Stella's Social Club

[1muttsfan]

Makes great rice too

 

[Happy Chooks]

Oh my gosh, these Arkansas Blues are troublemakers! First, they figured out how to get up to the rafters to roost, where I can't get them and move them to the proper roost. Today, one pullet laid an egg in an empty nest box that is stored in the attic! No shavings or anything, just being stored up there. So now, I moved it down with the other nest boxes.

I want to get ready to move them in with the male, as both are laying, but they are roosting where I can't reach them!

 

[1muttsfan]

Yes they would make great free rangers, except they tend to move out and not come home to lay! You could try tacking up some bird netting, they sell it to cover fruit trees in a lot of gardening centers.

 

[ronott1]

Mine laid in nest boxes even though they liked roosting in the plum tree. You can get them to come back to the coop and night if you home them in the coop or three days--coop lockdown!

They are very smart though. I have four pullets in a hutch and they just started laying eggs. Two of them are laying eggs in the cage feeder I have!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Well, the troublemakers showed the Barnevelders how to get up there, caught a Barnevelder pullet up there today. I've NEVER had Barnevelders get into the attic. Icelandics, sure, but not Barnevelders.

Sooooo, I got my ladder out, my stapler and found some old screening material. Viola, no more access up there. They can still get to the rafters, but not the storage area. The storage area has plywood on top of the rafters for shavings storage, but they changed the size of the shavings bags, so now they don't fit up there anymore.

Hopefully now I've outsmarted them ...........at least for the moment.

 

[mlm Mike]

Well, the troublemakers showed the Barnevelders how to get up there, caught a Barnevelder pullet up there today. I've NEVER had Barnevelders get into the attic. Icelandics, sure, but not Barnevelders.

Sooooo, I got my ladder out, my stapler and found some old screening material. Viola, no more access up there. They can still get to the rafters, but not the storage area. The storage area has plywood on top of the rafters for shavings storage, but they changed the size of the shavings bags, so now they don't fit up there anymore.

Hopefully now I've outsmarted them ...........at least for the moment.

I'm going to sectioning off a no chicken area in the goat barn in the spring.

 

[ronott1]

Well, the troublemakers showed the Barnevelders how to get up there, caught a Barnevelder pullet up there today. I've NEVER had Barnevelders get into the attic. Icelandics, sure, but not Barnevelders.

Sooooo, I got my ladder out, my stapler and found some old screening material. Viola, no more access up there. They can still get to the rafters, but not the storage area. The storage area has plywood on top of the rafters for shavings storage, but they changed the size of the shavings bags, so now they don't fit up there anymore.

Hopefully now I've outsmarted them ...........at least for the moment.

That is too funny!

Don't you love smart chickens?

 

[1muttsfan]

They have nothing to do other than eat, sleep,poo, lay an egg once a day or so. That leaves plenty of time to figure out how to get into mischief.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I'm going to sectioning off a no chicken area in the goat barn in the spring.

But, they want to be friends with (ie poop on) the goats!

That is too funny!

Don't you love smart chickens?

I really wish they weren't such great flyers. Then I could keep them in my orchard. That coop is perfect for them, being a smaller breed. BUT, that run isn't covered. I can only imagine the chaos.

They have nothing to do other than eat, sleep,poo, lay an egg once a day or so. That leaves plenty of time to figure out how to get into mischief.

Absolutely. I felt a sense of accomplishment tonight when I went in and one of them was on the roost. The "regular" roost. The other one was defying me by sitting on top of the feed sacks. She will get moved when I take the dogs out before bed.

 

[mlm Mike]

But, they want to be friends with (ie poop on) the goats!



I really wish they weren't such great flyers. Then I could keep them in my orchard. That coop is perfect for them, being a smaller breed. BUT, that run isn't covered. I can only imagine the chaos.


Absolutely. I felt a sense of accomplishment tonight when I went in and one of them was on the roost. The "regular" roost. The other one was defying me by sitting on top of the feed sacks. She will get moved when I take the dogs out before bed.

No, I bumped out the barn, doubled it's size. The goats are in the new part. I was going to move the chickens there too, but now the goats are in the new part, chickens still roost in the old part. The hay can go in the mow, and under the mow. I just want to block the chickens from the hay. Then I won't be risking having a bunch of eggs fall on me when I get a bale of hay down.