Thank you so much!! Iv been setting out foldable chiars in the yard for then to run under! It's been about a week and a half now since my original post and they are just starting to Gian there courage again and things are getting back to normal!
Great idea! They need that top cover for when the hawks come back - because they will come back. We live on a 150 acre hardwood tree farm, so have every predator imaginable and then some. I have a large covered run and only let the girls out when I can be with them. (And even that’s no guarantee.) If you can, get a rooster.
Oh wow! That's a lot of land! But yes my girls stay in there closed in run until I can be outside with them then they have a large fenced in yard that they play in (this yard also doubles as a dog yard when the chickens are not in it!)
Oh wow! Thanks you I'll definitely look into that!
Oooooh, or a couple of black Jersey Giants! My girl, Elvira, is my co-alpha. She’s a bit of a whiner, but a sweet girl who loves to sit right under my chair. I have to admit tho, she doesn’t seem to be a deterrent for hawks or eagles. We do feed the ravens tho. They hang out at the deer feeder. I always know when they’re around. (I’m hard-of-hearing, so I miss a lot of the higher frequency bird calls - including hawks and eagles!)
Pretty girl! I have a BJG rooster, love him! How's your hen for egg production?
She’s actually pretty decent. She lays an average of five eggs a week. They’re small to medium sized. She’s a keeper!
Yeah, not bad at all!
