Short Guide to Chickens

[wolves804]

thx, our school is getting some chickens so this will be really helpful!

[grnmtlaney]

So adorable.. Very good job!

[clumpyify]

omlet are a rip off,how can they justify the price they charge for their stuff

[jimik89]

The eglu is great as it cannot be easily infested with mights like a wooden coop can

[rufiebooz]

luv ur accent xxx

[TheRavenswood10]

Lol 0:50 Chicken couldnt wait

[GuitarDanJams]

That was a darling demonstration! Well done!

[jobaccamasakado]

that girl has that english accent down!!!!

[gemmy207]

Useful overview.  I've been looking at this site: the-goodlife.info. Great site if you want to know more and get started with keeping chickens.

[ZobiProductions]

I love the modern look of the eglu, i just have some problems with it(well i dont actually own one so i guess you could call this one sided? im not sure if thats the best way to describe it but hope you get the idea) first of all theyre too expensive for us. second, they seem too small for the amount they advertise it can hold. and since theres only one nesting area, where do the rest sleep? on the railings? its like only one chicken gets a cozy bed and the rest have to sleep in the poo

[photastegood]

I love your accent!

[KnockoffNigeI]

I want to get some chicken but don't have a clue where to start have you got any tips for a beginner? What Breed, bantams or full size etcetera.

[s10m0t10n]

@KnockoffNigeI Maybe try some ex-battery hens. They are cheap to buy and will feather up pretty quickly as well as laying eggs for you (usually). The hen house needs to give about 1 foot per bird to roost at night, be well ventilated, easy to clean, have a nest box etc. If the birds are roaming the garden, be sure to lock them away at night (from foxes) and keep the area free of dropped food if you can (less rats that way). The Practical Poultry forum is a good source of info. Good luck.

[Morris4beer]

great video thanks for sharing this

[afaque77]

great coop

[sauceykat]

Bless, too cute. She's gonna make a great tv show host or something like that one day.

[sarupaa]

too cute

[jazziron]

Delightful video! Thanks for the practical advice!

[brandontheawesome]

were you get that coop

[Blandamour]

a company called Omlet make then. Part of their Elgu range. They have an excellent web site.

[Filmerfilms]

funny vid ha ha

[MUSTHAVEASHAVENOW]

good vid thank you you have tought me a lot

now to boy my hens

[midge1964]

nice film only spoilt by baron von richthofen searching for his next victim

[afabandjon]

awesme vid just shows that chikens are the best pets in the world

[greenecorevolution]

nice video, thanks for sharing . heres a 3D plan view of our latest mobile chicken coop as close to free range as you can get,,, see our channel for plans,,,,many thanks

[MrPoonasty]

i could listen to her talk all day!!great video!

[dogfooddave2000]

Escellent ur a credit to ur chickens young lady. Thank you.

[mrnetcom1]

Keep up the good work...any updates? :)

[storm8104]

Fantastic job poppet, very informative!

[ktreu]

she's awesome! haha this would've been me back in the day "ms informative"!

[ilov2laugh]

brilliant! i love the detail at the end lol! fluffy bottom!

[bonnyjishop]

Thank you so much for posting this video! I have been able to check out your chicken house manufacturers ! Great housing system! And also contrary to some of the ignorant subhumans that post nasty comments, I think you daughter has done a great job ! 10 out of 10 young lady!

[katboldt]

This was very informative and inspired me to adopt 2 of my own. Thanks! :-)

[belliott21212]

Thanks for the info. Good job.

[Urkosongs]

dose she think where friking dumb showing us how to fill it up lol

[SILLYSTUNT]

you realize thats a child!

[belliott21212]

How crude and rude you are!

[SILLYSTUNT]

@belliott21212 why? cause i defended the fact she is a child. people were being so rude with their comments.

[ilov2laugh]

meanie! she's my best bud!!!!

[lmkk07]

Your video was really helpful, we have some ex battery hens that we adopted and I showed this video to my 5 yr old son and he was enspired to make his own video.

[angurisloud]

What a great video! Thanks so much for showing us how the Eglu works!!!

Great Job!

[rwu19290]

I love her accent!

[mikeythevegan]

great vid!!!=]

[amglori]

I'm researching the Eglu right now and considering chickens for our backyard. This video was so helpful! Looks like you have some very happy chickens there!

[Sesshoumaru0086]

very informative and well done! The chicken looks really happy and sound. Doesn't look very hard at all and fresh eggs everyday sounds great!

Thanks for the vid!

[violentopposition]

damn ......nothing worse than a Lymie accent.

[thescallykiller]

gonna get one of those for sure

[macballa13]

sooo cute!

[ducatijames]

As a potential chicken/ Eglu owner this is eggsactly what I wanted to see. Very informative and so easy even a child can do it. Thank-you for your effort.

[MlleButterfly]

I love your chicken coop and house its very modern. Where did you get it? Can it be ordered online?

[sammyboy1234]

its called an eglu

[joker4285]

does cold wearther affect the chicken

[HelloThar9]

If you're going to get chickens, search for a winter hardy breed. Some breeds are better suited to the cold than others; it simply depends on the type =]

[YouFupidStucker]

I clear the poop out of my coop everyday because I have 15 chickens and they start to smell!!

[SmileyOreo]

I envy your chickens - they live in a modern, clean, beautiful 21st century home! I wish my home was that nice. Why are people complaining? This is a fantastic product show-casing what industrial design can do (remember how Apple changed people's perceptions of the personal computer in the 90s, anyone?!)

[lilsquirt1995]

@SmileyOreo

I don't think the chickens care if there home is beautiful. Mine don't.

[TheBlackParade400]

Less germs.

Less risk of red mites and other harmful mites and bugs.

Better protection against foxes.

No leaking.

I can't see why you all seem to think eglus are so bad.

We have both a wooden house and an eglu, and both of them are left open all day for the chickens to go into, and every time they go into the eglu.

If they prefer it then I have no problem with it.

[sherylreid]

house often do you need to clean out the house ?

[chachu207]

I give it a thorough clean once a week, but you could probably do a minor clean every week and a major clean every two.

[TheBlackParade400]

We have an eglu =]

Chickens are amazing.

[cafemondo]

Im depressed for your chickens living in their plastic housing. How unnnatural for them, do your eggs taste of plastic? How long will it take to bio degrade? Why not use a fisher price tractor turned upside down instead as it would look just as attractive in the garden?

[chachu207]

You're absolutely correct. I have now replaced my eglu with an inflatable plastic penguin.

[cafemondo]

excellent, just as good as an eglu then but with the additional benefit of looking a lot better in the garden

have you heard of this new type of material we have called timber? im yet to try it, apparently its very natural and can be processed from trees would you believe!

[TheBlackParade400]

Compared to the conditions that battery hens live in the eglu is like a castle for the chickens.

Plastic isn't natural, I agree, but it's safer for the chickens, and they get on just fine.

They're well looked after and loved.

And they're free range.

They're not locked up all day.

They're not under any pressure.

[cafemondo]

Anythings better than battery, whos talking about battery?

Woods better than plastic for us all.

A wooden ark is safer and more enviromentally friendly than an earth resource destroying eglu.

Eglu have managed to sucker a lot of people out of a lot of money for a badly thought out enviromentally damaging product.

BTW Does yours leak?, many a story on the web about leaking and fitting together badly

[chachu207]

Nope, mine works perfectly, and I'm very pleased with the product. However, I think that a wooden ark isnt actually safer for chickens - wood can splinter, and is also a lot more difficult to clean thoroughly, so can harbour insects and pathogens.

[cafemondo]

It does look easy to clean, but for me thats the only benefit of plastic. Insects and pathogens, meh, everyone cleans and treats dont they?

Splinters, lol, your chickens dont free roam around the garden then? Mine climb trees and bushes.

Its an enviromental disaster in the making, if you can live with that, fine.

[guitarobsessed85]

How many chickens do you keep? And how much does it cost in feed? And How many eggs do they give on average?

[stanbrit]

hi there, cute vid! woz wonderin, i have a couple of chicks, which are a month old, i think one is a hen the othr mite be a cock, how can i tell the gender? and how old wud they have to be to have a brood of their own and is there any way in which i cud get them broody? look forward to your reply, thanx!

[Cla900]

@cafemondo and wooden arks also have a higher risk of being broken into by foxes.

eglus can be re used and re used.

wooden coops are the opposite.

and think about how many trees during the process of making one?

[Knightlightgod11]

@cafemondo

You do realize that they made the materials in the plastic 100% biodegradable right? It states this on their site, plus there's probably more damaging things to the environment other than chicken coops. *shrugs* Just my opinion.

[colcoa111]

@cafemondo what do u mean woods envoromentaly friendly they cut down forests to get that stuff unlike the plastic the eglus made from that u can recycle also the walls of the eglu are thicker then u think i doubt enything could tear through that i love the eglu and i think its a great choice for 2 or 3 chickens and its a great video

[andyw412rs]

@colcoa111 nowadays wood's grown in plantations and is much better for the environment. trees suck in co2 from the air and lock it in their wood, so 50% of wood is carbon. the carbon is stored and will not turn back into co2 unless burnt or decomposed. a "real" coop would be much better than a petroluem-based eglu.

[tarazod]

Well done. Cute video.

[evenstephen85]

i want an eglu!

[Nemie125]

What a great demonstration! I've wanted an eglu for about four years, my husband says I can't have one (we live in London) - I think I'll just get rid of the husband and replace him with some chickens instead. They are probably more useful and don't make as much mess.

[vegas2004]

What an informative and well put together video! I am awaiting delivery of my (bright orange!) Eglu and 2 hens so watching your video has given me an insight on it close up.You've taught your daughter really well in how to look after them.Hopefully,more people will keep their own chooks so intensivly reared ones eventually dies out.

[cafemondo]

keeping chickens in plastic, great idea

[hpfalconry]

you seem to look after your chooks really well but try sliding your index and middle fingers inbetween the chooks legs when your handling her.

[Mercury1600]

Very well narrated, although not the best way to hold the chook,

is she an australorp?

[HTCSWEOD]

I have to say, the most enjoyable part of this video for me was the charming accent of the little girl! I live in the U.S. and wish all my neighbors spoke like this! Thank you for sharing basic poultry care techniques, you have a wonderful set up there!

[yaarge2]

how do you clean the run?

[chachu207]

You move the run every week or two, and just rake away the mess.

[hoover321f]

we get most of our chickens from local farmers. they are usually quite willing to sell a few older hens at a cheap price. we payed about $5.00 a hen last summer.

[niallswand]

what happens when they poo and pee in the wire run, how do you clean that out?

[chachu207]

The run is moved every two weeks to a fresh patch of grass.

[niallswand]

and can you go back to the same patch after a few months?

[chachu207]

Yes, you can go back to it as soon as the grass is clean and healthy again.

[niallswand]

thanks, think i might buy one soon, but there are no close chicken 'sellars' up in Scotland.

[chachu207]

Try buying direct from Eglu

[niallswand]

yeah, but they dont do chickens up where i live

[chachu207]

Ah, in that case I would try just looking in the phone book for poultry breeders near by, I'm sure there'll be some around.

[niallswand]

thanks

[Tarodin1980]

A very good introduction to keeping a backyard flock! Very well narrated and demonstrated. Well done!

[ExcelandSousuke]

thanks - that was great!