We all know I am the least experienced chickeneer of all, but I did notice during Maggie's molt the only things she would eat were things that were alive. Live mealy worms but not dried. Crawling bugs. Worms. Yes, and mice. I was going around trapping bugs for her and digging up worms (though she is pretty good at that herself).
So, you have one of those as well?
I'm not an Aussie, but I was curious and this is what I found!Question for the Aussies:
Using dry eucalyptus leaf litter in the run is ok, right?
Want to be prepped for when the weather turns wet
. They helped as I cleaned out the roost, escorting me to the compost pile and back. They weren't crazy about the occasional breeze, but it was pretty nice out, all things considered.
We often don't have any meat in there. It is very good with rice. It certainly doesn't have to be leftovers, yo could prepare it...I'm a bit turned off at Left-over American roasted meat!!
Hook up your team to a sled, then. “Mush, mush, yahh “!Chicken tax & a note on chickens and snow - these guys love to come out if it's packed down. They will walk through a few inches too. They eat snow, ice chunks, wood stove ash scatterings if available, and take the air. Plenty of sunshine, today was a balmy 11 degrees F, up from 4F this morning
They are happy in their protected run, working through the litter, scratching and digging around after they got everything they could on top of their snack bar log. Hazel, Butters and Queenie will peck around together fairly peacefully. Hazel will occasionally dominate Queenie. Hazel definitely pecks Popcorn. Popcorn pecks Peanut and Queenie. Queenie was getting consistently lightly pecked and chased away a bit whenever Popcorn thought she'd found something tasty. But Queenie had the last laugh today - Popcorn got an (unintentional) face-full from one of Queenie's powerful and well-aimed strokes (Popcorn' fine so far).
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It's looks a bit flat and she looks really ratty. I might have to start syringe-feeding her baby bird food if she doesn't snap out of it soon!
Well you get a really little lasso, and a flashlight then.....................I can see myself trapping cockroaches at night.
