I so wish I could say that I get pedicures but I am in the frigid NE and I am still wearing wool socks and boots! When will it be spring?
Now my girl has also started waiting for someone to pick her up and place her into the coop after they get their playtime. She just stands there and waits...
That is interesting because when she does go for a treat right away she gets a peck from one of the middle girls. I'm glad I make her feel safe.
Thanks.
We live in the sticks and have a coop that can be moved around our grounds which we do frequently in in the summer. But we live in the Northeast so it is stationary over the winter and they lived on the dirt from November til Spring. We haven't had any problems with animals digging to get in...
I was afraid of that. So if she is at the bottom of the pecking order and she can boss me around, where does that leave me????
I love my girls.
Cheers, Katalina
I have a Buff Orpington who is the last in the pecking order of my four chickens. In the afternoons when I go out to give them some mealworms or other treat and let them out of their coop she leaves the rest of the girls who are eating their snack and stands at my feet. I pick her up and we have...
I have the same question. We just got our first four chicks three weeks ago and plan to have the coop and run in our yard. It is grass now but I'm sure it will be dirt when the chickens make it their home. We have a friend who uses gravel on the floor and we had planned that but then read about...