Kaylan's Chicken Journey

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Home & Garden, Education, Leisure, How To

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Kaylan is at the beginning of her chicken keeping journey. She’s received her chicken coop, and next up is considering which breeds to work with and how to source them. Then she’ll work toward providing them with lots of stimulation in and out of the coop. Epic Gardening Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/46AGOOF Botanical Interests Shop Homepage: https://growepic.co/3uFh0Dz Book Collection Page: https://growepic.co/3QX3xi3 EG Homesteading Book: https://growepic.co/3SWR4O0 Connect With Kaylan Segev: Kaylan is a Bay Area native and budding gardener. Her passion for planting began when she started growing tomatoes in her studio apartment bathroom while living in San Francisco during shelter-in-place. Today, she gardens on 13,000 square feet of fertile land nestled in the hills of Oakland, CA (zone 10a), where she cultivates everything from native plants, vegetables, fruits, and bulbs, to medicinal and sensory plants in raised beds, grow bags, and in the ground. Her latest project, a dreamy chicken coop, is currently being constructed with chickens on the way in spring 2024. Instagram 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	When you start gardening, it's only a matter of time, probably one year, maybe three years before you get into the world of chickens.
0:20.0	It took me probably a little more than that, maybe four or five years or so.
0:23.4	I just didn't have the space, but now, of course,
0:25.3	we have nine epic pens here at the flock,
0:28.8	fully integrated, two different flocks.
0:31.2	They're now best friends, no sniping, no picking, nothing like that,
0:35.0	in our Carolina coupe out in the back and I just started getting eggs again.
0:38.4	They were molting and brooding for about a month.
0:40.9	I was feeding them, I was getting zero eggs. I was very sad. Now I'm actually
0:44.3	getting eggs and I'm happy. And Kaylin was back in the show. You, I believe, have a coop either coming or it already came.
0:53.0	It just arrived and again strongly influenced by yourself.
1:00.0	I think I mean I'm a big animal lover that's like you know a huge part of like what
1:07.3	brings me joy and I have a neighbor here who has three chickens and they would ask me to like check on them
1:15.8	give them some snacks I love bringing them scraps from the garden while they were out of
1:19.6	town etc and so like the more time I spent around them and the more you talked about
1:24.8	Carolina coops like the seed was planted I did a ton of research like we have the space I can make the time but like you know what is
1:38.0	that meme it's like you spend X amount of dollars to get like one chicken egg like it's not like a super
1:44.3	low-cost hobby and I wanted like we have a lot of predators we have raccoons
1:51.1	possums, coyotes, all kinds of critters back here in our yard and so keeping them safe
1:59.1	it was like a huge thing for me and so I was like okay I could either go like the cost effective route and
2:05.2	Potentially have predators getting in there or I can go like the Fort Knox investment route and Carolina Coop feels like that.
2:16.0	And so I plotted scheme, saved up, and ordered the Cali Coop,
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