FROM EGG TO MATURE CHICKENS - Raising Chickens On the HOMESTEAD!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ก.ย. 2024
- After I made this video, I thought....are we a farm now? It sure feels like it. We have chickens at every level of development on our little homestead. Raising our own food never felt better!
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You are a Farm now. Come delivery day for Dolly, you'll have achieved it all! I love how the homestead is progressing. So much to learn and it's really interesting and entertaining. I really appreciate that you share all of this.
Thank you BRI for sharing your video homestead 🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🐐🐈🌱🐄🎥👍👍👍
I grew up with a Grandfather who was a farmer, he rotated crops twice a year, had cows, and a bull, had every vegetable and most fruits. All of the grocery stores in his town bought from him, he was very successful. Nothing was passed down, I wish it was, but no. I am very disappointed about that... but what can you do. I have a lot of great memories of visiting Grand Ma and Grand Pa. I will always love them for the memories they have given me. And I am sure I will see them in Heaven !. As far as I am concerned you guys are FARMERS, I'm sure my Granddad started out the same way you have !!!. LOVE You Guys, Keep on moving forward !. Thanks for your content.
Definitely a farm!!! I have been following since day one. You guys have accomplished so much!!!! Well done!!
we are raising over 50 chickens and geese and four rabbits right now. we have some fun videos on our adventure that we are doing and the start of our homestead.
That's allota chickens 🐥🐔 I can't imagine taking care of 10 i will just live vicariously through you guys and enjoy the videos!!!!
I found Silkies do just fine with the rest of the flock. No need to separate them in our experience. Thanks for the chicken update! I'm looking forward to following along.
It's so nice to see people raising chickens for meat that AREN'T cornish cross!! Looking forward to seeing the process :)
Bri, Thank you for the education today. We have Delawares that are in their second spring of laying. They are wonderful chickens. We have Rhode Island Reds who are in their first Spring. All are wonderful layers. We know we have to think ahead. We got rid of our rooster So we do not have the complete cycle ability. We like your sustainability idea. We will watch to learn from y'all. Great Video.
So smart of you guys to be doing the whole cycle.
First off, I am really enjoying your video's on the homestead, great to see a comeback of the small farm. Second, when you butcher your older hen I notice some of them have very nice looking hackle feathers which fly fishermen would love when tying their flies for fishing. You may want to look into skinning them and selling the hides for additional income, I am sure there will be a market for them if you check around the fly fishing community. Thanks for keeping this going, all the best for the most success possible.
we run our 3 Silkie hens with the rest of our chickens, have not noticed any of them being picked on, and we did use them to raise chicks we bought and also to hatch our own eggs. they are great little Mamas!
For some time we ran a dozen bantam hens with our full size flock. The only one that had issue was a small English bantam hen.
Also people will say that silkies don't roost and are bad in winter...we do not offer supplemental heat and get down to 20 below. They happily rooster and survived many Indian winters.
Just my personal experience.
Bri, my Japanese Silkie hatched four eggs a week ago. I have one rooster, a Japanese Silkie.
I also have buff Orpington, Rhode Island Red and Plymouth rocks.
I have been keeping cutie, my Brodie hen inside with the chicks and the others outside during the day. At the end of the day the other chickens are reluctant to go back inside. They are a bit afraid of Cutie. She is such a wonderful momma .
Great video guys! We have a similar philosophy in how we plan to raise and harvest our chickens, with natural culling. Thanks for sharing!
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the chickens are looking great you are doing a great job with them .
Very informative video, nice job Art & Bri. I like learning even when I am being entertained.
Really enjoy your work....video and farm! Y'all's (we're southern, we can say that!) place has come so far in the last year! Hopefully Dolly has an uneventful birth (they can be very eventful!) and you get to welcome a healthy calf to the homestead soon!
I hope so too! And she should calve any day!
Good vibes and a little prayer for Dolly and the youngster!
Bri my silkies are have been with other larger hens with no issues. Don't be scared about putting them in with other chickens when they are grown.
Get Barred Rocks, they are great foragers, domesticated, and the laying production is great ( 250+ a year). Oh yeah and there beautiful birds.
Catching up on your videos😃 Your family (no-fur and fur) have given me such inspiration and smiles from just posting your day to day life - thank you!
Don't forget the feathers.
Hi Bri -- love all of your videos... so envious that you are homesteading.... see it coming, your cool life !! Is that a mooring tree there? Terrific as greens!
Thanks for sharing this chicken 'full-circle' video,
nice see that the deep straw bedding also gives you 'really clean' eggs ;)
in the Netherlands I have a few Bresse chicken
We have heard of this breed. They don't seem to be too widely available here in the US.
While very rare Barred Hollands are excellent homestead birds. Buff Orpingtons are also excellent and can go broody. I have Pita Pinta (which can go broody too) they hit all the buttons as well. Delawares from Kathy Bonhams lines do go broody and are excellent dual purpose birds. Ive had all four breeds go broody for me.When I get property I will raise all 4 of these heritage breeds for all the reasons you mentioned. All are excellent foragers. The Pita Roosters especially are good.
Thanks for taking the time to do these videos. We're looking to do the same things you are and we love watching your channel.
there's a rhode island red rooster in by your pullets, if you did not notice yet, i saw 2 at 3:48 in the middle of the screen by the americana hen. Also easter eggers are a off branch of americanas, they are pretty much the same except they can lay green, brown, white, and pink tinted eggs instead of just blue. They also have longer tails and come in more colors.
Yes, I have noticed. :)
I have bantams in with my standard flock, no issues. I have a lot of chickens, and no issues.
Your homestead is truly growing and doing great! Keep up the good work. God Bless
Looking very happy & healthy.
wow, you have accomplished so much since I started following you. I admire the way you are always learning and growing and sharing that experience with us. Thank you for sharing another great day on the homestead.
"Yes" is certainly the answer to your question!
hey bri i had my silkies in with the rest of my chickens and they were fine i actually gave them to a broody hen at night when they were a day old and that worked great
Lots of good info to think about. Thanks!
seriously next year consider getting khaki campbell ducks they lay just as much if not more eggs then the best chicken they are good foragers, mamas and are dual purpose
We would love to. I love ducks and campbells are near the top of my list to own. Right now the buff duck is setting on eggs. If she is successful, these will be our ducks. We would like to have many breeds but probably one is enough for now.
You are most certainly a farm! just need to put your farm name maybe over the garden gate entrance? 😁 I remember when you had no animals, well other than Oreo. You've come a loonng way! Thanks for sharing your family and your homestead. ❤
We have three Dominique hens. One keeps going broody, but she isn't a steady setter. The neighbor we got her from said that he's had a hard time getting his Doms sit long enough to hatch eggs. We had one of our Dom/Buff Orp hens hatch out 7 babies 5 weeks ago. She is a great Mama.
Buffs are excellent setters and great mamas.
We have 9 Buff pullets that haven't started laying yet. I'm hoping they'll be broody next year. We also have a Black Cochin Roo I want to breed with our mutt flock to get more broodiness into the bloodlines. We'll be maintaining 3 pure breeds, Buffs, Delawares and New Hampshires. We'll be doing some cross breeds with the DE and NHs to get Indian River Broilers for our meat birds next year.
You should get muscovy ducks, they are the best when it comes to going broody. They are meat birds though, surely you have heard of them before. They lay clutches instead of consistently laying eggs every day, they start their first clutch in the early spring, they can lay 10-30 eggs per clutch. If you want them to go broody you let them make there nest, they usually lay in nesting boxes as they are one of 2 tree nesting ducks. Then once they start laying they will lay 1 egg a day and once they have almost finished there clutch they will pluck their down feathers and make a large nest and go broody. They will incubate THEIR eggs for 35 days before hatching but can go up to 40 days so they are able to incubate pretty much any other bird eggs. If you don't want them to go broody then you collect everyday and then once they get to the end of their clutch they will stop laying and take a break that can be 10-20 days long and then they start laying clutch 2, they can have up to 4 clutches a year, well if you live in a climate like i do. (Wisconsin) they are technically a tropical bird as they live in south america, but they are cold hardy. Drakes are bigger than most geese in weight, they have tender meat as they are a flying bird. If you have a old one, 3 plus years, and you butcher it, you will probably have to make steaks out of them because of how thick their breasts can get. They are one of the best tasting ducks, so if you do get them get a drake and 2-3 hens and you can let them all hatch out a brood and eat the chicks once they become adults. They are excellent free range birds, do not need swimming water and usually do not swim unless they need to bath badly. They are excellent fly catchers and usually find corners on buildings where flies get blown into and just sit and wait for flies. I personally think they are a awesome addition to any homestead but some people don't like them because of how strong they are, they have extremely strong wings and drakes claws can get up to an inch long, when handling they will flap and kick, feathers will make small paper cuts all over your face and claws can make inch deep wounds that are half a foot long down your arms. when butchering you want to pin them down on the ground, pull their wings up and hold both wings together with one hand, then bring them to a log, have one person sit on the duck and one hold the head down then chop it off with a axe, do not try to put them upside down in those cones, they will flail around and mutilate their face and neck. They act like geese, they are extremly bold and will stand up to coyotes and big dogs, they are mute, or silent. They also do not poop nearly as much as geese.
I love your videos! I am a city person, but just love all the work you guys do! Just amazed!
yep a farm the chicken is just a great thing to have i sell eggs off them and when they are getting rotated out with flesh one I sale them as meat birds I got partridge rocks,brahmas, buff orpington, rhode island red ,white rocks,black australorp,Plymouth rocks and leghorns I know you got a few of the same ones but I've never had a problem with any of the ones i got not wanting to sit I'll look into it thou keep up the good work and have a goodday
congrats guys the farm is jamming that's wonderful hard work does pay off God bless guys bye. 🐓🐔🐣🐤🐐🐮👍👍👍
I love your little farm !
My Silkies don't get picked on anymore that my other chickens. Once pecking order is established their all treated the same.
I have had white Cornish cross hens brood and hatch their own eggs. Turned out to be good mothers but the only lived about 3 years.
WOW! That is very interesting. I am surprised they lived long enough to do that.
Thank you for the great information ! I've learned so much. I never even thought about different breeds being broody or not before watching your videos.
My favorites out of raising many different breeds. The Dark Brahmas and the Buff Orpington.
I want Icelandic chickens too. I will be so happy when I get them.
domiques are smaller also,and silkies cant fly... so keep them seperate with lots of perches so they can go up/
Thank you for sharing your process with us. Great video
Making Wise choices Bri, sometimes hard choices.
Started with Barred Rock, actually had two go broody, predators found 😥. At time we had a mixed Rooster of barred rock & mixed mother. Now every year I change roosters & keep the hens that forage the most, two reasons, to stop line breeding, n introduce a added blood line, now my chickens are getting crazy looking to a bit. Must of been some black Austrolop in there because have some nice hens that are black with greenish legs , n just a necklace of golden feathers that love to forage n had some go broody. My hope is to keep weeding out the other ones, although seems nature doing it for me.
My rooster this year my rooster is barred rock mix again from another flock that free foraged. Eggs have hatched from him under broody hens . One thing starting to try is banding them when they become pullets. Especially if their mother was broody. On third generation now , going to start watching Craig's list as people want to get rid of extra roosters soon from this years flocks. Hope things work out in your favor, gonna keep watching! Hmm maybe 4th gen hmm, getting old, please keep records I've started n should started sooner.
I made the same mistake, I got some silkies but had to separate from the others, however, I also have two Brahmas with them as they are so gentle natured and got bullied by the others. They get on so well with the silkies but look really cute
those chicks are fantastic! really enjoyed watching this, thank you.
Hey yall! I live in the mts. here in the Asheville area .....found your blog awhile back while searching for advice on homesteading in this climate ....thanks for all the advice over the past few months and actually just commenting to say Bri you look beautiful in that color purple!
my i suggest looking into basque hens they're a heritage breed thats sort of new to America because of being a heritage breed they still have almost completely intact instincts but are supposed to be super friendly to humans. the only thing i'd say is a problem with them is because they are so new to America they are a bit hard to find.
I have a silkie hen who is the queen of the coop, and my 3 other hens are standard sized 😉
Ours have a terrible habit of 'bunknesting" where they squeeze in with the brooding hen and just keep laying excess eggs in the nest. so we have to mark the brooding eggs with a black felt pen and with a date so we can take out the new eggs and leave the brooding eggs, otherwise, they develop at different times and when the oldest hatch, the hen takes her chicks and leaves allowing the remainder to get cold and die. Very disturbing. We have changed our practice to moving the brooding hen into a wired area with room so she can hatch them and raise them till they get feathers and then we let them out.
Bri, not to confuse you, but...
Several years ago, I bought Ameraucana chicks from Whitmore Farms in Maryland (www.whitmorefarm.com/ameraucana). They were excellent mamas; in the first year after they started laying eggs, they hatched out 7 clutches of eggs, doubling the size of the flock. They were also excellent foragers. Whitmore has been selecting for larger, bluer eggs. Great birds. They are said to be dual purpose, and I did eat some of them - they are long and tall.
I also raised a flock of Dorkings that I got from Ideal in Commerce, TX (www.idealpoultry.com/item.html?i=223). These were huge, awesome, exceptionally friendly birds. Dorkings tend toward broodiness, make excellent mamas, are very thrifty, are thousands of years old, and are said to be one of the finest tasting chickens on the planet. They are hands down my favorite breed, especially for the homestead.
Best wishes on your new breeding program.
maybe if you hatched silkies with the other breeds they'd get along better than being introduced to an established flock...I raised a small flock together ducks and chickens and they all get along pretty well...but they don't like when new birds are introduced...
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But a non-sarcastic great job to you! You are such an inspiration :)
I have bantams with my 6 big chickens and a massive rooster , they dont bother them at all
Nice info Bri. Keep up the good work. :)
You can get large fowl Silkies that are similar size to the rhode island red you have
Orpington buff and black and blue and lilac are broody chicken give eggs and can be used the nice chickens a good breed..
Chickens for days! I love it. I was thinking about converting over to heritage breeds. It's just so difficult to decide!
have you considered Speckled Sussex? Nice dual purpose, friendly, good mommas... I love them!
I like the breeds you're thinking about...I tried to find Dominiques when we were first looking for chickens but there weren't any available near us. Maybe next time! Keep up the great work guys!!
Good stuff. I like it.
YES! I want to swithch to Icelandic in the next year or so. Good foragers.
silkies are a good chicken to start training dogs with cause there gentle and our silkies always layed down with my cat and dog they are pretty patient to but they might get spooked
I saw a few particular chickens from the third showing that looked exactly like my chicken maple or at least mostly the same
First time I've seen your channel. Nice looking farm!😉 Have you considered Orpingtons? Duel bird, considered in top 10 layers..but at #10 lol, cold hearty, docile and friendly, and very good mamas. I'm starting my first small flock of 2 Buff Orpingtons and 2 Lavender Orpingtons because of exactly these qualities. Looking forward to seeing more of your vids.
I love Orpingtons!
Oh man if you want a.good broody hen you should get a Buff Orpington. All of ours keep going broody which I wanted but now it's almost annoying when you actually want to eat eggs:) the other reason we got them was because they are also a dual purpose bird. I have been recently rethinking keeping only the Buff Orpington because I miss the variety in egg colors :)
I KNOW I will miss all of the colors, so I will probably keep some variation in breeds. BTW, do you know if Buff Orpingtons are good foragers?
ART and BRI I think they are, at least just as good as all the other breeds of chickens we have had. I only fill one feeder 1/2 to 3/4 full of grain a day and we have 60 chickens, ducks. I have seen them eat scorpions, small snakes, crickets and the occasional field mouse and they always take care of the fresh horse manure. All of our laying hens lay every day and I haven't noticed any issues with the egg quality. I will probably have to adjust their grain ration once they all start laying but I am trying to keep grain to a minimum.
beautiful chickens
I have only 6 hens and 10 nesting boxes. They tend to use only 1 or 2 of them. When my buff orpington goes broody and is in the preferred nesting box the other ones just go in and sit on top of her and lay their eggs. Those eggs roll under that hen. The last time she ended up sitting on 20 eggs before I moved her to the dog crate to finish. She only hatched out 2. I am just hoping they are both hens. This crazy thing happens every year.
I have been thinking of moving the broody girls, because I have checked and I do believe this is happening with my girls as well.
I have found that they have to be really stuck to that nest and not getting off. You have to move them at night. I put her in a big plastic dog crate with a door that closes. Then I put water and food in there for her. I keep the crate in the coop because once they hatch out I open the crate door and after 2 days usually she will start taking them out. Then she will take them back to the dog crate at night. After about 2 weeks she will start to take them up on the roost with her at night.
I like all your episode god bless your family always..
I have 2 slikie roosters run my hens they sliver lace, buff Orpington and Americana, 2 reds,banbam mix cochin and I will be getting more buff Orpingtons soon as I lost white easter egger, a sliver lace they both pass away..
u need another feeder for the little ones....too many for one feeder.
Ameraucanas have various colours, not just black.
Dolly is being very vocal this morning! who knew chicken choices would be so difficult? you are trying out different breeds for your farm which is good, learn by doing. (i love the black and white mature hens they are so pretty.) whats the difference between a farm and a homestead?
Rhonna Marsden homesteads are about self sufficiency, not doing so much outside buying or even selling. farms are generally about producing for markets and on a larger scale. there are also hobby "farms" where people with extra income just play around as farmers since they dont depend on the money to come in or for self sufficiency. - Jacob
Very informative video! I have 2 Dominique who can be great Mama's, I also have 4 Buff Orpington's that are suppose to be really good Mama's and endure cold winters! Thanks for all the information!
Buff Orpintons was wonderful mama's and are always going broody. They do great here in the winter in South Dakota. I got 2 Dominique's last year. They also did well in the cold last winter. I have a couple of leghorns who are awesome layers and they managed the cold just fine also.
Informative!!!
Thank you, that was nice...
Naples an Easter Egger probably exactly like the rest that I said looks like her
Yep, we have quite a few Easter Eggers .
Thank you for such an informative video! Creative ideas!! We have 11 chickens but would love to have more! By the way, we subbed! :)
Welcome to our channel!
Mmmmm they look delicious
Very interesting video
If you give your chickens back there eggs a d eggs shells they will lay longer and will lay better eggs
nice video
👋The silkies look beautiful. Is there a difference in flavour between them and others?
U can always sell them if u don't want them
What's your total now that the silkies are hatched? 😅
Last year we had a flock of mainly Rhode Island reds, a few black austrolorps, and a few ameracaunas/aracaunas. This year we have added dominiques and Buckeyes and I'm excited about the dominiques the most! They are beautiful, supposably dual purpose and have grown really well so far. So many breeds I think you really do just have to try them to see what's the best fit!
I think the total is 80!!!!
check out the buff orpington
Hi Bri...oh boy, how do you keep track of so many hens?!😳🐔
If you raise ducks for eggs you can sell the duck eggs for $6 a dozen hatching duck eggs go for $36 a dozen
What will you do with the roosters in the group at the barn? Blessings....
Lovely hens! What solar energizer make/model do you guys use on your poultry netting?
One is the larger Parmak charger, the Parmak Mag12SP, the other is from Premier One supplies, a 0.5 jouel charger. Not sure they make this exact model anymore, but they have a similar newer model.
Will you be harvesting your old hens? I have found they are delicious when cooked right.
Yes, some of them.
You aren't just a farm, Bri, you're an 'old McDonald farm! E-I-E-I-O! All you need now are pigs, horses and sheep.
love your videos! do your roosters ever try to attack you when you get near them? every rooster I have had tries to attack me even the bantam roosters (lol) thank you
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Icelandic chickens! Check them out :D They are an awesome landrace. We use to raise them here and I hope to raise them again one day! Their hatching eggs and chicks are also in very high demand. I was selling and shipping eggs for $50-$100 a dozen. If you were to get some, I'd get them from Harvey Ussery. He actually lives right up the road from me :) Here's the article that started the Icelandic chicken craze -- www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/raising-chickens/icelandic-chickens-zm0z14onzkin
Do you want broody hen for them to lay eggs and raise their own chicks for you to have meat chickens and egg layers continuously.? And what do you do with your hens when they no longer lay eggs?