I have never had so much as a tomato stolen that I am aware of. I don't worry about theft, and really....if people want to take things...they can do it out of a backyard as well.
My town is a really nice, small town.
Sidewalk view
70+ heads of garlic grace my walkway
Ornamentals and food mixed together makes an artistic garden
Garlic scape...I harvested a bunch this morning:
And of course, chickens free ranging in my tomato, pepper and asparagus patch. They chomped down my asparagus...
I have now covered the area they were pecking, but I am wondering when I can start to eat the eggs again. I stopped eating them for fear of lead. Gosh, so upsetting. They just started to lay. It was peeling off the neighbor's fence. I have blocked off that area now.
I'm thinking that I am...
I feed them treats every morning, after I manually open the coop door. I lock the coop, in the early evening around 5:30 pm.
Their coop is deep litter, so once a week I clean the heavy areas. I plan on doing a full clean out in Spring. I think 2x a year I will muck out everything. Right...
I think we moved ours out at about 7 weeks, with a heat lamp in the coop. We are at 15 weeks now and no heat. It was 10F yesterday. The hens are thriving. The first few weeks, they were on lock down in the coop.
You could tell when they were ready to be off the heat. They tend to not huddle...