Stressed Chickens - help!

Well that's good to hear that they have gotten over having their leg bands removed. Chickens don't like change it stresses them out, also they like safe places so if they think one place is safe over another they will stay where they perceive it to be safe ( here the safe place includes their house and run and the dog kennel with the dog hahaha) . Sometimes its only a little change that makes them stress or worry, I've seen them go nutty over a bedding change from straw to sawdust or vice versa, so I wouldn't worry about it, as long as all the other stuff around them is relatively the same and there are the same faces then they should be fine. Chickens also adapt quite fast to new things and environments.
 
Lol, yes. I remember when I first got them and put them into their coop, they settled in fairly well.

A week later I decided the layout wasn't ideal, so I moved their roosting bars and feeders.

When they came in from ranging that night, it was like they had stepped onto a strange planet!

You could tell they were thinking "What the?! Where are we?!"

It took a while for them to settle in after that, but all is well now :)

Krista
 

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