My family does have pallets it's just that my dad has them for other purposes. Also my parents don't want the chickens in a run. They want them to kill the mice and eat up all the bugs.
The run idea would only be while you were at school. Then you could let them out when you get home to roam and take care of all the unwanted critters.
That’s correct! A rooster does make a huge difference on wandering hens.
Good news is that when school starts I am going to talk to my friend about taking them. They are just way to stress inducing for me. I might be able to butter my parents a bit into allowing me to keep them in the coop for one day. But only that.
Sorry didn't notice your post till now. I give my chickens a bit of vegetables. From time to time. All these chicks want to do is see the world. No time to eat is their moto or at least they act like it is.
I do have a rooster. He takes care of the flock pretty well. It is just that these chicks, even though they have been in the same area of the other chickens for 5 months. They just don't want to merge their flocks together.
Sometimes chickens are like stubborn teenagers, we all know or knew someone like this. They want to do things their way and they just want to get to the other side.
He doesn't even think about these new four. Ignores them. They even sleep on exact opposite sides of the coop.
I get that they sleep on opposite sides of the coop, I have Easter Eggers most of them are all colors and I have two that are cream colored. When I first got them the cream colored ones stayed on one side while everyone else huddled together as far away as possible. This eventually stopped but on their own terms.
