Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Free Range? Yes or no...

 

We have silver laced wyandottes and a mixed batch with an americuna rooster, 2 barred rock hens, 1 Rhode Island red, and one americuna hen. The silver lace wyandotte rooster is much better about keeping his girls together and watching over them. They also go back to the hen house to lay. The americuna lets his girls go all over the place and I'm pretty sure lay everywhere as I only found one egg in the house the day my DH let them out. We kept them penned up in the house area for weeks to get them used to the idea of going back to the house even though their previous owner free ranged them so they would be better about going back and laying there. :love: Angelique

--- On Tue, 6/1/10, Shalonne Halstead <shalonne@gmail.com> wrote:

From: Shalonne Halstead <shalonne@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [CHICKENS-101] Re: Free Range? Yes or no...
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, June 1, 2010, 5:55 PM

Thanks for the great info! I think I will go ahead and do free range in our
back yard. We'll build a small run just to have in case. I can put a tarp
over it in winter to keep the snow out. I can't wait to see them clucking
all over the yard :)

When I first put them in the coop - should I restrict them to the coop and
run for a few days just so they learn the coop is their home? And then start
free ranging thereafter?



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