Backyard Brenda

Backyard chicken keeping on a budget, taught the old farm way

Backyard chicken keepers with small flocks (the narration addresses people with a few hens, six hens or a brooder of chicks), beginners and everyday homesteaders who want to cut feed and vet costs. Inferred from titles, descriptions and transcript excerpts; no audience statistics.

• Realistic avatar
• A photorealistic weathered woman with a long gray braid, a green baseball cap, a red plaid flannel shirt and blue bib overalls, with a stern or neutral expression, shown outdoors at a chicken coop or in a backyard. The avatar shows her head and shoulders against a weathered wooden wall.

One backyard-chicken problem per video (feed costs, roost mistakes, a sick chick), worked through step by step or as a numbered list (9 or 15 items), with dry humor addressed to the hens; near the end a spoken pitch for a paid chicken-savings ebook with an on-screen QR code.

• Cutting chicken feed costs
• Coop and roost mistakes that make hens sick
• Sick-chick first aid from kitchen items
• Beginner flock advice from 40 years of keeping chickens
• Flock budgeting and vet-bill savings

• [N] Chicken [Topic] Mistakes That Make Your Hens Sick (Most Coops Get Them WRONG)
• How to Feed Your Chickens for FREE ([N] Old Farm Ways to Cut Your Feed Bill)
• How to Keep a Sick Chick ALIVE With Things Already in Your Kitchen
• [N] Years Of Chicken Raising Advice in [N] Minutes

The same woman in a green cap, red plaid shirt and blue overalls on the left, neutral to stern, pointing at or holding the subject (a chick, a bowl of scraps, a roost, a fence); a two- or three-word caption in yellow and white caps at top right with a red arrow.

• The first upload, '40 Years Of Chicken Raising Advice in 21 Minutes', has 1,995 views, about 82% of the four videos' total; the others have 25 to 388.
• A cost angle backed by figures: titles say FREE and 'cut your feed bill', and the narration prices a six-hen flock's feed at about $175 a year.
• An experience claim up front: '40 Years' in a title and 'decades' of experience in the book blurb of all 4 descriptions.
• One thumbnail formula in 4 of 4: the same woman in plaid and overalls, a two- or three-word yellow-and-white caption and a red arrow to the subject.
• Every video leads to one paid guide: its link opens all 4 descriptions, and both transcripts end with a spoken pitch and an on-screen QR code.