I'm trying this right now with a broody hen. Will her feet be ok with the wire cage being elevated? She seems perched ok, just a bit awkwardly. I don't want to cause any injuries while she's in "chicken jail"
Thanks for all the advice! Our next door neighbors on either side are fine, we just have a house right behind us and they are getting increasingly annoyed with their early morning wake ups :) We are going to be re-homing the hen this weekend. She'll get to be a free-range chicken with more land...
I have an urban flock of four and we have one REALLY loud hen who gets her day going at sunrise (currently around 5:15am). She's super loud for a few hours and then settles down for the day. We are allowed the hens per the city, but I don't want my neighbors to hate me. Any advice on how to...
I am building my first coop and digging a trench to bury the hardware cloth isn't an option with our ground so I. Going the apron route. Is it enough to overlap pieces of hardware cloth by five or six inches on the grounds d or do I need to secure the cloth together somehow to mimic one...