Beginner Chicken Keeping

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Meg is starting her very first chicken coop! Here she discusses her choices regarding life stages, breeds, and coops Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3PdxSJs Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/44yaWZP EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/45FZ5Kc Connect With Meagan Lloyd: Meg Lloyd currently grows, preserves, and cooks her own food in a small backyard garden in North Carolina. She started gardening three years ago, and it has given her a new appreciation for food. She has learned so much about how to prepare the fresh garden produce that she harvests. And now, she’s sharing her love for gardening and garden-to-table meals with the world! Instagram TikTok YouTube Blog Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code THEBEET for 5% off your entire order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Preorder Kevin’s newest book Epic Homesteading if you are looking to turn your home into a thriving homestead! Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, and Jacques) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You guys know that I love chickens, I love keeping chickens.
0:06.3	As I speak, I can actually see my little bin that I have before new epic hens in there
0:12.5	about, oh I say about 12 days old now, so they're getting their feathers.
0:17.2	So I've been on this journey for a while now, about two years, a little over.
0:21.0	And we have Meg Lloyd back on the show, Meg Rose plants on Instagram, sounds like you've
0:24.7	just gotten into chickens yourself, Meg.
0:26.9	Yeah, so I'm preparing to get chickens in September.
0:32.0	I haven't gotten my coop yet, it actually it was supposed to be delivered yesterday,
0:36.0	but it arrived broken, so I had to send it back.
0:39.4	Yeah, because I'm getting just a starter coop, just to start out.
0:44.8	And it's a coop that has really mixed reviews.
0:47.9	A lot of people say that it only lasts like a year or two until you need to upgrade
0:53.2	to a new one, but I thought since I'm just starting out,
0:56.1	I've never had chickens before.
0:58.0	I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, because I don't know, yeah, I just don't know
1:03.6	what's how it's going to work out.
1:07.0	But yeah, so I'm getting as soon as I get my coop, I'm going to paint it.
1:11.1	And then I have a lady that has a farm that's local to me.
1:16.8	And she raises chicks and chickens and she's going to give me some pullits.
1:22.1	So I'm going to be skipping the chick stage.
1:24.7	I don't want to, but since I'm getting them in September, because I really wanted to
1:28.8	start it this year, and I didn't want to risk them not being old enough to withstand winter.
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