Thanks for the input, everyone. I should have come here and asked before all this started, so I'd be prepared for what was going to happen. I still don't agree with what *they* did, specifically....it's hard to explain everything about the situation....but I'll get over it.
That pen looks GREAT!!! I wish we had space in our yard to build one that size!
Here is the run my mom and I built. It has a door in one side where we attach it onto their coop, and then my mom made a sliding door in another side so they can come out to play easily when we are supervising. The...
No, I don't think you're a bad person! I don't have a problem with confining chickens in a pen on the ground, I just kinda have a problem with confining them inside a building that is off the ground, and has minimal light inside. I think it's really important for chickens to be able to eat grass...
I apologize if I made anyone upset - or seemed to imply that new chicken owners wouldn't be caring towards their chickens! I definitely didn't mean that. After all we were all first-time chicken owners at one point LOL!
No, we didn't have a "deal" with the new owners that the chickens would...
Well, my babies went to their new home on Monday last week. We drove them out there. I should have known better than to raise a bunch of chickens for people who had never had them before, and aren't inclined to take advice.
My babies got stuck in a coop for SIX DAYS before they let them out in...