Looking for something specific? See if you can find it here. What to Buy Before Bringing Chicks Home 0:30 How to Take care of Chicks 2:22 What To Do For A Chick With Pasty Butt 5:10 What temperature to keep baby chicks at 6:30 When To Move Chicks From the Brooder to the Coop 6:54 When to expect Eggs? When do Chickens Start Laying? 7:48 Choosing the Perfect Chicken Breed- 8:33 What is a Broody Hen? 11:48 Thanks so much for taking time to watch!
@@arielcastillo2684 hi Ariel! There are a few chicks at that second mark. There are a few there that look the same, and those are Americaunas, but there’s one that has a lot more black, and if that’s the one you’re looking for the name, I’m sorry but I’m not sure. Last year we ordered a number of varieties that were new to us, and I can’t recall who looked like that as a chick. Thanks so much for watching, and I hope you get your answer soon! Blessings!
this was very educational and your voice i can listen to eat all day everyday ...thank you though i found it years later the information is still of great very😘😘😘
Good informative video, A few observations that I've made through the years that you, or other of your viewers may consider as well; I used to have a lot of chicks that got pastie butt, but I haven't had any with it for years now* What I have done differently is for starters, I look at their rears really closely before I take them from the store. I take the clean bottoms and pass on the dirty ones, usually. Then as soon as I get home with them, I add a couple capfuls of the good apple cider vinegar with the 'mother', and a little packet of chick electrolytes, and a little packet of chick probiotics (I can't remember the brand, but every store that I've ever seen with chicks has those packets right there), just to the first gallon of water I'll use to water. I also give them a spoonful of cottage cheese with their food, I'm no vet or scientist, but I was told that it (or yogurt) had good probiotics to start in their tummies - besides, they love cottage cheese anyway. Then when I take them individually out if their box from the store, before i dip their beaks in their drinker, I oil up their behinds with a bit of vegetable or olive oil before they even get pastie butt in the first place. I think mostly it comes from the shipping they just have been through, and that their poo (especially after a few days without a drink, and/or the egg yolk diet of their own yolk) is just sticky and pastie and gets stuck to their fuzzy baby feathers, and once started, just gets worse - not that you can't stop it, it's just far better if it doesn't even get started. So my chicks may run around with oily butts for the first week for nothing, but I don't get that issue to deal with very often any more. * I have had a few come in the mail that had the pasties that I cleaned up, and also have saved a few from stores if I really wanted that variety, and/or there were just a few left, and it seemed to just be beginning - if they've had it a few days uncared for, and are still alive, even though they often can be saved, I think they get stunted and it takes a while for them to catch back up to their siblings. Pastie butt in my experience, seems to always come to the chicks that get it in the first week or so, if they get past that, you've got it made
Wow, I’m glad you shared this for everyone. I love the idea of giving chicks some preventatives right when you get them home to ensure their health, like the apple cider vinegar. Thank you for taking the time to share all this information!
Didn't like pine shavings. Too messy, had to be changed daily. Water got spilled over night chicks got wet and cold. Had pasty butt. Not fun. Changed over to clean wheat straw, secured the water. And of course cleaned the pasty butts. No more problems. Loved my girls! Will get more inarch or April
Today, my grandpa gave me 2 chicks to care for. 2 becuase my sister wanted one too! Im watching this now before anything happens, or before they grow up. I called mine puff, and my sister called hers chipotle. LOL BUT her nickname is chip! Both of them share a pot to feed in and a water bowl, and our grandpa also gave us some news paper and some bedding in a sack. And his people spent the whole day making them a cage with a light source. I hope they stay alive! And whenever we let them outside. They poop on the concrete but me and my sister clean up after them. Tonight we will turn on the switch for a heat source and we will change their bedding. Although i dont think its nice to always touchthem though. So me and my sister just touch them when we need to pick them up, although mines really shy and mostly runs away when i try to puck him up, although chip on the other hand really doesnt care whatever we do. I hope they dont get a sickness though! Or else we’ll have to move on to african love birds. 😕
This is such a great overview of chick and chicken care. I can’t wait to have chickens again!!! I miss them. I am dying of curiosity, would you tell us what breed of chicken you won’t buy because they have mean roosters???? (Haha, the waterer episode was funny, did the kids get it figured out? 😂)
Hi Prayredo Mom! Rhode Island Reds are the birds we don’t buy anymore. We had such a nightmare experience with them! One of our reds went broody and of the 10 eggs that hatched, 8 were roosters! One by one those roosters turned on us! We heard their roosters were mean, but were totally unprepared for their savage behavior. The children didn’t get the waterer sorted out. Poor Benj tried hard, but in the end Michael did it. Thank you so much for your ongoing support and encouragement. It means so much to me!
Thank you Dana! I hope we are able to get some soon, as well! Poor Benj! I am sure he will eventually learn. I know Kathryn and Hannah will love helping care for chicks and chickens! Ahh, we have kept Rhode Island Reds, but always avoided the roosters. The rooster that left a scar on the back of my hand was an Auracuna. But Auracuna remains one of my favorite breeds, I just haven’t kept the roosters. 😝 My Dad bought an automatic waterer and set it up in the chicken run. It made caring for the big chickens even easer. You just have to check that it’s working and scrub it out every once in a while. We attached it as high as was comfortable for the chickens to reach, to keep it clean. I loved it and plan to get one when I have chickens again.
@@prayredomom6690 Oh, that's so sad about the Auracana scarring your hand! We love Ameraucanas, and just looked up the difference between Auracanas and Ameraucana because I hear them used interchangeably and wasn't sure if it was the same breed with two different names. But I found out they're different (you may very well already know that). We have never had an Ameraucana rooster, but I really hope he's kind if we ever do have one! Your Dad's automatic waterer sounds lovely! We're trying to make our chicken and goat chores more efficient and that sounds like it lends itself very well to efficiency. Was it something that could be used in the winter also?
Living Quite Simply Oh wow, thanks for looking that up, I had hear the two names used interchangeably and had not taken the time to look it up, but was just assuming that it was the same breed. Thank you for sharing that information! No, the automatic waterer could not be used in the winter. I had to bring in their regular plastic waterer and thaw it out several times a day when it was below freezing. My in-laws have a device that plugs in and sits in the bottom of the dog and cat water bowl/buckets to keep them from freezing in the winter, I am guessing the same could be used for chickens if the water container suited it. My sister has a tub for her chicken’s water, with a few goldfish(in summer) in it to eliminate mosquito breeding. It’s so cute!
Hi I know this video has been out for a year but I have a question, what breed of chicks were those in the beginning of the video? Thank you so much and I appreciate this video so much.
Hi Veronica! Thank you so much for taking time to watch the video and post a comment, and I hope you’ll stick around. We’re inching closer to 1000 subscribers, and once we reach that milestone, TH-cam allows us to open our community tab and start interacting with our community! I believe the chicks at the start of the video are Americaunas, because their markings look similar to a chipmunk. They’re one of our favorite breeds because they’re so docile (our children love to carry them around), a relatively small chicken (so they don’t require as much food as some of the large breeds), and they lay a good amount of medium-large sized blue eggs. If you haven’t had any Americauna chickens yet, and if the above characteristics sound like something you’re looking for, I really recommend adding a few to your flock. We’d love to hear what chicken breeds you end up choosing!
First1000Hours, when we first ventured into chickens it was so we could know that we were getting eggs from healthy chickens on quality food. So, having a non-GMO feed has always been important to us. I'm thankful it's out there! Our passion for raising chickens has only grown over the years! They're good for keeping ticks and other insect populations down, they give us good fertilizer for our garden, and watching them free range while we sit on the porch in the early evenings adds such a nice ambiance and repose from the busy day. Thank you so much for your ongoing support.
@@LivingQuiteSimply Watching chickens in the early evening time is one way to live quite simply. ;) That's great that chickens eat ticks and that you know the type of eggs you're getting because you raise chickens yourself.
Hi Lexi! They can certainly get something similar, but it’s not technically pasty butt in an adult bird. The problem is once their sticky pop gets stuck onto their backside, the next poo will stick to that and so forth, and it can become a mess, and pretty dangerous to the bird if not dealt with. For treatment, I recommend that you soak the hen in warm water for a while to loosen it up, glove up and clean that area. Sometimes trimming the feathers in that region on a chicken that’s experiencing that will be useful, and rub a little bit of oil on the area. Chicken poo can take many forms without being a concern, but if a chicken is experiencing this repeatedly, you may want to look into making some changes. Certain feeds are harder to digest than others, for example, barley is not easily digested by chickens, so if the feed has a lot of that, it can cause issues with the poo. Also, a parasite overload, which though gross to think about, is very much a reality when raising chickens (or any animal). Sprinkling Food grade DE on the feed can help with that (don’t breathe it in- the dust isn’t good for the lungs), we use a soap as a dewormer- it’s called basic H2. We add that to all our animals waterers from time to time (at least once a month). Also, you can find some recipes for homemade chicken electrolytes, which is a lot cheaper than buying electrolytes, and fermenting their feed makes a huge difference!!!!
Hi Shahad! Chickens are such a great animal to have because they do not need a lot of space, even when they get older. You can have a small flock in a suburban backyard that will do really well. I wish you the best in your chicken endeavors. Thank you for taking time to reach out!
Yes!!!! I hope you’ll come back and share when you do. It’s so much fun! We’re hatching eggs this year, and that’s even more fun. I hope you’ll let us know how it goes!
Looking for something specific? See if you can find it here.
What to Buy Before Bringing Chicks Home 0:30
How to Take care of Chicks 2:22
What To Do For A Chick With Pasty Butt 5:10
What temperature to keep baby chicks at 6:30
When To Move Chicks From the Brooder to the Coop 6:54
When to expect Eggs? When do Chickens Start Laying? 7:48
Choosing the Perfect Chicken Breed- 8:33
What is a Broody Hen? 11:48
Thanks so much for taking time to watch!
hello. what is the breed of chick at 0:13. I've been looking for the name for quite some time. thank you.
@@arielcastillo2684 hi Ariel! There are a few chicks at that second mark. There are a few there that look the same, and those are Americaunas, but there’s one that has a lot more black, and if that’s the one you’re looking for the name, I’m sorry but I’m not sure. Last year we ordered a number of varieties that were new to us, and I can’t recall who looked like that as a chick. Thanks so much for watching, and I hope you get your answer soon! Blessings!
@@LivingQuiteSimply thanks!
I realize it is kind of randomly asking but does anyone know a good website to watch newly released movies online?
@Grant Omar i watch on flixzone. You can find it by googling =)
this was very educational and your voice i can listen to eat all day everyday ...thank you though i found it years later the information is still of great very😘😘😘
the best breed web seems to no longer be available 🤕 was exactly what i need
Well done. I loved seeing the children involved in all aspects of the care. Thank you Dana
Glad you enjoyed it! The children are a big part of all the ventures we have going on here, but they probably love chicks best!
Good informative video, A few observations that I've made through the years that you, or other of your viewers may consider as well;
I used to have a lot of chicks that got pastie butt, but I haven't had any with it for years now* What I have done differently is for starters, I look at their rears really closely before I take them from the store. I take the clean bottoms and pass on the dirty ones, usually. Then as soon as I get home with them, I add a couple capfuls of the good apple cider vinegar with the 'mother', and a little packet of chick electrolytes, and a little packet of chick probiotics (I can't remember the brand, but every store that I've ever seen with chicks has those packets right there), just to the first gallon of water I'll use to water. I also give them a spoonful of cottage cheese with their food, I'm no vet or scientist, but I was told that it (or yogurt) had good probiotics to start in their tummies - besides, they love cottage cheese anyway. Then when I take them individually out if their box from the store, before i dip their beaks in their drinker, I oil up their behinds with a bit of vegetable or olive oil before they even get pastie butt in the first place. I think mostly it comes from the shipping they just have been through, and that their poo (especially after a few days without a drink, and/or the egg yolk diet of their own yolk) is just sticky and pastie and gets stuck to their fuzzy baby feathers, and once started, just gets worse - not that you can't stop it, it's just far better if it doesn't even get started. So my chicks may run around with oily butts for the first week for nothing, but I don't get that issue to deal with very often any more.
* I have had a few come in the mail that had the pasties that I cleaned up, and also have saved a few from stores if I really wanted that variety, and/or there were just a few left, and it seemed to just be beginning - if they've had it a few days uncared for, and are still alive, even though they often can be saved, I think they get stunted and it takes a while for them to catch back up to their siblings. Pastie butt in my experience, seems to always come to the chicks that get it in the first week or so, if they get past that, you've got it made
Wow, I’m glad you shared this for everyone. I love the idea of giving chicks some preventatives right when you get them home to ensure their health, like the apple cider vinegar. Thank you for taking the time to share all this information!
Didn't like pine shavings. Too messy, had to be changed daily. Water got spilled over night chicks got wet and cold. Had pasty butt. Not fun.
Changed over to clean wheat straw, secured the water. And of course cleaned the pasty butts.
No more problems. Loved my girls! Will get more inarch or April
Wheat straw, nice! We haven't tried it.
Lots of good advice here.
Excellent info! Thank you!
Amazing video. Very helpful and informative. Thanks
We are so glad it was helpful! Thank you so much for taking the time to give us that feedback!
Today, my grandpa gave me 2 chicks to care for. 2 becuase my sister wanted one too! Im watching this now before anything happens, or before they grow up. I called mine puff, and my sister called hers chipotle. LOL BUT her nickname is chip! Both of them share a pot to feed in and a water bowl, and our grandpa also gave us some news paper and some bedding in a sack. And his people spent the whole day making them a cage with a light source. I hope they stay alive! And whenever we let them outside. They poop on the concrete but me and my sister clean up after them. Tonight we will turn on the switch for a heat source and we will change their bedding. Although i dont think its nice to always touchthem though. So me and my sister just touch them when we need to pick them up, although mines really shy and mostly runs away when i try to puck him up, although chip on the other hand really doesnt care whatever we do. I hope they dont get a sickness though!
Or else we’ll have to move on to african love birds. 😕
Congratulations on your chicks. It sounds like they’re well loved and taken care of!
Great video! So much great information. I feel like I can own some chicks now!
We're so glad it was helpful. I hope you do get some chicks! Thanks for taking time to watch the video and give us some feedback.
By the way! You should make a video on how to make that delicious bread! Loved it!
We'll have that video coming soon! Keep an eye out for it. :-)
This is such a great overview of chick and chicken care. I can’t wait to have chickens again!!! I miss them.
I am dying of curiosity, would you tell us what breed of chicken you won’t buy because they have mean roosters????
(Haha, the waterer episode was funny, did the kids get it figured out? 😂)
Hi Prayredo Mom!
Rhode Island Reds are the birds we don’t buy anymore. We had such a nightmare experience with them! One of our reds went broody and of the 10 eggs that hatched, 8 were roosters! One by one those roosters turned on us! We heard their roosters were mean, but were totally unprepared for their savage behavior.
The children didn’t get the waterer sorted out. Poor Benj tried hard, but in the end Michael did it.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support and encouragement. It means so much to me!
Once you have chickens, it’s so hard not to have them anymore. Don’t you think?
I hope you’re able to to get some soon!
Thank you Dana! I hope we are able to get some soon, as well!
Poor Benj! I am sure he will eventually learn. I know Kathryn and Hannah will love helping care for chicks and chickens!
Ahh, we have kept Rhode Island Reds, but always avoided the roosters. The rooster that left a scar on the back of my hand was an Auracuna. But Auracuna remains one of my favorite breeds, I just haven’t kept the roosters. 😝
My Dad bought an automatic waterer and set it up in the chicken run. It made caring for the big chickens even easer. You just have to check that it’s working and scrub it out every once in a while. We attached it as high as was comfortable for the chickens to reach, to keep it clean. I loved it and plan to get one when I have chickens again.
@@prayredomom6690 Oh, that's so sad about the Auracana scarring your hand! We love Ameraucanas, and just looked up the difference between Auracanas and Ameraucana because I hear them used interchangeably and wasn't sure if it was the same breed with two different names. But I found out they're different (you may very well already know that). We have never had an Ameraucana rooster, but I really hope he's kind if we ever do have one!
Your Dad's automatic waterer sounds lovely! We're trying to make our chicken and goat chores more efficient and that sounds like it lends itself very well to efficiency. Was it something that could be used in the winter also?
Living Quite Simply Oh wow, thanks for looking that up, I had hear the two names used interchangeably and had not taken the time to look it up, but was just assuming that it was the same breed. Thank you for sharing that information!
No, the automatic waterer could not be used in the winter. I had to bring in their regular plastic waterer and thaw it out several times a day when it was below freezing. My in-laws have a device that plugs in and sits in the bottom of the dog and cat water bowl/buckets to keep them from freezing in the winter, I am guessing the same could be used for chickens if the water container suited it. My sister has a tub for her chicken’s water, with a few goldfish(in summer) in it to eliminate mosquito breeding. It’s so cute!
Very well done!
Thanks so much!
Hi I know this video has been out for a year but I have a question, what breed of chicks were those in the beginning of the video? Thank you so much and I appreciate this video so much.
Hi Veronica! Thank you so much for taking time to watch the video and post a comment, and I hope you’ll stick around. We’re inching closer to 1000 subscribers, and once we reach that milestone, TH-cam allows us to open our community tab and start interacting with our community!
I believe the chicks at the start of the video are Americaunas, because their markings look similar to a chipmunk. They’re one of our favorite breeds because they’re so docile (our children love to carry them around), a relatively small chicken (so they don’t require as much food as some of the large breeds), and they lay a good amount of medium-large sized blue eggs. If you haven’t had any Americauna chickens yet, and if the above characteristics sound like something you’re looking for, I really recommend adding a few to your flock.
We’d love to hear what chicken breeds you end up choosing!
Water nipples are the best, mine are 2 days old and they used it like champs, no mess
No mess in the water sounds amazing! That’s a great tip; thank you for sharing!
Thanks!
Thank you!
1:03 I didn't know there was non-GMO food for chickens, too.
First1000Hours, when we first ventured into chickens it was so we could know that we were getting eggs from healthy chickens on quality food. So, having a non-GMO feed has always been important to us. I'm thankful it's out there!
Our passion for raising chickens has only grown over the years! They're good for keeping ticks and other insect populations down, they give us good fertilizer for our garden, and watching them free range while we sit on the porch in the early evenings adds such a nice ambiance and repose from the busy day.
Thank you so much for your ongoing support.
@@LivingQuiteSimply Watching chickens in the early evening time is one way to live quite simply. ;) That's great that chickens eat ticks and that you know the type of eggs you're getting because you raise chickens yourself.
is pasty butt when there a baby or can they get it when there grown up?
Hi Lexi! They can certainly get something similar, but it’s not technically pasty butt in an adult bird. The problem is once their sticky pop gets stuck onto their backside, the next poo will stick to that and so forth, and it can become a mess, and pretty dangerous to the bird if not dealt with.
For treatment, I recommend that you soak the hen in warm water for a while to loosen it up, glove up and clean that area. Sometimes trimming the feathers in that region on a chicken that’s experiencing that will be useful, and rub a little bit of oil on the area.
Chicken poo can take many forms without being a concern, but if a chicken is experiencing this repeatedly, you may want to look into making some changes. Certain feeds are harder to digest than others, for example, barley is not easily digested by chickens, so if the feed has a lot of that, it can cause issues with the poo. Also, a parasite overload, which though gross to think about, is very much a reality when raising chickens (or any animal). Sprinkling Food grade DE on the feed can help with that (don’t breathe it in- the dust isn’t good for the lungs), we use a soap as a dewormer- it’s called basic H2. We add that to all our animals waterers from time to time (at least once a month). Also, you can find some recipes for homemade chicken electrolytes, which is a lot cheaper than buying electrolytes, and fermenting their feed makes a huge difference!!!!
when you get chicks and they grow up becomes chickens do the backyard need to be big pls reply
Hi Shahad! Chickens are such a great animal to have because they do not need a lot of space, even when they get older. You can have a small flock in a suburban backyard that will do really well. I wish you the best in your chicken endeavors. Thank you for taking time to reach out!
Totally disagree with the egg production you stated, all chickens are on a 27 to 30 hour schedule that means 1 egg for every 27 to 30 hours
When I grow up I’m going to buy baby chicks
Yes!!!! I hope you’ll come back and share when you do. It’s so much fun! We’re hatching eggs this year, and that’s even more fun. I hope you’ll let us know how it goes!
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