Chickens and Guineas

[Mary8]

I'm recently retired and my husband thought I would enjoy raising chickens as a past-time.
So I went to work and found a coop that we liked and put it together.
After lots of reading I built a run and attached the coop to it.
May 13th we went and bought 6 chicks. That afternoon my daughter and grandsons showed up with 2 pullets and 2 keets. Now I have 10 birds in a coop built for 8.
One of the chicks I bought is a rooster.
I LOVE IT!

 

[rjohns39]

Hi and welcome to BYC welcome to chicken math. I feel like coop building is a full time job. I'm working on two more as we speak and am at least a couple weeks late.

 

[Iovemypeeps]

We also ended up with more chickens then we planned on

 

[Mary8]

I wish I could free-range them but my Bonn-Bonn (dog) would go after them.
I'm pretty certain that the 2 guineas will end up leaving the coop and as big as they are getting Bonnie will chase them but they sure can fly

 

[Mary8]

I'm not real sure but I think that one of the keets is a male. Not real excited about that because I read that they can be pretty profilic

 

[Iovemypeeps]

I wish I could free-range them but my Bonn-Bonn (dog) would go after them.
I'm pretty certain that the 2 guineas will end up leaving the coop and as big as they are getting Bonnie will chase them but they sure can fly

Oh yea we used to have a dog but not anymore.. but we don't have a very big property so ours probably won't be free ranging much either.. maybe just for a few hours a day.. can you keep the dog inside while you let the chickens out for a bit?

 

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[rjohns39]

I wish I could free-range them but my Bonn-Bonn (dog) would go after them.
I'm pretty certain that the 2 guineas will end up leaving the coop and as big as they are getting Bonnie will chase them but they sure can fly

When it comes to chickens flopping their wings, my avatar cannot help herself. That said, I gave her a run outside the pasture, connected to the house. One day I'm out there, she's just lounging in the grass with a couple chickens and a turkey checking her out. My RP turkeys wold pursue her, peck at her fur, coo at her, she would just get up and move.

 

[Mary8]

Oh yea we used to have a dog but not anymore.. but we don't have a very big property so ours probably won't be free ranging much either.. maybe just for a few hours a day.. can you keep the dog inside while you let the chickens out for a bit?

I bought a 3ft x 50ft fencing that I put up to let the birds have some freedom which is working good.

 

[rjohns39]

All can co-exist with proper barriers.and supervision