WEBVTT - Backyard Chickens 0:00:04.960 --> 0:00:08.080 God fucking damn it. I just got another fucking message 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:12.000 about the gold ads. Leave me alone, all right, and 0:00:12.520 --> 0:00:16.680 could happen here, So welcome to it. Could happen here 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:23.480 a podcast about the incredible investment vehicle that is gold. Now, look, people, 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:26.560 if you aren't currently putting all of your money into gold, 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.280 and I mean all of your money, then you're just 0:00:29.480 --> 0:00:33.040 leaving cash on the table. Gold is such a good 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:36.760 investment vehicle that if you had bought ten thousand dollars 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:39.920 worth of gold twenty years ago, you would have roughly 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:44.040 the same amount of money. Can can you beat Can 0:00:44.080 --> 0:00:48.479 you beat gold? You can't. I've replaced most of my 0:00:48.479 --> 0:00:50.240 teeth with gold, and I have read the same amount 0:00:50.240 --> 0:00:54.240 of teeth. It's a win win, Wow, Wow, incredible. Gold is. 0:00:54.400 --> 0:00:56.680 Gold is perfect for a number of reasons. Look, if 0:00:56.680 --> 0:01:02.280 you're worried about instability, obviously, if society collapses, gold is 0:01:02.360 --> 0:01:04.600 the thing that you want to have, because, of course 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:07.560 you'll still be able to trade what is fundamentally a 0:01:07.680 --> 0:01:10.840 useless rock for goods and services in the event that 0:01:10.880 --> 0:01:14.840 there's no civilization. That that just makes complete sense. Don't 0:01:14.920 --> 0:01:19.560 stock up on ammunition, stock up on gold. What about gold? Immunition. 0:01:20.240 --> 0:01:23.360 Oh now see, that's what if you want to kill 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:27.760 super vampires, that's what you want is gold bullets. You know, 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:31.279 there is something like maybe it's like Survival of the Fittest. 0:01:31.319 --> 0:01:34.240 I'm allergic to gold, so if I touch it gives 0:01:34.280 --> 0:01:36.440 me a rash. So I can't survive in a world 0:01:36.480 --> 0:01:40.000 of gold. I love you well if you need so, 0:01:40.160 --> 0:01:42.680 if you need to take out Sharine and the Apocalypse, 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.480 make sure make a gold spear or something. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:50.360 just givet jewelry. Look, it's it's a good idea. According 0:01:50.400 --> 0:01:52.120 to one of my friends, who has read much more 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:54.280 Marks than Idea, Marks particular, that we would go back 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:58.640 to the gold standard. So yeah, like you're it's gonna 0:01:58.640 --> 0:02:05.520 be great. The immortal science wins again. Um, this is 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:10.799 actually today we are talking about um collapse, but not 0:02:11.120 --> 0:02:15.760 the collapse of the economy, because the economy is kind 0:02:15.800 --> 0:02:19.400 of always collapsing. That's part of what makes it the economy. Instead, 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:22.520 we're talking about the fact that the market for eggs 0:02:22.639 --> 0:02:27.000 has gotten insane. People are paying crazy prices for huevos 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:31.560 these days. Um, and there's there's no no good reason 0:02:31.639 --> 0:02:35.320 for it, obviously, Like it's the you know, egg production 0:02:35.360 --> 0:02:38.880 in some places was like impacted by the bird flu, 0:02:38.960 --> 0:02:41.000 but that is not why eggs have gotten more expensive. 0:02:41.000 --> 0:02:44.520 It's pure corporate greed. But regardless of that, people are 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:48.240 finding themselves thinking about like, wow, eggs are expensive as hell. 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:52.120 Should I maybe get some chickens? Um? And today we 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:56.160 have several chicken owners on the podcast, myself and James Stout, 0:02:56.480 --> 0:02:59.639 and several people who don't have chickens but our chicken 0:02:59.760 --> 0:03:06.200 que rheus. So we're going to talk about having chickens. James, Yeah, yeah, 0:03:06.240 --> 0:03:07.880 I do. I've been training for this my whole life. 0:03:07.960 --> 0:03:11.600 So this this was your idea, so Vents is very 0:03:11.680 --> 0:03:13.280 much my baby. So if you guys just want to 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:17.080 sit back and learn about chickens, your baby James or 0:03:17.160 --> 0:03:20.720 your egg Well that's the thing, isn't it. Robert one 0:03:20.760 --> 0:03:23.320 could be the other. I've given enough time. People have 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.960 talked about this. I've heard. Yeah, it's been a discussion 0:03:26.000 --> 0:03:28.320 for some time in the chicken community. All right, it's 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:32.519 talking about chickens. So I want to start out with like, 0:03:32.680 --> 0:03:35.600 if you're thinking about getting chickens, and I have written 0:03:35.600 --> 0:03:39.040 a script for this, thank you. Yeah, I'm ready to roll. 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.560 So the most important thing obviously when you're getting animals, 0:03:41.560 --> 0:03:43.880 you're getting any animals, is like that you're responsible for 0:03:43.920 --> 0:03:45.560 a living thing and you have to take care of it, 0:03:45.920 --> 0:03:48.280 and you have to be kind to it, and you 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:49.920 have to treat it well and make sure that if 0:03:49.920 --> 0:03:51.360 you're not able to look after it, like if you 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:53.800 travel a lot for work and someone else can write. 0:03:53.920 --> 0:03:58.520 And I think chickens are particularly useless or they're useful 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.040 and they're very nice that they're not like the most 0:04:01.040 --> 0:04:03.760 practical animals, like if you if you leave them alone, 0:04:03.760 --> 0:04:06.320 they will die. If it gets too hot, they will die, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:09.000 if it gets too cold, they will die. Um, Like, 0:04:09.160 --> 0:04:11.080 you do have to look after them. They're not like 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:14.160 a wild animal that comes in sometimes in lace eggs, 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:17.599 Like they are an extremely domesticated animal that's been domesticated 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:22.039 for probably thousands of years. So it's a responsibility. I 0:04:22.040 --> 0:04:25.440 guess I'm just gonna I'm gonna go through some of 0:04:25.440 --> 0:04:27.920 my stuff. If you guys have any questions, as we 0:04:28.040 --> 0:04:30.320 like move along, please feel free to ask him. I 0:04:30.320 --> 0:04:32.600 want to start out with the breeds of chickens, which 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:34.920 I think are a good idea. And so when you're 0:04:34.920 --> 0:04:36.480 looking at chickens, so The first thing you don't want 0:04:36.520 --> 0:04:38.080 to look at if your space right, like how much 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.720 space do I have? And there are websites where you 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:42.840 can calculate, like working with your acreage or or how 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.760 many yards you have? How many chickens are appropriate, James, 0:04:45.800 --> 0:04:49.240 the level of prepper and the stuff is beautiful. I'm like, 0:04:49.600 --> 0:04:54.760 I'm so happy because I will I will note be 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:57.719 be careful about getting too many. When I got the 0:04:57.760 --> 0:05:00.960 place that I got, I inherited fourteen chicken and that 0:05:01.120 --> 0:05:04.400 is a tremendous quantity of chickens. And and there was 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:08.800 especially chickens make you know, kind of in their prime. 0:05:08.839 --> 0:05:12.039 Egg laying can make one. Sometimes some chickens will do 0:05:12.120 --> 0:05:14.719 to a day. So there were weeks where I was 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:19.080 getting like close to a hundred eggs, which is far more, 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:21.760 far more eggs than a human being can possibly consume. 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.360 That you can consume, I can consume a hundred eggs. 0:05:26.320 --> 0:05:31.720 Well they will, they will consume you. I will mail 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:36.479 you eggs always more eggs. Eggs are like eight I 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:38.840 walked into a grocery store. Okay, I'm i'm, I'm I'm 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:40.520 now doing the bit. I walked through the grocery store 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:42.120 in the eggs where eight fifty and I was like, 0:05:42.160 --> 0:05:44.960 what the fund is going on here? Man, I'm gonna 0:05:44.960 --> 0:05:47.520 I'm gonna make a fucking bank. I have like literally 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:50.680 sixty eggs sitting in my kitchen right now, going to 0:05:50.720 --> 0:05:53.120 sell eggs in the dark web. You goddamn right. This 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.880 is how I fucking leave this this damn podcasting bullshit behind. 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:03.520 I'm gonna become the egg man switches. Finally, I used 0:06:03.520 --> 0:06:09.640 for cryptocurrency egg coin. It's actually it's tied to the 0:06:09.720 --> 0:06:16.560 value of eggs. As you completely collapsed. Um, yeah, don't 0:06:16.600 --> 0:06:19.120 don't over chicken yourself like starting out, but also don't 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:22.960 get too few. You do want at least three. They'll 0:06:23.000 --> 0:06:26.200 be sad or they won't get along. And if you 0:06:26.279 --> 0:06:29.320 if you're like a normal household, three is probably a 0:06:29.320 --> 0:06:32.560 great number of chickens. Like you, you will probably be 0:06:32.640 --> 0:06:35.880 quite happy with three to four chickens. Yeah, you'll get 0:06:36.000 --> 0:06:38.599 like if you estimate like six eggs per chicken per week, 0:06:38.640 --> 0:06:41.760 it's like a fair kind of estimate. They'll take some 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.760 time off during the year or with seasons change or 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.560 molten stuff, So eighteen eggs, like, yeah, you're getting pretty 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:50.800 hard in a normal household. You've eating that many. So 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.640 I think if you start people like to think that 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.560 they should get bantams to off with, Do we know 0:06:55.600 --> 0:06:58.440 what bantams are? Non chicken understanding. I have a lot 0:06:58.480 --> 0:07:00.479 of chickens, but I don't know any thing about the 0:07:00.520 --> 0:07:04.000 kind of chickens. So we've had a few bantams. They're 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.479 not great, to be honest, like bantams are mostly showing birds, 0:07:06.480 --> 0:07:08.520 So it's a smaller chicken. Think of it as like 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.040 a half sized chicken, right, um, And if you've seen 0:07:11.160 --> 0:07:13.400 like a really fancy and you can go ahead and 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:23.840 google some bantams like yeah really little, yeah, really pretty. 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.760 I like to I like large chickens. Now, look, I 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.000 don't engage in cock fighting. I think it's a moral, 0:07:29.280 --> 0:07:32.000 but I like to know theoretically, if they had to, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:37.640 my chickens could handle themselves in a fight. Did anybody 0:07:38.360 --> 0:07:40.480 ever think Robert would be like you, I'm a big 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:50.160 chicken guyable it's yeah, you want big chickens. Some breeds 0:07:50.240 --> 0:07:54.120 to look for, orpingtons like buff Orpington's and you can 0:07:54.120 --> 0:07:58.960 remember that big buff and great ass chickens. Yeah, I 0:07:58.960 --> 0:08:01.280 could get a yoke to Orpington, get get a hench 0:08:01.400 --> 0:08:08.400 rhode island red. People in America don't say hench, but yeah, 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.840 we used to have a couple of those. So one 0:08:11.840 --> 0:08:13.760 of the things about bantams is you can't get them 0:08:13.760 --> 0:08:15.600 point of lace. The point of lay is when they've 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:17.920 been sexed. Right, so you know that they're girls and 0:08:19.000 --> 0:08:21.880 they they come to you just to when they're about 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:25.040 to lay, right, and you don't. Generally you get bantams 0:08:25.080 --> 0:08:28.000 younger and you don't get them sexed. So in our case, 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:30.880 we had one. She she crowed a lot, so I 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.160 thought she's a rooster. She wasn't. Any other one was 0:08:33.200 --> 0:08:37.480 a rooster. So yeah, that's god be my question. Do 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:40.760 you need to get a rooster? Also? No, so the 0:08:40.800 --> 0:08:44.760 chicken regardless, I can't. I don't understand how that works. Okay, 0:08:44.760 --> 0:08:46.840 So the chickens are gonna lay regardless, right, that's just 0:08:46.920 --> 0:08:52.640 like how they can do. That's that's the eggs on fertilized. Right. Yeah, 0:08:53.000 --> 0:08:56.959 so they won't make chickens, they will be babies. Okay, 0:08:56.960 --> 0:09:00.160 I get it, I get like a human doing it them. 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:04.520 Yeah yeah, yeah, it's it's kind of like their equivalent 0:09:04.640 --> 0:09:09.120 of a menstruation effectively. Yeah, I know that. Now everything's 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:11.360 coming back to me as far as like began talking points. 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:15.000 Go chickens, by the way, because chickens are as James said, 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:17.920 these are animals and you have to take good care 0:09:17.960 --> 0:09:21.000 of them. That is your responsibility. You do low key 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.120 realize the longer you have them. But they're monsters, like 0:09:24.200 --> 0:09:28.280 their favorite food is their own kind. They have at 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:38.000 each other kids. Yeah, so like, don't go outside with 0:09:38.040 --> 0:09:40.840 your chickens. Like the other day I was, I was 0:09:40.840 --> 0:09:44.319 cutting down some some bushes and I had was wearing 0:09:44.360 --> 0:09:47.400 shorts a little cut from the from the thorn. When 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:52.280 they see blood, they are just like fucking does that 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:57.400 affect the egg? Like, yeah, I mean what you made them? So? Yeah, 0:09:57.440 --> 0:10:00.640 we we butchered a deer last year and we wound 0:10:00.720 --> 0:10:02.880 up with a lot of like deer fat and kind 0:10:02.920 --> 0:10:05.840 of like meat that you gave it to the chickens. Well, yeah, 0:10:05.880 --> 0:10:07.480 we had some stuff because the deer had been hit 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.040 by a car. There was some meat we couldn't eat, 0:10:09.080 --> 0:10:11.040 so we wound up giving several pounds of meat to 0:10:11.080 --> 0:10:17.520 the chickens and those eggs fucking ruled. Okay, it's not 0:10:17.600 --> 0:10:21.120 advised to feed them, dear, But yeah, so you wanted stuff. Actually, 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:22.760 if you so they do believe. There's a stuff called 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:24.600 purple spray. I'm sure it's not what it's actually called, 0:10:24.600 --> 0:10:27.360 but it's purple and it's a spray, and you can 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.240 we already called it purple spray. You can spray on 0:10:30.280 --> 0:10:32.360 them and it just stops it looking like blood. I'm 0:10:32.360 --> 0:10:37.360 sure it's like an antibiotic or maybe an antiseptic, but yeah, 0:10:37.400 --> 0:10:39.000 you could spray that on the chicken. So like one 0:10:39.000 --> 0:10:40.920 of mine, she's just got this little thing on her 0:10:40.960 --> 0:10:42.679 wing that opens up every now and again, and I 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:45.080 just make sure I spray that and that stops her 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:48.760 from the other ones from pecking her. Right, Yeah, so 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.839 they have to be. We had a last year some 0:10:52.920 --> 0:10:56.360 kind of animal, I think it was probably a like 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.440 a like a possum or something, I don't really know. 0:10:58.880 --> 0:11:00.840 Some kind of animal gotten to the the coop and attacked 0:11:00.880 --> 0:11:03.600 my chickens and we had I had one chicken. We 0:11:03.640 --> 0:11:06.120 called it the anarchists chicken because it could always escape. 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.160 It like never was in the cage um. And when 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.400 when they got attacked, the Anarchists chicken leapt to defend 0:11:12.600 --> 0:11:15.200 the rest of the flock and fought off whatever it 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:17.520 was that attacked. But she wound up with a hole 0:11:17.559 --> 0:11:20.000 in her side, and so I like took her and 0:11:20.000 --> 0:11:22.520 I addressed the wound, and I put her back in 0:11:22.559 --> 0:11:26.320 the cage, and they all immediately tried to I want 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:29.000 to have a separate Yeah, yeah, yeah, I that was 0:11:29.040 --> 0:11:30.760 the lesson that I learned. I had to take her 0:11:30.800 --> 0:11:34.680 out because yeah, we have a tiny rabbit hutch that 0:11:34.760 --> 0:11:37.520 we use. It's called the Meryl Peep Memorial Chicken Hospital 0:11:37.520 --> 0:11:40.679 because Mery's not about chickens who died. And you just 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:42.760 put put them in that for a few days until 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:44.880 they're better, and then then they can reintegrate. It's fine, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:48.080 And so I did. We're very we've we've made very 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.400 little progress on my script. Okay, so sorry, you want 0:11:50.400 --> 0:11:52.600 to get buffal Pinkton's right down and reads a good 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:55.560 plymouth rocks. Americanas are nice. Have you guys seen those? 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:58.560 If we don't have, If we don't, I don't know 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:06.079 anything about talking about what do they teach you in school? Um? Like? 0:12:06.200 --> 0:12:09.240 So they're called Easter eggers. Sometimes they lay different colored 0:12:09.240 --> 0:12:12.319 eggs like Pastel's colored eggs like blue and green eggs. 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.120 Have you not been exposed to this at all? No? 0:12:16.520 --> 0:12:20.520 I get up extra cornfield. But also I I guess, 0:12:20.559 --> 0:12:22.720 I guess I was a round a farm, but we 0:12:22.760 --> 0:12:25.199 didn't interact with the chickens because you don't, I don't know. 0:12:25.480 --> 0:12:27.800 They were like here de old cows instead. That was like, 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.160 chickens are good, don't go dive straight into cattle if 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.800 you're getting into animal husband But yeah, americanasun say ladies 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.160 colored eggs. One of my friends dad's had them when 0:12:38.200 --> 0:12:40.920 I was a kid, and he made bank selling them 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.680 around Easter. So yeah, if you're looking to get into 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:47.240 your chicken hustle. And then leg horns are like really good. 0:12:47.400 --> 0:12:49.680 They're like hardy chickens, but they are allowed. So if 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:52.439 you live near people, um, I would consider not. You 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.559 should also check your local laws, Like where I live, 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.560 you can't have a rooster. You can have up to 0:12:57.600 --> 0:12:59.839 five chickens within city limits. You can't have a rooster. 0:12:59.920 --> 0:13:04.600 You don't really want a rooster have chicks. And one 0:13:04.679 --> 0:13:07.480 of the things roosters can do is like peck at 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:10.640 your chickens and effectively like were holes in there, like 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:14.560 yeah that they wind up like parts. Yeah, their little 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:18.600 sons of bitches. We harvested ours as soon as I 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:23.880 got the place, and yeah, that's that's the term. This 0:13:24.040 --> 0:13:25.840 leads into a question that I've been wanting to ask, 0:13:25.880 --> 0:13:28.760 which is that, Okay, it is my under is my 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:31.120 firm belief that I could defeed a chicken in single 0:13:31.120 --> 0:13:33.240 combat it would send me to the hospital. But apparently 0:13:33.240 --> 0:13:34.840 this is the thing you need to do with your chickens. 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:37.040 So how how practical is it to defeed a chicken 0:13:37.040 --> 0:13:39.000 in single combat if you have to extract another chicken 0:13:39.080 --> 0:13:42.719 or something. I've never actually had any kind of aggression 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.960 from my chickens. When I'm bleeding, they'll peck my leg. 0:13:46.080 --> 0:13:51.040 But yeah, yeah, yeah, while we we hadn't realized that, 0:13:51.160 --> 0:13:53.439 like they so I think that you want when you 0:13:53.480 --> 0:13:55.880 get chickens, it's a rodent proof freedom, right, So you 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:57.319 don't want to just put the food in the bowl 0:13:57.920 --> 0:13:59.520 if you have an issue with rodent's you want to 0:13:59.520 --> 0:14:02.200 have a things like basically, she comes up, she stands 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.920 on a step and that opens up the feeder and 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:07.640 she can pack and eat, right, And you want to 0:14:07.640 --> 0:14:09.480 get a road and proof feeder. You can just buy 0:14:09.520 --> 0:14:12.560 them attract to supply. But I was gummed up with 0:14:12.640 --> 0:14:15.680 rain and we didn't realize and the chickens are obviously 0:14:15.720 --> 0:14:17.280 not getting food. They're upset with this, so they would 0:14:17.280 --> 0:14:21.160 attack me every time I came outside, like, they'd attack 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:22.960 me and I'd be like, go away. So I'd give 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:25.800 them treats, right, I give them like worms and apples. 0:14:25.960 --> 0:14:31.360 A kitten has arrived, I have to. She was wasting 0:14:31.440 --> 0:14:34.680 to hold or to be held. I'm holding my cat 0:14:34.760 --> 0:14:38.320 for anyone, that's like, what's happening. She just wanted to 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:43.440 be snuggled. That's okay, she's given your kiars um. Yeah, 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:45.280 so you the mind would attack me for a while, 0:14:45.680 --> 0:14:48.320 and I just gave them meal worms when they would 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:51.280 attack me. So unconsciously I was reinforcing the attacking behavior, 0:14:51.640 --> 0:14:54.280 and so they would attack me for a while. But 0:14:54.400 --> 0:14:58.520 I think you could take them. Just keep swinging and yeah, 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:00.520 you don't. You know, you don't have to. They're very 0:15:00.560 --> 0:15:02.560 like most of the time, at least mine. I hand 0:15:02.600 --> 0:15:04.600 feed them. So like a nice treat for them is 0:15:04.640 --> 0:15:08.120 I'll cut a melon in half and I'll chase Sharne 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:13.120 because she's allergic to melons, and you just hold it 0:15:13.120 --> 0:15:16.400 out and they'll come and eat it. And they they 0:15:16.440 --> 0:15:19.240 love scraps like that's often like what I do with 0:15:19.280 --> 0:15:21.880 basically all of my food waste is give it to 0:15:21.920 --> 0:15:25.600 the chickens, and they tend to be very happy with that. Yeah, 0:15:25.600 --> 0:15:29.280 it's very it's a very sustainable thing. Let's get onto space. 0:15:29.320 --> 0:15:32.400 I want to talk about before, before, before, before we 0:15:32.440 --> 0:15:35.120 get into this. I speaking of sustainability. Do you know 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:38.720 who else is incredibly sustainable? I don't think we can 0:15:38.800 --> 0:15:43.280 say capitalism? Yes, inherently, so shiny stuff, it will last 0:15:43.320 --> 0:15:57.800 a thousand years. All right, we're back. Buy some gold. 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:02.080 Buy some gold. Want to re enforce it, because gold, 0:16:02.120 --> 0:16:05.320 when you're starving, will be more useful than chickens because 0:16:05.360 --> 0:16:08.880 it's shiny. That's right, That's right. It'll make you forget 0:16:09.000 --> 0:16:12.040 that you're slowly starving. And it's the foundation of all 0:16:12.040 --> 0:16:15.840 of this. Ship's shiny. Okay um, yeah, so don't have 0:16:15.960 --> 0:16:18.760 shiny things. I want to talking about chicken coopes, because 0:16:19.960 --> 0:16:22.360 there's a shiny thing sectional. I love a good coop. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:25.480 I do love to make a coop. I'd have to 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:27.360 buy a cooper, have to help my friends buy coops. 0:16:27.440 --> 0:16:30.920 It's just it's a it's a great conversation area anyway. 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:32.440 So they do need a coupe. They need a place 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:34.280 where they can go at night, and you want it 0:16:34.320 --> 0:16:36.200 to be shut off from predators, right, so you don't 0:16:36.200 --> 0:16:40.000 want your possum, your raccoon, and your fox, your stout, 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:45.040 your weasel, fare whatever whatever you're dealing with snake. Um. So, 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.040 once you get above three chickens, you might have more 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.000 than one nesting box in there. But like this doesn't 0:16:51.080 --> 0:16:53.680 necessarily mean that you need to go out and buy 0:16:53.760 --> 0:16:55.360 You can buy them on Amazon now, but they're quite 0:16:55.360 --> 0:16:58.040 expensive and they're often quite ship like the pre made 0:16:58.120 --> 0:17:00.480 chicken coops are very poor quality. Like if you have 0:17:01.200 --> 0:17:04.520 a shed or a kennel or something like that, you 0:17:04.520 --> 0:17:06.280 can pretty easily make it into a coupe and you 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:07.880 can just put a drop down door on the front 0:17:07.880 --> 0:17:09.439 so you can close them in at night and let 0:17:09.480 --> 0:17:13.160 them out in the morning. And or I've seen people 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:16.280 use like drawers, you know, like like dresses, just open 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:19.400 those and use them as nesting boxes. And you want 0:17:19.400 --> 0:17:22.640 to put down some straw in your nesting books. Yeah, 0:17:23.000 --> 0:17:27.560 I have I think four for the chickens that I 0:17:27.640 --> 0:17:29.480 have now, which is about I think we've got about 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.119 eleven um And there they are. Two of them are 0:17:33.200 --> 0:17:35.160 large enough for two at a time, and then two 0:17:35.240 --> 0:17:38.320 of them are smaller, although chickens all and and sometimes 0:17:38.320 --> 0:17:39.840 one of the things you have to do occasionally is 0:17:39.920 --> 0:17:42.439 come in and like take them out of the some 0:17:42.560 --> 0:17:44.360 of them out of the nesting boxes. Some of them 0:17:44.400 --> 0:17:47.520 get like stuck in a loop. Where did they get broody? Yeah, 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.800 yeah yeah, And so you just I just like take 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:51.960 them out and set them down where there's like some 0:17:51.960 --> 0:17:54.520 stuff to peck at, and they seem to It kind 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:58.000 of resets their little chicken brains. Silky Bantams, which are 0:17:58.000 --> 0:18:00.880 one of the like show bantams get Rudy is fun 0:18:01.119 --> 0:18:03.040 and it's like I've had friends who have had him, 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.119 and they will they will not eat and not drink 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.760 because it's just like, no, I'm sitting on this egg, 0:18:06.880 --> 0:18:09.600 like you can't stop me. And you have to lock 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.800 them out of there. There's not even an egg there, chicken, 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.920 what's wrong with you? Yeah, well they'll take another chicken's egg. Yeah, 0:18:16.359 --> 0:18:21.679 just yeah. Or even like silky it's cute. Look them 0:18:21.760 --> 0:18:23.840 up there, they're real, they're flu furs. They're very cute. 0:18:24.800 --> 0:18:26.400 So you want to build them a run to write 0:18:26.400 --> 0:18:27.920 a place where they can say if you run around 0:18:27.920 --> 0:18:30.399 and have their food, have their water, And I would 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.240 suggest using construction netting when you build a run broy 0:18:34.280 --> 0:18:36.760 that people called chicken wire, which is like maybe one 0:18:36.800 --> 0:18:39.800 inch size holes, but like a lot of stuff can 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.480 get through that. You'd be amazed, like rats, my snakes 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.680 can all get through that. And use construction netting, which 0:18:45.720 --> 0:18:47.960 is like maybe I'm not very good at inches, but 0:18:48.000 --> 0:18:51.120 like about one cent to me to size a lot less. 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:53.320 He's going to get through it. And you might want 0:18:53.359 --> 0:18:55.440 to bury it down to like a foot or two 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:58.280 below the run if you're building something permanent, just because 0:18:58.840 --> 0:19:01.240 things can't dig underneath, like a we had a foxtic 0:19:01.359 --> 0:19:05.440 underneath when I was a kid, and don't it's preferable 0:19:05.480 --> 0:19:06.959 to do that to putting on the floor of your 0:19:07.000 --> 0:19:08.840 run because they don't like the little wire and their 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:12.760 little feet. Yeah no, no, definitely not on the You 0:19:12.800 --> 0:19:16.800 want them to have access to dirt and ideally sometimes 0:19:16.800 --> 0:19:20.040 grass too. One thing that they because I will let 0:19:20.119 --> 0:19:22.919 them out sometimes during the day and I have a 0:19:22.960 --> 0:19:26.520 barn that has like like it's kind of dust in there, 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.040 like not dust um almost like almost like sandy dry dirt. 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.479 And one of their favorite things, especially during the summer, 0:19:33.640 --> 0:19:37.640 is to just kind of like sit down and rub. Yeah, 0:19:37.760 --> 0:19:40.000 that make it all up in the like, and they 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:42.119 kind of need to be able to do some version 0:19:42.119 --> 0:19:45.400 of that in order to be like healthy. Otherwise they yeah, 0:19:45.400 --> 0:19:47.360 it's it's good for them, it's good for their skin, 0:19:47.480 --> 0:19:51.040 it's good for them existing. Yeah, it's good for their 0:19:51.080 --> 0:19:53.359 mental health. I think that like people keep kicking their 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:56.679 terrible conditions commercially, but it doesn't mean you have an 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:59.760 excuse to. So when I when I got these chickens, 0:19:59.800 --> 0:20:01.440 they had been the people who'd have them before. I 0:20:01.480 --> 0:20:03.280 don't know what the funk was wrong with them. They 0:20:03.280 --> 0:20:07.080 had a sizeable outside run, but whoever, the folks who 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:10.719 had them had covered the entire bottom in stone, so 0:20:10.760 --> 0:20:14.479 they were just like living on stone when we know 0:20:14.600 --> 0:20:16.680 they were. They were in a horrible shape. And when 0:20:16.680 --> 0:20:20.120 I when we harvested the rooster, his gizzard was full 0:20:20.119 --> 0:20:23.960 of automotive glass, like, yeah, it was fucked up. It 0:20:24.040 --> 0:20:26.399 was I spent because they all had they all had 0:20:26.520 --> 0:20:30.200 huge patches of them that like we're bald um. I 0:20:30.240 --> 0:20:32.720 mean we we we dealt with that, partially by getting 0:20:32.760 --> 0:20:35.520 rid of the rooster and partially by making sure we 0:20:35.560 --> 0:20:38.480 gave them I was I still do mix in um 0:20:39.320 --> 0:20:44.280 oyster shell bits with the calcium is good for them. Yeah, 0:20:44.480 --> 0:20:47.560 so you'll know if they need that, Like they stopped 0:20:47.600 --> 0:20:50.160 coming and he startually really dangerous, like an egg can 0:20:50.240 --> 0:20:53.040 rupture inside if they're laying it and that can be fatal. 0:20:53.080 --> 0:20:55.679 So you want to make sure, um, if we just 0:20:55.880 --> 0:20:57.399 we can cover a few quickly, I guess. And so 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.920 they do like to grub for worms and stuff like that, right, 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:02.280 look for insects and they love to have scraps. But 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:04.520 for laying chicken, you want to make sure it's getting 0:21:04.560 --> 0:21:07.199 a decent based diet of layers pellets, which should be 0:21:07.359 --> 0:21:10.840 like somewhere between six protein which sorry, what what kind 0:21:10.880 --> 0:21:14.560 of pellets? Layer pellets? Yeah, there's a number of brands 0:21:14.800 --> 0:21:17.720 of it, but yeah, they're called layer pellets. Yeah, some 0:21:17.800 --> 0:21:20.639 of them will already have oyster shell and grit and 0:21:20.840 --> 0:21:22.639 like Robert said, they do need those. If not, you 0:21:22.640 --> 0:21:25.040 can augment them, but it's probably gonna be easier to 0:21:25.080 --> 0:21:27.639 just get one sack and just dump it all in. 0:21:29.040 --> 0:21:31.359 They do need access to water as well that they 0:21:31.400 --> 0:21:33.720 can get out all day. I think it's better to 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:37.720 use like a nipple type drinker, which is a you 0:21:37.760 --> 0:21:39.680 can take a bucket, any bucket right fill it up 0:21:39.800 --> 0:21:41.320 and then you put these little nipples and they just 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:43.119 get their red and again they like to peck it 0:21:43.200 --> 0:21:44.760 red stuff, so they'll peck at them and then they 0:21:44.800 --> 0:21:47.719 get and that stops. Like you know, they can't put 0:21:47.760 --> 0:21:49.600 their feet in the water and get their ship from 0:21:49.640 --> 0:21:51.359 their feet in the water and get sick, like then 0:21:51.400 --> 0:21:54.200 they're not clean animals. So just if you do that, 0:21:54.320 --> 0:21:55.600 And then I like to put a little bit. It's 0:21:55.640 --> 0:21:57.160 hot where I live in San Diego, so I put 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.040 a little bit of electrolyte stuff in there for them 0:21:59.240 --> 0:22:02.240 and they don't seem to mind, and it just seems 0:22:02.280 --> 0:22:06.000 to help. And then yeah, like it's it's good to 0:22:06.640 --> 0:22:08.520 you can feed them kitchen straps, but you don't want 0:22:08.560 --> 0:22:11.560 to overload them, especially on carb stuff, like they do 0:22:11.640 --> 0:22:14.280 need enough protein to keep up there laying and they 0:22:14.320 --> 0:22:18.439 definitely need enough calcium. And one thing I would say 0:22:18.480 --> 0:22:20.080 if you're if you're going to buy something, if you're 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:22.600 going to buy a chicken coop, there's a company called 0:22:22.600 --> 0:22:27.000 egg Glue, which is like iglobe egg. They make some 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:30.000 really nice pre fab coups that are pretty good, and 0:22:30.080 --> 0:22:33.160 you can buy an attachment which puts a little door 0:22:33.240 --> 0:22:36.400 on it. That it uses a solar panel I guess 0:22:36.440 --> 0:22:40.040 to charge itself, and then it will open at daylight 0:22:40.119 --> 0:22:42.920 and close at sunset. And so if you're the sort 0:22:42.960 --> 0:22:45.119 of person who knows that, you'll forget to bring your 0:22:45.160 --> 0:22:47.280 chickens in. Obviously they're you know, they're at risk at 0:22:47.359 --> 0:22:50.840 night from predation and things, and they become completely fucking 0:22:50.920 --> 0:22:53.119 useless at night when they go to sleep. You can 0:22:53.119 --> 0:22:55.920 pick them up and turn them upside down and like, yeah, 0:22:56.800 --> 0:22:59.560 my interior, the coot the interior of my coupe hairs. 0:22:59.680 --> 0:23:03.040 It's cute. It's basically like a ladder, like a like 0:23:03.080 --> 0:23:05.439 a very wide ladder going up the side of the 0:23:05.480 --> 0:23:09.359 building and they just all stand on like it's like 0:23:09.400 --> 0:23:11.560 a group of twenty, like a different levels of the 0:23:11.600 --> 0:23:15.919 ladder just sit there as they as they sleep at night. Yeah, 0:23:16.160 --> 0:23:18.720 they need to step on it, that's a good. Yeah, 0:23:18.920 --> 0:23:22.080 mind you can't just on the floor. Yeah, they don't 0:23:22.080 --> 0:23:25.119 like just being in the dirt. And then like something 0:23:25.119 --> 0:23:27.280 to entertain them. So a good thing to entertain them 0:23:27.359 --> 0:23:31.479 is like if you have CDs. Still, young listeners may 0:23:31.480 --> 0:23:34.800 not remember having CD collections, but if you do have 0:23:34.880 --> 0:23:38.199 CDs or you know, you can find c ds you 0:23:38.200 --> 0:23:40.439 can just hang those and then they'll pack at them 0:23:40.480 --> 0:23:42.480 and stuff because they're kind of shiny and they move around. 0:23:42.520 --> 0:23:44.960 So it's the thing to do with your lattice. Marisees. 0:23:45.840 --> 0:23:47.840 They also really like, I mean one of the things 0:23:47.880 --> 0:23:50.680 that so I just tore out my what was left 0:23:50.680 --> 0:23:53.560 of my front lawn in order to grow more stuff, 0:23:53.640 --> 0:23:56.800 and I just tossed all of the the chunks of 0:23:56.840 --> 0:24:00.840 like soil and and and there they of pecking at 0:24:00.880 --> 0:24:02.680 that ship. It's like one of their favorite things in 0:24:02.720 --> 0:24:05.160 the world. Yeah, we put them on. I have some 0:24:05.280 --> 0:24:08.720 planters out back and they're like fen staffs. The chickens 0:24:08.720 --> 0:24:10.480 carget in and then when we turn them over and 0:24:10.600 --> 0:24:12.919 we like replant them, we'll put them in there and 0:24:12.960 --> 0:24:15.600 they just go have and they find these huge worms. 0:24:15.600 --> 0:24:17.080 So I have no idea how they got in there, 0:24:18.280 --> 0:24:20.199 but yeah, they love that stuff. Yeah, and I let 0:24:20.240 --> 0:24:22.639 him out into the yard periodically, and it's always whenever 0:24:22.680 --> 0:24:24.560 I have to like walk them back in because you 0:24:24.640 --> 0:24:27.240 kind of just like loop around them to like guide 0:24:27.280 --> 0:24:30.240 the flock as they move, because they'll kind of instinctively 0:24:30.320 --> 0:24:34.200 go away from you if you're walking towards them. Um. 0:24:34.240 --> 0:24:36.919 One of my one of my hobbies is to like 0:24:37.080 --> 0:24:43.399 pretend to be an old feel like we should stop 0:24:43.440 --> 0:24:59.040 this immediately buy some gold. Okay, sometimes I pretend it's 0:24:59.040 --> 0:25:03.760 the shosh ancor them, and which is where chicken by 0:25:03.760 --> 0:25:07.560 the coast. It's kind of go and show us why 0:25:08.400 --> 0:25:13.840 bedsheet all of us love having health insurance? Please can 0:25:13.840 --> 0:25:17.520 I can I ask a question about space? So like 0:25:17.640 --> 0:25:21.080 how much physical room do they need? Like how much 0:25:21.119 --> 0:25:23.000 line do you have to have? So you can look 0:25:23.040 --> 0:25:25.800 at there are pretty good like calculators online. We can 0:25:25.800 --> 0:25:27.880 look at how many square yards or whatever you have. 0:25:28.000 --> 0:25:31.600 But I'm terrible at estimating size. But you know, my, my, 0:25:31.640 --> 0:25:33.840 I don't have very big garden. You know, we've we've 0:25:33.840 --> 0:25:36.679 had up to six chickens. But you do want to 0:25:36.920 --> 0:25:40.520 just look it up and it's not like the square 0:25:40.600 --> 0:25:42.920 yardage you have isn't as important as the access they 0:25:42.920 --> 0:25:46.480 have to stuff? Right? Yeah? Can they get sunlight? Can 0:25:46.520 --> 0:25:51.000 they be like out in in like something that feels 0:25:51.080 --> 0:25:53.680 like you know where a chicken would want to be. 0:25:54.640 --> 0:25:56.280 But this is this is this is like not something 0:25:56.280 --> 0:26:01.240 you can run from an apartment right? No outside? Yeah, 0:26:01.280 --> 0:26:03.560 if you live in an apartment that like has a 0:26:03.640 --> 0:26:06.159 yard or something that shared you potentially could, but no, 0:26:06.320 --> 0:26:10.320 you you do need like some amount of dirt and grass. Essentially, 0:26:10.600 --> 0:26:12.640 if you maybe have like a community garden, you can 0:26:12.680 --> 0:26:15.359 talk to people about doing it. They're like them, So 0:26:15.440 --> 0:26:18.879 mine just go all around my yard all day and like, uh, 0:26:19.560 --> 0:26:22.639 you guys have noticed also coming to my office. Um, 0:26:22.760 --> 0:26:25.280 and then they'll put themselves to bed at night, and 0:26:25.400 --> 0:26:27.639 they know where their home is so that they'll just 0:26:27.640 --> 0:26:29.879 go back to bed at night. And I want to 0:26:29.920 --> 0:26:32.359 talk a little bit about health, because there are definitely 0:26:32.359 --> 0:26:36.560 some chicken health things and just it's very expensive to 0:26:36.600 --> 0:26:38.200 take chicken sort of vet actually because you have to 0:26:38.240 --> 0:26:40.080 go to an exotic and avian vet, and they're quite 0:26:40.160 --> 0:26:46.440 rare exotic and avian vet. You could take them to 0:26:46.480 --> 0:26:48.919 a regular vet, but most of the time, so actually, 0:26:48.920 --> 0:26:51.560 if your chickens get sick, in most states, there's a 0:26:51.600 --> 0:26:54.679 state run helpline you can call and it's free and 0:26:54.720 --> 0:26:57.760 they'll put you onto a vet right away and they're 0:26:57.880 --> 0:27:01.159 very very helpful. And then they're because of the danger 0:27:01.280 --> 0:27:05.240 of different avian flus like infecting large numbers of of 0:27:05.240 --> 0:27:09.800 of animals. Yeah, does something similar to pen insurance exist 0:27:09.880 --> 0:27:13.400 for farm peep farm animals or not? Really it does, 0:27:13.560 --> 0:27:15.560 but I don't think you probably wouldn't want to be 0:27:15.600 --> 0:27:17.399 investing it out for your chicken. So I give you 0:27:17.480 --> 0:27:20.600 if you're breeding livestock, and that's the thing you can have, 0:27:20.880 --> 0:27:23.399 um And you know, one of the things you do 0:27:23.520 --> 0:27:26.080 have to keep in mind is that at some point 0:27:26.240 --> 0:27:28.920 you will have to kill them, um, you know, because 0:27:28.960 --> 0:27:32.160 they will get old enough or sick enough, and some 0:27:32.240 --> 0:27:35.840 form of euthanasia will wind up being kinder than continuing 0:27:35.880 --> 0:27:39.160 to like let them be um. Like, That's just that's 0:27:39.200 --> 0:27:41.639 true of any kind of livestock, right, at some point 0:27:42.160 --> 0:27:44.680 you have to if you don't just want to let 0:27:44.720 --> 0:27:48.080 it die naturally, which again in a lot of cases, 0:27:48.119 --> 0:27:50.679 will be prolonging it suffering. You you do have to 0:27:50.720 --> 0:27:52.760 be willing to take care of that one way or 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.040 the other. Yeah, Like you can give them the best 0:27:55.040 --> 0:27:56.680 life you can give them and look often for them 0:27:56.720 --> 0:27:58.440 as you can, but often times here they will or 0:27:58.480 --> 0:28:00.960 they'll get hurt, right, like if somebody still get injured. 0:28:02.400 --> 0:28:04.399 I think it's a good reality to remind people of that. 0:28:04.440 --> 0:28:07.040 It's like, it's actually like a serious thing to have 0:28:07.080 --> 0:28:09.640 a chicken and then be responsible for its life and death. 0:28:09.680 --> 0:28:13.320 And also like the egg comes out of their butth hole, right, 0:28:13.359 --> 0:28:18.240 so it's covered. Well, it's it's not just like cartoon 0:28:18.320 --> 0:28:21.360 and chicken playing, you know what I mean. Like I think, yeah, 0:28:21.560 --> 0:28:24.200 it's a while ago, um, but it's not that game 0:28:24.240 --> 0:28:26.199 everyone playing in COVID where you're in the island and 0:28:26.240 --> 0:28:29.280 you build stuff and yeah, I just think people usually 0:28:29.280 --> 0:28:32.520 are really flipping with stuff like like, yeah, you know, 0:28:32.520 --> 0:28:34.520 it's a living animal, and like you have to take 0:28:34.560 --> 0:28:36.440 care of it, and it's your responsibility, right the storm, 0:28:36.520 --> 0:28:39.280 Like you need to think about that. You don't want 0:28:39.280 --> 0:28:41.600 to let the bumholes get too poopy. We're talking about health. 0:28:41.720 --> 0:28:43.800 So they can get worm that way, and that's really bad. 0:28:44.040 --> 0:28:45.960 So if you see that, just just pick them up 0:28:45.960 --> 0:28:47.800 and they'll be And that's this is why you want 0:28:47.800 --> 0:28:49.560 to handle them when they're young, so that you can 0:28:49.640 --> 0:28:51.960 handle them with stuff like this. So like I'll just 0:28:52.000 --> 0:28:53.520 pick them up and use a spray bottle or a 0:28:53.520 --> 0:28:55.880 little hose with a bit of warm water and and 0:28:55.920 --> 0:28:58.360 they they don't mind that at all, and at least 0:28:58.640 --> 0:29:00.800 they don't give me any ship. And but you want 0:29:00.840 --> 0:29:02.840 to look up some of the common things you're going 0:29:02.880 --> 0:29:07.760 to see gape worm. It's called gape one because they'll 0:29:07.840 --> 0:29:11.000 gape you. You'll see them gaping. They can be egg bound, 0:29:12.080 --> 0:29:13.719 and then depending on where you are, right, they can 0:29:13.760 --> 0:29:15.600 be too hot too cold. You do need to make 0:29:15.640 --> 0:29:20.240 sure they have shade. I found this thing. I found 0:29:20.280 --> 0:29:22.400 it someone was moving out. It's like a it's like 0:29:22.440 --> 0:29:25.120 a mister, but like they have at restaurants. You know 0:29:25.160 --> 0:29:26.680 when you go to a restaurant in l A and 0:29:26.720 --> 0:29:32.400 it's hot and seven annoying wetness. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing. Yeah, 0:29:32.920 --> 0:29:34.800 I've ever been to like an amusement park and like 0:29:34.840 --> 0:29:36.920 a like a lie and they sometimes have them too 0:29:38.400 --> 0:29:42.040 sometimes in the like fruit and vegetables when there. But 0:29:42.080 --> 0:29:52.880 that's the only restaurants not inside outside misters to make 0:29:52.920 --> 0:29:56.920 it if you're in Phoenix or somewhere, yeah yeah, yeah, 0:29:57.000 --> 0:29:58.840 so I've got one of those. And you can find 0:29:58.920 --> 0:30:00.640 lots of ship by the way, like if you're if 0:30:00.640 --> 0:30:04.480 you live in a place that's gentrifying, like unfortunately has 0:30:04.520 --> 0:30:07.120 happened in the park San Diego I live in. Like like, 0:30:07.160 --> 0:30:09.040 for instance, all the wood for my chicken keeping paid 0:30:09.040 --> 0:30:12.440 for their ship. Like there's rich people doing stuff to houses. 0:30:12.480 --> 0:30:14.520 It doesn't need to be done, just like obtain wood 0:30:14.520 --> 0:30:21.320 from their building sites. Yeah, and obtain it's it's it's 0:30:21.360 --> 0:30:22.960 like those powles of bricks, and they didn't want you 0:30:22.960 --> 0:30:25.040 to use them. They wouldn't leave it out there. Yeah, 0:30:25.080 --> 0:30:26.800 and why I would live with Warren have sent the 0:30:26.800 --> 0:30:28.920 pallets of Brits if you didn't want to use and 0:30:29.440 --> 0:30:33.240 so uh yeah, obviously, like health wise, like I said, 0:30:33.240 --> 0:30:34.800 you want to make sure you have that purple spray 0:30:34.880 --> 0:30:39.080 on hand. You want to be giving them some electrolytes 0:30:39.120 --> 0:30:40.600 and their water. You want to make sure they have 0:30:40.640 --> 0:30:43.080 shade if it's hot and their coop is warm, like 0:30:43.360 --> 0:30:47.240 they don't like it much below freezing. Like yeah, I 0:30:47.320 --> 0:30:50.440 keep like a heat lamp basically all winter in there 0:30:50.520 --> 0:30:53.040 with with a red bulb so it doesn't like upset 0:30:53.080 --> 0:30:56.840 their their sleep patterns. Yeah. People, the way battery people 0:30:56.880 --> 0:31:00.800 do it, like battery chickens is they they they do 0:31:00.920 --> 0:31:03.960 more day night cycles using artificial light to to make 0:31:03.960 --> 0:31:05.479 the chickens lay more if you see what I mean, 0:31:05.520 --> 0:31:08.440 and the chickens will lay an accelerated rate. I'll keep 0:31:08.480 --> 0:31:12.200 them laying during the winter, be doing that that's not 0:31:12.240 --> 0:31:15.280 particularly good for the birds. And I let them rest 0:31:15.320 --> 0:31:19.080 this winter. Yeah, let them you know, they're animals. They 0:31:19.240 --> 0:31:21.280 you know, they don't just exist to provide your food. 0:31:21.720 --> 0:31:26.200 Like a question on this, like how cold is there 0:31:26.200 --> 0:31:28.000 like a point it gets in the winter where it's 0:31:28.040 --> 0:31:30.640 like you probably shouldn't have them. We just want to 0:31:30.720 --> 0:31:34.360 keep the coup warm. And then like so like when 0:31:34.440 --> 0:31:39.280 we were at Tenacious unicorn ranch, right and they have chickens. 0:31:40.320 --> 0:31:41.680 I don't know how cold it was, but I went 0:31:41.680 --> 0:31:45.400 to bed every night with analgene full of boiling water 0:31:45.920 --> 0:31:47.760 and when I woke up, I was hugging an ice 0:31:47.840 --> 0:31:51.800 baby like it was yeah, the heat so where I 0:31:51.840 --> 0:31:54.520 was staking and work the first time. So it was 0:31:55.080 --> 0:31:57.280 called a f and the chickens had a nice warm 0:31:57.360 --> 0:31:59.160 coupe with a heat lamp and they they were fine. 0:31:59.640 --> 0:32:02.560 Yeah you can. I mean people keep chickens in every 0:32:02.600 --> 0:32:06.040 imaginable climate, so you get as long as you're careful 0:32:06.080 --> 0:32:08.960 about making sure you know that you have a warm 0:32:08.960 --> 0:32:11.320 place for them to sleep, they will be okay. Yeah, 0:32:11.440 --> 0:32:13.360 and you can can Can you let them out in 0:32:13.400 --> 0:32:16.640 the snow and stuff or should you? Yeah? You know, yeah, 0:32:16.720 --> 0:32:19.240 they have fun with that. There's it's snowed yesterday and 0:32:19.240 --> 0:32:22.040 like chickens are having a great time out. Yeah, they 0:32:22.120 --> 0:32:24.479 like you actually like they'll run like I remember at 0:32:24.480 --> 0:32:27.920 home this snow and yeah, and talks when you're buying 0:32:27.960 --> 0:32:30.400 the chickens, right, like consider that in your breed choice, 0:32:30.480 --> 0:32:33.400 like something going to do're going to do. Some of 0:32:33.400 --> 0:32:36.200 them are gonna not like heat and honestly, like one 0:32:36.200 --> 0:32:38.480 of the better things you can do in that situation. 0:32:38.560 --> 0:32:40.680 If you're like if I live in some weird ass 0:32:40.680 --> 0:32:42.720 part of the world where it's freezing half the time, 0:32:43.200 --> 0:32:47.720 just google like keeping backyard chickens whatever the name of 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:51.720 your area is, and then Reddit and yeah, you will 0:32:51.760 --> 0:32:54.240 find people talking on yeah, yeah, I've gotten this is 0:32:54.240 --> 0:32:55.600 the this is the breed that I picked, and this 0:32:55.680 --> 0:32:58.280 is what I do. And people love to talk about 0:32:58.280 --> 0:33:00.160 the chicken. So yeah, to crack you out your into 0:33:00.160 --> 0:33:02.720 read it was one of my resources that exactly. It's 0:33:02.720 --> 0:33:05.080 a good place to look. Yeah, So if you have 0:33:05.080 --> 0:33:06.840 a cupe, you're gonna want to clean it, right, you 0:33:06.840 --> 0:33:09.880 can use that chicken pooper's fertilizer. It's some of the 0:33:09.880 --> 0:33:12.960 best in the world. So then if you're if you're 0:33:13.080 --> 0:33:15.360 into this sort of you know, like growing your own 0:33:15.480 --> 0:33:17.640 food and this all works well, right, you give the 0:33:17.680 --> 0:33:19.840 chicken to scraps chicken to make you eggs and poop. 0:33:20.640 --> 0:33:22.600 You put that into your plants. You have nice plants. 0:33:22.600 --> 0:33:24.400 You want to balance it out. It's a bit acidic, 0:33:24.440 --> 0:33:26.120 I think, just using the ship, so you want to 0:33:26.160 --> 0:33:29.880 be combusting with other stuff as well, right, checking your 0:33:29.880 --> 0:33:33.320 soil chemistry before you sort of go ham But yes, 0:33:33.520 --> 0:33:36.000 you can do that. You do want to make sure. Yeah, 0:33:36.000 --> 0:33:38.560 I've got the poultry helpline. We spoke about that. California's 0:33:38.640 --> 0:33:41.040 is great though, Like, don't hesitate to call the poultry 0:33:41.040 --> 0:33:44.120 helpline if you need help, Like there's there's people who 0:33:44.120 --> 0:33:47.120 are being paid to help you. And that's normally, like 0:33:47.400 --> 0:33:50.840 I know, like most pet owners, unless they're very wealthy, 0:33:50.880 --> 0:33:53.080 will have had to make horrible decisions about their pets 0:33:53.080 --> 0:33:55.960 health versus their own income when when they've like you know, 0:33:56.080 --> 0:33:59.320 and it's it's ship. So that helpline is free, and 0:33:59.440 --> 0:34:02.880 like rob it said, it's because they're always gaded infectious diseases. 0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:06.360 So take advantage of like your you know, taxpayer funded 0:34:06.440 --> 0:34:10.000 chicken vat and yeah, give him a call. Um, I 0:34:10.040 --> 0:34:11.440 think I don't know it's in every state, but I 0:34:11.480 --> 0:34:14.560 know it's in a lot of them, and yeah, go ahead, 0:34:15.160 --> 0:34:19.160 Oh um, are you going to talk about uh giving 0:34:19.200 --> 0:34:22.200 them like the shake and bake treatment for uh what 0:34:22.239 --> 0:34:27.200 do you call it? Um? If they get uh mites? 0:34:28.440 --> 0:34:30.359 Oh yeah, yeah, go and go ahead and talk about it. 0:34:30.480 --> 0:34:32.759 So you know, chickens can get there's like a skin 0:34:32.920 --> 0:34:35.759 but it's it's it's it's functions similarly to like a 0:34:35.800 --> 0:34:38.760 skin infection. There's like little mites that will get on them. 0:34:38.800 --> 0:34:41.759 You'll notice bald patches. It can be I mean, it's 0:34:41.760 --> 0:34:44.640 bad for their health obviously, like you would not want 0:34:44.680 --> 0:34:47.399 to be covered in mites. And so there's um. There's 0:34:47.440 --> 0:34:51.960 this kind of mite killer called promethrin um and the 0:34:52.000 --> 0:34:53.839 way that you you can apply it in a number 0:34:53.840 --> 0:34:55.919 of ways, but you basically need to coat the entire chicken. 0:34:55.960 --> 0:34:58.279 It's essentially a white powder. So what we did when 0:34:58.320 --> 0:34:59.640 we had to do it is we just took a 0:34:59.680 --> 0:35:02.160 giant a large feedbag and we filled it with permethrin 0:35:02.719 --> 0:35:04.640 and we we put the chickens in it once at 0:35:04.640 --> 0:35:06.040 a time and just kind of like give them a 0:35:06.080 --> 0:35:10.000 little shake so they got covered. You've shaken baking all 0:35:10.040 --> 0:35:12.680 of them, and then they're just like wandering around confused 0:35:12.680 --> 0:35:15.160 and covered in this white powder. Like what the funk happened. 0:35:15.880 --> 0:35:19.680 It's very funny that it's very fun um. I mean, 0:35:19.719 --> 0:35:21.560 it's just it's the best way because they get covered 0:35:21.680 --> 0:35:25.440 very quickly that way. Like there's you know, with mites 0:35:25.520 --> 0:35:27.080 and dust and stuff. You do want to make sure 0:35:27.120 --> 0:35:29.080 that where they're living is not too moist or not 0:35:29.120 --> 0:35:33.200 too dusty. They can get respiratory conditions from that, so 0:35:33.320 --> 0:35:35.120 you don't, Yeah, you want to make sure that you 0:35:35.160 --> 0:35:38.040 know they're living in a nice environment. And they also 0:35:38.160 --> 0:35:39.719 like the biggest health thing you're going to see is 0:35:39.719 --> 0:35:41.480 so they will peck at each other, right, especially when 0:35:41.520 --> 0:35:43.400 you first get your birds, they're gonna establish what it's 0:35:43.400 --> 0:35:46.680 called a pecking order, and which you know people have used, 0:35:46.719 --> 0:35:49.000 heard and use an advantage and order in which they 0:35:49.000 --> 0:35:52.360 get I didn't know the meeting. I didn't understand what 0:35:52.480 --> 0:35:56.759 that meant completely until right now this moment. It's my 0:35:56.920 --> 0:36:01.000 gift to you, very helpful today. It's a lot of Yeah, 0:36:01.400 --> 0:36:05.480 it's what they call a knowledge transfer. The Yeah, so 0:36:05.520 --> 0:36:07.319 that they'll do that, they'll pick right, they'll establishing all 0:36:07.360 --> 0:36:09.000 when you get a new bird, you don't really want 0:36:09.000 --> 0:36:11.520 to introduce one new bird at once, right, So say 0:36:11.719 --> 0:36:14.040 this is how you get fucking conned into having bantams 0:36:14.280 --> 0:36:17.400 because let's say your your garden can support four chickens, 0:36:17.440 --> 0:36:19.959 and then one of your girls dies and you're sad 0:36:20.000 --> 0:36:21.640 and you want to get more birds. So you're like, well, 0:36:21.680 --> 0:36:24.160 we can't, we can't go to five full size chickens. 0:36:24.200 --> 0:36:26.920 We'll get bantam for like two half sized chickens. And 0:36:26.960 --> 0:36:29.239 that that is good for the social dynamic because they 0:36:29.239 --> 0:36:31.440 weren't one won't get picked on, one won't be like 0:36:31.480 --> 0:36:34.040 the new girl, and then they pick on her. But 0:36:34.120 --> 0:36:36.080 then you've got bantams, and then you you just I 0:36:36.120 --> 0:36:38.920 don't know, I'm not no, it's not very pro bantam 0:36:39.160 --> 0:36:42.960 and they're just difficult. So how do they establish the 0:36:42.960 --> 0:36:44.839 pecking order? They pack at each other and peck at 0:36:44.840 --> 0:36:47.960 each other. Yeah, and well basically one of the well 0:36:48.160 --> 0:36:50.680 it's just like any other, like physical confrontation, like they 0:36:50.760 --> 0:36:52.399 peck at each other and like, okay, well you're harder 0:36:52.400 --> 0:36:54.399 than me, Like I can't you know, I'm not here 0:36:54.440 --> 0:36:58.000 for that. The back down. Sometimes they will really start 0:36:58.040 --> 0:36:59.880 picking on one and then you do have to separate 0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:02.560 them for a while. Um, so I think that you've 0:37:02.600 --> 0:37:03.880 got to watch out for that, and you've got to 0:37:03.960 --> 0:37:05.520 be viteering and when you first get them, you're going 0:37:05.560 --> 0:37:07.280 to be excited and you're gonna want to go outside 0:37:07.280 --> 0:37:09.560 and then interact with them. So you know you'll be 0:37:09.600 --> 0:37:12.280 watching that anyway. So just make sure you have treats 0:37:12.320 --> 0:37:15.480 and stuff and separate them and don't be scared. They 0:37:15.480 --> 0:37:19.040 can't hurt you, the chickens. But um, yeah, it's normal 0:37:19.040 --> 0:37:20.440 of them to peck at each other. You've got to 0:37:20.480 --> 0:37:23.160 keep an eye out for if they do draw blood. Said, 0:37:23.160 --> 0:37:26.400 they are fucking dinosaurs and they will just hone in 0:37:26.400 --> 0:37:28.520 on that, So that's when you have to separate them 0:37:28.600 --> 0:37:31.839 or come in with your purple spray. Um. So yeah, 0:37:31.880 --> 0:37:33.719 you just have to make sure that you're aware of that. 0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:36.520 And they pecked out your leg when it was bleeding, 0:37:36.520 --> 0:37:40.239 does that hurt a little bit? Like you wouldn't do 0:37:40.280 --> 0:37:46.560 it recreationally? Yeah? People would you know? You yuck? You're young? Yeah, 0:37:47.480 --> 0:37:50.640 if you are, if you are turned on exactly like 0:37:51.320 --> 0:37:55.680 it's not. They're not like like full body attack that 0:37:56.239 --> 0:37:59.160 I walk in every day to feed my chickens and 0:37:59.200 --> 0:38:03.440 I don't get peck there anything like they're they're fine. Um, 0:38:03.600 --> 0:38:06.799 they're not like attack animals and chickens by the way 0:38:06.880 --> 0:38:09.879 or like every other creature, some of them are assholes, right, 0:38:09.960 --> 0:38:12.600 like any kind of animal that you have and any 0:38:12.880 --> 0:38:17.920 like just like people, some of them are dick. I remember, 0:38:18.040 --> 0:38:20.400 like on that subject. I was a few years ago. 0:38:20.400 --> 0:38:23.400 I was writing about rattlesnake behavior for his story and 0:38:23.800 --> 0:38:26.560 there's this run fucking rattlesnake which literally every time I 0:38:26.640 --> 0:38:30.400 ride past it, it's just like bam, like fucking Like. 0:38:30.440 --> 0:38:32.640 I've talked to the snake behavior expert and he's like, yeah, man, 0:38:32.640 --> 0:38:36.600 that one's an asshole. Some of them are just don't 0:38:36.600 --> 0:38:39.640 know what to tell you. Just come across a bell 0:38:39.719 --> 0:38:43.120 end like it it is what it is. Um, So yeah, 0:38:43.160 --> 0:38:45.279 if you sometimes he's gonna have a chicken, which is mean, 0:38:46.080 --> 0:38:48.200 and it just gotta hope that doesn't. You know, you've 0:38:48.200 --> 0:38:49.759 got to make your choice end, right, if it's really 0:38:49.760 --> 0:38:51.480 causing chaos in the flock, like, what are you gonna 0:38:51.520 --> 0:38:54.880 do with it? Yeah, that may be a chicken that 0:38:54.920 --> 0:38:58.680 you eat. Um. You know, one of the things you 0:38:58.800 --> 0:39:02.520 learned keeping chickens is how wildly we have fucked up 0:39:02.520 --> 0:39:04.880 the chickens that we used for meat, because like a 0:39:04.880 --> 0:39:08.600 normal chicken does not produce breast meat that is that size, 0:39:09.040 --> 0:39:10.960 Like that is the size of like a normal grocery 0:39:11.000 --> 0:39:13.960 store chicken breast. Those are from monsters that we made. Well, yeah, 0:39:13.960 --> 0:39:17.440 that's like breast meat was popular, so they made that 0:39:17.440 --> 0:39:19.799 that like they inserted like a horborne or whatever to 0:39:19.840 --> 0:39:22.200 make that part of the chicken grow. And I mean 0:39:22.520 --> 0:39:25.120 I've seen videos of like the chicken toppling over because 0:39:25.120 --> 0:39:29.560 that's so heavy, not supposed to it's madness. It's so sad, 0:39:29.800 --> 0:39:32.400 and then jones are not fully develop like it's very cruel, 0:39:32.400 --> 0:39:34.839 Like I am, Yeah, it's sucked up. Yeah, I didn't 0:39:34.880 --> 0:39:37.400 eat meat, Like I'm not really like down with the 0:39:37.400 --> 0:39:39.960 way the American commercially culture raised animals a toy. I 0:39:40.000 --> 0:39:41.920 grew up on a farm. I could have raised animals 0:39:42.040 --> 0:39:45.959 my home with you. I agree touching. Yeah, cheap cheap 0:39:45.960 --> 0:39:48.000 meatings too. I understand other people. Do you got to 0:39:48.000 --> 0:39:50.440 feature families whatever? And obviously one way or the other. 0:39:50.480 --> 0:39:54.240 If you're raising chickens, like and you at some point 0:39:54.280 --> 0:39:56.120 you know the chicken is going to die if at 0:39:56.120 --> 0:39:57.759 all possible, I think you do kind of have a 0:39:57.760 --> 0:40:01.640 responsibility to find some use for that meat. Yeah, it's 0:40:01.680 --> 0:40:04.160 just that they're sick, in which case yeah, obviously if 0:40:04.160 --> 0:40:05.640 they get like yeah, I had to I had to 0:40:05.719 --> 0:40:08.439 kill two last year because they got like some sort 0:40:08.480 --> 0:40:11.440 of avian flu and the state people will come and 0:40:11.480 --> 0:40:13.400 take them away and do an autopsy if if they 0:40:13.440 --> 0:40:16.239 do get sick like that, and so that that's nice 0:40:16.239 --> 0:40:18.080 to know because then you have, you know, do I 0:40:18.120 --> 0:40:19.759 have to worry about the rest of my flock? You 0:40:19.760 --> 0:40:22.040 know what? What is this? Is there something in the soil? 0:40:22.080 --> 0:40:24.920 It's something I'm feeding them? You know, you can if 0:40:24.960 --> 0:40:26.920 you have concerns like that, it's nice to have them 0:40:26.960 --> 0:40:29.239 do that. That's a really really good note. But yeah, 0:40:29.280 --> 0:40:31.880 you if you are responsible for them, like and you 0:40:31.920 --> 0:40:33.400 have to give them the best life they can and 0:40:33.440 --> 0:40:36.200 the kind of death, and you know, you're responsible to 0:40:36.200 --> 0:40:38.319 the suffering as little as possible in their little lives. 0:40:38.360 --> 0:40:39.839 We used to buy chickens when I was a kid 0:40:39.880 --> 0:40:42.840 from a guy who bread chickens for a battery farm, 0:40:42.960 --> 0:40:44.960 and we'd go and get them with chicks and just 0:40:45.000 --> 0:40:46.719 be like you you you you you are going to 0:40:46.800 --> 0:40:48.640 run around our farm. Will don't have a wonderful life, 0:40:48.640 --> 0:40:50.040 And I'm so sorry the rest of you have this 0:40:50.160 --> 0:40:54.239 fucking horrible existence. But it's nice to save some of them. 0:40:54.320 --> 0:40:56.719 So it's gonna be hard to get chickens right now. 0:40:57.239 --> 0:40:59.920 So my last thing was really like when you're buying chickens, 0:41:00.040 --> 0:41:02.080 right where you're gonna get your chickens from, and so 0:41:02.120 --> 0:41:04.160 hopefully you know where you live you have like a farm, 0:41:04.160 --> 0:41:08.280 shall steal them, liberate them from a battery farm, shoot 0:41:08.320 --> 0:41:13.200 your way in it. It doesn't it's worth it, and 0:41:13.520 --> 0:41:16.799 they have all probably Well I actually think people have 0:41:16.840 --> 0:41:19.120 literally gotten to much of terrorism charges for that. But 0:41:19.239 --> 0:41:22.799 well I think it's pigs, wasn't it that they go? Yeah, yeah, 0:41:23.000 --> 0:41:25.640 chickens are not charismatic enough for people to go to 0:41:25.680 --> 0:41:30.640 prison over. Yeah, I know, it's unfair, it's unfair. It's racism. Really. Yeah. 0:41:30.640 --> 0:41:32.239 If there's one thing we could tell you as a 0:41:32.239 --> 0:41:37.480 group of individuals legally responsible for what we say, i'm 0:41:37.520 --> 0:41:42.040 yourself and liberate poultry. Yeah, fight your way in like 0:41:43.080 --> 0:41:46.840 like the only not the only, but the most concrete 0:41:46.840 --> 0:41:50.560 evidence of like dinosaurs have like now devolved into these chickens, 0:41:50.640 --> 0:41:52.080 you know what I mean? Like that is so funny 0:41:52.080 --> 0:41:54.279 to me that out of all the animals, that is 0:41:54.280 --> 0:41:56.279 the closest thing we have to a dinosaur, that is 0:41:57.600 --> 0:42:00.799 a dinosaurs and again their favorite food as their own kind. 0:42:00.880 --> 0:42:03.880 And also like like they will like every now and 0:42:03.920 --> 0:42:05.799 then I will give them some of their eggs just 0:42:05.840 --> 0:42:07.799 because it makes them so happy to eat. Well, I 0:42:07.840 --> 0:42:10.080 was gonna ask, like what you said that it tasted 0:42:10.080 --> 0:42:11.919 different when you gave them meat, Like what is the 0:42:11.960 --> 0:42:13.840 difference that you caught in the taste when they do 0:42:13.920 --> 0:42:16.319 eat their own eggs versus like just the feed. Oh no, 0:42:16.400 --> 0:42:18.839 I mean their their own eggs, don't. I've never fed 0:42:18.880 --> 0:42:20.719 them enough for it to be a meaningful component of 0:42:20.719 --> 0:42:24.440 their diet. They will eat scrambled eggs and cheese. They 0:42:24.520 --> 0:42:27.000 like to you know, when they're sick. Can you can 0:42:27.040 --> 0:42:30.560 you like taste a difference if you give them herbs, 0:42:30.800 --> 0:42:32.480 so like one thing that people do is give them 0:42:32.480 --> 0:42:35.920 little bundles of herbs and you can taste that in 0:42:35.960 --> 0:42:39.080 the egg. Yeah, it just kind of richer, you know. 0:42:39.120 --> 0:42:42.080 When you it's like you'll notice different, like if you 0:42:42.200 --> 0:42:45.800 if they are calcium deficient, the eggs are really fragile. 0:42:45.880 --> 0:42:48.040 And if they have a shipload of calcium in their diet, 0:42:48.080 --> 0:42:51.200 like my eggs are, like you have to like you 0:42:51.239 --> 0:42:55.399 have to want to crack those fuckers. If you feed 0:42:55.440 --> 0:42:57.960 the flax seeds. Then the eggs have a higher Amiga 0:42:58.040 --> 0:43:01.120 three content. Like if you have it's like it makes sense, 0:43:01.120 --> 0:43:03.960 it's super interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can. You can 0:43:04.000 --> 0:43:05.839 give them flag seats and like that kind of thing. 0:43:06.080 --> 0:43:08.560 You can mess with their diet bit and they they 0:43:08.640 --> 0:43:11.359 like that stuff. So yeah, when you're buying them, what 0:43:11.440 --> 0:43:13.120 you want, I think is the beginner is like a 0:43:13.160 --> 0:43:16.080 point of labored and you can say point of flay 0:43:16.520 --> 0:43:18.319 and that's what they'll give you. Know that they're going 0:43:18.360 --> 0:43:19.719 to try and give you pullets or they're going to 0:43:19.760 --> 0:43:22.120 try and say it's nice to raise chicks, but it is. 0:43:22.160 --> 0:43:24.120 It's really nice to raise chicks, but some of them 0:43:24.120 --> 0:43:27.600 will die and that will be upsetting for you, and um, 0:43:27.960 --> 0:43:31.600 it's hard because again work. That's a general note any 0:43:31.719 --> 0:43:34.239 life time. If you if you decide that you want 0:43:34.280 --> 0:43:36.799 to be a person who has live stock, you have 0:43:36.920 --> 0:43:39.000 to be okay with them dying and it being an 0:43:39.000 --> 0:43:42.280 experience that is more direct to you than like obviously 0:43:42.280 --> 0:43:44.480 it's it's not as emotional as like when a catterat 0:43:44.520 --> 0:43:47.759 dog dies, but it will not involve a vet with 0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:50.359 the kind of frequency that like a dying pet does. 0:43:50.480 --> 0:43:53.400 Like you will have to deal with you know, animals die, 0:43:53.400 --> 0:43:56.000 because animals just die. Sometimes they wind up with the 0:43:56.040 --> 0:43:58.160 same kind of ailments people have. For like an animal's 0:43:58.200 --> 0:44:00.360 hard will give out or something. And you didn't do 0:44:00.360 --> 0:44:03.360 anything wrong. It's just an animal was born with a 0:44:03.440 --> 0:44:06.200 heart defect. Right, It's just like a thing that occurs 0:44:06.239 --> 0:44:09.200 if you have enough animals. Yeah, we used to say, 0:44:09.239 --> 0:44:11.880 if you have life stock, you have dead stock one day. Yeah, 0:44:12.000 --> 0:44:13.920 like it's just something you have to face up to. 0:44:14.080 --> 0:44:16.440 But like someone else is already doing that ship and 0:44:16.480 --> 0:44:18.839 they're probably doing it with less compassion than you. You're 0:44:18.840 --> 0:44:21.799 buying you know, warm out eggs. So you let I 0:44:21.840 --> 0:44:24.680 say you you can't, You're not God, but like you 0:44:24.719 --> 0:44:27.279 owe these animals like a decent life. And yeah, it's 0:44:27.280 --> 0:44:29.440 a little suffering as you can. So yeah, by the 0:44:29.480 --> 0:44:32.520 point of leg chickens, make sure that their sex right 0:44:32.560 --> 0:44:34.760 you you don't want to restie. You might not legally 0:44:34.760 --> 0:44:37.640 be able to have a rooster. And then something like 0:44:37.680 --> 0:44:39.520 a dog container. It's fine. I brought them home in 0:44:39.520 --> 0:44:42.640 a shoe box before, Like I'll just put them next 0:44:42.640 --> 0:44:45.000 to me in my truck. And they're pretty chill that 0:44:45.280 --> 0:44:46.879 you know, give them, give them a little bit of water, 0:44:46.880 --> 0:44:49.560 in there, but generally they don't, you know, want to drink. 0:44:49.680 --> 0:44:53.440 You can kind of swaddle them. I've seen people swaddle them, um, 0:44:53.480 --> 0:44:56.040 you know if they're really panicking or whatever, and swaddling 0:44:56.080 --> 0:44:57.880 it's like when you wrap them like you would with 0:44:57.920 --> 0:45:01.440 a baby, and people do that, I know, when they 0:45:01.440 --> 0:45:03.000 have to move them in like a hurricane to try 0:45:03.040 --> 0:45:05.640 and calm them down. But I've always just put them 0:45:05.640 --> 0:45:08.440 in a dog container. Are we going to talk about 0:45:09.080 --> 0:45:12.640 storing eggs? Oh? Yeah, yeah, yeah, because people don't. Yeah, 0:45:12.640 --> 0:45:16.520 it's a weird American thing. Yeah, so this doesn't happen 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:18.279 in the rest of the world. But you guys get 0:45:18.280 --> 0:45:22.759 your eggs refrigerated, and that's because they're washed before they 0:45:22.800 --> 0:45:26.959 come to Yeah, you don't need to do this normally. No, 0:45:27.680 --> 0:45:30.759 you shouldn't wash your eggs, nor should you refrigerate them. 0:45:30.880 --> 0:45:33.960 Just I have a little helter skelter thing, and it 0:45:34.040 --> 0:45:36.040 just looks like a spiral, right, and you put the 0:45:36.040 --> 0:45:37.759 egg on the top and it just rolls its little 0:45:37.760 --> 0:45:39.400 way down and it gets to the bottom and that 0:45:39.440 --> 0:45:41.640 way I always take them from the bottom, and that 0:45:41.680 --> 0:45:44.920 way I'm always sort of getting the oldest eggs first, 0:45:44.960 --> 0:45:46.520 so I don't end up with like one at the 0:45:46.560 --> 0:45:49.919 bottom of the basket, right, so you don't them no, 0:45:50.040 --> 0:45:52.520 just just bring it not until you're ready to eat them. Obviously, 0:45:52.680 --> 0:45:55.200 wash them before you cook them, because some of them 0:45:55.200 --> 0:45:58.640 will have poop and stuff on them right right before that. 0:45:58.760 --> 0:46:01.000 Just keep them normal and then lost for months like that, 0:46:01.040 --> 0:46:04.839 Like there are there you can there are a couple 0:46:04.880 --> 0:46:07.239 of other ways to Obviously you could pickle them, be 0:46:07.360 --> 0:46:10.520 very careful with that. If you are canning them, um, 0:46:10.560 --> 0:46:12.799 I would recommend just pickling them and putting them in 0:46:12.840 --> 0:46:17.239 the fridge because eggs in like hard boiled eggs in particular, 0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:19.560 are troublesome to can because there's always if you think 0:46:19.560 --> 0:46:21.439 about hard boiled eggs, there's always like a little bitty 0:46:21.560 --> 0:46:25.759 cracks and like the white of the egg and that 0:46:25.880 --> 0:46:28.960 is where botulism can live. So be extremely careful if 0:46:28.960 --> 0:46:32.479 you are pickling eggs. Um, just I would recommend don't 0:46:32.800 --> 0:46:36.000 like you know, can them specifically, just pickle them and 0:46:36.040 --> 0:46:37.719 put them in the fridge and you know, the less 0:46:37.719 --> 0:46:40.759 a pretty good amount of time. Yeah, pickled eggs are delicious. Yeah, 0:46:41.640 --> 0:46:43.919 is the is the thing about not refrigerating the eggs, 0:46:44.719 --> 0:46:47.200 do you actually still have to refrigerate, like if you 0:46:47.280 --> 0:46:50.879 use the store if yes, you can in this country. Yes, 0:46:51.320 --> 0:46:55.000 you can roll them in vegetable oil and I think ash, 0:46:55.440 --> 0:46:57.960 which replicates the way that they have a membrane on 0:46:58.000 --> 0:47:02.040 that and but very fair like all intended if you're 0:47:02.040 --> 0:47:05.279 buying them, yeah, yeah, when they come out like a 0:47:05.320 --> 0:47:08.840 little pole basically yeah, like it's kind of fills to 0:47:08.960 --> 0:47:10.520 pause on the outside of the egg, I think because 0:47:10.520 --> 0:47:13.600 I understand it. So if you really wanted to store them, 0:47:13.640 --> 0:47:15.480 you didn't have access to refrigerator, you could do the 0:47:16.000 --> 0:47:18.560 actual thing. You should look it up. The other thing 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:21.239 you can do that is because again, if you have 0:47:21.400 --> 0:47:24.400 any quantity of chickens, there's a good chance that they 0:47:24.400 --> 0:47:28.960 will produce, like I have a problem with this, significantly 0:47:29.000 --> 0:47:31.560 more eggs than you can consume. An interesting way to 0:47:31.600 --> 0:47:34.359 are you gonna talk about water glassing? Oh you talk 0:47:34.400 --> 0:47:37.399 about it there? Yeah, that you can look like look 0:47:37.440 --> 0:47:38.880 it up. I'm not going to give you a guide 0:47:38.920 --> 0:47:41.640 over this because preserving stuff is something that you should 0:47:41.760 --> 0:47:44.040 take care on. But you can google water glassing. It's 0:47:44.080 --> 0:47:45.839 basically a way you can keep eggs for like up 0:47:45.840 --> 0:47:48.880 to a year. That way, um in like crack able 0:47:48.920 --> 0:47:52.319 friable condition. But I think we are getting the note 0:47:52.360 --> 0:47:55.520 that James and I should stop talking about chickens for now. 0:47:56.640 --> 0:48:01.440 Continue in another episode, James, and we'll talk about chickens 0:48:01.480 --> 0:48:04.520 privately after this. And you are pretty James said it. 0:48:04.640 --> 0:48:08.120 People love to talk about their chickens. They do me 0:48:08.160 --> 0:48:10.600 talk about chickens. Yeah. Yeah, Maybe let's start a side 0:48:10.600 --> 0:48:18.160 podcast for Patreon reasons, Chicken Cast, Chicken Cast Anyway, poultry pod. 0:48:18.560 --> 0:48:21.480 Until next time, take a lesson from the chickens and 0:48:21.560 --> 0:48:29.319 eat your own young Okay, oh my god. It could 0:48:29.360 --> 0:48:31.680 happen here as a production of cool Zone Media. 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