My Daily Chicken Routine!!!! What's Yours?

[ILoveDaffy]

Yes, the first evening at our house, she got into the habit of hopping on my shoulder for bed, and whenever she is scared, uncomfortable, or wants out of anwhere, including the first day bath, and all that followed!

 

[Sycamore Hill Chicks]

Yes, the first evening at our house, she got into the habit of hopping on my shoulder for bed, and whenever she is scared, uncomfortable, or wants out of anwhere, including the first day bath, and all that followed!

that's adorable! Mine will only jump on my feet.

 

[ILoveDaffy]

Panda and Dandy were a little mean when she integrated, and she wouldn't let anone but me touch her, and only I could catch her, my little trouble maker!

 

[cmom]

I noticed you are a fairly new member My routine is pretty easy. I go out each morning and collect the memory cards in my cameras and put clean ones in. While checking the cameras I check the birds. I have electric wires around my coops and pens. I don't close the pop doors so they go in their coops at night and out in the mornings themselves. My pens are covered to protect the birds from aerial predators, electric wires around the coops and pens to protect them from ground predators. Nothing has gotten past the wires yet. I put concrete under the gates. All was due to losses from predators in the past. I do go out daily for maintenance project around or on the coops, pens and the property. In the evenings I collect the eggs about a hour before sunset. I check the birds then too and set the cameras. DH and I usually sit at our work bench and chat in the evening before I collect the eggs. All very routine. Good luck and have fun...

 

[CurlyQuail]

6:30am
I usually do the morning rounds—let them out of the coop, check food and water. I check for any signs of critters in the yard (lately I’ve had holes in the garden) and if I see anything I check the night cameras.

8:50am
Check everything over before I leave for work (All chickens accounted for, water is still full, etc)

12:00pm
I’m not home but my roommate checks everything over during his lunch break. If it’s hot, he’ll turn on the misters and put an ice block in their water. The girls usually lay in the morning so this is the time to collect eggs

Between 3:00pm and 5:00pm
One of the roommates let’s the ducks out to go to the pond, if the chickens come out too they free range for this time.

5:10pm
I get home from work and check on everything again

Whenever they all go inside I lock the coop doors

 

[Sycamore Hill Chicks]

I noticed you are a fairly new member My routine is pretty easy. I go out each morning and collect the memory cards in my cameras and put clean ones in. While checking the cameras I check the birds. I have electric wires around my coops and pens. I don't close the pop doors so they go in their coops at night and out in the mornings themselves. My pens are covered to protect the birds from aerial predators, electric wires around the coops and pens to protect them from ground predators. Nothing has gotten past the wires yet. I put concrete under the gates. All was due to losses from predators in the past. I do go out daily for maintenance project around or on the coops, pens and the property. In the evenings I collect the eggs about a hour before sunset. I check the birds then too and set the cameras. DH and I usually sit at our work bench and chat in the evening before I collect the eggs. All very routine. Good luck and have fun..
Thanks! Sounds amazing!

 

[Sycamore Hill Chicks]

Panda and Dandy were a little mean when she integrated, and she wouldn't let anone but me touch her, and only I could catch her, my little trouble maker!

Hahah

 

[Sycamore Hill Chicks]

6:30am
I usually do the morning rounds—let them out of the coop, check food and water. I check for any signs of critters in the yard (lately I’ve had holes in the garden) and if I see anything I check the night cameras.

8:50am
Check everything over before I leave for work (All chickens accounted for, water is still full, etc)

12:00pm
I’m not home but my roommate checks everything over during his lunch break. If it’s hot, he’ll turn on the misters and put an ice block in their water. The girls usually lay in the morning so this is the time to collect eggs

Between 3:00pm and 5:00pm
One of the roommates let’s the ducks out to go to the pond, if the chickens come out too they free range for this time.

5:10pm
I get home from work and check on everything again

Whenever they all go inside I lock the coop doors

Nice!

 

[Farmgirl1878]

Before Mother’s Day 2021:
The JVR Auto Coop Door opens right around daylight and my seven hens leisurely get down off the roosts and head out into the run to eat, drink, poop, and have their morning coffee. Then around 8am or so, I head out and scoop poop, make the beds, vacuum and dust (jk). Poop scoopin’ takes about ten minutes because we have sand inside the coop and in the run. Then I usually hang out with the girls so they can “free range” with adult supervision and we chat.

After Mother’s Day 2021 and for the next few weeks:
Because I successfully sneaked five beautiful day-old Brahma chicks under my broody Speckled Sussex, the Grandpa’s Feeders are closed for vacation. (I’ve had a chick get stuck inside the feeder two years ago, so I’m not messing around this time!) So now the chicken tender (that would be me) drags her fanny out of bed before the butt-crack of dawn to take the food bowls out for everyone! I don’t mind so much because I get to watch the Littles wake up...

After about half an hour of watching the girls, I come back inside for my breakfast and some homemade hot chocolate. Then I go back out at around 8am to scoop poop and let the whole flock out to play in the yard. I stay out with them for a couple of hours, then come back and do the reverse later in the afternoon. Hubby and I are retired from our first (and second, in his case) careers and are now full-time hardwood timber farmers, so always chores to do around the property.

 

[Sycamore Hill Chicks]

Before Mother’s Day 2021:
The JVR Auto Coop Door opens right around daylight and my seven hens leisurely get down off the roosts and head out into the run to eat, drink, poop, and have their morning coffee. Then around 8am or so, I head out and scoop poop, make the beds, vacuum and dust (jk). Poop scoopin’ takes about ten minutes because we have sand inside the coop and in the run. Then I usually hang out with the girls so they can “free range” with adult supervision and we chat.

After Mother’s Day 2021 and for the next few weeks:
Because I successfully sneaked five beautiful day-old Brahma chicks under my broody Speckled Sussex, the Grandpa’s Feeders are closed for vacation. (I’ve had a chick get stuck inside the feeder two years ago, so I’m not messing around this time!) So now the chicken tender (that would be me) drags her fanny out of bed before the butt-crack of dawn to take the food bowls out for everyone! I don’t mind so much because I get to watch the Littles wake up...

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After about half an hour of watching the girls, I come back inside for my breakfast and some homemade hot chocolate. Then I go back out at around 8am to scoop poop and let the whole flock out to play in the yard. I stay out with them for a couple of hours, then come back and do the reverse later in the afternoon. Hubby and I are retired from our first (and second, in his case) careers and are now full-time hardwood timber farmers, so always chores to do around the property.

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So cute!