Poor chooks! Glad they are okay. I'd love to free-range mine, but we have no good cover, lots of hawks, black vultures, even eagles!I just can’t keep them confined all the time. They so love being out. I know I would not stick to that.
Ideas on how to increase protection have been swirling though my head all night.
In the summer I think they have a lot of cover and ironically my original plan for yesterday afternoon was to plant some forsythia cuttings for them to provide still more.
But in winter there is too much leaf loss.
I need more evergreens for them but also some strings or netting over popular areas.
I will keep them in this week because unless Bernie really managed to hurt that hawk, I am sure it will be back.
Yeah...no. Just no.An hour ago, it was -38. Now it's -39. Staying home and not going out to the coop for at least another couple of hours. Sporadic snow yesterday. Only critters moving around outside were the magpies.
It's about 9 here. Wind chill -4. I'm going to go check on them soon, but I'm not letting them out.
Sheba was in the floor again last night. The other 3 were huddled on the top roost, Randy on top of the nest boxes, Sheba down under them on the floor. Poor baby. I hate this. I want the rooster gone asap. If my husband was physically able. He'd be in the freezer. I know it's not his fault, but Sheba was just starting to grow her feathers back from Manny.