Hello! I love my backyard chickens!

[HappyHoney]

Hi. I have 6 rhode island red hens. They free range during the day. At night we go 'chicken chunkin', which is how we describe picking the hens off of the top of the coop and putting them in for the night. My hens love me, and think I'm the roo. Most lay in the nesting boxes, but one of them is dropping her eggs in random places. She lays out in the open in the yard, or on the floor of the coop. (Silly chicken.) I've recently found that some of them are climbing up into the rabbit hutch, and laying in there. The rabbits are 'free range', as they looked so sad in their hutch and playpen. plus they were great escape artists. They come home to eat and drink and hang out in the morning and evening.

I have a Youtube channel with some videos of them. http://www.youtube.com/user/HappyHoney41?feature=mhee

 

[mickey328]

Hi and welcome to BYC! Glad you joined us. Sounds like you've got happy critters there

 

[Kevin565]

 

[redsoxs]

Greetings from Kansas, HappyHoney, and

! Glad you joined us! Great video!!

 

[sumi]

Hello and welcome to BYC

Glad you joined us!

 

[1muttsfan]

Hi and welcome to BYC from northern Michigan

It may help to put a few wooden eggs or golf balls in the nests

 

[weimarmama]

& from Alabama. Glad you joined us.

 

[Red Barn Farms]

 

[memphis]

Hello & welcome! I love my chickens too!

 

[Rebel Soldier]

Hello from GA. Sounds like utopia is alive and well in your neck of the woods. If you decide to get a rooster , I suggest a American Game if your hens like to free range. The gamecock will be ever alert and will sacrafice himself to defend his flock! They are then absolute beast foragers and normally only eat after the hens have their fill. They are every females dream, both warrior and gentleman! I have islands on a river where I free range this way and have had great results.