Integrating New Chicks to Existing Flocks Q&A Chicken Raising

Pioneering Today

Melissa K Norris

Cookingfromscratch, Oldfashionedliving, Selfsufficiency, Home & Garden, Gardening, Heirloomseeds, Homesteading, Growyourownfood, Education, Survival, Pioneeringtoday, Leisure, How To

4.9 • 931 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2020

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Learn how to integrate new chicks into existing flocks, plus, all your questions on mixing meat birds with laying hens and how to keep dual-purpose chickens. Common mistakes you NEED to avoid for the health of your chickens and what to do if your chicken is being bullied by the rest of the flock. Resources at https://melissaknorris.com/259

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0:00.0	If you want to learn how to use herbs medicinally and not only medicinally but also grow them,
0:06.4	I can think of little else that gets me excited as knowing I can literally grow our medicine right outside our back door, then you, my friend, are going to want to make
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0:40.0	Each week we are going to pick one of those herbs and do a deep dive on how to grow that herb,
0:47.8	but more importantly, how to use it, including safety, and if you should use it or not if you are pregnant or breastfeeding.
0:56.9	We go through all of the cautions, the medicinal properties, and its uses.
1:02.1	So when you get done done you will have in your pocket and hopefully by
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1:25.2	Hey there and welcome to episode number 259. So on today's episode, we're going to be diving into a ton of questions that you guys sent in on raising your own chickens. Now if you missed a couple of episodes back I did 10
1:47.5	tips on raising chickens for meat that was episode number 256. Well a ton of you, which thrills my heart, are going to be raising your own
2:00.8	chickens this year as a form of food. So be a your meat birds and or
2:05.0	birds and or laying heads.
2:09.0	And from episode number 256,
2:12.0	I had
2:15.0	it was a deep dive.
2:16.0	You're gonna want to go and listen to that episode if you haven't already.
2:19.8	But I had a lot of people send in questions on if you are picking a dual purpose meat
2:25.9	chicken bird meaning you can raise them for eggs as well as to butcher for meat. You had some questions about what to do with your flocks,
2:36.0	especially if you were planning on using some for eggs and some for meat, or if you
2:41.4	were getting baby chicks that you were using for laying hens, what to do after the first six weeks.
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