3 Ways To Make Your Chickens Happy (happy chickens lay more eggs) 

My broody hens just hatched eggs 😍

Hi Becky! I am a new subscriber and I really admire you and love learning from your videos. I am 68, have cancer and am bedridden but sweetie, you have made me want chickens! I promise if I'm ever well enough, I will only get two at first and I will be ready for them before I get them. But after that, the ONLY thing I promise is to try to take excellent care of them and make them HAPPY CHICKENS!!!

We built our coops to be almost bullet proof. So far we've never had an intruder. Great video Becky!

I never realized there were different temperments in chicken breeds (like dog breeds). My grandparents were farmers & they only kept one breed of chicken, the Leghorns, in a large coop. Their neighbor only raised Australorps, a large black flock that free ranged. Maybe this helps to explain why. It's sad that those old farmers are gone now & their amazing knowledge too. Thanks for keeping alive the farming tradition of passing on the knowledge & experience - especially when it comes to the animals! 💚👍👍

Our girls are getting so big. Almost 3 monthe now. Your videos have been so helpful! Thanks Becky!

Hey Becky all love from South Africa 🇿🇦 thanks to you I now have 45 black Australorp Hens that lay eggs everyday now I can be able to sell the eggs to my community...I’m always on your channel learning more you inspired me to start Poultry farm

I am retired too, but I am not homesteading , I am gardening. =) I can't have chicken on my yard , I wish I could. Greetings from Australia.

We use our old deep frame bee boxes for nest boxes

I’ve been building my mothers new she hen coop since April not done yet. Working on digging the 1 ft x 1 ft mote around the whole coop, to drop in wire to prevent digging predators from entry under fence.

I absolutely love your show

Thanks for the information 👍. Looks like you painted the trim on your house 🏠 from red to a natural color and the mini split HVAC. Awesome!🦋🌻🦋

Hello Becky. Always ton of good advice for children owners. Thanks for that. Your homestead looks great. You love your animals and provide good shelter. Be well.

Very good advice Becky !

Becky, LOVE your video’s! So real❤️

Seven months of watching (for rescue) chicken videos…you’re in my top 3.. The couple from England and the girl from Wisconsin…

Love you mam, getting a lot of things from you..... 🇮🇳❤️🇮🇳

Love your videos and it's great that you offer a book reference 🙂

Love the content!!!! Thank you

Hello Becky. We have one hen that doesn't lay and when she does the shell is soft. We are feeding your mixture of food plus 15% Laymore mash. We have 5 hens and one rooster. The hens are a year old. We also give them oyster shell and DE is in the feed.

My chicken feeder is 6 inches off the ground and mice get in there all the time, fortunately, sometimes my chickens can catch the mice and eat them. But they are usually out at night. You’d be surprised on how far mice can jump. They can jump 13 inches.

Thanks for all the chicken advice. I've grown chickens for years but we renovated our barn last year to house farm equipment and we are planning to build a separate chicken coop soon. I've been a fan of yours for years. Also I tried several of your recipes and they all turned out great. Becky's country bumpkin brownies are a fav in my house. 😁

I have 2 speckled sussex hens and 3 silkies... they do good together for the most part 🙂 they love their fermented scratch and their layer crumble mixed with yogurt, seaweed and a few striker pellets (to control parasites). There is definitely a learning curve with chickens but it's worth it!

This is such good advice, I wish I had seen this before I ordered my huge batch of mixed sweeties and feisties!😅

If I ever raise chickens, I will definitely follow your lead, as I am not trying to have a bunch of drama! 😳🤣🙋‍♀️🐴🍃

My swedish flower pullet laid her first eggy today!

I've learned a lot with this video! thank you so much and God Bless

Dear Becky I'm trying to eliminate soy from my ladies diet, I been mixing 1 part of organic chicken scratch with 1 part of black oil sunflower seeds and their egg production is very good. I also provide grit , oyster shell free choice . Not to mention my chicken are free range. Thank you for your wonderful videos.

I am very fortunate that I have only lost one chicken to a fox as I have had 5 attacks where 2 got bitten and survived and also I have had countless hawk attacks all while free ranging. My chickens are very lucky

Thanks for all your videos! You have been super helpful and we have learned so much watching and now we have our own chickens and ducks. Thanks again!

Thx for the video. Would love a tour of your chicken coop.

I thinkmy chickens are really happy they lay eggs all year....and there 12 years old they are very large black hens...

Not sure you’ve been asked this yet. How do you handle and tame your birds? Do you handle them every day when babies? I want mine to be friendly and easily handled in case of injuries or they need medical treatment. Could you show us?

I can't wait to have my chickens again 😩

I got a 7 year old barred rock still laying !

The thing that is hard to figure out is having young chickens and older chickens because I have back yard chickens and the older ones eat the chick starter instead of their food.

Hey Becky we just recently got three backyard Isa brown 12 month old hens and we aren’t getting 3 eggs a day. What do you recommend to get them to lay each day. Thanks for all your videos they are very helpful!!

I let my hens out of chicken tractor in the day time and unfortunately something got 1 of them this week. So I am keeping them in their tractor all the time. I hope that's o k.

Hey Becky My chickens are only 3 yrs old, but only laying 2 eggs but I have 6 hens. I have buff Orpingtons, and other breeds. They have many egg laying years left, do you have any suggestions on how to get them laying again? Or why they aren’t. I give them grit, oyster shells, 16% feed, everything that the internet says. If anyone else in the comments had any ideas, I’m open!! Thanks!!

I’ve just started a flock with five hens. We are currently considering once we have our system completely set up and comfortable, as you say, I’m interested in finding a few heritage breeds and propagating them. I like the “sweet” personality do you know of any critical heritage breeds with this type of personality?

What type of feed do you recommend to feed hens that only one has started laying so far of a flock of 7 hens? The person I bought them from said he thought they were about 4 to 5 months old. I have a Golden Laced Wyndotte, Americauna (she has laid 2 eggs in 2 days so far), Easter Egger, Black Cochin Bantam, 2 White Silkies and 1 Buff Silkie. They are all rescues and so much more happier at their new home but I want to get them the very best organic feed that will keep them healthy and laying lots. I have done a lot of research and there is so much information out there it's a lot to take in. Thanks for your help.

I started my chickens with oyster shell grit but there is now a supply shortage in all the stores anywhere near me. The substitute they gave me was calcium carbonate. Is this what you would recommend? My girls are all still quite young. They started laying at 16 weeks and are now almost 21 weeks. I have fed them what you recommend and they love it and have been very healthy with no issues so far. I have your book but I obviously didn’t watch the chicken math video. 1 per person. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I started with 34. 7 different breeds. I promise I am a very attentive chicken mama so I hope to avoid issues that you were concerned about. I made sure I was very prepared but I didn’t think of supply shortages 🤦🏻‍♀️ I’m getting about 19 eggs per day the last couple days but not everyone is laying yet. Any advice? Is there something others than oyster shell that would be better that calcium carbonate?

Who would you say is a sweetie breed and who is a feisty breed? From your experience! Thank you ❤️

My broody black austrolorp is upsetting the coup .she stays in the nest box disrupting the laying patterns so I only get maybe one or two eggs a day. I don't think she's laying either. She comes out to an drink and then goes an sits on someone else egg in there.

I just wanted to find out when hens start laying there eggs. I have been taking good care of and they are now about 4/7 months old

I have a chicken that sneezes but does not appear to be sick, she eats and is active. Are there allergies for chickens?

I need help! I just finished making a chicken coop. My problem is they won't go in it a night, they prefer my cyclone fence! How do I get them to go in?

Hi i have new adult chicken so what feed i can make for them and can u tell me the tips and ligt set up ,egglaying setup ,how to gove food for 2 chickens plz tell from india

My coop is unhappy. I had 7 chickens and thought I'd try my hand at the incubator. I expected a low turnout, but 14 healthy chicks hatched!🤪 Now, I will have to choose which ones must go. I feel so irresponsible, but I wanted to know I could keep a food supply, with all the craziness in this world. 😔

Where you have been dear?

I have about 15 chickens and almost all are a different breed. They have their pecking order, but don't bully each other

How do you bake chicken egg shells

Hello, I have been watching your video's trying to learn and figure all of this out. Do you have a e mail or a way of communicating with you. Because I have a few questions because I am a beginner with this whole process.

New to chickens any tips for an cockerel that is a bully? He was a sweet guy until the hormones kicked in.

How to make ur chickens happy? Create a paradise for them. My paradise includes fresh water daily.....fresh food measured in quantities and spread out to prevent fighting....native plants that provide protection via thorny bushes and plenty of shade and micro climates for cooling off....shrubs dead wood native shrubs and tress that produce berries for a more natural forage while they free range.....correct roo to hen ratio.....however im going to suggest something taboo.....im so sorry but if a beautiful majestic bird of manages to snatch one of my chickens its ok....im glad to give back to nature so make sure you use incubators to keep your flock numbers up. I know the last part is gonna be insane to some but I love nature

I had new chickens no more than 5 1/2 months old and a opossum or raccoon ripped a huge hole in the coop and killed every one of them. It was a horror scene with all that blood!

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Ihave to chickens rooster and his hen the hen lays more eggs but after the broody the hen doesnt lay eggs in this time what i do becky to my hen 🙄🙄😭

I don't have chicken's

Just me, so two girls

Watching from Thailand...nice..