Are My Chickens Actually Flying?!

[DogAndCat36]

Your chickens may be In a different situation than mine, but I clip my chickens wings because if I don’t they will fly out of the pen and stay out all night and get eaten. Clipping my birds wings helps me keep them safe. If you have a covered run this is not necessary. Do you let your chickens free range?

My chickens free ranged. The newling (the flying ones) love to hang out in the woods in the day and come home at night always (besides this one particular night... but that was different). I think that clipping their wings might just make them more easier for the woodlands predators?

 

[CanadaEh]

of course they can fly upwards if motivated enough, just not far. The solutions are if it is a problem:
a) trim their flight feathers
b) have netting or fishing line over their entire enclosure or at that edge of the roof
c) block the things that they might consider to flight onto with materials they would not want to land into such as a loose roll of chicken wire
d) convince them somehow it is safer to spend the night in the coop rather than on the roof

 

[DogAndCat36]

I think that what brought that one roo to that very traumatic situation was the newlings absolute fear of snow, just touching it makes them leap in horror and scream like a fox is at their tails. I think that if it wasn't for the snow that this situation would have never happened. I will now have to keep my chickens coop-bond on the good winter days and only out with supervision. I don't think that I want to clip their wings, it only caused me this one heartache, besides that, it has never been a bother and even saved a hen from a zooming truck.