Chicken Coop in the City - Meet my Chickens and get started with your own!

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[jenihansen]

CUTE STORY: MY MOM HAD TWIN BANTAMS, AND SHE WOULD COOK CORNBREAD FOR THEM EVERY DAY. THEY EACH WOULD GET ON HER ARM AND EAT THE CORNBREAD FROM HER HAND. IT WAS THE SWEETEST THING.

[Cayuse]

You really made me laugh at your descriptions of your hens. I'm 66 years old and have raised chickens since I was old enough to carry buckets of feed and water. I've settled on Buff Orpingtons as my favorite breed. They are a calm, friendly breed that are good layers, good meat and will hatch their own replacements and mine run free range. No problems yet with predators, but I am outside most of the day and my German Shepherd keeps an eye out for them. I did hatch out 40 chicks in the incubator this year, which will be used for meat and replacements. I live on a ranch and pretty much live on chicken eggs and chickens I butchered, beef and my garden. Keep up the good videos and sense of humor. I use peat moss for bedding as my garden soil benefits from the low PH and use pine chips for nesting material.

[ddubsr]

Just to reiterate: PINE shavings not Cedar. Cedar can give respiratory issues

[EscapeToTheOzarks]

Christa, chickens and honey bees (coming and going from their hive) can be so calming. On stressful days, it is just nice to pull up a lawn chair, and enjoy the simple sounds they make. And, to save you some cleaning, suspend your chicken waterer about six inches above the ground with light rope.

[bigray]

Beautiful coop set-up. You're right chickens aren't hard, but the easy, simple chores come up pretty often. Also, if the goal is to eat them, don't name them or cuddle them. They become your babies. Wishing you joy!!

[heygetoffmylawn]

When our kids were little ones, they were in 4H competition with chickens. The eggs we harvested daily were rich and so much better tasting than store bought. They were great egg layers. Thank you, for sharing.

[angieguerrero]

I have 4 buffs haven’t started laying yet . I really really love them I just hope my neighbors won’t get upset with me if they get very loud I have no idea what to expect. So far so good . I live pretty close to people, we are allowed to have them . I just hope it all works out

[fred]

You can feed hen's potato peels you must boil them first, I did it for half my childhood and had fine laying hens too, my grandmother did so also along with small spuds. The "hens Pot" wasn't the nicest smelling on the stove but it kept them fed with kitchen scraps.

[andreacremeans]

Another tip when you first bring home your chicks: if one of the dies within the first 24 hours. Don’t be so hard on yourself. Sometimes a chick is just not right inside or dies for some other reason. You can also contact the store and they will replace the chick (free of charge in most cases). One thing to help your chicks is to check for “Pasty butt”. This is when their poop accumulates on their cloaca and dries. This prevents them from pooping and peeing and can cause death. If this happens, take a warm cloth and gently hold it on the dried poop to loosen it and gently wipe it off. Do not pull on it roughly because you can tear the tender skin. Don’t be afraid just be gentle.

[dellanira]

My mom has chickens. She loves them. I have quail. They are so cute. They like to stay put in their hutch. But they have similar dietary needs as chickens. I love your channel. God is using you in my life so much. God bless you sister 🙏💖🤗

[suesmyrealtor]

It's SO good to see you.
I made vinegar for the first time in March-April of 2020, when I discovered your Prepsteader videos. Your chickens video is educationally very well organized, and it's funny you said you gave away your rooster.
My friend's neighbor had a rooster, IN THE CITY, whose untimely crowing caused quite a stir. He's gone!
I enjoy the comments from your viewers. Feels a little like family. God bless you.

[Candice-]

I'm a young widowed Baptist Pastors wife from Georgia.. we had 5 Bantam s. And 3 were just like your Little girl. We had one that was fethered all the way to her feet.. she was big britches... I miss them so much. We also had comets.. love yours..

[johnparrish]

BTW: If you like to fish, your chickens will love the fish backbones after you fillet your fish. I don't give them the heads but they will pick all of the meat off the bones pretty quick. I usually toss the backbones out one day and collect the clean bones the next.

[eszhun]

We're in middle Tennessee, halfway between Nashville and Clarksville! We're in an urban subdivision with 7 hens. Got them April 19th at TS.
GOD BLESS!🙏✝️💖

[judyreynolds]

Love your video’s! This Grandmama has a big backyard homestead on out skirts of city in drought stricken West Texas. I have had Bantam Cochins, but switching to Bielefedder, a dual purpose breed, and 3 easter eggers Also have quail and meat rabbits. A garden that failed this summer, but I’m trying again with fall garden!

[crystalbrooks]

Love this! Take some of those eggs to your neighbors, before you sit out to watch the lightening bugs! I’m so glad I found your channel, and I found it on Rory’s page, when you interviewed him! That was an awesome interview! Thanks so much for sharing! Canning tomatoes today! God Bless you all!

[kindlykarene]

This is so helpful! We live in the suburbs as well and have been thinking about getting chickens. Our county just increased our allowance from 4 to 10 chickens, and we can now have a rooster! But with the wise of our lot - and I still need some room for my gardens! - I don’t think we would get that many! This video is a great help in my research. Love your channel! Thank you!

[garryhammond]

Great video! - Thanks!
I have had four Rhode Island Reds for a year - They are great pets and friends.
I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

[jomamaranch]

My hens are the opposite, they will eat the layer crumbs but don't care for the pellets!
I have a ground feed that is almost a powder that is commercially ground with the layer feed, corn, oats, and it also has ground oyster shell all ground together in it. My hens will eat it, but I use that as a base and mix some whole or cracked grains, like corn and millet, oats and I also add a small scoop of black oil sunflower seeds to it which they really like. They REALLY like the crumbs or pellets when you put a little water in with it! They like the fermented feed and its good for them. Just do small batches at a time.

If I need to gather them in quicker at night, when I allow them to free range, I keep a sack of meal worms or shelled sunflower kernals, which I buy in the BIRD seed section of the store. Nearly every store I go to, the chicken feed, which is exactly the same thing, is about twice the price as the same thing in bird seed.-- When my flock sees me with a sack of mealworms or kernals, they come running. -- Actually, if they see me walk anywhere in my yard they come on the run from all directions. My husband calls me the Pied Piper because I will have a string of cats, chickens, and used to have a dog or two all following me in a line when walking around my yard. I guess they like me!?

Chickens will eat pretty much every scrap, but what I do, especially in winter when they have no greens, is take my cores of cabbage, potato peelings and the cores of lettuce or those harder vegetables that are pretty firm, and I cut them in chunks and then put them in my food processor or a blender with some water in it. I drain off the water from the blender and pour the finely chopped up veggies in the scrap bucket... they will eat every single piece! Otherwise, you will have a core or some of the larger items laying around in the yard.

[marysmith]

We just got 13 new chick's week ago. They are so fun and have so much personality. God Bless!