I fashion my crown from Quetzlcoatl’s quills

I think they are about 2.5 years old now. Birds are pretty fragile. Unless it's a parrot, those things live to like 100 don't they?
The rabbit lives under that shed or in my garage. It REALLY wants to be with the chickens, they are finally caving in and letting it be around. They don't like it, but they stopped panicking about it. I haven't seen Velveteen the rabbit for weeks, I don't think that one made it.
@mandi I saw a fox this morning near hillzilla staring at me with something in it's mouth, I think a chipmunk. It was like 8:30 in the morning and I had left the chickens outside since like 7am. Hmf.
 
@The Kalmyk CHICKENS!
I always wondered if Fiona would eat the chickens or not. She caught a Robin the last day we had her, but she's damn smart so I think you could explain to her not to eat the chickens.
I've seen videos of cattle dogs hearding the chickens back into their coop. That would be awesome to see her do.
 
this is how I found the bunny this morning.
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gtluke said:
@The Kalmyk CHICKENS!
I always wondered if Fiona would eat the chickens or not. She caught a Robin the last day we had her, but she's damn smart so I think you could explain to her not to eat the chickens.
I've seen videos of cattle dogs hearding the chickens back into their coop. That would be awesome to see her do.
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I think she will be able to differentiate with a few coaching sessions.

I have no experience with herding. She will have to do that on her own.
 
Where do your chickens stay in the winter?

How much time are they out of the pen?

Who takes care of them when you and Maria are away? How long can they be left alone?
 
They stay in the coop all winter. As long as it's not terribly drafty they will be fine. The hard part is keeping liquid water available for them. They have water heaters and stuff that sorta work.
My coop has a built in run, so they have a place to come out of the enclosed coop into a little run that they hang out in when I'm not home. Any time I'm home, I let them out to free range. It's easy to get them back in when you want to leave, just throw some corn on the run and they walk back in.
I can leave them easily all weekend. Just leave food and water in the run for them. If it's longer than that my neighbor comes over and collects the eggs and makes sure they didn't ruin the water/food supply
The only danger with leaving them alone for a long time in a setup like mine is that too many eggs can pile up in the nest box, and one or more of the chickens will get broody. They'll eventually start sitting on the eggs and try to hatch them, but usually that only happens if a few days of eggs piles up. When they get broody they stop laying eggs. As long as you take the eggs, they keep laying them.
 
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