OK, good to know. They've been in since Saturday morning together now, so that chance may have passed us by, but I will bear that in mind next time for sure. How big a cage do you need without being cruel, I just want them to scratch about but free ranging isn't possible where we are.
Ummm yes. We weren't given any advice on how to introduce them apart from a book we had which suggested removing them at night if there were ongoing issues. We've been mo itoring them closely and apart from a few pecks and chases, there's been no serious issues - so far!
What advice would you...
They're coop is a raised house we built for them and I can't fit in it. The run is approx 5m square?
I hadn't been handing out any treats at the time, but my daughter (6yrs)had been about an hour earlier.
I was stood up near the fence and she was about 1 metre in front of me in the centre of...
Hello all! I'm a very new mother to 5 beautiful chickens, three of whom we have had for 9 months (a leghorn white star, light sussex and Warren), but our fourth, and the alpha was picked off by Mr Fox. After a lot of tears, we replaced with two new birds (a bluebell and a gold top). They're you...