My husband and I haven't had a vacation in over a two years now and are trying to plan one just because we need to get away and de-stress from life. We asked some people we went to church with, who are unemployed and therefore need the money we can pay, to take care of our birds and they seemed to be interested in doing so but when they came over today they wouldn't listen to anything I told them, they asked no questions, and the man kicked my birds and kept talking about hitting my geese to make them "shut up". Needless to say we aren't going to have them taking care of our birds while we are gone.
What do you do when you go out of town for a few days? Do you just leave enough food and hope no predators get in? Or do you have systems where the chickens will get locked in at night and let back out? Do you hire someone? How do we do this?
We're only going to be gone for five days so we are only really worried about the three days in the middle. We have big waterers so we aren't worried about water for them and we've had NO problems with any predators at all (unless you count the neighbors who hate us). We don't have a feed system in place that lasts for more than a couple of days but could build one pretty easily. We just don't want anyone calling the city and complaining that we aren't caring for our animals.
We usually put them up at night and let them out again in the morning. Then we're out checking on them and cleaning up after them multiple times a day and let them out to free range when we can sit with them and keep watch so ordinarily no one could ever say we were neglecting them in any way but if we're gone, I'm sure the neighbors would take advantage.
Any ideas??
What do you do when you go out of town for a few days? Do you just leave enough food and hope no predators get in? Or do you have systems where the chickens will get locked in at night and let back out? Do you hire someone? How do we do this?
We're only going to be gone for five days so we are only really worried about the three days in the middle. We have big waterers so we aren't worried about water for them and we've had NO problems with any predators at all (unless you count the neighbors who hate us). We don't have a feed system in place that lasts for more than a couple of days but could build one pretty easily. We just don't want anyone calling the city and complaining that we aren't caring for our animals.
We usually put them up at night and let them out again in the morning. Then we're out checking on them and cleaning up after them multiple times a day and let them out to free range when we can sit with them and keep watch so ordinarily no one could ever say we were neglecting them in any way but if we're gone, I'm sure the neighbors would take advantage.
Any ideas??
