Question of the Day - Thursday, May 29th, 2025

[tlcmurphy]

If by "sit" you mean "lay my entire torso across the interior to clean it", then yes. I also have a bench in the run that the girls are kind enough to leave cecals on for my enjoyment.

^^This

 

[SkyAJK]

too small.....to sit in it for me.

I do sit in my chicken runs and I feel part of the flock whenever I do this because my chickens peck about around me.

 

[SkyAJK]

My poor rooster gets mosquito bites on his comb every night. I have screens on the coop, but they still get in somehow. View attachment 4136397

Have you try mosquito coils?

We have a lot of rain and in our summer also have lots of mosquito. I put out 1 mosquito coil each night.
My first flock of chickens got bitten by mosquito and they all end up with dry fowl pox, it was hard work treating the whole flock with cream.
After I put out mosquito coils and it seems to work.

 

[Lacy Duckwing]

Yes, all the time. I haven't been doing it as much as I used to now that the pullets' nails are starting to get sharp and I'm wearing more shorts than pants. It hurts when they slide off, lol.

 

[Sally PB]

I have a chair in the run that I sit in for about an hour in the afternoon. I turn it upside down when I leave so that they can't poop on it.

When it's cold, I sit in the coop with them. I fold an empty feed bag in half and sit on that, and I store that where they can't get to it so that it stays clean.

Chicken time is my time.

 

[CCsGarden]

Yes! I love too!

 

[CombNWattles]

Yes! Especially if I’m sad; they will come and pick at my boots and cheer me up.
Once I was sitting on the rocks beside our driveway, feeling blue; I felt something warm and squishy on my bare feet, so I looked up and it was Dilly the Brahma with her great flappy Brahma paws standing on my feet.

I want my dad to build me a chair in the coop that folds out from the wall like a bunk on a ship. That way the birds couldn’t poop on it!