling the white chicken out and see if things improve. That's what we did with it's and all our chickens are back to normal. Plus I know how much you dislike that white chicken. We laugh everytime you talk about it because we feel the same about our white chicken. Hope that helps
Charles Mesnard white chickens taste the best, don't they? Lol
Sounds like BBQ Chicken is for dinner!
Charles Mesnard good call. It's all about the breed. I favor the Astralorp, Orpington & Wyandotte. So many breeds with mild temperaments, why bother with the others. Ok, there are good reasons why, but not in my backyard. (:
This is pretty similar to what we had happen, but the only difference was we caught it happening on a camera we had setup so we had fried chicken one of the following nights.
Matt could also set up the game camera to watch for what you said & it could be interesting footage for an OTR blog.
The plucked feathers are the chickens going through what's called a "pecking order". It's normal with female hens. There's no way to make them stop. It's not bugs. If you want to treat the gorund or the dirt, use diatomaceous earth. The size of the opening for the nesting boxes are fine. The chickens don't really care. Hope this info helps. Happy chicken farming!
So chickens are just jerks, got it
A G you can buy beak bits to stop them doing it. Pheasants do it and we put beak bits in to stop it
TheMMOptimist YES chickens are jerks. My grandpa had one that would charge you and try to flog you
Your chickens are bullying each other. Ideally, you'd have a rooster in the flock to maintain dominance, but without one, the hens are fighting to be the top dog, so to speak. The white one is probably the meanest one and no one is messing with her.
TheMuffinBurgler your comment is perfectly explained, and imo also what i was thinking
Lol Matt needs to read this
But won't it fertilize the eggs.
That white chicken is a bitch!
Oh bro we literally said the same thing, great minds think alike i guess
I would go with option 2; big old school muscle car needs a big old school engine. Regardless of whether you decide on a 454 or 502 big block, I would still super charge it.
You should take the chickens to this guy that has a U Tube channel called Vet Ranch.
JCS1069 Best comment here!
He doesn’t know much ;)
TROOOOLLLLL XD
JCS1069 iv herd of that vet clinic before. But I don't know ow ware it's located ? Not Texas for Shure because Matt doesn't work there
hahaha
The chickens are just pecking themselves or each other. It’s definitely not mites because if it was there would be feathers missing from all over their bodies. My chickens have the same patch of feathers missing from their backs except for one so my best bet is that in every flock there is a dominate chicken that pecks the other. Yours unsurprising is probably white chicken. Also the nesting box opening is plenty big enough. If it wasn’t they wouldn’t be laying in it.
This is true
Yeah looks like they are just peckng each other
My chickens do that
I have chickens and they are just trying to establish dominance by pecking each other and having a leader
Our rooster used to do that to the chickens when breeding. All the way up the hens necks . His beak was to long so we would trim it.
Option 4. Put a 572 big block with a roots blower. A 6-71 or something
option 2! 454, positrac rear end!! burn the old tires when you buy new set!!
Chickens dominate the others by pecking and jumping on each other's backs like a rooster would during mating. Most likely white chicken is the culprit. There's always that "one" in a group of hens...kind of like women. It's a pecking order. I'd put out grit or crushed oyster shells and more roaming/scavenging time and space for bugs. Feather loss would be sporadic all over their bodies if it were mites.
DaisyAggression yeah mine did that too or if there is a light in their coop keeping them up they'll pluck each other's feathers out from stress
It could also be that they are malting
Nick Crawford if they are molting it wouldn't just be their butts missing feathers. Their chests and upper necks would be bare or patchy as well. They also wouldn't be scratched up. They're doing it to each other to establish a line of dominance. The more torn up you are, the weaker and bottom of the ladder you are. White chicken is queen since she's the least messed up.
Mine have the same thing too except for one of them so I’m pretty sure you’re right.
DaisyAggression Y'all are picking on White Chicken.
Hey Matt what your seeing in the chicken more than likely is just them picking on each other and pulling feathers. This is frequently called the pecking order. If you still have concerns about mites the two things you can look for are: 1) mite eggs. They look like very small white specks they will be near the comb and under the waddles. 2) the more direct options would be to look for the mites themselves. The will be small orange specs crawling around the skin near the base of the feather. Most commonly you'll see them under the wings or almost always near the vent. If you have them my personal method to treat them is a good garden/poultry mite dust on the birds, coating there legs in vegetable oil, and coating the comb and waddles in coconut oil. Also never hurts to sprinkle diatomaceous earth around the coop.
Chickens: if only you knew someone who was, like a professional, like a doctor, but for animals...
Now that's funny.
Hiapo Cockett he's a small animal vet chickens are farm animals
Hiapo Cockett He's a pet vet lol.
Hiapo Cockett like a vet?
Hiapo Cockett there are different type of vets and he is not an exotic. Animal vet
Option 2 or 3 both are awesome but I would do option 2 just for the sound and classic feel
call the roadkill guys and colab an engineswap/supercharging! Have finnigan and freiberger shoot the 500 magnum once each on demoranch for everything that goes wrong :)
Fredd persson Crusher Monte Carlo
Big Block. You wanted a classic, keep it classic.
But it's a small block car with SS badges. He got screwed. Nothing he does will turn it into a Skylark GS stage 4(the most powerful muscle car ever)
m1t2a1 I don’t think he wanted a SkyLark; the price he got it for was probably pretty darned good too. I wouldn’t be complaining... 😂
Scott Wiggins I'm a bit of a pureist about numbers matching or at least engine matching cars. I'm sure he wasn't looking for a Skylark GS but thought it was an SS regardless No stroked 350 is "muscle". So many of my friends have come to me with ""muscle cars" to tune the old fashioned way which are just rebadged cars. Like his. Rebadging cars is a scam. It should be illegal. I hope you find your dream car one day, and love it. Just don't make it a fake. March 1 tomorrow. Please register for marrow donation as per Demolition Ranch That's right, same guy looks after abandoned pets (vetranch) this, and my favorite guns. Bethematch
m1t2a1 I respect that, cheers!
It's as though I want my engine and chassis numbers to match. Yet my DNA to be anywhere.(bethematch) I will fight for your right to do up any old car... until the wrong badges are on it lol. Keep loving almost everything mate. I'm close enough to Canada to say eh instead of thank you. So thank you, eh.
If I'm not mistaken, in your coop, you built two perches one in front of the other. In my experience, the ones in the back will peck at the ones in the front. Chickens will not normally face each other when sleeping. Perches need to be separated.
I sent the camera I bought it and never used it hope you like it
Yeah I bet you did
All the chickens seem to have peck marks, except the white chicken...
I smell a conspiracy...
Kick Saunders the white one is a rooster.
Kick Saunders
The white chicken did it!
Kick Saunders I hope he realizes that the chickens are just having some fun and not in any danger 😂
Kick Saunders i say the white chicken is bullying the other chickens maybe?
They are peck marks
HELPFUL COMMENT! Chickens are attracted to red/pink. They attack at pink or red so the other ones are probably pulling out their feathers and attacking. Tsc sells a purple cream (chickens can't see purple) that will make it so the chickens won't attack. Also, don't let the girls go in the coop with red or pink nail polish. I've done this in my sandals and the chickens attack at them!! Hope this helps!!!!!
Sincerely, a chicken expert😊😊😊
Oh and the boxes are plenty big enough. Buy eggs at the store and put them in there. It should help trick them into laying. Grew up with 70 chickens at a time. Always worked!
Jeah When I pick my eggs I always leave one because if I don't do that my chickens think their laying place got atacked or something like that and they will find new place to lay eggs but the problem is that they will hide egs in bales and I couldn't never find them.
They sell fake eggs at Tractor Supply.
Jessica Dean i think sometimes its natural to have chickens have a featherloss..
But you are the expert here :p
Btw im an expert chicken catcher... the best way to catch them is go from the top not from the sides :p...
Jessica Dean yup chickens will always try to addup eggs on top of others.
Matt, make sure the white chicken is a hen, not a rooster. My dad has had chickens for around five years or so, and whenever he gets a rooster by mistake, it will try to mount the hens, causing the hens feathers to get ripped out in that same spot on all of them. The white one could be a hen and just asserting its dominance by mounting the others as well. Just some food for thought.
That troublemaker... XD
Jonathan Fronheiser 👍
The white one has proven to be an a-hole..
Agreed. Our chickens have the same issue... Roosters get a little rough with the ladies sometimes
True there’s nothing wrong with the chicken 😂 just having fun time
as the owner of a 70 monte carlo SS as my first car and one of the best , the true ss came with 454 engine ,bucket seats and floor shift , but that is still a good looking car and wish I had mine back
LS7 swap the monte carlo, easily equal in rumble to the big block, 500+ horses stock and reliable as all hell. Plus they recently dropped the crate price to under 15...
Matt, Option 2. do what I was going to do. Drop a 454 in it, call the car "Casull" but keep it naturally aspirated and tune the carb right.
If anyone doesn't know what the 454 Casull is...look it up
Curtis Boynton if anyone doesn't know then we can't be freinds......
It's a caliber as well as an engine size your welcome
454 bore and stroked to a 512 natural aspiration... easy cheap can make great power with a good cam and a set of heads
The bigger engine the better
MATT CHICKENS you have an over aggressive chicken usually the one that has the feathers still is the aggressor but most of the time there is more than one picking on the other chickens. Sometimes if you remove the aggressive chicken it will stop but sometimes another one just take that place. it's probably the white one
I agree!!
Its always the white ones
Racists.... always blaming the white ones
Hey white chicken, check your privilege!!!
My parents had this issue with their chickens, and the hens were pecking each other, you could get a cockerel as I have heard that can help
“ They’re made for like drinking orange juice .”😂
Option 2 with a supercharger - then take it to that guy who did the exhaust on the Goblin and ask him to make it go blub blub blub :)
oh yes, and this needs a 50cal exhaust tip
A good cam will make it do that plus add a bit of power.
Yes do this
I agree
yea true muzzlebrakes as exhaust is amazing one like this maybe??: www.lockharttactical.com/media/com_hikashop/upload/muzzle-brake.jpg
*OPTION 2* That old boat of a car is always going to be heavy. So a built to hell monster engine. "It's not the fastest car, but it's cool as hell".
Agreed. LSx is a great choice but too common. I say fuel injected big block.
domainjester iiiii
Definately. Put a 572 in it with Holley EFI and a procharger. You definately have the space in that living room they call an engine bay on the Monte Carlo.
Yes big block with roller isky cam
632 big block, hydraulic roller, 950cfm Holley carb, since it's just going to be a cruiser, basically.
The chicks are Red because of there "picking-order" the highest chicken dosent get picked(the white one) and the last one is getting picked the most (the Black one). This is normal for chicken you dont need to treat this. Have a nice day.
Matt stole my dream life...
It looks like Matt's actually worked his arse off to attain his dream life. I know a lot of people who wish for his life- but only a mere fraction of them are willing to put in the work to achieve that dream life status.. . myself included, lol. I swear, Matt's got more energy than any 5 kids I know COMBINED!!! It's not hard to see what drew Mere to him
Trust me you don’t want chickens
Make your own beautiful life.
Go big block! You have have a classic, keep it classic. You have a modern speedster. I am all about fulfilling all the categories!
David MN im on your side dude GO F#CKING BIG 😂
There are multiple options stress (seems unlikely), molting (unlikely pattern), mites, lice and/or feather peaking (because of boredom or deficiency in the food).
Feathers and eggs are predominantly protein. Adult chickens require diets between 15-17% protein depending on which chicken resource you rely upon. Protein deficiency's are not uncommon, bugs can help, come breeders will supplement with cat food. Also grits are very important so they get enough calcium.
Chicken can get bored very easily, try to make food harder to get, sprinkle in in between pine cones or hang a piece of lettuce high up, so it is hard for them to reach, make a treat ball etc.
Chickens love the color red. Chickens love to peck at red things including blood. Chickens can become cannibals if left to their own devices. Blu-kote can help with that!!
You are treating for mites and lice so that is good.
Consider giving your ladies a dust bath, it help them clean there feathers and eradicate mites and lice. They love it, of course it does have to stay dry.
Good luck, hope this helps :)
someonedifferent198 this couple paragraphs look like smart type of thing idk I liked the comment. Seems to make sense pretty much.
White chicken is beating up the other chickens,
Did it not look like the white chicken had all it's feathers? The white chicken is evil, it will kill all the other chickens.
Louis Johnson white chicken privilege
Birds molt when seasons start to change. If it is mites try adding a sand box with sand so they can dust bathe. Birds LOVE dust bathing and it helps rid mites.
Big Block 502 with both wheels spinning
Not sure I'd trust that 383 if someone can't even put valve covers on tight. Who knows what else is wrong in there.
Given your noise preference, big block seems to be the right direction. Plus nothing says that you can't supercharge one of those. Moar boost!
Option 4. Powered by 8 .50 bmg firing continuously in fast succession.
Matt, specially came from the channel with the Russian translation of your video to vote for the third option.
From Russia with love :)
Option 2. And as for the sound you should get some high flow cats and replace all the cats (you can easily reach, cut and weld) with highflows and either replace the mufflers with some short 8"or 6" cherry bomb glass pack mufflers or if you aren't worried about price get some borla mufflers
good news! that year of Monte doesn't need cats
No cats needed on a ‘70. Just headers and mufflers. Flow master makes some good mufflers for a big block!
if they are plucking each other put a red heat lamp inside the coop and it helps keep them calm and stop the plucking.
Better yet. Let them pluck each other bald, then put a hot oil bath (AKA Deep Fryer) in the coup. Serve with French Fries.
rustzz8 it also means he has too many chickens in one spot.
that was also a thought i had
rustzz8 you can also get a spray for for them to stop picking at each other
the white one is probably the bully
The Monte Carlo has a carb with a manual choke that needs to be set before cranking to start when cold. Just step on the gas one time before cranking. That will let the choke close so it will start up without having a long crank time when cold. When the engine gets warmed, you don't need a choke, so it will start right away, without stepping on the gas. Just an old guy talking.
I do believe it's not stock so who knows what carb he's got
It's has a quadrajet carbs Wich is stock and also junk. He needs to lose it and get a eldebrock, Barry grant or Holley.
Matt, you ever heard of a 396 big block? Reliable and dependable, just make sure that the headers have clearance on the steering box. You will also have to swap/modify the front engine mounts, maybe a bigger radiator, fan with cowling....but.....it will give you what you want! Also if I remember correctly a 454 is just a small block that has been bored and stroked to the max....correct me if I'm wrong?!?
That's not molting. Molting is not concentrated like that, and wouldn't hit every chicken in the exact same spot. Your laying boxes look fine. I would tend to think it's either an infestation, like you suspected, or you've got a bully in your flock. Check for one that doesn't have a bald patch. If you find one, that's your culprit.
Neathway it's that damn white 🐔
I agree probably one fighting
White Chicken!!!!
I agree the white one
Also just them assuring their pecking order literally
Matt if you put crushed lime stone on the floor of the run they will have dust baths in it and that naturally kills any mites but you will probably find they are just pecking each other LOL they do silly things like that .
You should put a camera in that watches the chickens. I think the white one is picking on everyone else
Becca Boop that was my first assumption as well since the white one isn’t missing any
Eat the white chicken you know it's her
Becca Boop u are right about that
I'd agree with this idea Matt, if you still have that game camera, it'd be perfect for this.
454 with 12:1 compression, running the fitech 600hp self running TBI, long tube headers, X pipe, flowmaster super 44 mufflers, eddlebrock dual plane intake manifold, and a nice set of heads. A new camshaft with wider lobes will give you a better rumble.
Hey Matt chickens love to peck each others feathers out it's how they figure out the Peking order so if the spay doesn't work that's probably why
Olsson Gamer yeah
Seems like White Chicken 🐔 is the boss 🥇
Yeah, I raise chickens have most my life. Personally I wouldn't worry about it unless it gets really bad. Feathers come and go and chickens don't always look like show hens. If you get a rooster they can be pretty hard on the feathers.
I saw someone else mention it below but diatomacious earth will help with parasites and such.
option 2!!!!!!
The white chicken is running the coop. I’m pretty sure I saw him turn one of his pockets inside out and had one of the others grab onto it then lead him around the yard. Thug life.
Why not do a supercharged big block? Combine the best of option 1 and option 2 :) good luck in whatever you decide to do with it and also I can’t forget a good luck to you and your family! Thank you for the awesome videos :)
(Plz like so matt can see this!!!!!!!!)
Dude check all the bolts and screws in the engine for your/familys safetys sake...more of them are bound to be loose and its better to check than have half of your engine fall apart while driving....and check the lugs on the tires...they may be loose considering that someone just finger tightened some of the bolts in the engine
Hots Coffman i think its logic that the bolts didnt hold, how do you want to realy tighten an philips screw?
Who cares
sahlool ummmm 62 people as of now....more soon...and you do aswell or you wouldent troll youtube comments
a ummm "how would you want to tighten A Phillips screw?" i dont know maby with a Phillips head screwdriver or drill-bit....or maby just replace them and put bolts back on...then tighten them with a socket wrench....were not in the stone age and we dont have to hand tighten screws you know? We have tools for that kind of stuff buddy...entire stores devoted to tools...that should answer your "question"
502 and an old school Weiand supercharger. Its all about the rumble and the cool factor! More importantly though... what does Matt want?
I’ve had chickens sine before I could walk, they look like there picking each other’s feathers out, every thing is fine just give them some grit and oyster shell, they eat there feathers for protein, if they have mites you can see by looking though there feathers!
rcg adventure are you sure you own chickens when you can’t type write? Not to mention the grammar mistakes.
bloxedeternity I wasn’t writing a essay for my English teacher!
Option two, supercharged, 502, high performance parts, torque and power with old school rumble, make Mair dislike it whenever you start it ;)
Brother man use diatomaceous earth food-grade put it in a tub grab the chicken rub it the powder throughout their feathers it's a lot healthier for them peace my friend
make sure it is food grade diatomaceous earth.
Had hens for about 5 years, had this feather and skin problem in basically all of them. We sprayed them like you did but also after changing the bedding, spread a mite powder in it, which was much more effective than the spray.
It looks like the chickens are pecking each other 2 feeders might help a bit. Ivermectin a drop on their back for mites and lice every 3 months and sprinkle diatomaceous earth in barn will keep parasites and flies under control. Also the openings are fine for the boxes if they were to small the chickens would just lay eggs under the boxes. :-) Love watching all the channels! :-)
Chickens don't peck each other's backs like that. They go for the head and neck. After all this time living together the chickens should have figured out the pecking order already and not have a lot of problems, certainly not a whole bunch of fights all at once between all of them to cause so much damage. It looks like self-inflicted wounds over irritation from mites. They can reach back and peck at themselves, sort of like how we itch ourselves. The thing to do is treat for mites, clean up the coop, new bedding, and hopefully that will fix the problem.
Heaven's Wildlife Rescue that is true
Only one of my chickens had it, and it went away on its own. But regular molt feathers are on the wings. You can also look at the pigment of the feet and if they're pale they might be molting.
Option 2 but a bowtie do a 540cu inch big block
Mike McCabe 572 big block
Mike McCabe
Blowen 540 100%
Big block, super charged
Rookie mistake never ever clean a gasket off with metal (mental scraper etc.. ) You can cause little scratches witch then can lead to leaks! Plastic scrapers work great!
ryan Lewis yep agreed
ryan Lewis yeah agreed
He used rtv though, which would fill those scratches
thats what the gasket is for
Sam Wagner I am not an expert , at all, but from my experience in small engines, it's either replace the gasket with a new one or use rtv in place of a new gasket, not both together (although this might be ok, I've just never done it) Matt probably knew he scratched the surface and probably doesn't care since it seems he will most likely replace this engine.
Option 2 and go all out. Super charge, 502, and put quality parts on it.
Mere going to the grocery store with the 454. Revving people at stop lights then she flips them off and burns them! Got to love that.
It's very possible that at night each chicken is plucking other chicken's feathers out but if it's mites you can buy a bag crushed up oyster shells that they will roll in that kills the mites
Making the boxes a little bigger wouldn't hurt
#savethechickens sounds like good suggestions.
Looks like the white chicken is the culprit
Go option 2 with the 454!
joelnert agreed
Why not go big or go home with a 572!
Go option 2 but as big as possible
502 or 572
you mean a 610 or a 1001 then, anything else isnt "as big as possible".
The weight of the 454 bends the cross member of the frame and screws with your front end alignment. You can keep it from doing that if you throw some cash at the frame and suspension though.
One of the hens will take the place of the rooster as the dominant chicken, and they have a literal pecking order. One hen will peck all of the others, the next won't peck the dominant one but all the rest, so on and so forth.
The white chicken is likely the dominant seeing as it has all its feathers. There isn't much you can do about it.
Yep its nature.... the strongest always wins
I'd go with Option 2! Bigger engine to start with And you will still be able to do modifications. If you need the classic feel.
Otherwise option 3 i would personally choose because i always like getting new things :)
Pecking by other chickens usually on there backs is usually caused by stress, boredom or protein deficiency. Or heat stress. Hope this helps. You can debeak your chickens to stop this. It's done a lot with egg laying chickens also with turkeys. But regrowth can happen.
Green Lightening debeaking them only takes off the top part of there beak and normally only about 10%. This stops them from being able to pull feathers out. But they can still defend them selfs and eat/drink. And I would take it that they don't sleep in there nesting boxes so they have the whole chicken coop to sleep in and wouldn't think it would cause fighting between them. Just my thoughts. And just trying to help.
matt from what I know you should keep the white chicken away from the others for a week and if the missing feathers gets worst then ask the pros but if it doesn't then it's probably the white chicken but still ask the pros just to make sure
Time for a BBQ
Either one or 2, preferably 2. Love the classic engine sounds. Especially when there’s open exhaust and you can hear the cam lopes.
I agree that sound in just eargasmic
procharged LSX!!!! so reliable, so powerful, so smooth.... that said, if your not gonna be draggin it the big block with a hot cam will give all the chop you'll ever want
502 w/ weiand 8-71. You’ll make 800-1000hp easily. You’ll also be able to spin your tires doing 80, if you so wish. I would do an air locker in the rear, simply because having that diff on the highway will make it much more enjoyable to daily, and you’ll still be able to munch rubber at the flip of a switch. Also, a four link rear end and new control arms in the front along w/ coilovers will allow you to keep all that power moving in the direction you want it to.
Being only one chicken doesn't have missing feathers...and it is the trouble chicken....I'm guessing the white chicken is bullying the others.
Richard Head everyone blames the white chicken...geez 😏
Richard Head I think you are right
White privilege..
Mary Epstein LOL
The chickens can pluck each other if they are in a tight space. If they have lice then give them dry sand to make sand baths it helps to get rid of the lice. The openings are the writing size but if they can't see each other and it's warm they will lay more eggs.
Tractor Supply or some other feed store will sell a product called "blue kote". It is an iodine based product that will help keep the area clean. The bigger benefit is that is stains the skin BLUE and the hens stop picking on each other. Feather picking can result when hens are in an over crowded environment or stressed. It can get started when the hens are over mated. Once the skin is exposed, the other hens will continue to pick feathers. Use "blue kote" with care because it will stain your clothing too!
You need to make it a big block, and loud exhaust. Superchargers don't like warm weather.
Muscle Car Man dude it’s 2018😂forced induction technology is at its peak and you can put a modern supercharger on a car in any climate and you’ll be fine
just get an interchiller
heck get both. big block with force induction.. big car would be at home with a big motor imo.
Alec, Yeah superchargers are fine in any climate nowadays
We've had the same problem with our chickens since we've started mixing brown chickens in. They're way more aggressive.
Option 2 because big block chevys sound awesome and they are really powerful. And they aren't that expensive
if my chickens looked like that I would give them a quick dusting of flour and bathe them in hot vegetable oil for 10 to 15 minutes...
Lmao
Hee hee
Way to funny
Thats great!
lol
Option 2, but drop in a 396 with a low profile super charger. Leave the fiberglass hood in place, swap out the transmission for a turbo 400 and swap the rear end for a posi-traction with 373 gears.
Option 2. Keep it old school. Oh and put a manual trans in it.
Camaro Dreams76 that sounds pretty cool
yes go manual trans or you are not really a car guy. :)
We've had that problem with our chickens in the past & it was for 2 different reasons. The first was cause by our rooster. I don't know if you guys have a rooster but we separated him from our girls & gave them time & their feathers came back. The second was because of mites. We solved it by giving them diatomaceous earth to dirt bath in. It was an easy but very affective solution. If you don't see any mites it could be molting... Sometimes when they molt they'll pick at each other causing the redness. Good luck!
One of the chickens is plucking out the others feathers. We had a bird that did that once and got rid of her and it fixed the problem. Supposedly a rooster makes them all calm down.
Chickens will peck and eat each others feathers out of bordom and lacking protein. If blood appears on the chicken they will pick the bleeding chicken to death. Feed extra meal worms to raise protein levels and give extra snacks/treats to keep them busy. If the chickens dont have enough room in their coop it can also cause feather pecking problems. Each chicken needs 3ft square are inside the coop. And a 1square foot area for the nesting boxes. Any other questions about chickens for me just ask i raise them for eggs as well. I have alooot lol. Love all your channels and videos! Keep it up!!! ....more guns tho.....
Option 2 Get the big block you'll love it and there way easy to work on for beginners so when you want to teach your son about cars and most importantly you get to say it has a big block to cool
Yea the chicken that has no problem with her feathers is pecking the others. Also option 2 can’t beat that big block rumble
Option 2 would be awesome
A question board for chickens appears to show that is not an uncommon problem and is usually some form of pecking issue. One person had some luck adding fat to their diets and some protein as well as adding some enrichment (hung a cabbage up in the afternoon for them to attack.) Apparently, feathers are high in fat. Try adding some suet to their feed and move their run around a bit so that they can get more bugs (they kind of pick it clean in fairly short order.) The poster wasn't sure whether it was the higher protein, added fats or the enrichment but it worked so I'd go for all three. Some are choosing to roost on the ground from the holes I see in the video so you might want to vent the nesting boxes better - they might be too hot. That would irritate the skin and make it itchy, leading to plucking. Kind of like hot spots on dogs.
They dig into the dirt to stay cool. Not nesting in it.
502 Big Block
Big block 502! That would be so sick!
Hey Matt I have some chickens too and I wanted to let you know that the chickens do that in their lifetime because they spur themselves and that is what takes the feathers away but mostly the males spur the females but it can go both ways too. And you can't really do anything to stop them from spuring each other I figured out that it's just part of what they do. Keep up the good vids 👍👍
My son and daughter in law used to have chickens, and yes, they tend to both spur each other *AND* peck each other, (supposedly) trying to assert dominance. It's supposed to be worse if they're confined into too small of an area, so perhaps, if you could figure out some way to give them a larger area to run in during the day???
I think for what you're looking for, you'd be happiest throwing a big block in it and eventually a bigger cam and upgraded valvetrain if you really want it to make noise
LS swap, or big block
David Kirkpatrick big block
Option two, BIG BLOCK!
Juan Tunon he needs a 502
Agreed, with a supercharger.
All three of the above
502
twin turbskies on the 502 #DoItForDale
If you're engine swapping, the 454/502 conversion is more period correct and makes for s more believable restomod. But the 502 introduces issues with frame flex on launches, as would a high-powered LS swap. Monte's are built to cruise, so a high horsepower/high torque engine may require some rigidity improvement in order to prevent warping in the frame. However, as the 70 chevelle shared its frame with your car, and was available with a 454, a well mapped engine build of that type, with a good posi-trak rear end and a hand fitted exhaust would maybe give you both the power and sound that it sounds like you want.
Nothing feels and sounds better than a big block, by feel , i mean the vibrations that go through your body from the sound waves...GO2MAT
I think you should do option 2 but not just option 2 I think you should also super charge it. It’s gonna be super fast and have that beautiful rumble and make the rear possy so big car big block big rumble and super charged that sounds amazing
gotta get some side dumps for it too
Spray does not work grab a 80lb bag of Diatomaceous Earth not the grey stuff the food grade not the pool stuff and throw it everywhere
Wood ash works too and it’s a good excuse to have a bonfire with the kids
White chicken is likely top of the pecking order and that is why it doesn't have any issues...
Don’t know if this comment is a repeat, but as someone who had a ‘72 Chevelle SS with a factory small block, a big block is a direct drop in, I did not even have to chance the frame motor mounts to drop the $150 402 ci in my old toy. Miss that old car sometimes.
I wonder if little Lincoln knows he has the coolest Dad in the world? ;)
Option #2 - Big Block. Go with a ZZ502 crate engine from Chevrolet Performance
www.chevrolet.com/performance/crate-engines/big-block-zz-502-deluxe
508 HP / 580 lb-ft Torque. Nice choppy sounding idle too.
Those are almost $10,000 he could get a ls3 t56 and lsa supercharger for less than that and make 100+ more hp
also check out Whipple for the supercharger upgrade to that engine. whipplesuperchargers.com/index.php
That Engine costs 10 GRAND! NOT WORTH IT!
Option 2 plus super charge
You've already got a good base start with the 383. Supercharge it and put a mild cam in it. It'll be a great engine and will get better fuel than a 454 or 502.