O my God !!! I loved this video so MUCH! By the end of it I was rollin'! You and those Hens, AND MARIO WITH HIS BLACK EYEBROWS! I'm whoopin' and crying with laughter! Geez, I've got to calm down so I can go to sleep. Thank you for a wonderful time, Becky!
I live in Alaska and I love watching all you videos. You are my inspiration. Thank you for everything you do. My 5 chickens are doing great thanks to you.
Becky. I enjoyed your homestead very much. Took. Me back to our family farm in Walland Tennessee when I was a little girl. I am 76 years old now. Such a joy to see your farm animals. sincerely Jewel
I love you life so much... You are definitely added to my Role Model list Becky! I am in FFA right now and I am looking into what I want my life to be like one day and I just smiled when I heard about you and saw pieces of your farm :)
I had buff orpinton and they were terrific. They were good layers, good broody hen, good for meat , and easy to pluck. The buff orpinton rooster was sooo big and sooo gentle, and he was a doll aroundthe small kids. My chickens free ranged and I never had to worry about the roosters getting sassy. For all these reasons they were my favorite breed.
Thanks Becky, I checked the codes in the city I live in and I can have up to 8 chickens and 2 roosters but actually I don't even want a rooster. Unfortunately my husband has nixed that! I thought about sneaking them in one by one but he might notice the chicken house when he mows the lawn. I'm still working on him and I really appreciate the information you provided. I decided I would like to have the buff chickens since they're good layers and have brown eggs. Thanks again and I always enjoy your vlogs because you give so much information.
I just discovered your channel and just love you and what you do! We are city slickers who just moved to the country to begin our own homesteading adventure. We just got a dozen chicks and have no clue what we are doing lol. I hope to learn a lot from you.
this was great! the Bloopers are great! i just got a Buff Orpington to be w/ my Leghorn (which she is also a lovely, friendly chicken). it's been a week 1/2 and she's only laid twice... must be stressed. but she sure is getting used to all of us :) Thanks for everything!
Ha, the prices they charge 4 cable,.nothing but greed,.U can get everything here on Internet,..Put ur movie's on T.V screen,.Don't think anyone watches cable anymore,..
Thank You for your post. In my experience with my chickens, that orneriness in the coup has been only a short span. And once the hen set their pecking order they settle down quite nicely and start into enjoying their chicken feed and laying mesh and talk with me every day at feeding time. They seem to like sharing their day and showing off their daily production of fine fresh eggs and chatting with me as I thank them while chatting and petting them. I have enjoyed our many chats. I have happy hens, and one roster named Cookie Monster, he likes cookies and pinkies.
I currently have an Australorp, Jersey Giant, Golden Laced Wyandotte, Dominique, Black Copper Maran and Campine hens with a black Silkie rooster They all get along great and love to get their treats. They also survived bitter cold temps this winter in an unheated coop. I encourage everyone to try raising heritage breeds.
Thanks for posting this video Becky. I have 16 Barred Rock chickens and 11 Americanas. They Barred Rocks started pecking the other breed and I put the Pin less Peepers on them and solved the problem of bossiness of all the chickens. Also it helps when one or two chickens get injured. I use a chicken tractor which I move every 2-3 days so it's on fresh ground and cuts all the smell to zero. I enjoy learning from your experience and thank you for adding you new found insight. I have not lost any chickens using the predator guards on all four side and snake aways in a pan keeps all the snakes out of the area. Have fun, as I am too.
I have Buff and Rock chickens! I am a new chicken owner and my birds are 4 weeks old. The 4th chicken was the best!! Thanks for the smile! Love your chicken videos!!
Loved this video. New sub cause this was too awesome. Got a small flock of chickens myself for the kids. All hoping for a decent egg turnout with 13 chickens and 2 ducks. 😉 Looking forward to more content.
love it.... like chickens and chicks all the time, black and golden one my favorite. i had barred rock before...... like black and golden one most. You made the right decision living in the country side.... respect that.
Never had Australorps but have raised Buff Orpingtons and Bared Rocks and love them both. My little flock at present consists of 3 Barred Rocks. You're so right! They are bossy, but I love how well they tolerate the cold.
This is Ahmed Kalki from Los Angeles, California. I am 20 years old, and love watching your videos because you are one of those people on earth who reminds me that there are still some good religious people with a very kind and innocent heart. I come from Bangladesh where I had a big house like you where my birds and animals lived mostly in the wild and my plants grew in good soil. I even had some big trees and I did not really have to worry or care about anything since things were mostly in the wild. When we moved to U.S.A. my life became a disaster for the first few years. We were renting a small apartment until now. Two months ago we finally bought a small town house in Los Angeles and my dead dreams started to be alive after many dead years of my life. We are more poor now, but my dreams became more rich. I had Chickens, Ducks, Animals, and Plants since I was a very young boy. Now our small house has a south cement front balcony and a north cement back balcony. Since I have cemented limited place now, I want to be picky and only plant fragrant plants like Rose, Lily, Jasmine, Brugmansia, Queen of The Night, and a few more may be. Please teach me and my friends in one of your new videos how should I try to plant these kinds of fragrant flower plants in pots. I and my friends never did pot gardening before. I would say my balconies do get some good sun light. During last 2 months of Summer my north balcony got full sun, but now in Fall my south balcony gets better sun but not full sun. I don't understand how big the pots should be, and for how long is a big pot good for a plant. I am also very ignorant about the weather and seasons for California plants. I never had any Lily in Bangladesh, so I want to know about Oriental White Casablanca Lily. If they can grow in pots and what do I need to do throughout the year for them. I also have Black Australorp Hen and Roosters for about two months. They still look like teenagers to me. For the Summer I made them a net fence coop and kept them in my front south balcony, because my back balcony was empty, sunny, and hot. Now that Fall just started with cold nights and my back balcony is surrounded and shaded by some tall vegetable plants that my Mom and Grandma planted, I broke the net fence coop to cover the plants from my chickens and made them a bigger wooden coop in the back balcony. I decided to set them free in the balcony throughout the day. I tried my best to make them a good coop but it is still very cold and windy at nights. Now I have 1 Hen and 3 Roosters, but in the future I would want 1 Rooster and more Hen. Please teach us about Black Australorp Hens, Weather, Cold, Heat, Rains, and having baby chickens from my Hen. If my neighbors complain and I have to take out my Roosters, will my Hen still lay eggs and have babies? My balcony has cement walls and it is big enough to have 10 Hens if I really take good care of them. Sorry for the lots of writings. I never thought I would have to write this much. I and my friends watch your youtube videos regularly. They told me to write you to make a video for us. My friends are Chris, Dip, Shanu, Jobeda, Noah, and Krishna. Please please please make a video for us because we want to be a part of your good works. Your videos are really bringing more peace and humanity in the society. Peace for both of you!!!
Ahmed Dip, Good for you, you have a great attitude. Personally I would keep the number of chickens down, because the more room each one has, the healthier they all are, and will lay more eggs. Also, to keep your neighbors from complaining about them, bring them a few eggs every so often! One thing worth noting, where I live (N.California), there are laws about keeping Backyard Chickens, which say you may not have a coop closer than - i think?- 60 ft from any dwelling (including your neighbors-- kind of hard to comply if you're in an apartment building). But i won't tell. 🙊 As for babies, I think it would be better to wait on that, due to the space requirements. Also another rule which could vary by city/county, NO ROOSTERS!!! They are loud and obnoxious, and wake up the entire neighborhood at the crack of dawn, even on your day off! No amount of free eggs will fix that. You do not need roosters to get eggs, though. Becky said in one of her videos that the hen needs to be as much as 10 months old to start laying; in that video's comments many people said they started getting eggs from 20 weeks (5 monthsof age). This is very important: Lots of plants produce seeds which are toxic/poisonous to BYC (backyard chickens). You mentioned Brugmansia, and I am pretty sure that is on the list. You can Google "Chicken-safe garden plants" and get an idea of which to avoid. There are many lists of this kind, and most are not all-inclusive. And there's always the person telling you he's "never had a problem with [-fill in the blank]". A chicken will eat anything that looks like a seed, so making sure no piosonous ones are available is quite the task. One more thing! The feed you give your chickens needs to be cleaned up daily, because in the city, and in the suburbs, and in the country, RATS are a serious problem, and they will come onto your deck to find something edible. Your coop needs to be animal-proof, because even in an urban setting you will have raccoons, possums, possibly even coyotes try to find their way in. Also, to keep complaints down and for your own health, you have to clean up the waste your chickens will produce, every day. Good luck to you! And keep posting to update everyone on your progress.
I have a barred rock mixed in with two other chickens of different breeds. it might be because the three grew up together since being a day old but they never fight and the barred rock is the most passive one that I have.
I totally clicked on this video because I'm holding my baby and I said to him, "Let's watch this one, she looks fun, doesn't she?" And you totally were! Lol, kudos for your great personality ...while being educational!
I'm 26, live in the city of Chicago, & I'm just at home so jealous of you. I can't wait to finish college, and move to a solitary suburb here in Illinois. New Subby !!
Just stumbled on your video… it’s crazy that we only have 3 breeds and it’s the same three that is on this video. Good to see that we made the right decision.
Hi Becky, Im from Uk i just wanted to say what a great lady you are that works so hard, that has a passion for her animals. We have just bought 5 chickens, and yes we have been stupid here they have got out and our dog has had 3 of them so far. We are down to 2 we have put more chicken wire around, but they are able to jump pretty high. Well our own common sense should tell us that the fence needs to be higher. Still we live and we learn, thank you for posting such wonderful videos. Perhaps we should get a large pig:}:}
You can trim the flight feathers to reduce their range :) I've done that and it worked great!... but then the fox got in the pen so we had to put the lot in chicken tractors :( It kind of works but I have a LOT of chickens so that is a lot of tractors to move around (about 5 birds each tractor +1 nest). If you don't have a predator problem trimming the flight feathers is a great way to stop them from say... roosting on the roof of your home at night and scratching around the rain gutters--yes that happened LOL
I also have two barred rocks in my in my mix breeds so they also get along pretty well although the two barred rocks do tend to fight with each other sometimes but that's quite rare
I've got an Australorp called Maleficent and she's such a sweetheart. Blue Andalusians are also really sweet. I had a grayish one who would come up and perch on me and even snuggle a bit. She died of heat exhaustion during the heatwave this summer though, and I'll be forever sad about it. They lay nice white eggs and are hilarious.
Your videos are the best! We have two full grown barred rocks that are very sweet and friendly gifted to us and now 8 baby chickens that are two different type of bantams (2 are silkies) that are 11 days old kept inside in a brooder. Our chicken coup is approx 12 by 12 inside and then a run at least 12 ft by 20 ft long. I hope all the baby chicks will get along with the one year old girls. Anything important I should know when putting the babies out in the coup in 4 or 5 weeks from now?I am a city girl and this is my first time with chickens. I am going to sub to your newsletter now! thanks!
