Backyard Chickens: 4 Important Lessons (Watch before you buy)
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Published 2024-06-09
In this episode, I introduce you to our black australorp chickens and our isa browns that play an essential role in our urban homestead. When they’re not wreaking havoc with the neighbours, these urban chickens are mowing our lawn and producing manure for organic compost that power our chemical free vegetable garden.
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0:00 Intro: Raising Backyard Chickens in the City
0:37 My Backyard Chicken Breeds: Isa Browns & Black Australorp
1:30 Fencing and Free Ranging Backyard Chickens
2:17 Backyard Chicken Predators
3:41 DIY Chicken Coop For Holidays
4:16 Backyard Chickens 101: Coop Bedding and Chicken Feed
5:56 Are Backyard Chickens Worth It? Cost Breakdown For My Eggs
7:18 Integrating Backyard Chickens into an Urban Homestead Ecosystem
7:39 Outro
All Comments (21)
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Thanks for watching! This is a brand new channel so if you enjoyed this vid I’d love it if you gave it a like and subscribed! ❤
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Yes, we want to see how you integrate your chickens in your garden and your composting. No other channel talks about chickens escaping. That was surprising!
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Wow! That's a lot of chickens for one backyard. I only had two and they were great escape artists. They would jump the fence and chase the neighbours cat! Great vid, keep up the good work.🇦🇺🐓
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Great content for such a new channel. You are as comfortable in front of the camera as a veteran YouTuber. My only complaint is there’s too many random video clips inserted into the video- but that’s just a personal pet peeve. I don’t currently have chickens, but I keep a duck flock for eggs. I also raise rabbits and turkeys for meat. It’s not so much a cost-saver as it is just knowing where my food is coming from. Plus, the enjoyment and sense of purpose they bring to my life is great for my mental health. A cost savings tip for feed (for any livestock)- sprouting. Organic whole grains are generally much cheaper than organic feed. With some sprouting jars, you can turn those grains into nutritious feed in three days. And all my critters love the sprouts. I still provide feed, both for convenience and to make sure all nutritional needs are met, but I buy a lot less feed since I began supplementing with sprouts.
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4 and a half bucks for a dozen eggs, but you can't go to the market to get the quality of life that chickens bring.
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A great and very informative video Ben! I have not got my backyard chickens yet, so I found this very useful 👍
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Seriously engaging video. Thank you!!
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My fave video yet
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Love from Morocco! 🇲🇦 Great video love the time you put into these great job keep up the good work!
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amazing editing, content, and quality, i was surprised this channel only had 134 subscribers. welp, i'm subscribing!
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❤❤❤❤❤
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Loved it
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Great video! Can you please show how you integrate them into your garden 😊
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Mine stay in their Run I live in Oklahoma coyotes.. Bobcats are here
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Ben and Maddy, we love your channel! I am also a design professional making videos about living off the land here in the states. We are at a similar stage; my first long video posted four weeks ago after building my subs from shorts. Keep posting the great videos. You’ll be the Beatles to our Beach Boys. Wishing you success! Love and blessings, Mary
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I have 20 hens all Rhode Island Reds..Used for Eggs only
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Automatic chicken doors don't work for day predators, I got mongoose. I'm in the tropics, so I had to build a hurricane proof chicken coop, I went way over on price of coop, but it produces it's own power and water ,and has the most advanced watering system for any type of coop out here, in also growing passion fruit on the Jurassic park run cage I built 😂, so I'm slowly getting my return on investment.
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How do you keep your chickens from destroying your Garten plants?
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Giday mate, can I ask which automatic door your bought/used? Would you use a different brand, or have you decided you can't trust the auto doors anymore. Thanks!
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NO you cannot leave your chickens alone 3-4 days! They need daily looking after (by law too).
