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Chicken Keeping For Homesteaders

Chicken Keeping For Homesteaders

Published 5/2026
Created by Ben Wallbaum
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920x1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + subtitle | Duration: 72 Lectures ( 3h 7m ) | Size: 1.66 GB

Plan, build, and manage a welfare-first backyard chicken flock for eggs, soil, and daily homestead routines.

What you'll learn
⚡ Plan a small chicken flock around purpose, welfare, law, land, budget, and daily labor.
⚡ Choose birds, sourcing paths, quarantine routines, and integration methods that reduce preventable flock problems.
⚡ Design a dry, ventilated, predator-resistant coop, run, and shelter system that can be cleaned and repaired.
⚡ Manage feed, water, bedding, eggs, manure, compost, and weekly routines with practical homestead systems.
⚡ Recognize common stress, weather, parasite, predator, and health warning signs early enough to respond.
⚡ Build a realistic first-year operating plan for a backyard or small homestead flock.

Requirements
❗ No previous chicken keeping experience is required.
❗ A notebook or spreadsheet is useful for flock planning, budget, space, and routine calculations.
❗ Learners should check their local poultry rules, zoning, nuisance rules, and disease-reporting requirements.
❗ Basic household measuring tools help with site planning, coop sizing, and run layout.

Description
This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

This course teaches chicken keeping as a practical homestead system, not as a collection of disconnected tips. It starts before the coop is built, because the early decisions shape almost every later outcome: how many birds to keep, which breeds make sense, where the shelter belongs, how much labor is realistic, and which risks must be handled before animals arrive.

The first part builds a welfare-first foundation. You will work through purpose, household readiness, local rules, budget, flock size, egg expectations, and the basic behaviors that chickens need space to express. From there, the course moves into planning: sourcing birds, choosing starting age, quarantine, roosters, integration, end-of-life decisions, and flock records.

The middle of the training focuses on the physical system. You will learn how to place the coop and run, calculate useful space, manage drainage and climate, map predator pressure, and build shelter details that stay dry, ventilated, cleanable, repairable, and secure. The build section covers foundation choices, walls, roof, windows, doors, hardware cloth, roosts, nest boxes, bedding, and interior layout.

The final parts turn the setup into daily practice. The course covers feed, water, supplements, garden integration, egg handling, deep litter, compost, brooding chicks, seasonal care, molt, parasites, health warnings, isolation, predator response, behavior troubleshooting, feed waste, and the first-year operating plan. The goal is a flock that fits the site and can be cared for consistently, even when weather, workload, and surprises show up.

Who this course is for
⭐ Homesteaders planning a first chicken flock.
⭐ Backyard keepers who want more practical structure and fewer avoidable mistakes.
⭐ Gardeners and food-system learners who want eggs, compost, pest pressure reduction, and better land use.
⭐ Families or smallholders deciding whether chickens fit their site, budget, and daily rhythm.

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