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Matt DuBoise of Carolina Coops and chickenista Kristen host a LIVE streamed show about all things backyard chicken. Your burning questions answered live every Friday at 12pm EST about chickens, building your own coop, and integrating a flock into your lifestyle. Have questions?
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Monday Aug 28, 2023
Video Chicken Live: Question-Palooza: 8.25.2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Monday Aug 28, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
This week Matt and Kristen answer all your questions about silkies vs. Polish chickens, coop building, specifically ladders and windows, and various chicken related questions, such as dealing with lice.
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Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Video Chicken Live: To Bantam or Not to Bantam? 8.4.2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Wednesday Aug 09, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
This week we are tackling the question of whether or not to add a bantam to your flock.
What are the advantages to bantams? What are the disadvantages? What challenges does having a bantam pose, if any? What kind of bantam? What is a serama?
Kristen brings back her house chicken, Cracker Muncher, and some other friends, including a silkie she left in one of Matt's coops out front.
With four live chickens on set, you know things get out of control pretty quickly.
Also we will answer all your assorted chicken and coop questions concerning farm straw, hemp, what to put in the run, leaking waterbars, and more.
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Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Video Chicken Live: Help Your Flock Beat the Heat -7.21.2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Thursday Jul 27, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
We want to address the extreme heat that most of the world is experiencing right now and how it affects your chickens.
Chickens do much better in cold than the extreme heat. But there are things you can do to help your flock be more comfortable and stay safe in the rising temps.
Some quick tips are give them access to fresh, cool, water and shade. Lots of ventilation in the henhouse, plus other tips on what to feed them and how to keep them cool.
Plus we have so many more questions to answer and will do that and take your questions live.
Please join us for this fun and informative show.
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Digital timer for circulating the water in the summer:
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Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Video Chicken Live: Epic Gardening’s Kevin Adds to His Flock -7.14.2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Tuesday Jul 18, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
Kevin from @epicgardening and @epichomesteading is adding to his small flock. He is joining us to share in that experience as it's the first time he is doing this.
What can he expect? Are they babies, pullets, or full sized chickens? Find out during the show.
Get the scoop on Kevin's current flock and his modifications to his Carolina Coop.
Plus Kevin always talks gardening and chickens, so we will see how it's been now that he is letting them out of the coop. We will check out his set up and Kevin tells us about his experience with crows near his chickens. Join us for this fun and informative show.
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You can follow Kevin in these places:
https://www.epicgardening.com/
https://www.youtube.com/c/EpicGardening
https://www.youtube.com/@epichomesteading
https://www.instagram.com/epicgardening/
https://www.instagram.com/epichomesteading/
https://www.tiktok.com/@epicgardening
https://www.facebook.com/epicgardening
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/epicgardening/
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Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Video Chicken Live: Q & A Extravaganza:7.7.2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Tuesday Jul 11, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
Today we answer your questions on chicken keeping and coop building. We take your questions live and answer questions we get on social media and various other platforms.
Some questions are basic chicken keeping questions, like how many chickens should you get for a starter flock? How do chickens contribute to the ecosystem? How can I break a broody?
Plus questions about what type of blade to use to cut through HDPE? Are ants ok in the nest boxes? Can I keep chickens and bunnies together? Chickens and Guinea hens?
We answer as many questions as we can in this fun and informative show.
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Monday Jun 26, 2023
Monday Jun 26, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
Falyn Owens, Extension Wildlife Biologist of the NC Wildlife Resources Commission, is back talking about how wildlife interacts with backyard chickens.
With so much human encroachment on wild spaces, encounters with wildlife for people in urban and suburban areas are becoming more commonplace.
Falyn address those concerns, what we can do and what kind of threats, whether physical or through disease, wildlife can pose to our chickens and ducks.
Falyn discusses raccoons, opposums, snakes, owls, hawks, coyotes, and foxes. Plus she talk about how song birds can spread disease to your flock and visa versa.
Please join us for this fun and informative show.
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Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Video Chicken Live: The Mighty Mite-How to Combat Mites in Your Coop: 6.16.2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Tuesday Jun 20, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
We have been getting so many questions about mites and chickens that we did a show to help answer your questions on mites specifically.
We talk about the different types of mites, ie. roost mites, feather mites, and scaly leg mites and how the treatment for each is different.
Matt, a former exterminator, shows how to identify the specific mite, and how best to treat it. We compare food-safe diatomaceous earth and Elector PSP premise spray.
We answer your questions live on all things chickens and coops. Matt also shows some samples of new nesting material we are looking to try out.
We hope to do some research and see if we can bring this product to our Flock Shop.
Join us for the fun and informative show.
Show Links: To buy the food safe diatomaceous earth:
Elector PSP Premise Spray: No link, the prices vary depending on retailers. We suggest trying to find it locally.
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Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Tuesday Jun 13, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
We are returning from a few weeks off with one of our favorite guests, Lisa Steele, from Fresh Eggs Daily, Lisa gives tips on how to help your chickens handle the heat this coming summer.
Remember chickens do better in the cold than the heat! She tells us how can we make them more comfortable.
Lisa also tells us some interesting facts about ducks. You have to listen to find out something you can tell at cocktail parties. (pun intended).
We also do a rundown of all of Lisa's seven books.
Lisa and the gang take your questions about chickens, coops, bugs, hemp, and other random stuff.
Don't miss this fun and informative show!
Show Links:
Lisa Steele - Fresh Eggs Daily
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Monday May 22, 2023
Video Chicken Live: First Saturday Lime -5.12.2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Monday May 22, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
You asked, we delivered. We are speaking with Kylee from First Saturday Lime, a company that makes a safe insect repellent. Find out how it got started and why? How to best use this product for your garden and around your chickens.
Kylee answers your questions about FSL, and tells us what other uses it can be applied to, how it works, and the many ways in which it is a safe and effective repellent.
She also has to deal with Matt, who used to be a bug guy!
Matt also is incubating duck eggs and Kristen candles them to see which ones are viable. Join us for the fun and informative show.
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Friday May 12, 2023
Friday May 12, 2023
Live from Creedmoor, NC, Video Chicken Live is a fun and informative show about all things chickens and coops. Matt, Kristen, and Ingrid answer your questions. We specialize in chickens and chicken coop construction.
We are joined by Bethany Latham, of Environmental Harmony. Bethany discusses companion planting for chickens, meaning what to plant for your flock, and bulleye's gardening, a permaculture approach to having different zones around your coop for your chickens and for you.
Bethany has worked with Carolina Coops' many times before, and we are so excited to have her on the show again. Bethany, Kristen, Matt, and Ingrid take your questions about gardening, chickens, coops, and more.
Show Links:
Chickens, A Permaculture Approach
Companion Planting for Chickens
Environmental Harmony Instagram
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