Raising Backyard Chickens // Beginners Guide

Amazing video

Thank You! Good Stuff!

Extremely helpful. I have a large piece of land on the southern tip of Izu Peninsula here in Japan on top of a hill that I am clearing of trees and bamboo. I have spent considerable time trying to determine what I am going to use the land for and I keep coming back to raising chickens for eggs. Your insights were very helpful, thank you.

Nice and simple video ❤

You explained very well. Im encuraged to get some chickens! Thank you

Our coop is being built right now! So excited🤗

I am central Texas and have a ton of the little brown scorpions that are invading our house. i am hoping the chicken will eat these. Anyone knows?

i considering putting chicken out to eat the thousands of grasshopper that are eating my newly planted figs trees. your video was simply the best i have seen on the basics. wow! thank you. please keep em coming.

I'm not planning on raising chickens, but i really enjoyed your video anyways, thank you!!!!.

Excelent video

great video!! super simple..thank you

We got 7 hens and a rooster in April, and I'm just learning about how to care for them now! They are definitely very easy, but I'm so glad I found your video! Great information, and I learned a lot I didn't know, even having them for 6 months now 😊

Thank you for sharing your knowledge. You convinced me to give it a try!

How do they know how to use the chicken nipple water thing??

I want to so bad. Thanks for the video.

I’m about to get 5 young chickens. This was very helpful. I’m not so nervous now. 😊

Great starter vid! ❤️

We've had chickens for 2 years now, and I can't imagine life without them. They are SO much fun. And with the increase in egg prices, it's nice to have our own. PLUS - they help with so many other things in the garden - like free chicken manure, they help mix the compost pile, they help with pest control, and they eat our kitchen scraps. Plus - they're adorable and hilarious.

One feeder we JUST switched to is a Treadle Feeder, because we have a mice issue. We're hoping this new feeder will be a little less messy, and reduce or eliminate the mice issue.

A couple other things to consider - hens are NOT silent, by any means. If you haven't heard it, look up the "egg song".

One thing to mention about the coop - make sure it's surrounded qith sturdy material and predator proof - especially at night. Foxes, racoons, opossums, cats... etc.

Additionally, we've had to learn to be our own home vet, so-to-speak. Bumble foot can be an issue, and will need to be addressed asap.

I love to see other people's set-ups! Helps give us ideas for ours. Keep the chicken vidz comin'!

This was an excellent video! It was clear and Concise. I've been weighing the pros and con's of whether the cost of, keeping / feeding, chickens evens out the cost of just purchasing eggs in the long run. It seems from the daily yield you're getting that they might be worth it! thank you again!

Dyou know what breed the japanese use? Their yolks are so incredibly orange.

Yes this was so helpful. Your video just randomly came up on my Home page. We’ve talked about it but total newbs so had no idea where to start and this made it so doable. Thank you for sharing! I’m subscribed and looking forward to more make-it-simple tips.

My city won't allow farm animals in the city limits😢

Awesome video, I am excited to get started, my wife Julie and I are building a place in the philippines, we will have a good size garden a few goats and some chickens. Except for the gardening this will all be new to us. We want to be as self sufficient as possible. I look forward to any future vudeos you post. Do you know of someone you could recomend that makes videos like yours but dealingcwith goats.

Great video! Exactly what I needed!!

Fantastic video! Very informative. Thank you fir sharing your experience!@

Great video! Thanks so much.

Great info. I can't wait to get started. Thank you.

Thanks mate good video

Fantastic video. I don’t know if you made any more since this posted 2 months ago, but I am praying you did. Thank you so much. I just was blessed with 4 chickens yesterday.🐓

Great video. thanks for giving us the step by steps. Raising chickens is doable 😊

Thanks for the tips! Question about the laying boxes: What is the slope you used and do the eggs ever crash into each other and break?

Will chickens eat fleas?

Oh...I want copper marans so damned bad. Such a lovely beautiful bird.

More chicken raising videos please

You did a great job with this video. It is a great tutorial and an eye opener at the same time. 👍🏼

ok I just got my first baby chickens and I cant believe you guys use a heat lamp, what a nightmare, talk about making your chicks crazy, I absolutely love my chicks and they could be the most spoiled chicks on the planet. Anyways guys I only have 4 chicks (now 4 weeks old) , did not lose one, got them on the first day and that is because i love them. I just use two 5 amp lamps that i wrap in a black cotton shirt and they sleep on top of them. Im also in the out back on Solar power so they are perfect and dont mess with my batteries. Still dont use those lamps guys, thats just torture. FFS people. for 4 hours i put the oil heater beside the box and they fall asleep while im gaming. jejej. Then about midnight i put in the 5 amp lamps, but wrapped in a t'shirt so it blocks the light mostly. Give your chicks some love guys they will give it back.
I also have a smoke alarm set up just above the box. not that i need it but just in case.

Great info, thank you.

I would love to learn more

I love chickens and turkeys and guinea fowls .

Why aren't chickens in a big out door run considered 'free range'? I mean it's obvious, but a large run isn't as if they're in a cage.

A lot of great info here❤ love this

Also, in the winter time, I believe in leaving a small bit of ventilation as to give the chickens relief from the ammonia, smell of their feces

We have a Rhode Island red because they do still produce during the winter

Chick's do NOT need a heat lamp, also they can eat ground grains.

Thank you for this !!!!! Following for more stuff

Thank you for the information i surely learned planning to buy chickens and build a coop I africa

Man thank you for this video. Yes you did exactly what you said you made it simple. Just subscribed and now looking at all your vids. Thank you. going to go ahead and start getting things ready for some chickens.

Very helpful video. Thanks!

Comprehensive information! Thanks

I can’t let mine free range at all. We have a lot of hawks and can’t take the risk.