Raising Chickens in your Backyard: a sustainable food source
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 2.05 GB | Duration: 1h 25m
Practicing permaculture & homesteading for urbanites: farming chicks, building a chicken coop, collecting hen's eggs.
What you'll learn
You will learn general information on ease of care, and creating your chicken lifestyle.
You will be able to decide how many chickens you need for your family's needs, and whether or not to have a rooster.
You will understand the life cycles of chickens, their habits, normal behaviors, and have your expectations set for raising chickens.
You will learn to recognize normal healthy chicken behavior, and some of the problems that you may face.
You will learn the key chicken coop factors to look for to house and protect your new flock.
You will have assistance in balancing the decisions you need to make to start raising chickens while still maintaining an acceptable lifestyle.
Requirements
Bring your curiosity and a sense of humor to the course.
Understand that there are different ways to farm, and this course is not about judging what's right or wrong for anyone else, just figuring out what is right for you.
An initial investment in a backyard flock can be anywhere from making do with what you have and buying some feed and making your own feeders and waterers from recycled materials for a rescued flock, through to purchasing a spacious and luxurious barn for show-worthy purebreeds.
If you want to do the DIY (Do-It-Yourself) projects, which are entirely optional and only a small portion of the course materials, you may need tools, supplies, and some experience in handling them, or a friend or neighbor who is willing to help you out. Most projects use supplies that are inexpensive or upcycle used items. Raising chickens shouldn't be expensive.
Description
Note: Now fully closed captioned.
Are you ready for chickens? How do you know if you even want chickens? What do you need to know, and what questions do you ask? How do you make the decision?
How do you get set up for chickens? How quickly do they grow up? When will they lay eggs? How do you take care of them? How messy will they be?
In many parts of the world, people wouldn't think of not having chickens! They've been our companion animals for thousands of years, and no longer resemble their wild cousins. But as we moved into cities, we lost our way and forgot to bring our fowl friends with us. Factory farms produce our eggs, ship them in bulk into stores where we buy dozens of sterilized uniform sized and colored eggs completely disconnected from the miraculous and amazing animals that created them.
