Hi all! After reading all your posts for more than a month.... I decided to join you in (virtual) p

I am ADDICTED (to this website) and to everything chicken! My six babies just went into their big house this weekend (I'm looking all over for baby monitors now --but no electricity in the coop--yet) Not planning for power, but I'm as worried about them all alone at night as I was with my (now grown) 5 children..... Guess I'll never be an empty nester! My 6 are almost 5 weeks but they sure seem older?! And they love the new house. I've been taking them out to the run (it's large) for an hour every afternoon the past week. Plan to keep them totally in the coop for a week, though that is hard. I've heard that it will help teach them how to go in at night all by their big girl selves? I had that sad feeling walking thru the garage last nite seeing an empty brooder (but I couldn't WAIT to get their stinky feather-butts out to the coop) Typical parent here.....

 

interesting...... pit bulls in with the flock? Wow. We have an olde English bulldog and I'm terrified of having him near the birds--but then, mine are only 5.5 weeks old. Right now, he watches them thru the fence. (He never saw them while they were in the brooder in the garage). Sometimes he lays quietly by the fence and just watches them like he's amused. And other times he runs circles around the fence scaring them. All in all, they aren't nearly as startled as I would have expected--only when he barks loudly, which he doesn't do much. I'd like to learn how/if/when to introduce a dog (such as mine--he's very big). Harley (dog) is 3 years old neutered and our only dog. He's a bit spoiled and has had our undivided attention since he was a pup. He's outside all day and sleeps in the house.