i have 3keeping chickens in the yard?

[Tala]

I came home one day to a front yard full of chickens. The problem: I had failed to latch the gate.
When they are just scratching around they seem much more prone to walking away rather than flying out. Although occasionally one will fly over, I'm not likely to find the whole flock has flown out all at once.

You need gates!

 

[scooby]

1. There is no gate to stop them from wandering off, onto the property of neighbors.
(Legal issues are a potential problem there.)
2. Nobody in the area has a fenced yard.
(That has nothing to do with keeping YOUR birds safe and not annoying others.)
3. You feel that clipping their wings will stop them from wandering.
(What's to stop them from WALKING off?)
4. You let them free range but you "don't want them thinking they can go where they please"?

re-think what?
#1. why i am posing the quetion of "How to keep chicken in my yard?" (they would chase them out before calling a attorney)
#2.yes no one has a fully fenced yard in fact i have more fencing then most of them. which has nothing to do with My chickens In there yards.
#3.I have a COOP and a RUN, which they Fly out of early every morning ( and in and out of all day long). therfore I am clipping there wings so that they Can Not get in and out when they want!
#4.yes i let them run around the back yard in the afternoons and i dont want them wandering out of the yard, again why i'm posing the question "HOW to train Chickins to stay IN THE YARD?

and i know what free range is! but thanks for the google search.
so what am i re-thinking?​

 

[scooby]

It isnt all of them, all my other girls do just fine staying in the yard. but the three i'm having a problem with, just start wandering off scratching as they go. By the time i wake up in the morning they are down the street. a gate will eventually be put up, but i want to know if anyone has ever trained there chickens to stay in a area and how.

 

[chicknjane]

scooby,

I've got a 6' fenced area about 50' X 25' for 34 birds. Out of those 34 birds. I have three little fellas who I have to chase in every night because they fly over then can't figure out how to get back in. Now, they are only 11 weeks old, but I think they are bantams (got them free with a 1 y.o. hen this summer unknown parentage as Mother is an Australorp and these guys look nothing like her), so I'm hoping they grow out of it. They're on the small side. My other birds are all larger breeds and can't get over the fence. Good thing too, because when I did let them free range, they used to go in the neighbor's yard and dig up his mulch. Made the neighbor awfully mad.

The babies though, they pretty much stay by the fence the entire time trying to get back in. Good thing they're cute, cause they aren't very bright.

I wish someone had a way to train chickens to stay within the property lines I could have saved myself a ton of money, not to mention time, on fencing. Unfortunately, I haven't heard of anyone training chickens to stay in their yard, but that doesn't mean it can't be done.

Good luck

 

[Uppity Peon]

Yesterday one of my roos and about 5 hens found a way under the west fence and started exploring the neighbor's yard. Once they got out on the lawn, they could see their own yard but dodn't know how to go around the neighbor's garage and back through the hole. They were stuck. I noticed this when one of the RIRs flew over the 6' fence to get back. So I got my herding stick and managed to get 4 of them to go around the garage, where they found their hole and went home again. But one SLW kept running past me and would not go around the garage. She eventually flew over the fence. So now I have to patch the hole.

I would install a gate and see if that keeps them in. But I constanly have chickens flying over the 42'' fence that divides the back yard from the front.

 

[ColoradoMike]

I'd put bird netting (or perhaps a more secure covering) over the run - to both keep your chickens in and to keep hawks out. I fear you'll lose your birds to a neighbors dog otherwise...

Good luck!