3 Tips to GET MORE EGGS From Your Chickens

Chickens need the right nutrient mix to lay more eggs. I mix and soak organic feed myself at half the cost. I also use the Best Nest Box to keep my eggs from breaking or getting dirty. Finally I have a worm bin to raise Black Soldier Fly larvae for extra protein.

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My Feed Recipe:
- 1pt Organic Corn (roughly milled)
- 1pt Organic Wheat (Animal Grade)
- 1pt Organic Oats (Animal Grade)
- 1/2 pt Organic Whole Field Peas (Animal Grade, roughly milled)
- 1/2 pt Oyster Shells
- Pinch of Diatomaceous Earth (Food Grade)

The most important thing in raising chickens for eggs is choosing the right breed. Chickens vary from below fifty eggs per year to around 300 or so by the breed. That's best case scenario. Second thing to get good egg production is day length. You have to supplement light to keep the chickens laying year round. Third is proper feed. That can be as fancy as you want to get or as simple as laying pellets.

[anakamhi]

Found it !!!! Damn I paid more for my layer feed! Glad to see you are fermenting your feed. It takes longer for me to ferment now cuz it’s colder outside. What I’m super excited about is your larvae

[drumcrazy]

We do almost everything you suggested, except de in the food. I might add some split peas to their mix next time I make a batch. Great tips that will keep your chickens very happy. Also note that if roosts aren’t higher than nest boxes, the girls will sleep in the nest boxes because they feel safer up high. Great video. Well done.

[transportevolved]

Found your channel through your Edit channel. As a chicken momma too, we find letting the chickens free range really helps, as well as lots of oyster shells in their feed. I think we'll give the DIY mix a go though, as it is certainly cheaper than 40 pound bags of feed!

Worms are a big thing we give ours, so I'm also interested in the fly bin.

[brakmaster]

Wow Ali did a great job on the final edit!

[oftin_wong]

I keep the egg shells and smash them into micro pieces inside a bag ..add them back to the feed, free range them also and give them boiled barley...I might try buying the whole grains too as my chickens ignore layer pellets, they love corn, sunflower seeds and anything seedy

[surfgal]

My chickens are very very spoiled.
So I constantly need to change their menue…
Like grinded corn, carrots, nettles, salad, just very little fruits. And they love nuts… Peanuts 🥜 or sunflower seeds…the good stuff.
I make them incredibly crazy ‚party platters‘ 🤣
But they are tiny Seramas and even wintertime and snow we have eggs.
😊 my neighbors don’t 😜

[lorrainechittock]

Hey Sven, I thought it better to comment here on chickens instead of in the film class! I used to have chickens, each hen would produce an egg a day! White Leghorns or RhodeIsland RedsI only fed them mash with water in the morning, the rest of the day they could roam the garden, scratching up the compost/insects. Super healthy with big red combs.

[annwithaplan]

My chickens have only been laying eggs for about 3 weeks now. Out of 12 chickens they're up to 6 a day now. I put a light in their coop at night. I'm giving them warm food sometimes, before bedtime. I give them grit and they just ran out of their calcium, so I'm going to give them ground egg shells. I'm hoping they'll continue to give me eggs through the winter.

[jenniferaustin]

My mother in law has chickens.
I'm in Cali right now with her. With 12 chickens (4 littles that are learning and just now old e other to Start laying eggs) I've gotten 2 eggs all day.
She has a chicken (maybe more) that does peck the eggs and eat the yolks.
I'm gonna show her this and see what she thinks.
Ty for your FREE time and
FREE advice!

[pernitoconejos]

Thanks a lot for this video very helpful..to my small chicken farm...

[gardencitychickens]

Great tips! I'm going to have a think about making my own food mix too! 🐔❤

[johnthomas]

and it seems that an added diet of ACV activated charcoal (biochar) is great for the calcium buildup in the chickens to give the eggs a harder shell and improves the health of the idea I read on line from

[delynndehardt]

I found DIY fly larvae boxes/traps here on YouTube. The one that seems to work best is a combo plastic tote box & PVC pipe-to-milk-bottle setup. No link Themtube deletes them anyway.

[dhirenm]

Hi . I'm so glad I came across this video. You have just confirmed my theories. Fermented feed is far better and bsf farming can really help increase protein intake. Do you perhaps have a compost corner for the stuff that doesn't go into the bsf bins . Thanks again and God bless you brother

[Mimi-ptdo]

nice video thank you for giving your ideas. From Philippines here starting to raise chicken at my backyard.

[anakamhi]

Can you do a video about the larvae farm please 🙏🏼?

[PoultryfarmGuide]

This helpful.. thanks. I do commercial laying with Isa brown. I affirm with the extra calcium and protein, to avoid using bone calcium and to replenish protein during molting and feather loose.

Also, I ensure they get the maximum amount of light a day, btw 16 to 18 hours light per day. It also helps to stimulate egg production.

Great video

[wirelesscaller]

Great mix but in tropics freeze extra. Humidity makes mold

[nathanksimpson]

This was a very helpful video. I'm just curious about the overall time investment in preparing the new feed vs. the old feed. Even if you save money on materials your time is worth something isn't it? Perhaps factoring that it might lessen your overall savings.