⏰ How Much Time Do You Spend With Your Chickens Each Day?

[CHlCKEN]

I’m curious as to how much time everyone spends with their flock! I love watching mine free range and explore, and spend up to 3 or more hours with them some days! However it has become a burden to my phone storage because I tend to take pictures of their every move! I also eat lunch with them (terrible idea as I have now accidentally trained them to jump up on the porch swing with me, and try and take my food!) and stay with them until they go to bed. I love being with my girls and spend lots of time with them. I’m wondering how much time you spend with your chickens/birds each day! Perhaps I will find someone like myself, who spends all day with them!

 

[Cazook]

Hah my phone is mostly chicken pictures. My family is tired of being updated every day, lol.

I try to spend time with them if I'm not busy. Usually an hour-ish on normal days, longer if I am free and especially if the weather is nice and can do some work in the yard.

 

[black_cat]

Can you add a 'Not enough' option? I try to spend time with them but sometimes I'm super busy or it just slips my mind.

 

[HappyDuckie]

Most days around 2 hours, but occasionally 3 or 4 hours.

 

[CluckerFamily]

It depends on the season.
In the warm months, I'm outside from sunup to sundown and the chickens are all free ranging around me.
In the winter, I'm not with them as much, just to feed, water, clean out the coop if needed, change around the run to keep them entertained.

 

[human1]

can you separate the first option into two options?

 

[3KillerBs]

I can't vote "I don't spend time with them" so I voted "other" because the time I spend varies.

If I'm working a shift during these short days where I leave home in the dark and arrive home with dinner to cook just before dark after 8 hours on my feet, well, that's when the 15yo gets the eggs, gives them their veggie trimmings or other scraps, and closes up their coop for the night.

If it's pouring rain it's the quick in and out to open/close and to collect eggs.

If it's a nice weather on my day off and I need to rake the run then I'm out there in the pen for the best part of an hour. I might sit there to do my Bible study or just relax with chickens and a book.

So I need a separate "It varies" option.

 

[humblehillsfarm]

I voted 15 minutes, but that fluctuates. I spend minimal time with them in the winter simply because I work during daylight hours. I spent probably an average of 30-45 minutes a day during the summer, and only 15-30 minutes a day only on the weekends during the winter.

 

[Sally PB]

This time of year, I spend less time than I would like to! This week is supposed to be mid-30s and dry, so I hope to spend more time in the run. I might take something out there to sit on for a while.

Last summer, I spent a lot more time near them, or in the run, as they were down by the garden.

 

[KelleyRae]

I usually spend 30 minutes a day with them on work days.They are just waking up when I leave for work at 7:30, and are already in the roost by the time I get home at 4:30. The sunsets around 415 now. On the weekends I spend at least one or two hours with them cleaning up and watching them.