028 Raising Chickens: What Do Chickens Eat, How to Butcher Chicken, and more… - The Prepper Podcast

Summary: I discuss raising chickens. This includes how to butcher a chicken, what do chickens eat, chicken predators and pests, chicken health problems and diseases, and even more.<br> Housekeeping:<br> <br> <br> Name for the “survival budget” has been renamed.<br> <br> <br> How to Be a Prepper: One Year Emergency Preparedness List for Survival<br> <br> <br> is an all-inclusive plan to build self-reliance that will outlast greater than a one year disaster, while helping you become debt free and build a resilient investment portfolio and resilient life.<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> remember to give me an itunes review at theprepperpodcast/itunes<br> <br> <br> Last weekend in Nashville<br> <br> <br>  <br> Discussion:<br>  <br> <br> <br> Benefits of Chickens<br> <br> <br> Funny<br> <br> <br> Lots of eggs<br> <br> <br> Meat<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> What Chickens Eat<br> <br> <br> Foods for Chickens<br> <br> <br> Free-range birds<br> <br> <br> Paddock Shift<br> <br> <br> Parts of the Grass<br> <br> <br> first 50%<br> <br> <br> next 20%<br> <br> <br> last 30%<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chicken Tractors<br> <br> <br> Chicken Run (not great idea)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chicken Treats<br> <br> <br> Meal Worms<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Water Needs<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Needs of your Chickens<br> <br> <br> Chicks<br> <br> <br> Heat Lamp know how<br> <br> <br> Not in the house<br> <br> <br> Check on them often<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Shelter<br> <br> <br> Roosts<br> <br> <br> Cleaning<br> <br> <br> Open and Closing Door (idea?)<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Dust Baths<br> <br> <br> Move them around so they don’t get smelly<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Chicken Problems<br> <br> <br> Predators<br> <br> <br> Raccoon, Dog, Hawks, Coyote, Foxes, Predator Cats<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Egg Predators<br> <br> <br> Minks, Skunks, Snakes, Rats<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Pests<br> <br> <br> Worms<br> <br> <br> Lice<br> <br> <br> Mites<br> <br> <br> Ticks<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Sicknesses<br> <br> <br> Infectious Bronchitis, Avian Pox, Botulism, Cholera, Mareks, Thrush<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Paddock Shifting your Chickens<br> <br> <br> 4 and 5 Paddock setups<br> <br> <br> stationary coops<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Mobile Coops<br> <br> <br> Tractors and shifting<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Butchering Chickens for Poultry<br> <br> <br> Roosters<br> <br> <br> Older hens<br> <br> <br> How to:<br> <br> <br> Humanely Butchering<br> <br> <br> Don’t feed the day before<br> <br> <br> Hang<br> <br> <br> Neck<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Decapitate<br> <br> <br> Scald<br> <br> <br> Turkey Fryer on a propane burner<br> <br> <br> 165 degrees F<br> <br> <br> 30 seconds<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> Can Ice and scald again<br> <br> <br> Feathers pluck easily when done<br> <br> <br> Hang and pluck<br> <br> <br> Small hairs<br> <br> <br> propane torch to quickly remove stray hairs<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br>