Well, decided tonight I was gonna let the lot out. Found some chicken wire I forgot I had, 2 feet high, but kinda long, so made a makeshift pen, set up my chair with guiding stick and opened the door. Wayyy better than tv!!!
Two got pushed out, as 15 chicks in a 3 foot door just aint happening...they stood there for about two whole minutes before moving, a few more came out, a few more got pushed out, finally, 12 of the 15 were out. We stayed out for an hour and a half! They ate worms, bugs, pincher bugs a lot and yummie grass tips...The did wander around the enclose and a few tested the wire, but the girls especially kept coming back under my chair every so often, and even the guys came over and checked in.
Talk about fun!! Ok, now the sun has just hit the horizon, dusk is near, and that is usually the time I close their windows and say goodnight. So got the stick to "herd" them back in..nope, not gonna happen, everyone was having just wayyy too much fun, What to do, what to do. I made the contraption big enough so they could run around, prolly close to an 8' by 8' space, so catching them, nope not that either. They can outrun me hands down! Sooo glad none of my neighbors were home.
I decided to go in their coop, and go around the corner where they couldn't see me and cluck to them, like a mamma chicken would do. You all said they would imprint to me as mamma, right? Soooo, here I am clucking away, and I hear chicks outside, remember, they are 5 weeks now, giving that call to mamma loud call..so I cluck back, oh, here comes one through the door, so I cluck some more, to answer their hollering and here comes another one!!! I clucked them ALL in and shut the door!!! I couldn't believe it worked! That was AWESOME!!!
They are all in, eating a bit and getting a drink and some are settling down for the night!!! I counted 3 times, yup all 15 are there! We had our first outside adventure, well most of us..only 3 were chicken chickens!
and momma clucked them in!

Two got pushed out, as 15 chicks in a 3 foot door just aint happening...they stood there for about two whole minutes before moving, a few more came out, a few more got pushed out, finally, 12 of the 15 were out. We stayed out for an hour and a half! They ate worms, bugs, pincher bugs a lot and yummie grass tips...The did wander around the enclose and a few tested the wire, but the girls especially kept coming back under my chair every so often, and even the guys came over and checked in.
Talk about fun!! Ok, now the sun has just hit the horizon, dusk is near, and that is usually the time I close their windows and say goodnight. So got the stick to "herd" them back in..nope, not gonna happen, everyone was having just wayyy too much fun, What to do, what to do. I made the contraption big enough so they could run around, prolly close to an 8' by 8' space, so catching them, nope not that either. They can outrun me hands down! Sooo glad none of my neighbors were home.
I decided to go in their coop, and go around the corner where they couldn't see me and cluck to them, like a mamma chicken would do. You all said they would imprint to me as mamma, right? Soooo, here I am clucking away, and I hear chicks outside, remember, they are 5 weeks now, giving that call to mamma loud call..so I cluck back, oh, here comes one through the door, so I cluck some more, to answer their hollering and here comes another one!!! I clucked them ALL in and shut the door!!! I couldn't believe it worked! That was AWESOME!!!


