Things To Know Before Getting Chickens

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[DKWalser]

When I was about 12 or 13 years old, my dad said to me one Saturday morning: "If you'll clean the chicken coup by the time I get back from town, I'll pay you $10." I went up the hill to the chicken coup, home to about 100 birds, and quickly decided that cleaning the coup wasn't worth $10. When my dad came home, he saw the chicken coup remained uncleaned. He asked, "Didn't I tell you to clean the chicken coup?" I said, "No. You said you'd pay me $10 if I cleaned the coup. I decided I didn't want $10 that badly." He smiled and said, "You misunderstood. The chicken coup needs cleaning. I offered you $10 if you had it clean by the time I got back from town with fresh wood shavings to put in the bottom of the coup. The coup still needs cleaning. Now, you'll clean it and I won't be giving you $10."

Chickens offer lots of teaching moments.

[mauricioespinoza]

I feel like he can make any subject interesting, he can make paint dry interesting.

[williamdipoalo]

I just had my first child, my son. I plan to have chickens and it will be part of his chores when he grows up. I am excited about being a father and teaching my kids. You always have great advice and make excellent videos. I appreciate what you do.

[baidreamer]

just wow! How she handled the situation at the end of the video: chicken ""attacks"" the hugging boy who got scared, and then she says "you wanna pet him ?" And he does... damn nice parenting!

[Phafner]

Great video! One tip, raise your bucket drinker so that the shortest hours has to slightly stretch it's neck upward to drink. This will keep them from spilling as much. Also, if you get tired of filling the bucket, they make pressure regulators and PVC lines with nipples on them.

[kencarp]

I built our coop, and it’s very secure. It is entirely surrounded on all sides, and one top and bottom, with galvanized 1/2” hardware cloth... with no holes anywhere bigger than the holes in the hardware cloth. No predator has ever gotten into it.

We USED to let our chickens free-range around our 8-acres of thick woods - but we lost 3 over a week’s time two years ago to a mama coyote, and four this year to a very large wild cat of some kind... not as large as a wildcat but WAY larger than ANY house cat, and absolutely fearless.

Neither Mssrs Smith, Wesson, nor Mossberg were ever able to get a good bead on the coyote or on the cat... not for lack of trying. 😤

[williambrooks]

I love your channel Mr. Wadsworth. You have so much to teach and are a great teacher. You have a beautiful family too.

[toddster]

I loved seeing that little guy in blue crawl into the coop, made me chuckle!

[robinrummel]

Good info to know, appreciate the variety of topics on your channel! You also mentioned in this video that your family lived in Powell. Amazing to me since I lived there for 5 years, late 70's to early 80's. Since moving away, you are the only ones I have ever heard of living there! It was beautiful and I missed it quite a while after moving.

[tonydeleo]

Great video and good info. Love seeing you getting the kids and grandkids involved, this is something we have lost in our electronic, selfie era.

[josephforgione]

Great video. We are considering chickens as a retirement activity which will happen in about 6 years. I also like your channel because I’ve gotten a renewed interest in carpentry and construction. When I was a youngster(high school) I attended a vocational school and learned carpentry. My Dad was a master carpenter and I learned more from my Dad than the vocational school ever taught me. Got out of high school, worked construction for awhile. Then decided to join the Air National Guard for 33 years. Retired. Went to school got my degree and started teaching. Now I’ve gone full circle, back to construction. Thank you for your stimulating and motivating channel. Signing off from Highgate, Vermont.

[twestgard]

I’ve made a bunch of mistakes regarding chickens over the last seven years, and here’s the one big thing I learned: Infrastructure is everything. If you get yourself a big, secure coop that’s easy to clean, and have the food and water set up well, it’s a breeze. If you don’t, you’ll swiftly find out why you wish you did. The run can be less secure but the coop needs to be Fort Knox.

[patobez]

You are the greatest story teller alive! I always learn something interesting no matter what subject is, and I somehow just generally feel better and more relaxed after your videos. I live how there is always a message in there as well. Thank you for doing what you do.

[SchysCraftCo.]

I did chickens and turkeys for 4-H when I was younger absolutely loved it absolutely can't beat a fresh eggs

[tbernardi]

Hmmm, talking about raising chickens with 2 axes featured prominently in the background. Coincidence? I think not.

[fast-eddie-clarke]

i remember when i was about eight or so i loved to play in my granddads chicken coop with my cousin. one day we decided that the coop wasn't big enough for the hens and neither was the yard they used to walk around at day. so we opened up the gates and let them free to run around the entire ranch. my grandad had a few chained up guard dogs and a canal going through the ranch. let me say that the chicken bath didn't turn out as two young boys had imagined and the dogs had a decent lunch that day. we saved a few hens and brought them back and closed the gates and cried the rest of the afternoon till we went to bed. the next morning, still feeling like murderers, we were sent to the next ranch on our bicycles to get new chicks. my cousin and i vowed to never ever harm a chicken again and to also protect them from all harm. we carried the chicks back on foot and left our bicycles at the other ranch so we couldn't fall down and hurt the chicks. we took good care of them since that day and even now twenty years later when i'm going out early to feed my chickens i often think about our oath we did as kids and count the hens and massage my cousin telling him, mine are save and sound how about yours?

[haydnjenkins]

Lovely grandchildren being a Grandad best job In the world

[gabrielplatte]

0:50 Most common culprits are cats and foxes.
Especially cats.
And foxes.

[Synistercrayon]

Check out the way the guy at carolina coops builds his coops.
I modeled my coop after their basic plan.
Totally secure. And for a chicken coop, fairly clean, with the easy bedding, cleaning method that is used.
Some great ideas.

[conrodfox]

Brilliant video. I am from India and watch your all videos with full devotion. Thus video reminds me of my childhood days when my grand parents had a farmhouse and only papers, plastics and metal objects, basically all non biodegradable waste, went out of the home to the scrapyard. There was almost zero waste that went out as garbage. Every food waste generated after processing basically was turned into manure and used back in the farm and as the feed for the chickens ( we had close to 200 or so chickens, 50 goats, 30 cows and 25 bulls). The whole set up worked like a so well oiled machinery. The animals provided us all those eggs and milks and poop for manure. Which was used in the farm that gave us all the produce and the waste then was in turn used for the animals as feed. All happy including mother nature. Nice Podcasts EC! Wish you the best🙏