joshermanz71
Hatching
Our chickens live in harmony with our 2 ducks and goats. The only problem I've had was the goats eating the chicken feed and the chickens eating the duck feed so we have separated them in the barn. The ducks have their own little hutch and nesting box and the goats can't get into the chicken door anymore. The chickens are able to roam freely though which isn't the problem, the problem is that out hens have gotten into a habit of laying under our hay feeder and in the duck box.
So today we shut the doors on the goat side of the barn and the duck side so the hens can only go into where their nesting boxes are and they refuse to go into the boxes even though they are clean and accessible. Instead they pace back and forth looking for a way to get past the fence in the barn(we put chain link fence up between the goats and where the chicken feed is) where the hay feeder is.
What can I do, will this resolve itself or do I need to make changes?
So today we shut the doors on the goat side of the barn and the duck side so the hens can only go into where their nesting boxes are and they refuse to go into the boxes even though they are clean and accessible. Instead they pace back and forth looking for a way to get past the fence in the barn(we put chain link fence up between the goats and where the chicken feed is) where the hay feeder is.
What can I do, will this resolve itself or do I need to make changes?
