I am just planning to run coop next year perhaps and to start from buying 6 tiny chicks but I am learning 1st and your channel and energy you have is best source for me. I wanna take care of my chicks as if they were my babies heh I love how much caring you gives to them and respect ♥♥
I only buy the "food grade" DE. I use it 2-3 times a year in their feed to worm them. I use it 3-4 times per year in their coop, nest boxes, run, roosts and in the area where they give themselves dust baths. It helps to kill mites etc. And its safe to continue eating the eggs because its the food grade type!!
Wow, wished I had found you years back. Have had chickens for little over a year, just been winging it. Seriously. My farmer grandparents didn't find it necessary to teach us these things. We were city dwellers tho and only had cat and a dog. Grateful for this most helpful information and education. ❤❤❤
Thank you so much... I don't like to see my poor chicken sick.. And feel like I can't help my beautiful chicken...because where I live there is no vet to treat chickens.. So I'm very glad you share this tip..
you're like a homesteading angel! I was just looking at chemical dewormers and then you tell me this and I already have diatomaceous earth for my garden so this is awesome and you have to get the correct kind which is food-grade diatomaceous earth!
Thank you Becky. The tips are awesome. I want a few hens for eggs. Cackle hatchery has “chocolate eggers” they have bred. I plan having a few and keeping them on our flower farm.
Bloody fantastic video Becky! Thank you for the great advice! One of my chooks was sick and i mixed some DE in with her food and the next day she bounced back! I even put some under her feathers for mites etc. Thanks so much for sharing! Regards from Australia. Subbed.
Lol. So funny. I love you. Your so great. I am just like you. When I find something that benefits and works great I share with everyone. Because I feel like they should know. If we all know everything is better. Your dog is so cute and funny. Take care. And thank you for all of your help.
Natural is always good. I never treated my chickens for worms before. They didn't get sick til 14, 15 yrs old, the day before dying. I had very fit wild neighborhood chickens from decades of living on the streets. (I recommend hearty street chickens, heinz 57s, over fancy breeds. Now I have rescues so ill try the DE as a preventative. I assume this clears gastrointestinal parasites only, but not others like adult gapeworm, lungworm...etc
Hey I know it's been a couple months but I hope your hen is OK I too have a pet hen I've raised her since she was just a little egg She means a lot to me so I understand how you feel Hope all is well.
@@doodmaam7962 my poor rooster is getting ill with I think worms because his comb is going pale and he’s becoming more aggressive towards my family probably because of the stress
Its also good to use food grade in their dust bath since they peck at it. Since i have spread a little around the dry ground. I never see mites anymore.
Lots of good info. I have two hens that have stopped laying and I don't know if it is because it is hot or what but I will give them more protein and I have to get some grit tomorrow.
I don't know what it is about chicken feed and dogs, but they love it, LOL. My neighbor's lab came over and just started gobbling right out of the bucket as I tried to feed, LOL.
I had not idea you could use DE in the feed! I use it in the coop against mites. I did not know I had to worm chickens - they look good but are not laying. I will chick it's the best food grade type; thank you for this Becky!
My mom was saying I should also powder spray this on the grass to prevent unwanted bugs and it's 100% safe for animals instead of using chemicals to treat the same grass that the chickens and my pets are using. Thanks!
Worms also gives you a sign that the aria is not clean since the they poop ou the eggs that goes in the grass or feed and then another eats it and that Is how they spread
I use DE on my dogs for ticks and fleas (said to be good for worms as well) but its a special mix for dogs only, not food grade and it gets kind of rough on my hands as well as their coats. Will try out the food grade variety next time. Also, I'm learning from you about chickens getting these vectors as well and am now a little worried about it since keeping my dogs clean is a tough task in itself. During the tick season my house gets infested and I've even lost a couple of puppies because of tick fever.
DE won't do anything for internal parasites. We have tried this and still give them DE in feed but we still have problems from time to time!!!! DE works well for external parasites and is great for micronutrient uptake!!!
I love using DE and we don't have a homestead yet. Good in the garden too. Can you do a video addressing helping your animals deal with heat. I'm in Central Florida. Hot and humid.
thankyou what good advise i use diamaceous earth to dust the hen house each clean out no sign of red mite but will now follow your worming advise dave from uk
Question do you keep the DE away from your pig? I have my pig in the same yard as my chicken's. Pig is only outside some of the time inside the rest. I want to deform all of them but hv been told DE is dangerous for pigs?
You saved my chickens life, thank you.
I subscribed
Love using DE! I use it for all my animals here. Horses, dogs and chickens!! Great video :)
You are an excellent example of why an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. We learned that lesson dealing with fleas on our cat.
I am just planning to run coop next year perhaps and to start from buying 6 tiny chicks but I am learning 1st and your channel and energy you have is best source for me. I wanna take care of my chicks as if they were my babies heh I love how much caring you gives to them and respect ♥♥
I only buy the "food grade" DE. I use it 2-3 times a year in their feed to worm them. I use it 3-4 times per year in their coop, nest boxes, run, roosts and in the area where they give themselves dust baths. It helps to kill mites etc. And its safe to continue eating the eggs because its the food grade type!!
so as i seen this i knew it was food grade De. love this i takes it every day.
Omg!!!!! I am so freaking happy I found this video, thank you so much I am definitely stocking up on this stuff
I live in NZ and I have been able to get Diatomaceous Earth...can't wait to see results....thank you Becky...love your videos
How was your experience???
Thank you you’re the best homestead channel I go to for my girls. Thank you so much!
God Bless
I don't even have chickens, how did I end up here? 😅 Love this tho!
It means someone up there thinks that you would enjoy having your own chickens
You will have chickens in the future.
Same here!
Have you got chickens yet?
You need some! They are fun!
Wow, wished I had found you years back. Have had chickens for little over a year, just been winging it. Seriously. My farmer grandparents didn't find it necessary to teach us these things. We were city dwellers tho and only had cat and a dog. Grateful for this most helpful information and education. ❤❤❤
Can also make DE dust bath with wood ash.
I don't know why I watch your videos, but I absolutely love them. :D
Hehe she is very relaxing to watch :) I love her vids as well
It's because she talks to her viewers in a tone intended for a child, so she appeals to one's inner kid ;)
Because she's hot. ;)
Me too.
@@danielletracyann me too
يا سلام عليك.. جاري التجربة ان شاء الله .. شكرا لك❤
Thank you so much...
I don't like to see my poor chicken sick..
And feel like I can't help my beautiful chicken...because where I live there is no vet to treat chickens..
So I'm very glad you share this tip..
Thank you, Becky. I appreciate you sharing this helpful information and my chickens thank you.
I feel happy when I watch your videos!! Your so good with your animals. Your always joyful, and you have a plethora of information.
THANK-YOU !!
I absolutely love your page. You've saved me so much money.
you're like a homesteading angel!
I was just looking at chemical dewormers and then you tell me this and I already have diatomaceous earth for my garden so this is awesome and you have to get the correct kind which is food-grade diatomaceous earth!
Thanks for sharing! Your videos are so informative! Cheers from an off grid homestead in Canada! 🇨🇦
just wanna say I'm enjoying the extra videos thru out the week. thanks for sharing.
Thank you so much blessings and more blessings to you and your family
Thank you Becky. The tips are awesome. I want a few hens for eggs. Cackle hatchery has “chocolate eggers” they have bred. I plan having a few and keeping them on our flower farm.
Thank you for this simple explanation!!! This helps!!
Thank you for your advise helps. I have always used DE but saw articles against it for chickens so thank you for the reassurance.
Bloody fantastic video Becky! Thank you for the great advice! One of my chooks was sick and i mixed some DE in with her food and the next day she bounced back! I even put some under her feathers for mites etc. Thanks so much for sharing! Regards from Australia. Subbed.
Jimbo, how did it go? from Sth Burnet QLD ;)
@@alexandramcleod2079 hi Alexandra! Yeah it went great! My chooks haven't been healthier!
Thank you my chickens got tape worm yesterday I was DISGUSTING glad to know it’s curable
Thankyou Becky, you are a wealth of information 😃
Informative nice.. you are great about giving information
Nice video and love to see your chicken 🐔, stay blessed and keep it up
thank you, thank you, thank you!!!! this is a great video. Helped answer ALL my questions!!! thank you again!!!
Thanks Becky! God bless you.
Thank you, Becky for sharing this info! We will be implementing diatomaceous earth to our chicken and cat feed.
OMG Thank you Becky!! that is awesome
So happy and beautiful all ur babie's,.and Neil in the pool,.So sweet..!
Lol. So funny. I love you. Your so great. I am just like you. When I find something that benefits and works great I share with everyone. Because I feel like they should know. If we all know everything is better. Your dog is so cute and funny. Take care. And thank you for all of your help.
Great video Becky and very informative, I'll be starting this regime today! Blessings...
watermelon bowl is a great idea!! I love your show Becky! great job!
Super video - Love them and always feel de- stressed after watching. Becky do you raise turkeys ? If you do would you share please ? Muriel
Thank you!!!
I have used DE with my dogs and cat but it also works amazing as a flea treatment on carpets.
Great
for GI? I thought it had to be dry to work? I'm doubtful the gi tract is dry
Love your channel. Thanks for all the excellent knowledge you share!
You are an amazing chicken lady!! thank youuuuuuuuu
Thank you Becky
Make sure that you get food grade DE. I think you forgot to mention that part of it.
Thanks use this all the time!!
Natural is always good. I never treated my chickens for worms before. They didn't get sick til 14, 15 yrs old, the day before dying. I had very fit wild neighborhood chickens from decades of living on the streets. (I recommend hearty street chickens, heinz 57s, over fancy breeds. Now I have rescues so ill try the DE as a preventative. I assume this clears gastrointestinal parasites only, but not others like adult gapeworm, lungworm...etc
It’s good for people too. Make sure it’s food grade and not the kind for pools. Is this good for the garden too?
Lol you pups love that chicken feed! So cute thanks for the great info
Great informative
I just got four beautiful golden hens. They are so neat. I just love them.
Buff orpingtons? I have three and they are lovely.
thank you for all the great & necessary information. I love your videos , you have a great farm and love for your animals.
Great info Becky, thank you for sharing!
pumpkin seeds in a blender with buttermilk works too.
I'm going to try this. Thank u.
First video of yours I've watched and this is exactly what I was looking for in a video. I even have the same bag of DE xD thank you 😊 subscribing
Ditto! I already have this same DE so this is great to know for a preventative!
How can you suggest "dosing" regardless of flock size? Would this work as well for 2 hens as 200? Thanks!
Thank you, you have a good heart, I will be doing this for my girls. Stay safe, have a good day.
Thankyou soo much for this!🤗
Please keep your fingers crossed this helps my sweet hen 😭
Hey I know it's been a couple months but I hope your hen is OK I too have a pet hen I've raised her since she was just a little egg She means a lot to me so I understand how you feel Hope all is well.
You can also use two tablets of ecto endo.
@@vickiwojtowicz7391 can you please explain more about the ecto endo tablets and how they work? my hen is sick with worms :(
@@doodmaam7962 my poor rooster is getting ill with I think worms because his comb is going pale and he’s becoming more aggressive towards my family probably because of the stress
@@doodmaam7962 ecto endo is a chemical dewormer made using ivermectin and something else. I wouldn’t use it unless you have to.
I love your shows!
Useful information
Its also good to use food grade in their dust bath since they peck at it. Since i have spread a little around the dry ground. I never see mites anymore.
So beautiful, where is this?
Lots of good info. I have two hens that have stopped laying and I don't know if it is because it is hot or what but I will give them more protein and I have to get some grit tomorrow.
Thank you
I knew it!! Organic farm here we use it for all kinds of things we ingest it for gut health as well very uselful vid thanks
LOL... those dogs crack me up!!!
I love your videos so much becky❤️ So helpful! Thank you.
CHICKEN, CHICKEN SALT :D
All you have to do is put Epsom Salts in their water. About a teaspoonful to a gallon/5 litres of water is sufficient.
How many chickens do you have? 5 lbs of DE feed may be too much or not enough depending on the size of the flock.
thank you so much! I already had DE but didnt know exactly how to use it lol and this worked amazing
I don't know what it is about chicken feed and dogs, but they love it, LOL. My neighbor's lab came over and just started gobbling right out of the bucket as I tried to feed, LOL.
😆
I had not idea you could use DE in the feed! I use it in the coop against mites. I did not know I had to worm chickens - they look good but are not laying. I will chick it's the best food grade type; thank you for this Becky!
thank you for the video. my chickens have been looking like crackheads lately.
😂
You are amazing! I love your videos
My mom was saying I should also powder spray this on the grass to prevent unwanted bugs and it's 100% safe for animals instead of using chemicals to treat the same grass that the chickens and my pets are using. Thanks!
Great video ! I appreciate the detail on how much and how often to give them of the DE . I had been confused about that before I watched. Your video
Super helpful vid thank you! Also this outfit is on point 🙌🏾
Where do you order your diatomaceous earth
Worms also gives you a sign that the aria is not clean since the they poop ou the eggs that goes in the grass or feed and then another eats it and that Is how they spread
do you use the same DE as the lice and mites for worms???? And love your videos
You can feed them pumkin seeds every week or month if it is bad or if they don’t have it give the seeds once a year to
thank you for video Becky
Thank you for this as I suspected one of my girls has worms.
Plz share information with me about how to deworming of hens.
@@syedtahirshah9925 Charitable Miracle Beekeepers taught me to feed them pumpkin seeds to get rid of worms naturally. Check them out on YT and FB
I use DE on my dogs for ticks and fleas (said to be good for worms as well) but its a special mix for dogs only, not food grade and it gets kind of rough on my hands as well as their coats. Will try out the food grade variety next time. Also, I'm learning from you about chickens getting these vectors as well and am now a little worried about it since keeping my dogs clean is a tough task in itself. During the tick season my house gets infested and I've even lost a couple of puppies because of tick fever.
DE won't do anything for internal parasites. We have tried this and still give them DE in feed but we still have problems from time to time!!!! DE works well for external parasites and is great for micronutrient uptake!!!
What do you give your chickens to eliminate as well as prevent worms from coming back?
@@CoolCatCaramel i suggest pumpkin seeds.
@@CoolCatCaramel learned this trick from Charitable Miracle Beekeepers. Check them out on YT and FB
Ok. Thanks :)
@@CoolCatCaramel
No problem
One Love, Peace & Fortitude
Does deworming meds given to laying eggs, stops or halts to lay eggs?
I love using DE and we don't have a homestead yet. Good in the garden too. Can you do a video addressing helping your animals deal with heat. I'm in Central Florida. Hot and humid.
+Martha Michloney make sure they have plenty of shade and water and don't let them get over weight.
I love your videos!
thankyou what good advise i use diamaceous earth to dust the hen house each clean out no sign of red mite but will now follow your worming advise dave from uk
Notice that the bag says FOOD GRADE diatomaceous earth. There is a difference in types of diatomaceous earth.
@Beckyhomestead- How to get rid of fungus on chickens?
Question do you keep the DE away from your pig? I have my pig in the same yard as my chicken's. Pig is only outside some of the time inside the rest. I want to deform all of them but hv been told DE is dangerous for pigs?
Hi Becky what do you do if you think your chicken has water belly
i love your videos. I am in Pakistan and DE is not available here as i believe ppl even do not know abt it. What is alternative of DE.
Great show
I purchased your book and the ratio of DE to food is very different here v the book. Please LMK if this is the most up to date.
What about my pigs? Could I use this for them.
Becky. Love the videos. How much food does an adult chicken need per day?
Chickens need approximately half a cup of feed a day.
0.25 lb per hen per day is considered the standard.
I just try to keep some in feeders allways .
And this is for how many chickens? 5# for 20 chickens or 4 chickens?
At this rate the chicken will be tempted to question why they must continue coexisting peacefully with the dogs.