New Englanders! Much ado about New England!

[Reinbeau]

Hi there, Muzzie, I love your avatar!

 

[Henrietta23]

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We used to free-range when we only had a few hens. Now that we have 12 hens, 7 ducks and a rooster, we've had problems with a hawk. They only free range when we're out in the yard. (We were home but indoors when the hawk attacked.) Now they're in a covered pen unless we're out there. We may be able to let them out more when our trees are leafed out. We only have a half acre yard and when the trees are fully leafed out you can't see into the yard from the air!

 

[gotpoodle]

So it is possible to free range them just some of the time? I know they go back to their coop at dusk, but what if you want to get them back into the pen before that? I have visions of chasing chickens across the yard while I'm running late to get somewhere! LOL!
Maybe I should teach the poodle to herd?!

 

[Reinbeau]

We just don't let them out if we've got somewhere to go - I'm not wasting my time chasing chickens! As long as you've got a nice run to keep them safe if you can't let them out all over the yard then they're fine for a day or two not getting out. Mine stand at the run fence and whine at me when I'm out in the yard, like little kids!

 

[Swamp Dog]

so, this is my 1st post on BYC and this thread looks like as good a place as any to start.

I'm in Gilford NH, moved here a year ago from Cape Cod MA. I grew up on the Cape and moved back after some years away. Raised my kids there and couldn't wait to leave again. I love the slower pace of being int he mountains.

No chicks yet because we're renting. Hope to find a suitable house to buy this summer, I'm getting tired of looking!

 

[ticks]

 

[spook]

Welcome swamp dog, the mountains....ahhhh, such a beautiful place.

 

[ticks]

Wow, warm weather tomorrow! 85 I heard! May be a record day.

 

[gotpoodle]

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I head up that way a few times a year...I have a friend with a house on Lake Winnipesaukie, and we do our 'girls weekends' there. Pretty area!

 

[Swamp Dog]

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it sure is! We had originally thought we'd live over near Mt. Sunapee but work brought us here and we love it here.

Now I just need to find a house to buy, or a lot to build on, so I can get another Aussie and some chickens already!