It's a gorgeous Sunday afternoon in south Texas, Blyth and I are setting in the "big run" watching all our mixed flock of chickens. We turned to one another and she said I have a fitting name for our place ...SNOWFLAKE Farm. We laughed and laughed until we could breathe. We started telling one another about the "special snowflake" chickens and started laughing uncontrollably once again. We have a Maine Coon cat(long hair) a rescue, a short hair tabby that survived hurricane Harvey when his mother stuffed them under a water of house that was damaged in the hurricane. Now on to the CHICKENS. This is our second attempt at raising chickens. In February 2019 we brought home a flock of 8 mixed birds purchased at the Mother Earth show. Remember this is our first flock. We brooded them in our guest bedroom for 10-11 weeks. I know I know not a good plan but we moved forward doing the best we could. I'm pretty sure that we put them in the coop yard at 12 weeks and they quickly devoured everything in their path like a swarm of locust. So we decided to enlarge their run where I made a almost completely fatal mistake. I purchased T posts and that orange construction fence. All was well and we closed up all the escape routes life was bliss. About the end of the 3rd week in June IT happened...the neighbors dogs(no proof) entered the run by tearing a/several holes in the fence and killed 7 of 8 chickens. The 8th survived by our not having been able to catch her to clip a wing so she couldn't fly over the fence. The flock consisted of 2 Orpingtons, 2 Ameracanas, 2 silver laced Wyandottes and 2 Astrolorps. They were a great flock and are missed deeply.
but I'd love to see ur 2 & 3 flock
