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[iwiw60]

Our co-op came through last night and took our beans out of our bean field. The field wraps around the yard I've been keeping their tractor in. They were looking a little panicy at first, but I talked them down and then soon enough my brother had finished carving his pumpkin and we got them the guts and well, they forgot all about that big scary John Deere that was eating all the beans and looked like it wouldn't have given a second though to eating a chicken.

 

[perchie.girl]

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With Me its the BIG WHOOP of the tarp on the roof when the air is just right.... Blowing hard.... Up it goes when the pressure lets off WOOOP back down.... My adopted Roos usde to Duck....

deb

 

[crazyhen]

Try Black walnuts falling from a big tree on a metal roof. It would almost wake the dead. The first time I heard it I thought it was a shot gun.

. I jumped for sure. I think chickens get use to about anything. The motorcycles next door etc.
I wish I could

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[Sylvester017]

No wheels yet... There not to bad to move, but I will be adding tires as soon as I find treasure in someone else's junk

Since Crosses don't live much past two months before they're converted to table meat maybe you don't have to hurry to put wheels on the tractors - unless you plan to get more new Cross chicks in future!

 

[Sylvester017]

Our co-op came through last night and took our beans out of our bean field. The field wraps around the yard I've been keeping their tractor in. They were looking a little panicy at first, but I talked them down and then soon enough my brother had finished carving his pumpkin and we got them the guts and well, they forgot all about that big scary John Deere that was eating all the beans and looked like it wouldn't have given a second though to eating a chicken.

With Me its the BIG WHOOP of the tarp on the roof when the air is just right.... Blowing hard.... Up it goes when the pressure lets off WOOOP back down.... My adopted Roos usde to Duck....

deb

Try Black walnuts falling from a big tree on a metal roof. It would almost wake the dead. The first time I heard it I thought it was a shot gun.

. I jumped for sure. I think chickens get use to about anything. The motorcycles next door etc.
I wish I could

.

The gardener starts up his mower and weed whacker and the chickens just automatically toodle into the coop to wait until he's done and then come out when he leaves - no problem. They slept right through the firecrackers and illegal stadium fireworks the sto-o-o-o-o-pid neighbors were shooting off on 4th of July - never a peep. But if a myler balloon floats by in the sky they watch it very suspiciously!

 

[islandgirl82]

My chickens are used to landscaping equipment, chainsaws, logging trucks, school buses (they even walk to the end of the drive with me while I meet my babes after school), lobster boats starting up at 4 am, etc... I'm the youngest adult in my neighborhood by...oh....a couple of decades or more (I'm 32 with two young children) and most of my neighbors are either summer people and/or retirees. I felt bad for my neighbors when we first moved in as I thought for sure my little family would be the loudest in the neighborhood. NOPE. What gets the flock going is my neighbor across the road and his sister who lives just around the corner. They are in their 70s, sweet as can be but neither one can hear very well so every time she drives by, she stops in front of his house, lays on her car horn until he comes to the door and they shout to each other. I don't mean just a quick "hello" either. They have entire conversations with her in her car and him in his doorway and a whole lot of "HUH?"s and "WHAT?"s, repeated sentences thrown in and don't forget the deep Mainer accent. Every word carries over the water which makes them sound like they're in stereo. It sends my flock into a tizzy. They race around in utter chaos, bumping into each other, accidental challenges, etc. It's an amusing event to say the least.

My youngest pullet, however, bless her. She's not so used to the usual noises around here even though she's been here since she was a few days old, every time large equipment drives by, she races around as if she's lost her head and then runs in the direction of said truck/excavator/tractor. One of these days she may run a little too far.

 

[jtbass2756]

The only thing that gets mine attention......something rattling, like the mealworms bag, etc.

I did go out and start cleaning out their coop! Just got up the loose straw they had managed to get out of the nests.....on the coop floor......then out the pop door to the run ! Got it all cleaned, now tomorrow I will begin cleaning the sand from the coop floor... Ladies are doing really good. Older 4 are in the middle of molt so their egg production is next to nothing. ....

 

[laura s]

Here's my pallet coop

 

[laura s]

And the run

 

[biddybarn]

I added a wood bin and a covered dust bathing are to our coop, the hope is that the bugs will provide supplemental protein. The wood for the sides has been in my attic for who knows how long, so we decided to put it to use. Our birds are on laying pellets and free range.