BanoOmg
Songster
I just finished up an addition to my run today
A big part of why I built the addition was because some of the hens have become pretty aggressive. I'm assuming it's due to the broody hatching some new chicks, and they lost space to a defensive mama hen.
A Buff Orpington and a Sapphire Gem are being triple-teamed by the other hens. The girls already went back to being jerks, so I gotta figure out what to do about it.
I'm going to clutter up the new space a bit more, and put food and water in there.
I have 6 hens and 6 chicks total. I think three chicks are cockerels, and I won't be keeping them. They're not even a week old yet, but I used my novice eyes and guessed based on wing tips and head spots for the Dominiques. I'll be lucky to end up with 9 hens, methinks.
I'll go out and measure run dimensions later. I know that I had no behavioral problems when I had 8 hens, and I built the run to fit 10 comfortably, based on forum recommendations.
I'm just buuuuuumed out! Stop fighting!!!
A big part of why I built the addition was because some of the hens have become pretty aggressive. I'm assuming it's due to the broody hatching some new chicks, and they lost space to a defensive mama hen.
A Buff Orpington and a Sapphire Gem are being triple-teamed by the other hens. The girls already went back to being jerks, so I gotta figure out what to do about it.
I'm going to clutter up the new space a bit more, and put food and water in there.
I have 6 hens and 6 chicks total. I think three chicks are cockerels, and I won't be keeping them. They're not even a week old yet, but I used my novice eyes and guessed based on wing tips and head spots for the Dominiques. I'll be lucky to end up with 9 hens, methinks.
I'll go out and measure run dimensions later. I know that I had no behavioral problems when I had 8 hens, and I built the run to fit 10 comfortably, based on forum recommendations.
I'm just buuuuuumed out! Stop fighting!!!