221. Answering Top Chicken Keeping Questions | Dalia of Welcome to Chickenlandia

Simple Farmhouse Life

Lisa Bass

Home & Garden, Leisure

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we are diving into the logistics of chicken keeping! We start by exploring the benefits of chicken keeping for kids– what it teaches them and the skills they will gain. Then we are diving into some of the most common chicken keeping questions: feed, egg production, flock management, and more. If you are just getting started in chicken keeping or need a refresher, join us for this discussion!

In this episode, we cover:

Dalia’s unexpected journey to becoming a chicken keeper
How your kids can benefit from learning to care for chickens
Thoughts on supplementing with artificial light in the winter
You can feed your chickens well without spending a lot of money
How fermentation can make your chicken feed stretch further
The best breeds to build your laying flock and where to source them
Keeping track of your growing flock year to year
How the deep litter method can benefit your flock and your garden

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ABOUT DALIA

You know her as The President of Chickenlandia, but her non-feathered friends call her Dalia. Some years ago, Dalia decided to bring home ten little chicks and start a hobby. That hobby quickly grew into a full-feathered passion that she couldn’t stop talking about. Before long, she was part-owner of a farm store, teaching beginner chicken-keeping classes, and delivering seminars across Northwest Washington. While the store has since closed, Dalia continues to help others start their chicken-keeping adventure while sharing peace, laughter, and inspiration.

RESOURCES MENTIONED

My Pet Chicken

Murray McMurray Hatchery

Flockstar App

Let’s All Keep Chickens! by Dalia Monterroso

Chickenlandia’s Backyard Chickens 101 Course

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0:00.0	you can ferment their feed. It will make the nutrients in the feed more bio available to your chickens,
0:05.2	meaning they can digest it better and they can use the nutrients within their bodies better.
0:10.0	It also will increase the volume of the feed.
0:12.5	And you're making the feed more nutrient-dense
0:16.6	as you're expanding it through the process of fermentation.
0:21.1	It is likely that they may even eat less of the feed and get more. of blog and YouTube channel Farm House on Boone.
0:32.8	Join me as I share with you my love for creating
0:35.0	a handmade home from scratch cooking
0:37.2	and a little mom and entrepreneur life
0:39.0	along the way. Welcome back to the Simple Farm House Life Podcast. If you hear a bit of a white noise in the background. I put Victor to sleep before this episode, about an hour before,
0:59.0	assumed he would wake up within 30 minutes or 10 minutes, like he usually does when I set him down and then he stayed asleep in the
1:06.4	swing the entire time since that never happens I couldn't possibly get him out so you will hear a little bit of a hum during this interview,
1:16.0	probably only though when I'm talking, not the guest because we'll silence that
1:20.8	so don't get too worried but if you're a mother and you have a baby you know that you can't wake up a baby it's just not like you might say you can like I'll wake him up when the podcast starts but especially if you have a child who doesn't
1:34.4	sleep on their own down which none of mine really had been good about that including Victor you just
1:40.0	can't do it so couldn't do. I am going to be chatting today with Dahlia from
1:45.7	Chicken Landia. We're gonna chat Chickens of course. It's that time of year where you might
1:50.2	be thinking about either adding to your flock starting from scratch. She has tips on
1:56.2	budget-friendly feeds, on making your own feeds, fermenting them. Chicken health.
2:03.0	We're going to talk a little bit about where to house them.
2:07.4	I forget what all we went into, but all things chickens, okay?
2:10.6	If you are wanting to get into chickens or just brush up on your knowledge, this will be a really good interview for you.
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