MJ's little flock

[MaryJanet]

 

[MaryJanet]

Hmmm Aunty is giving me two 2yo rhode island reds.



She left a message asking if I'd like two chickens and I called back a little later to say, yes but not for a few weeks because my quarantine space is full until then.

Too late. She had them in the car and was on her way. That's when she mentioned their age and breed.

I may have to find a home for them.

 

[MaryJanet]

She didn't know about the pullets.

These hens have been displaced from their home by rising flood water. They belonged to Aunty's close friends.

I would never have chosen Rhode Island Reds.

 

[MaryJanet]

I suppose I'll put them in the other sleepout.

Trouble is, it's not fox proof.

And they'll have to be on concrete until I can get more sawdust.

Hopefully they won't bully the existing chickens.

 

[MaryJanet]

Maybe I'll put them out in the laundry, which is foxproof.

 

[MaryJanet]

Omg. I was doing ok with the pullets and the hatch.

Two new hens is more than I bargained for.

 

[MaryJanet]

I can do this. I can make it work.

Somehow.

 

[MaryJanet]

Sorry for the stream of consciousness everyone!

 

[MaryJanet]

I've just realised the laundry is not an effective quarantine because there's no distance between it and the garden where Jan, Peggy and Ivy roam every day.

 

[ManueB]

I thought the pullets and a hatch was already ambitious .
Maybe you can think of something that could work for two or three days, giving you the time to see if you can possibly re-home them or find a more permanent solution ?
Thinking dog crate, tent...that kind of temporary housing ?