Chickens

45 videos with this tag.

Modern Homesteading Course
Preventing Poultry Predators
You might not see them every day, but it only takes one opportunistic predator to endanger your flock. Learn how…
Tomia MacQueen
Tomia MacQueen Wildflower Farm, Gardening for LIFE, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, NOFA-NJ (Northeast Organic Farming Assoc.-NJ)
Featured Mother Earth News Fair Workshops
Preventative Livestock Care
An expert in large farm animals and a true friend of the farmer, Dr. Pol works passionately to ensure that…
Dr. Jan Pol
Dr. Jan Pol The Incredible Dr. Pol.
On the Farm Projects
Diversify Your Livestock, Enhance Your Soil!
Diversifying your livestock isn't just good for your animals, it's also good for your soil! Amyrose Foll shares how she…
Amyrose Foll
Amyrose Foll Virginia Farm Consultants, Va. Dept. of Agriculture Equitable Food Oriented Distribution Taskforce, Women's Earth Alliance
Real Organic Methods
How to Source Large-Scale Compost Inputs
What can you put in your farm compost? Holly Whitesides shares the long list of "waste" products that end up…
Holly Whitesides
Holly Whitesides Against the Grain
Real Organic Methods
Why Choose Soy- & Corn-Free Feed?
What's in your eggs? Chloe Nevarez shares why (and how) her family farm made the change from conventional to soy-…
Chloe Nevarez
Chloe Nevarez Happy Hens, Real Organic Project
Brooding Chicks Master Course
DIY Chicken Brooders & Other Brooder Basics
For chicks that aren’t raised by hens, their first weeks of life are spent in a brooder. What is a…
Lacy Armentor
Lacy Armentor Uphill Farm
2023 MOTHER EARTH NEWS FAIR
Poultry, Sheep, and Goats: Protecting Your Small Livestock from Predators
Explore many of the ways and systems that you can implement to protect your small livestock animals from predators in…
Tomia MacQueen
Tomia MacQueen Wildflower Farm, Gardening for LIFE, Ujamaa Cooperative Farming Alliance, NOFA-NJ (Northeast Organic Farming Assoc.-NJ)
Raising Chickens Webinars
Raising Chickens for Homegrown Meat and Eggs
Learn why, on the road to self-sufficiency, chickens are often one of the easiest stops along the way.
Jeanette Beranger
Jeanette Beranger
Chicken Processing Webinar
How to Process Chickens in Your Backyard
Learn how to turn your dreams of chicken farming and processing your own food in your own backyard into a…
Matt Wilkinson
Matt Wilkinson Hard Cider Homestead
Learning the Egg Story
Learning the Egg Story
Hear how teachers can help students learn through incubation! Pascale Pearce walks you through some of the lesson plan from…
Fair Speakers
Fair Speakers
Livestock Course
Nutrition Basics For Chickens
Join Bill Sadler, Nutrition Specialist at Manna Pro, for an engaging discussion focused on selecting the correct feed for your…
Bill Sadler
Bill Sadler Manna Pro
Livestock Course
Caring for Chicks from the Hatchery to Home
Learn what to do in the first 48 hours of receiving your chicks, and what's needed in a chicken coop.
Rich Marion Patterson
Rich Marion Patterson
Poultry Q&A Webinar
From Feed to Breeds and Eggs to Chicken Legs: Poultry Q&A
Welcome! The Poultry 101 Q&A webinar was recorded live on Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2021. Approx. 1 h 30 m. [video…
Fair Speakers
Fair Speakers
Raising Poultry 101 Course
How to Raise Baby Chicks
From the time you have chicks to when they're transferred to the coop, there's a lot to consider. In this…
Queren King-Orozco
Queren King-Orozco Living Aromatically
Raising Poultry 101 Course
Determining Flock Size and Selecting Breeds for Your Flock
Getting started with chickens is exciting, but how do you determine how many chickens you’ll need? Do you want enough…
Tom Watkins
Tom Watkins Murray McMurray Hatchery
Raising Poultry 101 Course
Meat Bird Tips for Success
Twain Lockhart gives husbandry advice to people on raising their own meat birds to avoid making the same mistakes he…
Twain Lockhart
Twain Lockhart Nutrena, Cargill
Raising Poultry 101 Course
No-Fear Backyard Chicken Processing
Learn how to turn your dreams of chicken farming in your own backyard and processing your own food into a…
Matt Wilkinson
Matt Wilkinson Hard Cider Homestead
Raising Poultry 101 Course
Chicken Health and Behavioral Issues
Take care of your birds and learn what to do when they stop laying, begin moulting, pecking, or get injuries.…
Queren King-Orozco
Queren King-Orozco Living Aromatically
Raising Poultry 101 Course
Chicken Enclosure and Fencing Choices
Join Queren as she discusses the advantages of building a coop and a run versus turning a shed into a…
Queren King-Orozco
Queren King-Orozco Living Aromatically
Raising Poultry 101 Course
How to DIY a Chicken Coop with What You Already Have
Learn how to use what you have to DIY a chicken coop. Watch an overview of all the parts you…
Tracy Lynn
Tracy Lynn Simple Living Country Gal
Raising Poultry 101 Course
High Quality Chicken Egg Production
If your reason for getting chickens is the supply of delicious, fresh eggs, learn here what nutrition is necessary for…
Queren King-Orozco
Queren King-Orozco Living Aromatically
Raising Poultry 101 Course
Dust Bathing
Learn more about why chickens dust bathe and the benefits. At what age do chickens begin dust bathing? What is…
Lisa Sweet
Lisa Sweet Absorbent Products
Poultry: Transitioning to a Market Flock Course
Brooder Ventilation
Watch as David Hale from Windy Meadows Family Farm in Campbell, Texas, explains the importance of brooder ventilation and how…
David Hale
David Hale American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, Windy Meadows Family Farm
Poultry: Transitioning to a Market Flock Course
Poultry Health & Safety
Bringing the products of your production to market can be interrupted if the health or safety of your flock comes…
Mike Badger
Mike Badger American Pastured Poultry Producers Association, Badger’s Millside Farm
Poultry: Transitioning to a Market Flock Course
Poultry Nutrition
Considering the nutritional needs for your flock is an essential step to any poultry production. Alyssa Walsh from the livestock…
Alyssa Walsh
Alyssa Walsh The Fertrell Company