Since I started to free range my five chickens for one hour every day they produce five egss every day. Very happy girls.

Sure miss the narration being done by a real person. Probably won't continue to listen to this channel. Too bad. One of my favorites.

I'd personally opt for a mixed aproach: just tossing your burds out to be "wild critters" is a bad idea if you want them to stay alive, and keeping them locked up in a small space isnt healthy for them either. When i kept chickens i first and foremost made sure they were coop trained, so they'd come back at night and lay eggs in the nest boxes. Was pretty easy to do with 3 hens, might take a little more work with 30 or more, but certainly doable and worth the effort. I also made sure to feed them directly, since my property was too small for them to get all theg need from foraging, and also just to ensure they had enough nutrition to lay good eggs. If you have a larger property you can't fence in, getting a rooster or another livestock guard animal is a good idea to help prevent predators from wrecking the flock. However if you can, providing a large fenced off area for them to explore is a good option to further keep them safe and happy.

@MuffHam

2 ай бұрын

I have a large fenced run for my chickens. Plus roosters. Once I fence in the rest of my property and get a farm dog. I'll allow them to free roam more within the bigger fenced area.

This is the right way for chicken to grow, They love their freedom.

Why is this AI. Losing me with this voice

@Desertpear

Ай бұрын

Yeah couldn’t watch it. Not standing for this normalized robotic bs world

My birds are free range all day. When young they fly as far as 10 feet, and 4 feet high. Older birds don't fly anymore. Trained them to go to their coop at night. Usually they all go home by the time the last pink in the sky goes away. But when I need them to go home early I trained them to respond to my commands, and my border collie helps round them up. To command train them I bonded with them by giving them treats. A slice of multi grain bread each cut into crouton sized pieces fed by hand. When in season I collect pickle flowers for them. A good hand full for 4 hens. Holding the stalks tightly allows them to pluck the blooms. Then cut the stalks to half inch pieces for coop feed at night. I began training them to accept my guidance with a super soaker. Shot across the path I didn't want them to go so they went in the other direction. Shortly I just picking up the squirt gun sent them on their way home. Eventually replaced the gun with a bamboo cane. When they want to be disobedient I use the cane to block their path. Eventually they were obedient enough for me to command them not to go where I didn't want them to go, like under the house or to the front yard, by just raising my hand an gesturing with my finger where I want them to go. When they understood where I didn't want them to go they stopped trying, and I could remove the chicken wire fencing, and gates. At the same time I trained the dog what I expected of him, and how he could herd the chickens himself. When the cat had kittens I trained them not to stalk the birds or even crouch toward them. I fed the kittens, and chickens treats together, and they bonded. One of the cats became the bird's protector. She is so inseparable from them I had to build her a cat house next to the coop for the winter because she wouldn't come in the house even in winter, and slept beside the coop. My chickens are very happy. They lay one jumbo egg a day except the one that is most bonded to me. She lays "Baby Huey" size eggs. Won't by far fit the jumbo egg carton. Took pictures of one in the carton with the other jumbo eggs. It's cartoonish how big it is. That bird jumps into my lap when I sit in the yard in the evening. When she was just 4 months old we had a cat 1 tornado tear down a section of 8 foot high corrugated tin fencing. Part of it was a 4' x 8' x 1/16" steel plate. When I was clearing that from the damage I strained my back. I saw stars it was so painful. I hobbled over to a patch of grass to lay flat on my back. She knew I was hurt, and came, and stroked my side with her foot. She jumped onto my chest, and nestled in my armpit to comfort me. Shows empathy to know I was hurt, and compassion to want to comfort me. At just 4 months old! She waits to lay her egg until I'm there. She sees me in the evening, and runs to me clucking happily. Then she runs to her favorite laying nest, and clucking, and squawking she lays her egg. Then she runs back to me clucking happily, and circling my feet until I collect her egg still hot from her body. Her "Baby Hueys" are usually double yokes. All the birds lay deep yellow yolk eggs. Comparing the flavor to store bought eggs the store bought, even labeled free range, have an oily fishy flavor. I have a pecan tree in the yard which produces such a thick blanket of leaves in the fall they kill the lawn. But the birds rake most of the leaves off for me. When they were young I would occasionally help them get worms, bugs, and cicada larva by digging up some earth for them to rake through. But after they started laying I noticed they wouldn't lay after I did that. I guess they fill up on worms, and didn't eat enough feed. Too much protean, and not enough complex carbs so I stopped doing that.

Big hens like Australorps and Giant Jersey Blacks can intimate predators to prevent them from attacking the flock.

I have a large fenced run for my chickens. Connected to there coop. They go in and out all day. Once there in bed. I lock the coop.

I use a chicken tractor and move it around the yard. So they have access to bugs and fresh grass daily.

agreed. miss the real guy. guess time to drop this one

very good

Free range is the best. However, like with all forms of Freedom, you have risks. you either accept the risks to have freedom or you live caged. This goes for Chickens and humans. Freedom is never free, it has a cost.

AI generated commentary is doo

@YasilTorvanna

2 ай бұрын

Doo doo

The question I have is if you have say 30 chickens how many eggs are lost due to being layed all over the place. They don't all drop their eggs at the same time and place.

@kendallcook7156

2 ай бұрын

I only have 5 but they Free range. They always go back to tge coop to lay their eggs

@home17able

2 ай бұрын

You can never now some eggs fall and crash I have 30 chickens but I had 50 so much chickens died!!