My Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens from Cackle Hatchery
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2014
- This is my flock of Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens from Cackle Hatchery. I got these birds on June 25th, 2014 so they're just over 3 months old in this video. I have 15 hens and one rooster.
YOUR PLYMOUTH ROCKS ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!
They so adorable, Just can't get tired of being around them and watching them😍 thanks for sharing.
Cackles Rocks are the finest!
Got some Barred Plymoth Rocks from Cackle Hatchery and they lived to be extremely old (between 9 and 12) and were excellent hens. I like your set up and how well you seem to have connected with your chickens (especially noted in the fact that your rooster is so calm around you). All of this really leads to less stress on the birds and will increase their longevity and egg production (I had hens from this breed lay up until they were 7 or 8). Great job and good luck! :)
Laura N'imbus That's great! I hope mine live that long! Thanks for the comment!
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They are beautiful!
Tater Salad is a wicked name for a rooster! hahaha...My Barred Rock rooster, Roo, will take a running go, flapping his wings to help, straight up a 6ft chain-link fence to perch on top!
LOL! Thanks for watching!
Beautiful flock. We just adopted a 5 month old Barred Rock rooster from Cackle Hatchery. He's a beauty, and we're looking forward to breeding him with our hens. You sure take good care of your birds. Happy hens = tasty eggs!
They got a hell of a personality I pick my Little Rock up My Georgia she be all in my lap lol 😂😂😂😂
I love the barred rocks! I just got some more today. They like to be handled and train easily
your chickens are so cute and adorable awesome video
Nice flock, thanks for sharing.
That is a nice setup. I really like your feeding station.
Thanks!
Nice looking chickens you have i love the Barred Rocks they are good layers .
Some great looking ladies there, thank you!
Some GREAT looking hens well done and thank you for the video.
Man everything kills chickens. I kept mine in a dog kennel while I was building their big coop. One night 3 raccoons killed 7 of my 12 pullets. After systematically eliminating all raccoons on my property, I made a point to predator proof my coop. I build a foundation frame out of 2x6 boards, ran chicken wire under that, then put 12 inch by 12 inch concrete pavers on top of the wire inside and then some to form a border outside. Then I piled dirt on top of the pavers inside the coop. NOTHING is getting in there short of a bear tearing through the side. Even then, at night I shut them up in their enclosed perching area which is made of solid decking board secured into 4x4 logs. If something goes far enough to get into that, it'll make enough noise to wake me up and have to contend with an angry 6'4'' man with a 12 gauge. Haha.
Flocking beautiful
What a pretty flock!
Tiki DH Thank you!
Great breed, first year owning chickens. TH-cam is great for learning all about chickens!
Happy looking flock you got there. Nice setup.
Looks like a nice set up. Thanks for sharing
Beautiful birds!!
I love my Barred Rocks! They are so sweet. Of course, I love my leghorns as well
I'm getting ready to place an order with Cackle Hatchery for February/March and I can't wait! Thanks for posting this, I was also happy to see that you recorded this with a Galaxy S4 - I will use my new Note 5 to make some video's :) Beautiful Birds!
Those chickens are my favorites....very handsome birds!! How do you keep predators from digging under the perimeter???
I had two barred rock chickens to. I had a rooster and a hen. My hen was a very good layer, my rode island red chickens or whatever don't lay as much, but I got 6 eggs in one day/night. My barred rock chicken layed 3 eggs, just by herself. I loved her, but sadly the rooster and she were wiped out by two black labs. 😕 you have some good egg layers tapq.
I have several breeds and this breed is the nicest and easy to handle
I have 3 young barred rock chicken and a regular plymouth hen, they look adorable really.
Amazing Birds.
Beautiful
I got barred rocks too
Healthy and happy ! Great chickens,,,now you need a incubator and you are on your way to raising your own. I have ordered from the Cackle hatchery for years. I want to get some geese next year if I ever get my secure pen built.
Nice, your chickens look great
They are so beautiful!
Marya Khan Thank you!
tapq Your Welcome!
Your chickens look great, good size too.
Great birds, looking very good.
Awesome video!
Very good video, i love the Barred Plymouth Rock Chickens also and have 3 of them
Very calm birds.
I have a barred rock named Oreo, Oreo is so nice and friendly.
Barred Rocks really are great birds.
They seem like a calm and quiet breed! Thanks for sharing, we're sold!
They really are great birds. We have loved having them. Thanks for watching!
I got four of these and a white leghorn. They got wiped out by my two Labradors. They were good layers and very friendly.
We have a barred that we’ve picked up and held it’s whole life, and she’ll follow us around when she wants attention. 😂
They really are great birds. Thanks for watching!
I have 29 barred rocks. They’re small but they’re funny. I named the roster we have Cooper, and two hens that I can tell apart from the others, Mary, & KiKi.
Do you sell all of those eggs?
@@chriswf No- not anymore at least. We had a coyote attack in January and there are only 3 chickens left
Nice birds!
Nice placid looking chickens I am going to get a few
I'm sorry for the loss of your other chickens
Chub Chubs Thanks for that. Cool avatar btw.
I loved this chicken breed.
CHICKENS are so cute
damn how do u know who's who? Itd be hard to tell them apart. I've always had a mixed flock so that's simple to remember
chicken wire won't stop a raccoon. You need stronger hardware cloth or wire fencing.
Geeeez! That is a beautiful co-op and chicken yard...
+Tina Shay Well thank you!
I love barred rocks
Hi, Laings Rainch in Colorodo, i love your birds i have 60 that ate 4 months and they started laying before my leghorns which are the samr age
I have barred rocks as well and love them. I have raised chickens for 3 years now. How many predator attack attempts have you had? Successful or non successful?
Our run is. Early all grass, my husband said the chickens would have it go e but not so much. Is that ok or should we get the grass out mostly?
Chickens love grass. They will eat it. It's very good for them. Soon the grass will be gone.
i love my barred rock chickens
i love them!
My son is a chicken breeder!
great job
I wild also use pinewood shavings for the bedding because they really like to roll in that stuff and it absorbed their waste very well
Do Barred Rock chickens hatch their own chicks ?
Absolutely! They're great breeders!
So tasty.
Hello lay some wire out side half way up the other wire and let it lay on the at bottom. Keep from going underground to get them.🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓...
cool chickens
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Hi, do the barred rock hens ever get loud? I have bantam Old English Game Hens and they get pretty noisy in the early afternoon. I just got 3 female barred rocks and I'm hoping they're not as loud as the bantams.
I have a hen and a rooster like this. The hen is a sweetheart and the rooster got so hateful we had to get rid of him. How do you keep yours from trying to kill you lol
In my experience, once they're mean, they're mean. Getting rid of him was your best bet. There's no rehabilitating a mean rooster.
If you get another rooster, as a chic. be sure not to tease him or pick at him. If you handle your birds give him some affection and extra attention to make sure he never sees you as a threat. If you don't handle your birds just make sure that you talk to him softly when interacting with him, don't make sudden jerky moves, or loud noises, and don't turn your back to him.
They do freerange so they can eat gras and bugs and so on?
my rooster is also the same breed and his name is mad max.
Our is called eggbert or huevardo if you Spanish
i like it
Nice setup...could a snake get in ? They do love eggs....
Nice
I have 4 chickens 2 are Black Barred Rock there names are Dani (she mostly has white feathers but has black) (all of mine are hens) Raven (mostly black and she's mean) then I have My Road Island Red Chickens named Chica and Miss B
I have 2 Barred Rocks. Their names are Jellybean and Solar
Endergirl1212 mine is named Matilda
Katherine Thomas nice, i have a Buff Orpington named Matilda. We call her Big Bird though.
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Do you leave your house open year round or board it up in winter ?
I leave it open year round.
I have my own plymouth rock chickens..plus few leghorn and australorp hens. And this video is main reason why i get plymouth rocks beside other breeds :) !
Great flock! And such a beautiful chickens.
Greetings from Serbia !
Goran Jovanovic That's great to hear! Thanks a lot!
Do chickens lay eggs in the cold
They sure do!
thats nice
I have 8 and having a discussion whether they're hen or rooster.
I pick up my Plymouth rock chicken all the time
I have 8 of these also, my rooster is silver lace wine-doted m are also 4 months old.
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I have one of those cool
I would be careful with those apples they really like them but the seeds are not good for their respiratory system
On behalf of the chickens: have them walk on soil instead of straw. In the soil the chickens can take a soil/dust bath. Such a bath is part of their natural behaviour.
Kind regards
paultje jansen Thanks for the comment. They still take dust baths. They just scratch in an area to move the wheat straw out of the way and take their dust baths. The wheat straw helps keep the area from getting too muddy and nasty in times when we're having lots of rain. It also helps keep the eggs they lay free of dirt and grime. Have a great day!
Leave the straw and add a covered dust box.
15 hens?! That's a TON of eggs. What do you do with all of those eggs?
Do you have a big family? Lol
Dehydrate and store.
@@tapq Wow I didn't even know dehydrating them was a thing...
Is tater still alive buddy?He looks like a strong rooster👍
Looking very good. Do you have anything to block predators from digging under the fence?
MelonHeadSeb I have put some bricks and cinderblocks and pieces of scrap wood around the outside perimeter of the pen in several areas. So far that has worked. I inspect the area daily. If you have any suggestions though, I'd love to hear them. Thanks!
+tapq I grew up on a farm with chickens. Chickens always take me bsck to my childhood. Predators were a constant problem. One that my parents either never dedicated themselves fully to remedy or one that they gave up on and were defeated by. I'll probably never know. I, however have vowed to take every measure possible to never expose my future chickens to the perils that they faced on our farm growing up.
Predators that dig will typically dig right at the base of your coop where the wall and the ground meet to form an "L" shape. I would take a section of chicken wire and run it all around the perimeter of the entire coop. Make it so it's "L" shaped so you have half of your roll stapled to the outer wall of your coop. I would lay the other half down on the ground and bury it underground a bit. It might be easier to just lay a bunch of wood chips/mulch over it along the portion laying on the ground. Mulch it well all the way up to the base of your coop. Bury it a few inches deep. Anything that tries to dig around the perimeter will reach the chicken wire under the mulch and won't be able to go any further. Chicken wire does degrade after a while though. Particularly where it is in constant contact with the ground or moisture. As long as you stay on top of maintaining the integrity of your wire, I seriously doubt that any predators will be able to get through. Is it possible? Yeah, but not very likely. It sounds like the open top was the weakest link in your past attempt at chickens. I definitely plan on having a maremma or anatolia sheppard fully dedicated to my livestock. They will even protect your animals against birds of prey (and against humans harassing your birds) if trained properly. Poly coated wire for the underground/perimeter might be a better longer lasting option to consider. Best of luck to you. Snakes eating our eggs were a huge problem too.
I had a coop just like that with a starter of 7 chickens I have 2 now with each a broken wing and my 3 year old has a big gash in its neck I would recommend song stronger wire cause that raccoon broke through the top of that wire
"Tater Salad" was just a cockerel in this film.
The females were officially pullets, since they had not laid, yet.
A cockerel becomes a cock at 12 months old, although able to breed at 6 months.
They are the equivalent of adolescent teens.
I love your use of proper terminology.
I would really like to see them as adults, now.
Named you're rooster after Ron white?
+dirtshower250 LOL! I think you might be the first person to catch that. It's true. That's where I got the name from.
I cought that! lol!
The Blue Collar Comedy Tour!
are they noise ?
i am pretty new to this-- getting ready to obtain 3 "partridge rock hens"- are theses the same that you have-- also-- are these pretty good egg laying chickens-- thanks for your help
Jonathan Hetrick Partridge Plymouth Rocks are a different breed than these. Mine are Barred Plymouth Rocks. The Partridge Plymouth Rocks have a brownish-red coloration and are beautiful birds. Based on what I read they're great for beginners so I'm sure you'll be very happy with them.
thanks a lot for the help!!
Do you ever get dizzy looking at your chickens?
+itssugarfree LOL! Dizzy no. Hypnotized... Yes. It's mesmerizing to sit and watch them. I really enjoy it.
haha - I can imagine. They are beautiful...but seriously I got dizzy watching them! Must be my screen...
Do you ever let them out to free range?
How old is your chip board chicken coop and how long do you expect it to last?
fudgedog It's actually about 3 years old. I expect to get another year or so out of it. I have now finished building a large coop to house the newest members of my flock, 51 Cinnamon Queens also from Cackle Hatchery. I'll do a video on it very soon. Thanks for the question!
tapq if you put a coat of paint on the chip board or if you did it would last allot longer.. or you could put on some siding and even better. but its a really nice set up you got there
good idea with the water's
Could you give me the measures or plane of your farm.? please =) and..Excuse for my english I'm tr ying to learn ^^
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What month chicken lay egg
Hello
wow very beautiful chickens
please thr weight of hen and rooster at that age "3months"
thx
I used to have a barred rock hen, but she passed away recently.