You know you love your chicken you get a heated blanket just so you can snuggle with your baby chicks without them getting cold
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Maybe she thinks she is Daisy Duck....Check out poor Daisy after a recent storm.
We love our neighbors! Whenever you buy a house it's a roll of the dice if you will like your neighbors and vice versa. Ours are fabulous. We have so many similar interests aside from chickens. They have become like family. We celebrate Easter and Thanksgiving with them and their family because our family is so spread out!My vhicken house (or as friends call it, chicken mansion) is safe with buried hardware cloth all around it. The attached run I had been done the same, it is covered. If they are in there, they are safe. However, I let them out from morning to dusk to free range. They come when I call them, go straight into the run. They are a joy for my family.
I am not a fan of the clipping of wings, I would want them to be able to escape a predator if the need arose. After all that was how the Lord intended them to be. Also I understand your concern.
My flock just love the garden, especially the fresh vegetables that I feed them, they eat like they haven't had food for days. Love cucumbers and the apples fallen from my trees.
We have always had a hard time keeping chickens in the past, but had no special chicken domain until I got these. They just free ranged 24/7. That never worked out, they always eventually fell pray, probably to the Bobcats. This seems to be doing well forthem. They are ready to go in before dark. I have the outside set up with motion lights as well as pathway lights around the perimeter, at dusk I close up the chicken house for the night. If something did manage to get into the run (not likely) they can not get inside to get my girls.
I had some treats for them yesterday, could not locate one, searched high and low, started to get really concerned for her, then found her under one of my shrubs dusting. I was scared something had happened to her up until then. Funny how they are almost like children.
Sounds like you have you some very wonderful neighbors. You are lucky to have them.
LOL. Do people admire them when you pull out the photos? Aside from the fact that I love my chickens, I think chickens are very photogenic.And when other people talk about their kids and dogs you start pulling up chicken pictures without hesitation.