These TJ leghorns are super friendly- but boy can they fly!!! I am soooo glad we put a bird net top on their run- otherwise I'm afraid they'd be goners.In one swoop they land on the cross bars of the run top which is about 16 feet high- no problem for them.Oh, that'd be fun cross! My girls were being rather social today, and we held them a while. Still too young to lay ( only 3 months old) but I just love them! So sweet (yes, they're skittish, but once they come close enough that I can sneakily grab them, and hold them, they're all hugs and kisses!) Can't wait for eggs though!!!
There is no reason to make it that high- we were attaching the roof of the run to another tall building on the property so that was why we made it so high- the wall made the 4th fence in the run. When I saw the leghorn fly up there I was thinking I might make her a few perches up there (sort of a jungle gym for chickens hahaLOL, Really?! Now I feel guilty because I only made the run a little over 6 feet tall! You have lucky birds there! I've noticed toward finishing up my coop, and working outside, that the hawks know exactly what it is. They started circulating above our back yard hoping to catch a chicken. Unfortunately, the run isn't completed so the two pullets can't go out yetI'm really way slower than I thought I'd be! But they'll have hardware cloth on the roof too. Trying my best to make it all predator proof, and really hope I'm successful because It'd be awful to find my birds torn apart one dayWant to try my best to avoid that.
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