Wednesday, March 12, 2014

Re: [CHICKENS-101] new flock

 

Nice link  Rhonda.  Mine go to bed when I clap my hands and tell them, "Go to bed"!  My older chickens train the younger.  My white rocks when outside of their pen with me are also trained to, "Hawk, go to bed. Hawk!"  (You can switch the word dog for hawk too.)  Delbert my rooster rounds up any reluctant younger hens quickly.  All run to the far side of their very large pen, in their coop or in their calf house. I can let them out for 5-10 minutes then tell them go to bed, and they go. Often my rooster looks at me like are you kidding, but minds me because of close hawk and dog calls. 
I always keep a shovel or rake handy and would not hesitate to play baseball with a metal leaf rake and the hawk the ball.  The shovel is for baseball with the heads of the stray dogs the ball. I mean business when it comes to protecting my birds.
Which speaking of protecting chickens from predators, msmorganne will need to consider predators in her area: hawks, fox, stray dogs,  coyotes, feral cats, eagles, raccoons, opossums, et...  Free range pullets do not last long without protection.
Cathryn  rainbowsilkiesTM  in  Michigan







On Wednesday, March 12, 2014 1:24 PM, "sidesaddle5@yahoo.com" <sidesaddle5@yahoo.com> wrote:
 
Just ran across this with all sorts of ideas for "encouraging" the biddies to the coop at bed-time!

http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/free-range-chickens-bed-zwfz1402zjhar.aspx?newsletter=1&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=SLCS%20eNews&utm_campaign=03.12.14%20SLCS

Enjoy!

Rhonda

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