Like Wendy we won't clip the wings on our girls and have an 80foot x 30 foot garden. If they do fly they cannot do it properly, or more than a foot off the ground, they jump rather than fly. The one occasion they did get into next doors garden they tunnelled: the dog did one side and they did the ot...

Welcome aboard, fifteen months ago I was new to both a Forum and chickens too!

It's nice on here, there is lots of help and the lovliest people

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Hi Linsi, I have a 100ft garden and they have the lot, aprt from a 10 x 30ft strip next to house which we have claimed, to their disgust, for ourselves. We have neighbours each side with equally big gardens but they don't try to get over and the fence is only four foot on one side of our garden, 6ft...

Fingers Magraw!!!



Or my Florrie when she is in noisy bully mode....aka grizzledrawers!

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Richard, you found it for me!! Whoohoo....

The chicken village was what I had as my desktop wallpaper years ago before I got chooks but was looking around!! And then I lost the pic and could never find it again!!


That is so cool,
thankyou
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Having trawled around the internet for over an hour and not found a sensible answer, I figured I would ask here! Is there such a thing as a quiter breed of cockerel? I realise this might be the dumbest question ever! I have looked at several breeds: The little tiny ones would be short lived as I hav...

I adore horses, and would love to help. When I can I promise I will, even if only a bag of feed. Well done you!!


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Hear hear, we will find homes or add to our own!

Just let us know,
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If it doesn't work, just let us know.
We all have sisters that will keep them company.

Well, gave up on movable run! Just let them free range. I put 1m squares of chicken wire over the baldest bits! The chicken wire squares are movable. So much easier.

Not what most want to hear, but it works, every spring the'lawn' is gorgeous!!

It's all clover, bees and chooks!

We have 5 cats, 6 chooks, the cats have learnt to walk really slow around the chooks. If they run the chooks chase them. What a hoot! Slo-mo cats!!

Yes Please! xxx

I appear to be trained too, didn't know my chooks could read!!
Perhaps they are named as contributors to the book.

haha

mine take the odd bite out of rhubarb but it still grows well.

They do eat alot of sage though, a worrying trend...gets howls of laughter from the neighbours!

We have not had snow yet but last year my ex-batts spent all day chasing snowflakes, think they thought they were butterflies!

They got absolutely soaked and would not get under cover...mind you, they do live with me and I am clearly barking!

some of my fences are less than 5ft high, mine have never tried to escape, they like their porridge too much I guess!

I have never trimmed their wings, we said we would only do it if any flew over, but ours cannot get more than a foot off the ground.