Chickens pooing on veranda

[123RedBeard]

Sounds like you have a choice to make ... either your happy, or the chickens are???

I say a fence ... a large run will keep them where you want them ... what is the biggest size of run you could make for them?

No chicken would run my yard ... until they start making house payments, and paying the electric bill ... and keeping the fridge full, they will never be the boss! Put your foot down, they will learn, or become dinner!

 

[Mrs. K]

They may squawk for a bit, but put in some platforms, some roosts, some mini walls, and deep bed it with old straw or hay - and they will do just fine in there. Chickens are habitual, if you lock them up for several weeks, when you let them out, they won't get far.

Personally if your son is sharing the space with them, I think it would be better if they were locked up most of the time. Gives him a bit more space. Don't feel guilty, they will be fine.

Mrs K

 

[legojenn]

Chickens cannot understand English, so there is no joy in telling them to get lost. I have come up with these signs that will surely communicate to your birds where they are allowed to go and where they cannot go. Glad to help!

 

[Shadrach]

HuH! never seen anything like that...made specifically for deterring smaller animals?

More adapted when the little darlings decided what's mine is theirs and what's theirs is theirs.
Tbh, I don't know how well it works. I think part of the reason they don't cross it is because there is no escape route other then the entrance. I kept the wire live for a few months but after a while they didn't seem remotely interested in going into the bedroom.
On the odd occasions that one of the younger ones ventures accross the tape which is always in place, Fat Bird, the senior hen bashes them.

 

[aart]

Tbh, I don't know how well it works

Was it designed to give a shock ....or just a shorted wire?

 

[Shadrach]

Was it designed to give a shock ....or just a shorted wire?

It was designed to give a shock but the current was a pulse from an electric fence unit.

 

[aart]

It was designed to give a shock but the current was a pulse from an electric fence unit.

Just weird that it would work taped to the floor.

 

[Shadrach]

Just weird that it would work taped to the floor.

Ah, I understand what's bothering you. I probably should have explained better but given the triviality of the problem in the OP.........
What you can see in the picture is a shotgun cable arrangement, this is what sits on the floor. The 'live' wire sits on top of this and is under the tape and not shown connected in the picture. The shotgun wire, which is in fact a piece of loudspeaker cable insulates the live wire from the floor. Obviously if the chicken manages to stand on the black tape with both feet it won't feel the current. Also, given that concrete isn't the best means of earthing such a system, the shock from the battery powered electric fence unit is reduced. I did write the current gave a tingle rather than a shock.