long time subscriber: love seeing you more often now and understand editing takes time. would like more edits of shots on the subject you're talking about rather than the camera staying on you for so long. found myself hitting the fast forward button today (and don't normally) ❤
So true I’ve followed you since i had 17 chicks 3 years ago and your advice I follow and I know everything from you thanks Becky my chickens are happy because of you❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
This is also very common for chickens that are lower ranking in the pecking order and have a rooster as if they are mounted a lot more than the other hens then they can loose feathers in their back. The issue can be addressed by separating those hens from the roosters for them to recover while also modifying their diet to help with growing back their feathers! :)
One of my Buff Orpington is the most sweet, gentle, friendly of them all chickens I ever owned. She keeps order and she is the police of nice behavior of everyone including me. She is the alpha and runs to me from afar and squats down, allowing me to pet her. Under her rule, no chickens peck each other, they are all nice and well behaved as I never had such a gentle flock before.
Florida spread a bit more to manage? so happy for you. I've got asthma real bad and covid lockdowns were miserable. don't think I could have made it without adding chickiebabies to my life. bless you lady and all your hats 😂
Thanks Becky for the great information on molting chickens. As I mentioned in my last comments to you, I’ve got 8 hens molting right now and five have grown their feathers back, but three are still bare butts😂 They started to grow their feathers back, but I noticed they’ve been picked clean again. I bought some cat kibble made from white fish and potatoes which is 34% protein so have started giving them some in their sunflower seed, soldier fly and starter feed mix. Hopefully their feathers will grow back soon. We’ve had a few 32 degree nights. I wonder if those three hens could have mites? It’s strange the others don’t seem to have issues, just no feathers at the rear end.🤭
I’m going to do a video on Cortado’s progress once a month. Scott said he is going to put it on my other channel called “Becky Sunshine Pony Town”☀️❤️☀️
I saw many ppl breeding chickens for eggs, and that gives me a weird idea of what they would do to their chickens when they're getting too old to lay eggs, or getting sick to die. Cause I never heard any good treatments for those old sick chickens. Would they be butchered to be served as a dish on the dnner table? Or would they be cared and protected till they die and get buried in more graceful way? Personally I thought that I would raise chickens, dogs, cats, goats in the farm, then I was a vegetarian as of those days (not now anymore), thought to myself, how I am gonna treat aging livestock, cause I can't butcher them nor eat their flesh. So it was a big problem to be solved before I would breed any kind of livestock.
I have some hens, that all of them all at once stopped laying ( going on a year now ). I feel I've tried everything but what could the reason behind this be ?
Is that the color of their feathers as they grow in? Birds have many colors and lots of chickens are mixed breeds, so who knows what color they will end up being until they are grown☀️❤️☀️
Heyyyy Becky, Im the other Becky.... Just want to discuss something 🤔 My 10 month Olds Black Australorps won't LET the 5 months Olds, inside the hen house (or they just won't go in?) The new pullets 7 are 4 Sapphire Splash & 3 French Black Copper Marans. Only one Black Australorp hen is being bossy. She's not pulling feathers, but she will grab one, occasionally. It's getting cold here in Va. I need the newest 7 to be in that hen house ASAP. MY Rooster "Seymour Badbutts" does nothing to stop the alpha hen from picking on the others. But he will try and come at me occasionally.... hence the word TRY. 😉 I handle him as needed. Lol. I'm thinking I need another chicken run and hen house just to separate the butt-heads, from the sweet ones... but can't afford to do it. Any advice? Thanks, BECKY 🤗⚘💜
My advice always stays the same. Don’t “add” more chicks into a coup until the babies are the same size. Don’t over crowd a coop. Don’t mix sweeties and feisty’s. ☀️❤️☀️
I really need your help: my chickens have been expelling clear fluid from their mouths for several months with no other symptoms. Then they all got runny watery poop. Not all the time, but we see it enough to be curious. Now we've got one girl who can't hardly walk. She takes a few wabbly steps and then collapses. She laid her first egg after a couple of months without laying during this time. But now that the egg is out, andshe'ss pooping and eating/drinking normally, she still isn't walking. Im not sure if those are the same issues... But none of the hens laid since August. They all molted, but all have their feathers back. (A bobcat took out 2 of their friends, so we figured the trauma caused a longer no egg period) Is it worms? 😭 Its so hard to figure it out when we have so much going on. We use organic apple cider vinegar in water and pepper in food a few times per year
I have made a catalog of chicken videos if you go search, but here is one for you to watch.☀️❤️☀️ ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-E0UsmeE5Hyo.htmlsi=2DQucmQte0OEW9Uy
