Witchychickens
Chirping
My girls will be going out this week, they’re just about 7 weeks and feathered.
It’s going to be raining Weds-Sun They have a covered run and I will plan to leave the coop open for them during the day. My plan is to take them outside for the day and then return them to their brooding pen at night. Should I add hours of outdoor time in increments? Like Tuesday, 4 hours, add an hour each day? They’ve only been outside 3 times for a short duration as I didn’t have anywhere safe to contain them, yet.
If I leave to run an errand, should I return them to their coop or let them stay in their run? It’s predator proof and covered but I’m still nervous.
We have a 4 foot fence around the garden space they’re in, there is a hardware cloth apron around their whole run and coop, my husband enclosed the base of the coop in HWC and put metal around the lower edges of the coop and under about 12 inches and my yard is enclosed in a 6 foot privacy fence. We also have a GSD who probably scares everything away and is outside pretty much all day long unless it’s gross out.
It’s going to be raining Weds-Sun They have a covered run and I will plan to leave the coop open for them during the day. My plan is to take them outside for the day and then return them to their brooding pen at night. Should I add hours of outdoor time in increments? Like Tuesday, 4 hours, add an hour each day? They’ve only been outside 3 times for a short duration as I didn’t have anywhere safe to contain them, yet.
If I leave to run an errand, should I return them to their coop or let them stay in their run? It’s predator proof and covered but I’m still nervous.
We have a 4 foot fence around the garden space they’re in, there is a hardware cloth apron around their whole run and coop, my husband enclosed the base of the coop in HWC and put metal around the lower edges of the coop and under about 12 inches and my yard is enclosed in a 6 foot privacy fence. We also have a GSD who probably scares everything away and is outside pretty much all day long unless it’s gross out.