I discuss raising chickens. This includes how to butcher a chicken, what do chickens eat, chicken predators and pests, chicken health problems and diseases, and even more.

Housekeeping:

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Discussion:

 

Benefits of Chickens

Funny

Lots of eggs

Meat

What Chickens Eat

Foods for Chickens

Free-range birds

Paddock Shift

Parts of the Grass

first 50%

next 20%

last 30%

Chicken Tractors

Chicken Run (not great idea)

Chicken Treats

Meal Worms

Water Needs

Needs of your Chickens

Chicks

Heat Lamp know how

Not in the house

Check on them often

Shelter

Roosts

Cleaning

Open and Closing Door (idea?)

Dust Baths

Move them around so they don’t get smelly

Chicken Problems

Predators

Raccoon, Dog, Hawks, Coyote, Foxes, Predator Cats

Egg Predators

Minks, Skunks, Snakes, Rats

Pests

Worms

Lice

Mites

Ticks

Sicknesses

Infectious Bronchitis, Avian Pox, Botulism, Cholera, Mareks, Thrush

Paddock Shifting your Chickens

4 and 5 Paddock setups

stationary coops

Mobile Coops

Tractors and shifting

Butchering Chickens for Poultry

Roosters

Older hens

How to:

Humanely Butchering

Don’t feed the day before

Hang

Neck

Decapitate

Scald

Turkey Fryer on a propane burner

165 degrees F

30 seconds

Can Ice and scald again

Feathers pluck easily when done

Hang and pluck

Small hairs

propane torch to quickly remove stray hairs