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My free rangers sleep up in the top of my magnolia tree. No matter how many times I move them, they go back to that tree so I just give up and leave them there. They're in a safe place in the yard and the coop is open if they should decide they want to go in. So far, they've been in that tree about a year now and everybody is doing fine. Amy, I'm glad your guinea hen is going back in the coop. She was raised in the coop with my chickens so hopefully she'll be well behaved all winter.
Thanks Joy for the words of encouragement and words of experience. I don't have anything as hearty as a Magnolia anywhere near. Just a small open field lined with woods. I think it is a poplar they are in...whatever it is EVERYTHING around here looses their leaves in the winter except the few tall limbless pines growing between in the woods that I haven't cut to rid them. I will build some kinda shelter to offer them for the winter. I am thankful for the suggestions of having something out there to offer them IF they so choose...LOL
I know how you feel, my guineas sleep in a pecan tree so it's very bare all winter. Yet they insist on sleeping there, even through the ice and snow storms we had. I always have a coop or shelter close by that I leave open, just in case. They don't use it but it makes me feel better that I've provided for them anyway. Even if they refuse my good intentions.
My free rangers sleep up in the top of my magnolia tree. No matter how many times I move them, they go back to that tree so I just give up and leave them there. They're in a safe place in the yard and the coop is open if they should decide they want to go in. So far, they've been in that tree about a year now and everybody is doing fine. Amy, I'm glad your guinea hen is going back in the coop. She was raised in the coop with my chickens so hopefully she'll be well behaved all winter.
Thanks Joy for the words of encouragement and words of experience. I don't have anything as hearty as a Magnolia anywhere near. Just a small open field lined with woods. I think it is a poplar they are in...whatever it is EVERYTHING around here looses their leaves in the winter except the few tall limbless pines growing between in the woods that I haven't cut to rid them. I will build some kinda shelter to offer them for the winter. I am thankful for the suggestions of having something out there to offer them IF they so choose...LOL
I know how you feel, my guineas sleep in a pecan tree so it's very bare all winter. Yet they insist on sleeping there, even through the ice and snow storms we had. I always have a coop or shelter close by that I leave open, just in case. They don't use it but it makes me feel better that I've provided for them anyway. Even if they refuse my good intentions.
