How did your flock annoy you today?

[ChickenChick46]

I have ample opportunity to be in a situation today but I think maybe I’m starting to learn some things, and despite their protests I’m not letting them out. Seriously I got woken up at 5:30 in the morning to a hurricane going on outside and it’s hardly let up, a perfect recipe for disaster later when I have to corral them back in before I leave for work. Of course they’re still out there, in the rain, doing that urgent head bob against the fence while yelling at me. Yall got a cozy 8x12 (9 feet high) coop to stay in and a 14x16 run for eight of ya but no we can’t just have one chill rainy day.

Stay safe in that storm!

 

[atomic]

Stay safe in that storm!

Well, when I say “hurricane” I don’t mean literally just that weather be like that sometimes in the summer in Florida

 

[ChickenChick46]

Well, when I say “hurricane” I don’t mean literally just that weather be like that sometimes in the summer in Florida

Hahaha I gotcha! I get it. Gulf Coast here. Much like FL, if you don't like the weather, give it 5 minutes.

 

[atomic]

Same, I live in Homosassa but grew up in Englewood so weather wise nothing surprises me here.

 

[ChickenChick46]

Same, I live in Homosassa but grew up in Englewood so weather wise nothing surprises me here.

The only thing I've been surprised by is the 8 inches of snow we got here in January. That was a new one, lol.

 

[atomic]

The only thing I've been surprised by is the 8 inches of snow we got here in January. That was a new one, lol.

You must be up in the panhandle area, no snow here but it did drop into the 20s and killed my giant hibiscus. I had just moved back from South Carolina and apparently the weather followed me

 

[ChickenChick46]

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You must be up in the panhandle area, no snow here but it did drop into the 20s and killed my giant hibiscus. I had just moved back from South Carolina and apparently the weather followed me

I'm actually in AL, but not far from the panhandle at all! I'm so sorry about your hibiscus! Mine are all in pots, and I put them in the greenhouse. It is not heated though, and it still dropped below freezing for a while in there. I thought they were dead, but I trimmed them down to the soil and they came back. But I've only had like one bloom all summer. I was so sad!

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

I feel your pain.

My 2 hens were fighting each other yesterday, they are mortal enemy. I so want them to fight to the end until a victor is prevailed, but that would mean major injury on both so I can not have that, but I so very much want to. Now I have to constantly guard them so that they never come near each other. They live in 2 separate area with their own flock, but one keeps on trying to get into the other area to fight.

Wow. That is annoying.
I have one hen, Pokey, who does they to my broodies. I have to intervene quite often befell someone draws blood!

 

[TheChickenGirl16]

Today, my flock bugged me by crying, and Crying, and SCREAMING to please be let out of the small run into the big run to play….
So I open the door, and everyone be like, “What’d you do that for? The shade in here is much nicer!”

 

[ValkerieGunn]

Today doing my routine egg check around my hedge I heard chicks peeping. I ran inside for a flashlight and found Shirley who keeps disappearing sitting 3 feet high and 1.5 to 2 feet deep INSIDE the hedge with at least 2 hatched babies and more eggs under her but she is in a spot I can't reach her safely so yay. I can sort of lift up part of her (with my welding gloves on she is mean!) But the chicks are hiding in her wings and such so I can't truly grab her and yank her out without hurting some babies or having her kick out at the eggs under her and send them flying.