Should I move my run away from the walnut tree?

[ValerieJ]

I think that one comes from dipping bird in cold water to break broodiness.

Yes, but everything makes a broody hen angry.

 

[Quackter]

They are little fertilizer makers. However, I should add I'm in Washington and it rains a lot here, so that may be in part why it works so well for us.

It's great to get harmony in a system like that. You're right as rain on the rain. A few chickens scratching around keep the bugs down too. Just have to be really careful with fruit trees, it doesn't take much to "burn" them up with too much fertilizer.

 

[ValerieJ]

It's great to get harmony in a system like that. You're right as rain on the rain. A few chickens scratching around keep the bugs down too. Just have to be really careful with fruit trees, it doesn't take much to "burn" them up with too much fertilizer.

8 chickens and 4000 sq ft. They spread it around. LOL

 

[Quackter]

8 chickens and 4000 sq ft. They spread it around. LOL

Heck you could probably walk through there blindfolded and still come out with clean shoes.

 

[ValerieJ]

Heck you could probably walk through there blindfolded and still come out with clean shoes.

No. I have to have dedicated shoes. I can't seem to avoid the freshest pile of poo every time I go out. LOL I think they intentionally walk around my feet and give me gifts.

 

[Coopscraft]

I am up to 70 chickens now. So there is a certain level of deposits.

 

[ValerieJ]

I am up to 70 chickens now. So there is a certain level of deposits.

That is a very different situation than mine. I'm not sure what you should do then. Have your chickens effected the tree yet? Are the walnuts important to you?

 

[Coopscraft]

They can have the nuts. The tree i’d Like to keep. By the time all 70 birds are out of the brooder, the total run space will be at least 1200sq ft. (20x60)

 

[Molpet]

They can have the nuts. The tree i’d Like to keep. By the time all 70 birds are out of the brooder, the total run space will be at least 1200sq ft. (20x60)

That's a big load
I have 5 DZ chickens and 3 DZ turkeys, but they have 140' x 200'

 

[jvls1942]

I'll remember to tell that to the chickens that drown on the coast here.

you do that.
I didn't say they can swim like a duck, nor did I say they can swim forever..
but I did see them swim and I did see a guinea keet (chick) swim.
now if you want to call me a liar, it doesn't matter because your opinion doesn't matter to me..