Just starting out in Indiana

[Pork Pie]

Hi and welcome to BYC and congrats on your new hobby.

Here are some links to useful resources:

• List of guides on how to use the site - “How to...” guides
• Great go-to resource - Learning Centre
• Good starting point for browsing the site - Articles
• Insightful feedback on how members manage their flocks - Topic of the Week back-catalogue
• Excellent sources of local information - U.S. States

Best wishes

Pork Pie

 

[Chick-N-Fun]

Welcome to our FUN-omenal Community! Best wishes and have lots of FUN!

 

[NonnasBabies]

Welcome!

 

[Celticdragonfly]

Welcome to BYC! I leave the door between my coop and run open, so that the chickens can come and go as they please - but that's because the run and coop are both (I think) fully predator proof. Short of an upset bear, but I don't expect to ever see one of those in our suburban neighborhood. Their free range time is supervised, although I find they'll still put themselves to bed at dusk, I just make sure to shut the big outer coop door up after them before I go in.

 

[Frippi]

Well, I'm newly back from talking to a guy about a mile away who builds chicken tractors that look wonderfully solid, and asked him to build me one with a 4'x4' coop. He has his own little flock and has a good idea what to expect from predators in our immediate area, so when he says this seems secure and hasn't been a problem, I believe him.

So I'll have a coop in about a week. Time to look for birds!

 

[drumstick diva]

Dobie Lover has explained how she handles the situation. It should work for you also.

 

[drumstick diva]

One of the problems with chicken tractors is that predators that dig under them and get access to the birds, that way.