Mine do the poop-on-the-steps-trick too. The younger dog learned it from the older dog. Sigh. My 14 year old cat is protesting *something* (he's old, and sick) and has been pooping on my brand new vacuum. Huh?
They're huge!!! No more little chickies in the house!
I've thought about the 'put a clear bin over some grass seeds & let to be a green house' thing, but I feel like my PITA chickens would flip it over. I don't feel safe doing the grate idea b/c w/ my luck someone would lose a toe.Ugh, i hear ya.The worst here is the run they don't have to hang there but they do. Did like you added straw and between the straw mud and poop it's like ice skating in there. They won't let grass grow in there ever, got a whole freaking acre to eat but will not let grass happen in the run.
My mom's dog does that. Then when all the snow thaws you have a giant pile of dog crap. Now that everything's mud it's hard to tell what's poop and what's mud. Then there's all the chicken poop ALLLLLL over the place. If poop had a cash value we'd all be millionaires.
Oh, I'm certain of this. Mine swarm the door as soon as I open it. They sit on the poop board by the door and watch for me coming then wait. I have one (appropriately named Nibbler) who's been giving me little pecks lately. I squatted down and someone when for my butt. I think they're sizing me up so they can see how long my body would last if they offed me.Honestly I think they get bored in the winter and think up new ways to kill us. I swear I watched chickens go to the run, poop and then walk out.
Wow, he's a feisty one. Did you put a big X on his back so you know which one to rehome first? I was thinking about tossing some gravel into the one corner of their run later this spring. That way they have some grit & it'll help with the mud situation, but I might have to steal the wood chip idea... provided I can find some. All the leaves that I threw in there in Nov have become a big wet pile. I was hoping they'd dig around in there to get some bugs, but they haven't messed with them since they got wet. The ground is so muddy that my fence posts are moving, even the long rebar posts are shifting. I'm going to have to do some remodeling this summer. The chicken wire covering I added is too heavy and the weight of it is pulling the sides in.
Wow, they're so big! Are either of them starting to show signs of being ready to lay?
I didn't know straw did that... but now it makes sense b/c my chickens dug through the straw I got from the guy up the road like it was a treasure hunt. Unfortunately they didn't have their wagon out anymore so the last bale I got was a compressed bale from TSC. Cost twice as much, but I don't have anywhere to store straw, except the trunk of my car.
I'm going crazy next month and hatching out a couple more, only four eggs but I'm waiting on one to start back laying so of things go well I'll be hatching 2 dominique/faverolles crosses and two full faverolles. I can't do more than four, i spoil them and they turn into little demanding brats so for my sanity i set a limit.
