- Apr 2, 2013
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Hello all you chicken people
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My family is Brand New to this whole idea of Hen ownership and what it takes to care for and manage a coop of Hens/chicken. See I am not even sure what you call them......LOL. How this happened was we went over to our neighbors house who had 2 Hens, this is all it took for my wife and 5 yr old daughter to be get some new family members. I have no doubt we will be good owners and what a great experience for my daughter to be involved with pet ownership, other than our cat, cats are pretty easy to own.
So I have a few questions in regards to space needed for them. I only want 2-3 Hens for now, so the coop and run I have pretty well figured out, but is the yard and what will happen to my yard, outside of the coop/run area. Do you leave them out all day to free range in the yard. And if so does your yard get destroyed? I have a fairly nice yard and would like to try and keep it that way. I am a very clean person and do not mind cleaning out the coop every weekend or so if that is what is takes, I need a hoppy and LOVE to putz around doing stuff, so that is not my issue. It is my yard/grass....will it all die!?
I am really OK with owning the chickens and getting the advantages of owning them, just got some yard questions.
My family is Brand New to this whole idea of Hen ownership and what it takes to care for and manage a coop of Hens/chicken. See I am not even sure what you call them......LOL. How this happened was we went over to our neighbors house who had 2 Hens, this is all it took for my wife and 5 yr old daughter to be get some new family members. I have no doubt we will be good owners and what a great experience for my daughter to be involved with pet ownership, other than our cat, cats are pretty easy to own.
So I have a few questions in regards to space needed for them. I only want 2-3 Hens for now, so the coop and run I have pretty well figured out, but is the yard and what will happen to my yard, outside of the coop/run area. Do you leave them out all day to free range in the yard. And if so does your yard get destroyed? I have a fairly nice yard and would like to try and keep it that way. I am a very clean person and do not mind cleaning out the coop every weekend or so if that is what is takes, I need a hoppy and LOVE to putz around doing stuff, so that is not my issue. It is my yard/grass....will it all die!?
I am really OK with owning the chickens and getting the advantages of owning them, just got some yard questions.
