I used to let my chickens roam the yard but my dad got tired of them digging in his gravel and pooping everywhere.
They are very noisy
I used to let my chickens roam the yard but my dad got tired of them digging in his gravel and pooping everywhere.
Awww!!! They look so happy just to be outside pecking aroundI used to let my chickens roam the yard but my dad got tired of them digging in his gravel and pooping everywhere.
Thank you!
There's not even that much poop but my dad always manages to step in it.Awww!!! They look so happy just to be outside pecking around
Yeah, the poop is really annoying...It's especially annoying when you go on your deck bare foot and see a wet chicken poop next to you...
Sounds like your chickens need to learn that moral.Yesterday, my chickens were outside roaming around, and 3 of them snuck into our garden. It has an old fence around it, but there's a couple of spots where the chickens can go underneath and get in (a very big hole that we should probably fix...). They were having a blast in there digging up old plants and making holes in the beds everywhere...until it started getting dark and they realized their friends were going back in the coop. They started freaking out and couldn't remember how to get out, and that's where I saw them last night as I went to count them and close the run door. Unfortunately, the ones in there were my skiddish chickens who don't really like me to get near them. I opened up the main garden door, hoping they would figure out that they needed to walk through there. But all they kept doing was running back and forth on this little part of the garden (think of an L shape). Two of them I was able to run around and pick up and bring to the door, but my Americana was really, really skiddish. I basically walked behind it and led it to the door as it ran away from me. This took about 30 minutes for 3 chickens...
The moral of the story is, don't freak out when you are stuck somewhere, or else you will spend the night in the garden.
). He doesn't really like me so I had to shoo him from the run into the coop through this little automatic door that I shut which trapped him in the coop. Now I thought I'd be able to easily throw a towel over his head and transport him to the other coop. It wasn't easy. I lunged at him and he JUMPED over me AND my dad and ran off. We spent at least half an hour chasing him around the yard. So now the secondary coop is about 2 feet away from the run so it creates this kind of tunnel. Kellogg (my rooster) finally messed up and went into the "tunnel" and through the power of teamwork me and my dad managed to grab him and get him into the other coop.
Sounds like your chickens need to learn that moral.
This reminds me of an event that occurred a couple days ago.
I needed to move my rooster out of the main coop and into this smaller coop next to it for a couple days because I thought he was hurting a hen (he wasn't so all of this was for nothing and I had to put him back in the main coop the next day
Chickens are surprisingly HARD to catch!!!
) The door wasn't very heavy, and when there was a breeze, the door would blow open. At one point, I was busy trying to fill up the dome part in the garden, and little did I know that the door blew open and my chickens were having a hay-day running around outside. By the time I turned around, all 18 of my chickens were all over the place. It took 2 hours to get them all back into the coop. And my dog was absolutely no help whatsoever. She chased one for 30 seconds, realized it was a lost cause, and laid down in the grass while watching me scramble after chickens. Some would allow me to pick them up, but the majority, I had to catch and chase them back into the coop. This has happened more than once. Thankfully, we found a much better solution for getting them back inside. They recognize the sound of their treat bag with nuts and seeds and mealworms and whatnot. We just shake the bag and they follow us in a row hoping we'll drop something. What do you like to give your chickens for treats?
