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I wishWait. Don’t we go with them?
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I wishWait. Don’t we go with them?
10 days without ACM. I don't think I will make it.Hubby and I are heading off for 10 days holiday tomorrow.
Our kids (mid 20s) will be looking after the chooks, cats and dogs while we are gone. They have gone over everything with us and put a checklist up on the fridge.
I think they will be fine.
Lovely to see all this again!To free range successfully one needs everything you can see in the following pictures. Don't just concentrate on the environment, look at who's in it and where they are.
Really simple things can make a huge difference. Note the fences for example. Rather than a solid wall the fences have stock net on them and a horizontal bar chickens can get under. These bars with the net have saved quite a few chickens from hawks.
Note the chicks pictures. One word from mum and thos chicks will just disappear into the undergrowth. You can't kill what you can't see.
It's all about layers of cover. Trees above and heavy duty shrubs and bushes under them.
Not a lot of point in free ranging if everytime one loses a chicken one has to bring in another one or two to replace it. One needs the chickens to be able to reproduce themselves. That means roosters and broodies.
Chickens can turn a small plot into a desert within weeks left to range on it. One needs space, roughly an acre per pair if one intends them to forage for the majority of their food.
Even after all the above, someone needs to be there outside with them. Chickens thrived on farms and smallholdings not just because of space and cover but also because people worked on the land, pretty much from dawn to dusk and the chickens tended to gather where the humans worked.View attachment 3001445View attachment 3001446View attachment 3001447View attachment 3001448View attachment 3001450View attachment 3001451View attachment 3001452View attachment 3001454View attachment 3001456View attachment 3001458View attachment 3001459
Have a lovley break AC.Hubby and I are heading off for 10 days holiday tomorrow.
Our kids (mid 20s) will be looking after the chooks, cats and dogs while we are gone. They have gone over everything with us and put a checklist up on the fridge.
I think they will be fine.
Matilda will but I don't see her doing it often. The Golden Comet, Slip who died recently would as well. I've yet to see any of the RSL's do it.Ah that darn auto correct is at it again. I meant do any of the hens groom him?
I liked her as well. I think the Golden Comets are lovely looking hens. Slip was very relaxed and quite friendly. Slide not so much but not hysterical either.Poor Slip. I liked her.