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[Chicken Egg 17]

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I know I am really surprised how entertaining they are. And I love going out and finding eggs.[/quote

I get 6 eggs a day I have a hen who went egg bound a few months ago and the egg is like the size of my fist and I did everything to help her but she got better after her baths so I kept doing that for her and she started eating and drinking again so now the egg is broken inside her and she passed the yolk and stuff and some of the shell but she hadn't laid an egg since but she sets on the nest like she is going to but she don't lay and then I have a rooster so I only get 6 eggs

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

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[/quote that is really nice wish my run looked like that all mine is two large dog kennels put together with tin on it and chicken wire but it's nice and big it's over 30 feet long and 11 feet wide with two large doors

 

[gpeters3]

Finally found that cute chicken chunnel on youtube:

So, i take it, it's a bridge between the coop and run leaving an open
Lane to walk or drive under?

We got about 2 inches of snow last night and i just couldn't get myself going. Shoulders hurt and i slept til noon. Supposed to get another 3 inches tonight but Tuesday is going to be the day to finish and finaly see all the birds in the run Hope the weather man is right this time....

We are supposed to get a week of dry weather with gradually increasing temps. Supposed to be 70 by end of next week. My leghorns are turning out really pretty, solid, shiny white and they perch on the feeder bar and try to get out when i feed them.

 

[Sylvester017]

We are actually in a neighborhood about 10 mins from uptown Charlotte. We have several neighbors that let their chickens stay loose in their yards. We close the coop up at night. We have only had a couple Hawks check out the girls so we put bird netting over the whole area. So far we have been ok. We have 2 dogs so hopefully the keep some of the predictors away.

Our 4 hens free-range the backyard all day too. But we have a couple pop-up canopies for shelter, 4 large doghouses spaced around the yard, a couple make-shift plywood and scaffold lean-to's set on bricks, potted plants, plus space under the coop to retreat to from the hawks. We're planting a couple pomegranate trees I started from seeds a couple years ago, and I'm shopping for a curved walking bridge to set up in the middle of the yard for the hens to use as additional hiding areas. I have lawn chairs, wheelbarrow, compost bin, etc that the hens find handy to hide behind/under. Our Cooper's Hawk will land in the yard and see the hens hiding but won't go after the hiding hens. I think the hawks like open lawn area to swoop on running hens/prey and we've worked on eliminating open flying zones.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

I wish we could get a lot of snow so the chickens will stay out of the flower beds and go around in the backyard on the paths i shovel them

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

While the silkies might have to stay in there coop because of the snow and the way there feathers are

 

[Sylvester017]

I wish we could get a lot of snow so the chickens will stay out of the flower beds and go around in the backyard on the paths i shovel them

Buy a 50-foot roll of green rubberized 2-foot tall rabbit fencing and barrier your flower beds from the chickens. You'll still enjoy seeing the flowers and it will keep the chickens from digging them up. It will take a couple/three times to move the chickens if they jump over the barrier but they will learn soon to follow the fence line and not cross it -- especially once they know you will take them out of the flowers if they cross the barrier. My chickens get embarrassed if I take them out of my garden bed. They panic if they accidentally cross the barrier and try to figure out how to get back out again. Chickens are trainable if you have the patience to work with them and sometimes they surprise you and learn the first time.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Buy a 50-foot roll of green rubberized 2-foot tall rabbit fencing and barrier your flower beds from the chickens.  You'll still enjoy seeing the flowers and it will keep the chickens from digging them up.  It will take a couple/three times to move the chickens if they jump over the barrier but they will learn soon to follow the fence line and not cross it -- especially once they know you will take them out of the flowers if they cross the barrier.  My chickens get embarrassed if I take them out of my garden bed.  They panic if they accidentally cross the barrier and try to figure out how to get back out again.  Chickens are trainable if you have the patience to work with them and sometimes they surprise you and learn the first time.

I may try that plastic fencing ro keep my chickens out of certain areas of the woods. I dont mind them on our property but they like to get close to the neighbors and I dont want them to.

Also on the note of training chickens, is it possible to train a mean chicken? She bullies the others and even pecks me. She'll fly out of no where to attack the buff orps. And has pecked me in both the gums and the eye. Now with that it could have just been the shiny object thing chickens have but stil l she seems a little scared of me sometmes and i dont blame her because i always assume she is mean and chase her away or am extra cautious, or used to be,but still.

 

[Chicken Egg 17]

U could always catch her talk to her and pet her a little bit a day to calm her down or u could always quarantine her away from the others so she dosnt peck them if she isn't pecking them hard it may just be letting them know that she is telling them to remember ur place in line or just telling them to get away from e food as she may be just higher in the pecking order as higher the pecking order they eat first

 

[ShrekDawg]

U could always catch her talk to her and pet her a little bit a day to calm her down or u could always quarantine her away from the others so she dosnt peck them if she isn't pecking them hard it may just be letting them know that she is telling them to remember ur place in line or just telling them to get away from e food as she may be just higher in the pecking order as higher the pecking order they eat first

Thanks! Sadly she's not really the type to let me catch her, unlike the Orpingtons. I thoughr of it being normal pecking order stuff but she'll fly from across the yard sometems :/