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Anyone here live in the new river or desert hills area? I’m looking to purchase a home in that area this next summer and was just wondering how it is with the wildlife and chickens, don’t have too many coyotes down here in north Phoenix just wondering how secure of a coop I’ll need to build.. any tips or other info is appreciated. Thanks in advance
 
I removed one of the feeders to clean it and refill it. When I went to put it back in the run for some reason one of our large black Australorps decided she had to be FIRST to get at the new feed and she flew right at me, knocking the feeder out of my hand and escaping the pen.

She was so surprised to find herself outside the pen and that she just stood there. "Wait a minute. Where am I?" It was easy to scoop her up and put her back in the pen but I lost some expensive organic feed. Better to lose some feed than a hen, I suppose, but sheesh.

Usually they only fly right at me like that when I have warm oatmeal and pumpkin for them on chilly mornings. Then I'm ready for them. They fly up and perch on me or hover in the air to eat out of the containers before I can put them on the ground. I didn't even know chickens could hover like that. They're pretty good at it.
 
EmmaDonovan said:
I removed one of the feeders to clean it and refill it. When I went to put it back in the run for some reason one of our large black Australorps decided she had to be FIRST to get at the new feed and she flew right at me, knocking the feeder out of my hand and escaping the pen.

She was so surprised to find herself outside the pen and that she just stood there. "Wait a minute. Where am I?" It was easy to scoop her up and put her back in the pen but I lost some expensive organic feed. Better to lose some feed than a hen, I suppose, but sheesh.

Usually they only fly right at me like that when I have warm oatmeal and pumpkin for them on chilly mornings. Then I'm ready for them. They fly up and perch on me or hover in the air to eat out of the containers before I can put them on the ground. I didn't even know chickens could hover like that. They're pretty good at it.
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When you have chicken's sometimes you have to expect the unexpected.
 
BenisonsChickns said:
Anyone here live in the new river or desert hills area? I’m looking to purchase a home in that area this next summer and was just wondering how it is with the wildlife and chickens, don’t have too many coyotes down here in north Phoenix just wondering how secure of a coop I’ll need to build.. any tips or other info is appreciated. Thanks in advance
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You’ll end up with the usual aerial predators and I imagine coyotes will be an issue. Depends on where you are though. You likely won’t see many coyotes but that doesn’t mean they aren’t there. As long as a dog couldn’t get in I’d imagine you’re good.
 

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