Nice to read this, we have one noisy girl out of 4 and I was close to getting rid of her as she's waking me and probably our neighbours up every morning. However I'm going to try shutting them back in their coop see if that helps! She's very dominant and I think just likes to boss the others a...
Hi, thanks for your reply, I ended up putting her in the separate box and so far we are only letting them meet when they're all in the garden. So far the pecking isn't too bad as long as she runs away before they get to her so here's hoping they do it less and less!!
Hi, hoping someone can give me a very quick answer. We got a new chicken yesterday and introduced it to our existing 3 chickens, stupidly we hadn't really read up on what to do and obviously the old 3 attacked the new one. It was dusk as we introduced them so fairly soon after that they all...
Thanks for the reply. I've just looked up electric fences and this is just the sort of thing I was looking for (only without the electric) and even better a few places do sell spares like the posts and spikes so all I have to do hopefully is find some sort of plastic coated netting or mesh and...
Hi, I'm new to this site, and to keeping chickens! We have a small run and chicken house and 3 chickens and most days we let the chickens out to roam the garden. However I realise that in the summer its going to be difficult letting the kids run about the garden with no shoes on when there is...