08ammag
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- Apr 30, 2017
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Hi,
We have two chickens, they have a 26x13 square foot pen in the backyard. They're almost 1 years old now, but a couple of weeks ago they started flying out of the pen at dusk for 30-60 minutes. They try to come in the house, but if they can't, they walk around in the yard then fly back in to their space, and go to sleep in their coop. If we put them back, they just hop the fence again.
They only do this at dusk, it doesn't occur to them to hop the fence during the day.
Why could this be happening and how could we dissuade them from doing this again? We don't want to raise the height of the fence. We're guessing they're just feeling lonely at dusk but this is getting ridiculous.
Any thoughts?
We have two chickens, they have a 26x13 square foot pen in the backyard. They're almost 1 years old now, but a couple of weeks ago they started flying out of the pen at dusk for 30-60 minutes. They try to come in the house, but if they can't, they walk around in the yard then fly back in to their space, and go to sleep in their coop. If we put them back, they just hop the fence again.
They only do this at dusk, it doesn't occur to them to hop the fence during the day.
Why could this be happening and how could we dissuade them from doing this again? We don't want to raise the height of the fence. We're guessing they're just feeling lonely at dusk but this is getting ridiculous.
Any thoughts?
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