Yikes, 2 years? Good to know for future reference, I’d love to have another good boy just like him. Does it take that long because they mature slow or training in general? He definitely became more protective around 2/3 years old.
He’s 4 and been inside most of his life and sighs dramatically...
The netting is some weird hard plastic material, it’s like a tarp that’s permeable, if that makes sense. It’s a placeholder until I have help to run a better top on it.
I have the run and coop anchored but didn’t want to do a tarp or solid like aluminum with it being hurricane season.
I was...
Wow, I feel so… normal :celebrate
My grandpa gave me his chickens as a kid because I sat in the coop every day and always had a hen under my arm, in my sister’s baby doll stroller, in the fort… I’d like to know how many rolls of film were developed with chickens on them- thank goodness for...
I recently moved and restarted my flock, the coop is a metal shed and run is chain link kennel with chicken wire around it, wire 2.5 feet out (buried) and thick, permeable cloth/netting on top. The run is for bad weather days, I like to let them freerange.
I’ve had a hawk squeeze in a small...
Hi all, just another crazy chicken lady in the liquid sunshine state. Boy mom, dog mom and chicken tender.
My grandfather gave me his coop to look after and added “exotic polish and silkies” as a kid and I’ve been hooked on random chickens since. I just enjoy watching all the different...
I got one from her years ago when picking up some others, he would ride around on my shoulders while I got eggs (freeloader). I’m trying to get some more… were the ones you got from her or the one you had a mutt? Napoleon was beautiful, I know she’s pretty picky…