I'm so paranoid about the girls' first day out in the coop and run!

[gumpsgirl]

So, how did they do yesterday? Did you go home to find all was well?!?!

 

[Turtle Mama of 2]

All the girls were fine and enjoying their first thunderstorm. I came home to a terrible storm and they were in the run grabbing bugs and worms and just having fun. Tooo cute. -Brandy

 

[cherrychicken]

welcome to BYC!

 

[gumpsgirl]

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I know your heart just soared to find them okay and happy! Very good.

Was it easier to leave them today?

 

[monarc23]

yes i deffinatly wouldnt be too overly paranoid. We have my chickens (just two) in a large fenced-in area out back. Theres no netting above to deter hawks, and the spacing in the fence itself is wide enough that a small oppossum, could squeeze through not to mention a mink. I have had chickens on and off for years, and only ONE year did we have a problem. It was when we had our chickens full free range....a fox every night would pluck a chicken from their tree roost it was devistating...but oddly enough the foxes moved on after that summer and we haven't experienced them since. A pair of hawks breed just outback in the woods not far from my chickens....and the hawks go after robins not my chickens and I like it that way. I barely see raccoons here but I know for a fact that they are here, and even they leave my chickens alone they are more content to toss and turn rocks in the creek for crayfish than bother my chickens.