How To Make My Chickens Lay More Eggs 

True story: I just picked up my new chicks for the spring. Named one of them Becky. Thanks for sharing your wealth of knowledge.

Nothing better than waking up to Becky on a Sunday Morning. I’m in love.

Becky, you are such an inspiration. I have been homesteading for over 20 years, but, I learn something new each time I was you. Keep up the hard work.

Your soap making videos are the best of all that I have watched! I made soap with lye that I dripped from ashes when I lived in Northern Canada 40 years ago. My soap has always had iffy results (not always solidifying). Didn’t”t know different oils had different saponification values . I just mixed lye and fat of some kind and hoped for the best. I made several batches of soap using your recipe with coconut oil and olive oil for family and colleagues at school this year and got rave reviews and requests for more. Thank you so much . Your videos are great! I built my own two story log house in Canada in 1972 after I graduated from college. I bought 80 acres with tip money from waitressing during college. I felled the trees and peeled them all. Then dragged them to spot I was going to build by hand with one other person and some with my Volkswagen pick-up. Held two together with log dogs and ran a chainsaw between them to flatten the sides so they would fit together better. Used moss I gathered from the forest to insulate between them. I also built a bermed house was from cement block in Washington with just my two small children (5 and 6) . Had the house I live in now built on acreage. Am now starting the 4th homestead and plan on doing most of the work myself. That 5 year old is now 41 and she and I will be building her house and my house with help from some other family members (including her 5 and 7 year old ) .Again thank you for your wonderful uplifting can do videos !

Yep overlooked the calcium...thought there was enough in her pellets and seeds. We almost lost "Chicklett "last week to being bunged up. She is back to herself thankfully !

You make it sound so exciting. By next spring I should be ready to set it all up. I feel more and more confident about having backyard chickens each time I watch this channel. Am sure you're helping many people like me. Thanks so much!

thank u for all the chicken videos! im trying to convince my parents to let us get chickens and ur videos have helped so much!!

I haven't seen a video from you in awhile. You are the reason I got my chickens in the first place and they are doing fantastic. Also you look great happy and healthy it's like seeing a new person.

Thank you for all the good info.

Thanks for the tips Becky. This was very helpful and will keep them in mind for my chickens since I only have one chicken laying at the moment. ❤️

Thanks for that Miss Becky since i been looking at your videos my hens have been laying really good

Thanks Becky😊👍

Sunday morning coffee and a chat from Becky. Thank you. Here at Pine Meadows Hobby Farm we call those things Butt Nuggets.

I watch so many of your videos you are my role model keep it up and thank you!

I was just feeding my chicken and then I come in and see your notification🤭❤❤❤

Becky i have to say you look so much better now ... you are in your best shape you are glowing and getting younger you are doing something right congratulations

I love Becky and her videos. Best facts, tips and idea's about chickens. You are a doll to watch as well.

Hi Becky, thanks for your videos. I have 9 chickens, 4 of them are silkies and I get 6 or even 7 eggs a day. And its actually still Winter here. Feed them well and they'll repay you❤

Thank you finally an answer that doesn't have to do with commercial chicken food

Hi Becky! I also recycle egg shells, soak them in apple cider vinegar, then drain and put in low oven until all dried out...crush up and put in with their food--they only love it. Thank you for all you do! Very good info.! :) Dawn @ Rich & Dawn in MN :)

Great Video. My 11 year old blue orpington americauna cross still occasionally lays eggs. And my seven year old RIR still regularly lays.

Lots of awesome advise Becky. I always look forward to the posts . Thanks for sharing !

I'll get some meal worm today...she was definitely ticked off the other day when I didn't share my tuna sandwich! ..lol...

I am an Indian🇮🇳... Your videos are awsome cuz I have 4 chickens and i luv them more! Love from India

Tahnks Becky! If my girls are laying I know it's because theyre happy and healthy and living their best chicken lives

I had one bantam chicken that laid one little egg when she was eleven years old.

I have been watching your videos since you were living in a tent. It has taken us a long time but we finally have our land and are living in a camper while we build. You have been a big inspiration in making that happen. Thank you! I was wondering if you feed any laying pellets to your chickens?

Thanks for all the great info. I can’t have chickens where I live, but I dream of a day when we will be allowed and have my mini coop and at least three or four Buff Orpingtons, which I find so pretty.

Good advisor becky !!

Nothing better than having ur own eggs in the morning or evening lol thanks for all u do

Just purchased your book on amazon ❤

I love all your videos! I am a new chicken mom so I was so nervous. Thank you :)

Thank you Becky for this inspiring video I have 16 children and we get like four to 2 eggs per day.

You are truly awesome, thanks for this info. Can't wait to receive your book.🥰🐓🐥🐤

Question. Can you use dried eggshells instead of oyster shell calcium? Thanks for your channel.

LOVE YOUR CHANNEL BECKY! THANKS for all the advice. 😉🐤🌈🐣🐔my dog lives for the small dog food even though she is big. She shares with the chickens, LOL!

Hi

Very informative! Tfs 💖💅🏽

Thank you for the good advice!!!!!!

I have high calcium and high protein grumble and mix it up. I have grit and oyster shell always available. They get whole corn and meal worms ares treats. They get random veggies and yogurt with cottage cheese on warm days . I have a flock block as well they peck at.

this is my favorite youtube channel! hands down.Thank you for the great video like always!

My chickens love sardines. I buy them the cheap ones at dollar tree. They like picking thru the garden for worms too, after I run the tiller thru it.

Years ago I was down at the hardware store and they had a pallet of wild bird seed that was near the expiration date and they marked it down to 25cents a bag(twenty pound bags) I bought most of the pallet and took it home. I had two dozen production reds and was getting around a dozen eggs a day. I started putting out one bag of wild bird seed in the feeder each day and almost immediately I was getting 23 or 24 eggs a day every day until after I had used up all the wild bird seed.

You look amazing! Thank you for another great video.

Plz tell me which mic do u use . Bcz your voice is so clear... I have also a RU-vid channel so I also want my voice to be clear plz tell me will w8 for the reply .. Btw your video is awesome

Hello Becky and to everyone else. I am a home brewer and one thing I discovered a couple of years ago is that you will never, 100% completely wash all of the ferment-able sugars out of your mashing grains (barley or wheat.) With that said, I had about 6 chickens at the time and would get on average, 4 to 6 eggs. When I stopped throwing away my grist (grains after mashing) and feeding it to my chickens I noticed that in the span of about 5 or 6 days they stated laying between 6 and 8 eggs a day. I had started to think if I was skipping days of collecting or maybe the chickens where laying else where then bring the best back to the nest. Once they had ran out of the grist, they would return to laying between 4 and 6 eggs daily as opposed to 6+ (one a few occasion I got 10 eggs in one day!) I was perplexed as to what was going on, hell, even thought my kids where playing a joke on me and replacing eggs back into the nest lol. A good friend of mine who happened to be an avid brewer and chemist told me basically, all of the residual sugars still resident in the grains have already been broken down from their original starch molecules into simple sugars. meaning that since the chickens had less energy to spend on breaking down the starches to sugars and where already receiving the sugars through this form, which resulted in more eggs since they didn't have to work as hard. So if any of your are home brewers and have chickens. Don't through your grist away! Feed it to your chickens or any other live stock you have. They benefit greatly from the residual sugars! Oh and don't malt grains just feed your chickens malted grains. The process is to lengthy and cost wise, you will have probably invested much more into it's resources. I malt my own grains so I know.

Hi Becky, Your Chickens are absolutely gorgeous . Thanks for the video

You look so great. Every time I see you it is a surprise because you have lost more weight. I wish I could do that.

don’t mean to be blunt but you look a lot healthier, slimmer, younger and more beautiful than before! Wish i had your lifestyle.

Thank you so much for all that information! Just getting started with my chicks! Alway wanted to have chicken! Having fun with them!

Becky I just love your channel, you are so informative, And may I say, you are really looking good with your weight loss,

Thank you for giving good information...... Keep it up

❤ thanks for the information 😊 will try this with my chooks

Great information. Thank you for sharing

Hi Becky, I got some chickens a few years ago from a guy that raised them on high protein dog food, these chickens looked like young turkeys, they could hardly walk because of there size, Anyway, these chickens were laying very large eggs, with triple yokes, yep, TRIPLE yokes,

Love u becky for your very informative video. God bless u. 🙂

She is so funny, makes me giggle 😄

You look so great these days!

You’re very nice to share all this good knowledge 🙂

No one believes me LOL but I did have one hen lay two eggs in a day, once. I swear it happened! hahaha

I crush and feed the egg shells back to my girls. Layer pellets, black oil sunflower seeds, scratch and greens ( I walk around the yard and pulls weeds... the girls love a ‘weed salad’ a few times a week. They get kitchen scraps too. When I roast something with bones , they get to pick the bones clean ( be sure to clean up so they don’t attract predators)

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Thank you so much

Does the seasons affect egg laying? I.e. winter?

Thank you my egg thing will blow up!

Good tips! I do all of that and most of my girls average about 2 eggs every three days. The younger ones for sure lay every day

Eggcellent advice! Thank you!

My white leghorns laid eggs every single day all year long for two years straight. The only reason it stopped was because a predator got them!

Becky! We are doing it! We’re in our 60’s, and as of almost three weeks ago, we’ve taken the plunge with 8 hens; 2 barred rock, 2 golden comet, and 4 australorps. We bought them as adults and they average around five-six years old. We’ve been feeding your whole food recipe from day one. They were being fed more of a commercial, standard type feed with pellets, etc previously. We’re also adding in protein in the mornings. Question: they are not eating the black oil sunflower seeds nor are they eating the whole corn. Do you think it’s possible they are too set in their ways to begin on a new feed at this stage in the game? We don’t want to give up on this too soon, but we also want to be mindful that they need to be getting enough nutrition. They are also free ranging in a very large paddock, and getting plenty of opportunity for insects, bugs, worms, etc. We’d sure appreciate hearing back from you, but realize you can’t answer everyone’s questions. Thanks much for all you do! By the way, one of our Australorps is named for you; “Miss Becky.” 🥰

Hey Becky thank you for the video I enjoyed it and I thought chickens lay one egg a day now watching your video now I know they really don't

I am very happy to see your videos. I learned a lot from VDOs. Though I do not have many hens but total 6 in nos. Can you pls advise what is the substitute of Oyster shell. I am afraid we do not have 1. Oyster Shell and 2. Diatomaceous Earth. Is there any alternate of 2. Diatomaceous Earth. Thank you very much Regards

Love your channel 💞

Thank you for all of your info. Can you do a best food for chicks and chickens please thank you

Thank you always for all the good information and advices. How long can I keep eggs out of refrigerator? Do I have to wash eggs after getting them ?

with all, you said about what to feed them do I still have to feed them laying mash 24-7

When do you start feeding them oyster shells? My chickens are 12 weeks old and aren't laying yet. Btw, I love your channel!

A very fantastic explanation, video, please Becky did you try to feed fermented food.

This is amazing. Thank you.

Super helpful info. Thank you!

Can you crush up dried egg shells . Our feed store no longer carries real oyster shells.

One of my chickens don't lay at all and she 1 year old I give her laying mash hole corn dog food and otes but she will not lay. I don't know if she's sick or not

For animal protein can I just give them Dry mealworms, they love those so much, but I was wondering if that would be enough?

Great video

I like that you portray egg laying schedules realistically so people don't watch the video and then expect getting an egg from every chicken every single day. One thought though regarding providing calcium. Since egg shells contain a lot of calcium, doesn't that mean that you can in theory just crush up the shells for all the eggs you eat and feed them back to the chickens so they get recycled? That way you can save some money and it also doubles as a form of 'grit'.

Thank u for ur information n experience .

Can I just put oyster shell in their food constantly

Hey Becky my hens are 7 months old and they quit laying eggs so I just started giving them DE so when can I start back eating eggs?

ALWAYS was wundrin' bout that! = chicken egg count. Thank-you for the info Dear Becky! Scott gave us SUCH a beautiful 'up close' look at the 'chicky-babes' you can see how healthy they look...EVEN... nice clean and poofy feathered rumps! You DO have this down to a SCIENCE my dear! Sharing your lifestyle and 'joy' with us is a BIG plus! God Bless you, Scott and family! Miss hearin' 'Doodles' kick for attention...soOOoo cute! xo (I wonder if you get many 'double yolks'? Perhaps I'll catch a vid with this silly question of mine answered one day).

❤️thank you Becky

Hi I’m 13 and after begging for years I finally got chickens and I bought a recycled plastic coop for about £300 and built my own 16 foot by 16 foot run. I think my chickens are happy but they aren’t laying eggs? What should I do. Also I’m a bit confused about chicken protein because I have been told they can get diseases from meat. I’m from the uk and you can’t feed chickens mealworms. What should I do?

hello is it possible for my hens to lay 2 eggs in a day if not something else got into my coop and randomly laid an egg haha thanks

Becky, It would be fun a video about funny or weird things your aninals do?

Becky . I want to now why the rosters are targeting always 1n hen. But there are more hens. Is that checken going to brood or what??

Hi Becky, Loved this video. I gave cast kibble (Whiskas) to my chicken. One day only and they had an ugly diarrhea problem. Was it the cat food? How do I treat them?

Thank you!

You are using a new mic now? Sounds good! Bugs bugs bugs. OMG they love bugs. The cheapest protein there is. Until winter.

Becky, please help me. Should I feed my chickens all these plus the food that I get from the store? Or are these 3 suggestions to be used as a replacement of the chicken food you can buy at stores like IFA, etc.??

Got my Buff Chicks today

Great information

Great tip.