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- Jul 6, 2010
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Thanks for the encouraging rooster thoughts. I don't know if I will have much of a choice, though, to separate the broody hen and her chicks from the rest of the flock. Come October, we'll start having snow here and then the chicken run will get much smaller. I have an inside coop from which a tunnel leads through the garage wall to a small covered chicken run so that the chickens can go out no matter what the weather. When there is no snow, they can go in a much larger run but as chickens don't like snow, they will then be confined to the smaller run. I am worried that with the shorter days and colder weather and less run room outside, the chickens will spend more time indoors which will lead to worse air and could lead to parasite spreading and aggression. All that would be, of course, bad for the little chicks.
I have to give separating them some more thought - it's a space issue, though...
I have to give separating them some more thought - it's a space issue, though...