One of these days, we're going to HAVE to go on vacation! I'm wondering what to do about our roo, who is fine with us, but treats other folks like they are a big threat to his girls. Don't say stewpot -- DH loves this creature, and unless the roo ever attacks HIM, he's safe! He DOES do a wonderful job of protecting his flock and we have seen him chase away hawks on more than one occasion.
They free range all day. If someone is coming over to work on a project, we just shoo everyone back to the run.
If we go away for just a couple of days, no big deal. The chickens have a nice secure coop with a good size attached run and we can just leave everyone loaded up with lots of food and clean water.
But if we wanted to go away for a week, that's another story. Our eight girls lay an egg a day each, and someone would have to pick those up. But I can see our roo putting up a fight with anyone coming in to his coop to collect eggs.
What do we do? Set up one of those doggy fences and keep him separated from the flock for a whole week so someone can come and go from the coop without fear of attack? I would think that would be very hard on him.
Has anyone ever faced this problem? What was your solution?
They free range all day. If someone is coming over to work on a project, we just shoo everyone back to the run.
If we go away for just a couple of days, no big deal. The chickens have a nice secure coop with a good size attached run and we can just leave everyone loaded up with lots of food and clean water.
But if we wanted to go away for a week, that's another story. Our eight girls lay an egg a day each, and someone would have to pick those up. But I can see our roo putting up a fight with anyone coming in to his coop to collect eggs.
What do we do? Set up one of those doggy fences and keep him separated from the flock for a whole week so someone can come and go from the coop without fear of attack? I would think that would be very hard on him.
Has anyone ever faced this problem? What was your solution?