The Rebound: How a Wisconsin woman turned her YouTube channel about chickens into a full …

MILWAUKEE — When a personal trainer lost her job at an area gym during this pandemic, she decided to turn her side-hustle into a full-time job.Her YouTube channel, Oak Abode is dedicated to caring for her 25 chickens.Kathleen shares how she hatched the idea with TMJ4 News. TMJ4 News “It never gets old. It’s always fun collecting eggs,” said Kathleen, creator of Oak Abode YouTube Channel.She’s opened the doors to her whole life, for the world to see. Kathleen says, “We like explaining everything we do wrong so our mistakes and us sort of letting them know what to do.”In a relatively short time, Kathleen amassed more than 42,000 subscribers.“Is there a science to becoming a YouTube star?” asked TMJ4 News’ Julia Fello.Kathleen laughed “If there was, I have still yet to learn!” TMJ4 News Kathleen shows us the colorful eggs her chicken lay. Putting in the right keywords for chicken aficionados to find her videos is key.Kathleen adds, “I think people have been really invested in growing their own food. People were also just curious about food security and raising their own food so chickens worked out really well.”The YouTube channel grew in the nick of time last year,…
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