Great job on your vlog, I especially liked the bloopers at the end. You’ve inspired me to raise chickens, which are 2-weeks old today and will free range in my backyard. The chickens will share the yard with my dogs, should I be concerned about the dogs eating the droppings and them getting sick from salmonella bacteria?
I'd say your dogs could potentially get sick from eating chicken poo....but I'm not totally sure. Our dogs run in the yard but we don't have too much trouble with eating poo
Last year my wife and I moved out of the suburbs onto a 10 acre rural property in Michigan. We have used your videos almost exclusively to help us raise hens for the first time. Our flock of 8 birds are 9 weeks old this week and so far it has been awesome. I just wanted to thank you for the content you upload because it really did affect how we think about our food and we are taking steps to become more self-sufficient. You make it easy for us!
There's always one chicken outside the pen. It was my job to put it back when visiting my grandparents. A half hour out of my life each time I had to catch it. I made sure the escapee was the one we ate, if grandpa was harvesting.
Chickens are easy to catch... if you’re willing to dive for them, and possibly injury to both the bird and you, but I got good at dive bombing chickens.
Little Bob, I'm wondering how did people ward off bears back in the days before electric fencing? Did your grandparents just keep the chickens in the barn along with cows, horses?
Nice video, one thing you might like to look into are Guinea Fowl, they are somewhat long lived, and keep the ticks, flys, and mosquitoes off your cattle. Since they are not domesticated they can live pretty much independently. That and they get a lot of second takes by the neighbors, most people aren’t used to seeing feathered teapots moving around in a field. Just to clarify, my information is mostly secondary having watched a beef cattle farmer near my place of work for the past 20 years, and googling the benefits behind why he would have such strange looking birds at his place.
Your birds look so much healthier than some people i see on youtube when they just pin them up. I would rather eat a chicken from your farm than others i have seen.
Just got our second small flock from my father in law. Such a new experience. Thinking about raising our own meat but it's such a new thing its scary!! Thanks for the videos, new subbie here!!
Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and at one time I had ferrets and I used to do that with them just not as much as I should have and I should have did it when they were younger but they passed away years ago I used to wet the food for them
Your FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS have me "hankering" for a front porch jam of "CLUCK OL' HEN". Do you have any old timey buddies to jam with? Heck, the Carolinas are home to some of the great old time pickers. Love the videos Thanks and take care
Thanks for having such helpful and funny content. I have been watching your stuff for years now and would love to come check some of this out in person one day. I live in VA only about 2 hours away.
With this system, I would suggest that you consider building a covered mobile "feed and water station" that is a little taller than your coop tractor with a low pitch "A frame" roof. It will keep the food dry from rain and let you have control where they spend there time when eating.
And again I had a good time its.really something unique yourcreek is. Awsome and here in jersey they said 5thousand went on. The boardwalk no masks no 6 foot spacing just a lot of. People that's about par for the Jersey shore. Sincerly yoursmr.don
My grandparents did not have meet birds for say. They had lots af chickens and roosters. The chickens they let out in the morning and they came back to the pens at dusk. They fed and locked them up. They had hundreds. Their biggest problem was owls or occasional black snakes.
It’s been a while since the Goats, Pigs, and Chickens song was in a video! As always, great video Josh. Keep making the dream happen. I’ll be ordering my hat ASAP!
Good seeing you Hi to Mrs Stoney Ridge farmer . I prefer the Cornish cross as they get bigger and faster. There pretty easy to pluck . They are so lazy eat and 💩 the last month. The red rangers are good but for meat chicken the Cornish for me .Thank u for sharing.
That reminds me I had 24 chickens . I worked hard to dig & plant oiions cabbage lettuce tomatoes etc. Forgot about the chickens they had a whale of a time they had it all 👍🏴🇬🇧🆒👌🏼🇺🇸❤️
Actually, the more a muscle is worked, the tougher it is. An example is beef brisket, oxtails, chicken gizzards. Of course, you're correct that the muscles grow when they are excercised; larger muscles don't toughen as quickly as small muscles, and the more work muscles are worked, the tastier they are to eat. Of course, tough muscles, as I mentioned above, can be rendered tender by cooking in a pressure cooker or slow cooked in a smoker, crock pot, etc.
What's the dryest and toughest part of a chicken? Breast in most cases...least exercised muscle....what's the most tender....thigh, leg...most exercised muscle. The fat is different, organ muscles such as gizzards are "smooth muscle" tissue....total different discussion there..organ meat is smooth muscle. You are right in some cases for sure....however you'll find that when these birds are exercised..the meat is tastier, more tender and better for you
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I could be mistaken, but I don't consider the gizzard an organ. Given the job it does, it might be the hardest working muscle on the bird.
Haha! That’s next level! A bit more risky to let them just roam like that due to possible predation. But I guess you want them to get the full experience 😂
no we do not....it would be way way to labor intensive for our layers. We only have about 7 layers and they probably eat 1/16th of what broilers consume. Totally different game with layers than broilers
Lol you were talking about that long narrow feeder that you got from,I'm guessing one of your sponsers.that style of feeder has been around a lot longer than you've been around and I'm sure you're younger than me
yep....it aint rocket science buddy. And those feeders are from Murray McMurray or Premier 1 poultry. Great feeders and they're tough! None of this is new news Dean....it's just a different way of doing things that we're here to talk about
Hey Josh hope this gets to you! Love the videos they are great advice for me and my homestead. I just started this year with layers and and about to move to meat chickens. Do you use the cornish × or the cornish broiler (as you said cornish cross broiler before) When I research mcmurray hatchery list them as 2 different birds with the broiler being more like the ranger from description. Curious as to which one you truly raise
Which Cornish Cross chicks did you order from Murray McMurray Hatchery, the Jumbo Cornish X Rocks, the Cornish Roaster or the Cornish Game Hens? The other chicks that you ordered from Murray McMurray Hatchery were the Big Red Broiler like you said. You have a very nice setup there on the farm for raising chickens. Keep up the good work.
I've always been told that the Rangers have more dark meat than the Cornish Cross. I've had both and thought so as well. Maybe that's why they are so popular?
I honestly thing they are more popular because of the stigma that goes with the cornish cross being a lazy bird that dies of liver failure or heart troubles....confine a bird in a manure pit and you'll see it....let them roam a bit and you'll have healthy birds. Rangers are not as good a meat bird in my opinion
Stoney, great job as usual. The electric fence is a huge area do you have any problems with Cooper’s hawks aerial predators 🐓🦅this is what I’m worried 😧 about . David from Detroit🧑🌾
Not at all, no problems because we keep the birds under cover and they have a safe place to run...rest assured they're keeping an eye out for predators
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer what about eagles and other raptors. i lose 5 to 10 birds a year to the eagles. i have a photo of an bald eagle carrying one of my birds away last year
I have my chickens running wild in 8 acres. They go back to sleep at the barn every night. I have 2 dogs that keeps an eye out for them... most of the time...
@@oldfashioned4145 yes, Hawks, coyotes, neighborhood dogs, foxes, owls, etc. I have goat fence on most of it, except the front . Some chickens fly over it though ....I have lost a couple to Hawks but that's life and they learn....I have about forty. ....
I've always wondered Josh, what do you do with the scraps (you know what I mean) after you process the chickens. Do you bury them or do you have a large compost pile far away on the farm? I've always been curious. My uncle used to have kids run five gallon buckets of them all they to the back of the property. But we didn't have as many bobcats, coyotes and bears around back then. We were basically feeding the raccoons and opossum.
Another very helpful video; thank you. I do have a couple of topics for which your comments would be appreciated, with your indulgence. First, you talked about having no issues with predators (due to the electrified fence), so I'm guessing that airborne predators are NOT a problem. Is that the case? Second, I'm certain that you ensure the health and safety of both your birds and yourselves (as it relates to eating them and their eggs) by NOT using any type of fertilizer or "cide" in any of the areas the chickens would forage. Is that the case? Thank you.
Love your videos and learn SO much from them. How much did you say you feed your chickens (understand I would need to scale to mine)? I am using the 12 on/12 off method.
So...for 12 on and 12 off...we just feed them in the morning and they typically eat 2 of those brower feeders full per day. 1000lbs of feed total feeds 50 chicks from start to finish
How does one coax 100 chicken's back into a maximum security electric fence prison they were just released from lol? I have 15 hens and 5 roosters and they have been finding the tiny gaps and holes around my pen. I was surprised to see a month old chicken escape through standard chain link fencing lol. 5 were getting out at a time and now I have it down to 1 a day now. I use a long fishing dip net to catch the runner's lol.
I see the electric fence keeps out the ground predators but have you had problems with the flying ones? I have hawks, owls, eagles, and ospreys here which may scoop them out possibly.
Hi Josh, knowing that you raise these birds for food, have you figured out approximately how many pounds of edible chicken meat you will get from this batch? Any estimates on how much it will cost to raise this brood too full potential?
Great job on your vlog, I especially liked the bloopers at the end. You’ve inspired me to raise chickens, which are 2-weeks old today and will free range in my backyard. The chickens will share the yard with my dogs, should I be concerned about the dogs eating the droppings and them getting sick from salmonella bacteria?
I'd say your dogs could potentially get sick from eating chicken poo....but I'm not totally sure. Our dogs run in the yard but we don't have too much trouble with eating poo
Thanks Josh! We’re gonna start off letting our dogs and chickens share the yard and see how it goes.
Our dogs eat the chicken poo sometimes and they are fine. They will get bored with it eventually
Thanks for sharing Miles, all good!
Oops, sorry for the miss spell of your name Myles🙃
Last year my wife and I moved out of the suburbs onto a 10 acre rural property in Michigan. We have used your videos almost exclusively to help us raise hens for the first time. Our flock of 8 birds are 9 weeks old this week and so far it has been awesome. I just wanted to thank you for the content you upload because it really did affect how we think about our food and we are taking steps to become more self-sufficient. You make it easy for us!
Nice tune goats pigs and chickens
There's always one chicken outside the pen. It was my job to put it back when visiting my grandparents. A half hour out of my life each time I had to catch it. I made sure the escapee was the one we ate, if grandpa was harvesting.
Ever think that before you arrived, grandma asked grandpa "which one do you want to slaughter today?" And purposely let one out for you ?
Chickens are easy to catch... if you’re willing to dive for them, and possibly injury to both the bird and you, but I got good at dive bombing chickens.
@@moavic5087 Not when you are 6. I suspect they just wanted me out of the house and barn for exercise.
we used a chicken leg hook could snag them from 6 ft was easy and no diving required
Little Bob,
I'm wondering how did people ward off bears back in the days before electric fencing?
Did your grandparents just keep the chickens in the barn along with cows, horses?
Love how you take care of them so gentle
I love when you use the tripod and I love the new song, Goat, Pigs, and Chicken.
Yours are the best looking Cornish Crosses I’ve ever seen. 👍👀
Love your opening song LOL
Love that your self sustainably
Thanks Josh All your videos are Vlogs are very informative and I havelearn very much about chickens from your blogs thank you Woooooo!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 🚜🚜🚜🚜🚜
LOVE THE VIDS KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK HOPE U STAY SAFE AND BEST OF LUCK TO YOUR LOVELY FARM
Great that you are showing the difference between active healthy tasty birds vs the CX they sell at the grocery store.
Definitely happy healthy birds. 🚜-Woooooo!!!
Woooo! Chris!
When my daughter and I were gardening together, we would cackle gleefully as we fed grasshoppers to the chickens.
Nice video, one thing you might like to look into are Guinea Fowl, they are somewhat long lived, and keep the ticks, flys, and mosquitoes off your cattle. Since they are not domesticated they can live pretty much independently. That and they get a lot of second takes by the neighbors, most people aren’t used to seeing feathered teapots moving around in a field.
Just to clarify, my information is mostly secondary having watched a beef cattle farmer near my place of work for the past 20 years, and googling the benefits behind why he would have such strange looking birds at his place.
what an awesome day to be a chicken LOL WOOOO great vid Josh!
Aw thanks, Josh... I had just got the chasin' chickens song out my head. Now it's back.
lol...me too!
Thanks Mr. Stoney Ridge for your knowledge and skills and experience much appreciated from South Central Los Angeles California
Ur very welcome!
Dude the intro song is epic!
Your cornish crosse look happy and healthy..
😆😆 Bloopers
Have a good day🌻🌻🌻
11:22 CHICKEN BEER! 😂. Great video Josh! Thanks
Appreciate all of your videos. I learned a lot and just finished raising my first batch of 10. It was crazy easy. Thank you sir
We ground our eared corn and oats together for them. Adding water we would call that “slop”. You’re doing it right!
You’re such an inspiration! Keep up the good work
I dig the shirt. When I get out in 2022 I’m trying to start my own farm. Love your videos too.
Awesome! Thank you!
Your birds look so much healthier than some people i see on youtube when they just pin them up. I would rather eat a chicken from your farm than others i have seen.
GREAT INFORMATION. Thank you, getting ready to do some meat birds in the spring.
Great video. That reminds me...I need to run to the meat department at the store today ( Mr. Suburbanite doing my thing ).
Hi Josh, They do look like a happy flock
Just got our second small flock from my father in law. Such a new experience. Thinking about raising our own meat but it's such a new thing its scary!! Thanks for the videos, new subbie here!!
Hey Josh thank you for the video I enjoyed it and at one time I had ferrets and I used to do that with them just not as much as I should have and I should have did it when they were younger but they passed away years ago I used to wet the food for them
Thanks for sharing 👍
Your FINE FEATHERED FRIENDS have me "hankering" for a front porch jam of "CLUCK OL' HEN". Do you have any old timey buddies to jam with? Heck, the Carolinas are home to some of the great old time pickers. Love the videos Thanks and take care
That area is going to spring up with life!
Thnx for the informative video as always . Love what ya'll do to educate us simpletons . . WHHHOOOOOO! ! !
Thanks for having such helpful and funny content. I have been watching your stuff for years now and would love to come check some of this out in person one day. I live in VA only about 2 hours away.
With this system, I would suggest that you consider building a covered mobile "feed and water station" that is a little taller than your coop tractor with a low pitch "A frame" roof. It will keep the food dry from rain and let you have control where they spend there time when eating.
And again I had a good time its.really something unique yourcreek is. Awsome and here in jersey they said 5thousand went on. The boardwalk no masks no 6 foot spacing just a lot of. People that's about par for the Jersey shore. Sincerly yoursmr.don
GREAT way of RAISING CHICKENS.
Great information video... Thank You
I love your understanding of outdoors and yo animals ol norm from arkansaslol🙋🏾♂️
Drunk chickens 😂😂😂 I can imagine that's a hilarious sight!
The bloopers were great. Lol.
Josh fun to watch your chickens . We did Brahma this year
My grandparents did not have meet birds for say. They had lots af chickens and roosters. The chickens they let out in the morning and they came back to the pens at dusk. They fed and locked them up. They had hundreds. Their biggest problem was owls or occasional black snakes.
It’s been a while since the Goats, Pigs, and Chickens song was in a video!
As always, great video Josh. Keep making the dream happen. I’ll be ordering my hat ASAP!
Another great vid bud godbless
Good seeing you Hi to Mrs Stoney Ridge farmer . I prefer the Cornish cross as they get bigger and faster. There pretty easy to pluck . They are so lazy eat and 💩 the last month. The red rangers are good but for meat chicken the Cornish for me .Thank u for sharing.
I agree
I can’t wait to raise chickens!
Great job enjoy watching your video
That reminds me I had 24 chickens . I worked hard to dig & plant oiions cabbage lettuce tomatoes etc. Forgot about the chickens they had a whale of a time they had it all 👍🏴🇬🇧🆒👌🏼🇺🇸❤️
Actually, the more a muscle is worked, the tougher it is. An example is beef brisket, oxtails, chicken gizzards. Of course, you're correct that the muscles grow when they are excercised; larger muscles don't toughen as quickly as small muscles, and the more work muscles are worked, the tastier they are to eat. Of course, tough muscles, as I mentioned above, can be rendered tender by cooking in a pressure cooker or slow cooked in a smoker, crock pot, etc.
What's the dryest and toughest part of a chicken? Breast in most cases...least exercised muscle....what's the most tender....thigh, leg...most exercised muscle. The fat is different, organ muscles such as gizzards are "smooth muscle" tissue....total different discussion there..organ meat is smooth muscle. You are right in some cases for sure....however you'll find that when these birds are exercised..the meat is tastier, more tender and better for you
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I could be mistaken, but I don't consider the gizzard an organ. Given the job it does, it might be the hardest working muscle on the bird.
Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Love the new intro song!!!
Awesome tips Josh thanks buddy
Do u even sleep? 😆 and I have energy but damn lol gotta let my chickens out this morning myself😴
Haha! That’s next level! A bit more risky to let them just roam like that due to possible predation. But I guess you want them to get the full experience 😂
3-quart scoop.
Awesome video Josh. Very informative. Question: Do you wet the food for your laying hens like you do for the meat birds? Enjoyed the video.
no we do not....it would be way way to labor intensive for our layers. We only have about 7 layers and they probably eat 1/16th of what broilers consume. Totally different game with layers than broilers
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Thanks Josh. We are supposed to get our chicks next week and needed to know is it was advisable to water the feed.
Lol you were talking about that long narrow feeder that you got from,I'm guessing one of your sponsers.that style of feeder has been around a lot longer than you've been around and I'm sure you're younger than me
yep....it aint rocket science buddy. And those feeders are from Murray McMurray or Premier 1 poultry. Great feeders and they're tough! None of this is new news Dean....it's just a different way of doing things that we're here to talk about
Hey Josh hope this gets to you! Love the videos they are great advice for me and my homestead. I just started this year with layers and and about to move to meat chickens. Do you use the cornish × or the cornish broiler (as you said cornish cross broiler before)
When I research mcmurray hatchery list them as 2 different birds with the broiler being more like the ranger from description.
Curious as to which one you truly raise
I like the idea of a portable coop and area. You don't worry about predators from above ( hawk etc)?
Have you thought about putting some of that Japanese beetle lure around your chickens just a thought.
Learned a lot. Thank you. Great vid
Chicken Hawks here would eat them all in one day!!
Just keep them covered then.
Love it .... gotta do better buddy ... are you ready? 😂😂😂. Great video Josh ... love watching your channel !!!
That one you're holding will look good in a freezer bag lol
I have about 8 different breeds of chickens...they ALL chill out when its hot.
Which Cornish Cross chicks did you order from Murray McMurray Hatchery, the Jumbo Cornish X Rocks, the Cornish Roaster or the Cornish Game Hens? The other chicks that you ordered from Murray McMurray Hatchery were the Big Red Broiler like you said. You have a very nice setup there on the farm for raising chickens. Keep up the good work.
Wing ding chicken dinner!
Thanks man!!
Dont forget the vet book that enumerates the myriad of chicken diseases and how to cure them.
Great tutorial, thx for Your job :)
Ever done a video about clipping the chicken”s wings?
👍👍👍
I've always been told that the Rangers have more dark meat than the Cornish Cross. I've had both and thought so as well. Maybe that's why they are so popular?
I honestly thing they are more popular because of the stigma that goes with the cornish cross being a lazy bird that dies of liver failure or heart troubles....confine a bird in a manure pit and you'll see it....let them roam a bit and you'll have healthy birds. Rangers are not as good a meat bird in my opinion
Stoney, great job as usual. The electric fence is a huge area do you have any problems with Cooper’s hawks aerial predators 🐓🦅this is what I’m worried 😧 about . David from Detroit🧑🌾
Not at all, no problems because we keep the birds under cover and they have a safe place to run...rest assured they're keeping an eye out for predators
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer what about eagles and other raptors. i lose 5 to 10 birds a year to the eagles. i have a photo of an bald eagle carrying one of my birds away last year
Excellent video, You need at least goose for protecting aerial animals like falcons or others
I have my chickens running wild in 8 acres. They go back to sleep at the barn every night. I have 2 dogs that keeps an eye out for them... most of the time...
Is there any chicken predators in your area?
@@oldfashioned4145 yes, Hawks, coyotes, neighborhood dogs, foxes, owls, etc. I have goat fence on most of it, except the front . Some chickens fly over it though ....I have lost a couple to Hawks but that's life and they learn....I have about forty. ....
I've always wondered Josh, what do you do with the scraps (you know what I mean) after you process the chickens. Do you bury them or do you have a large compost pile far away on the farm? I've always been curious. My uncle used to have kids run five gallon buckets of them all they to the back of the property. But we didn't have as many bobcats, coyotes and bears around back then. We were basically feeding the raccoons and opossum.
Compost typically...mostly guts, feathers and blood....compost or landfill. Whatever is legal for your area
@@StoneyRidgeFarmer We feed all the innards to the pigs! They eat almost anything!
awesome
Don't you have any problem with Hawks going after the chickens
Another very helpful video; thank you.
I do have a couple of topics for which your comments would be appreciated, with your indulgence.
First, you talked about having no issues with predators (due to the electrified fence), so I'm guessing that airborne predators are NOT a problem. Is that the case?
Second, I'm certain that you ensure the health and safety of both your birds and yourselves (as it relates to eating them and their eggs) by NOT using any type of fertilizer or "cide" in any of the areas the chickens would forage. Is that the case?
Thank you.
What about owls and hawks, ant problems with them?
Love your videos and learn SO much from them. How much did you say you feed your chickens (understand I would need to scale to mine)? I am using the 12 on/12 off method.
So...for 12 on and 12 off...we just feed them in the morning and they typically eat 2 of those brower feeders full per day. 1000lbs of feed total feeds 50 chicks from start to finish
So in the video you say you feed 2000lbs of feed for your 100 birds then you say 1000lbs, them below you say 1000lbs feeds 50??
How does one coax 100 chicken's back into a maximum security electric fence prison they were just released from lol? I have 15 hens and 5 roosters and they have been finding the tiny gaps and holes around my pen. I was surprised to see a month old chicken escape through standard chain link fencing lol. 5 were getting out at a time and now I have it down to 1 a day now. I use a long fishing dip net to catch the runner's lol.
🔥 HOW DOES IT KEEP PREDATORS OUT WHEN ONLY A PART OF IT IS SHOCK FENCE AND THE OTHER IS JUST NETTING?
I see the electric fence keeps out the ground predators but have you had problems with the flying ones? I have hawks, owls, eagles, and ospreys here which may scoop them out possibly.
Whoa pause...how do I make beer out of my chicken feed?
Chicken Master :-)
I have plenty of acreage for chickens but unsure of how to slaughter/process
Hi Josh, knowing that you raise these birds for food, have you figured out approximately how many pounds of edible chicken meat you will get from this batch? Any estimates on how much it will cost to raise this brood too full potential?
🍗KFC 🍗🐓 Heaven 😂🍻
can you show how to butcher a cow pls
Thanks. I’m receiving 15 Cornish Cross chicks in about a week for my lil backyard farm. You gave me a few ideas for my limited space
That is awesome!
WOOOOO!
Josh, with your setup how often do you move the birds? You may have said it and I missed it. Apologies if so.
How do you get them back when they're done roaming?
Was hear
I don't have corn or squash, I have money. Would you trade chickens for money? That's my kind of trade, I do it like every day.