My girls are kept in a 4'x10' tractor with attached roosting and nesting areas...so they get moved to fresh foraging grounds daily. But I never realized how important dried up, dusty, sneeze-inducing hay was, until a friend of mine gave me a couple of bales of hay from his fields. I placed a small amount of hay in the run area of their tractor early Saturday morning and sprinkled some grains in it so they could have "real" finds during their hunt. When they came down from their roosting area that morning, their eyes lit up like kids at Christmas, they ran for the hay, and immediately started scratching.
That is when I decided there was nothing better than a quiet morning, sipping coffee, watching your chickens...ahh...life is good
Chickens in the sun.... (that should be a song!)
That is when I decided there was nothing better than a quiet morning, sipping coffee, watching your chickens...ahh...life is good
Chickens in the sun.... (that should be a song!)
