At what age do chickies start "flying"?

[Acre of Blessings]

I guess it all depends on the breed as to how high and how soon they can fly.

 

[Buff Hooligans]

Just to be safe, and as a temporary fix, you could get some deer netting or tree netting and put it over the run. (Tree netting like you put over orchard trees and blueberry shrubs.) But then again, your most ambitious Orville and Wilbur types might get tangled in it...

My parents were from Minneapolis, and when they moved out east, Mom always said the mountains ruined her view of the big sky. I guess she liked the big sky.

 

[AllChookUp]

Thanks, Laura -I was thinking of tree netting. I check for some at the local mill.

I personally like the moutains, but when we drive out west, my wife's favorite part is going through the Dakotas where all you can see is sky.

 

[robbitybob2000]

Hi I 'm in New Zealand I have Orpingtons and Brown Shaver Hens. I currently have Chooks and Chicks...the Shavers are domesticated and the Orpingtons are more or less Wild.
People are talking about the chicks flying but I don't think that's the case, to me it looks more like a hop...a big hop but never the less a hop or jump I am of the belief from what I have read prior to now that to be able to fly they need feathers and of any reasonable height their tail feathers. The reason I think both things is that I have seen the evidence first hand
The chicks at a couple of weeks old jumped up and out over a foot high board across the door...encouraged by their mum!
I've got chooks that fly up into the macadamia trees and other trees on the property particularly when under threat of attack by a cat...3 to 4 metres up I've seen them!
I also found one old girl dead under a tree, tail feathers all up the drive...she was the one that ended up 3 to 4 metres up in the trees...she'd been here when I bought the property I actually cried for a day and a half!