I was away last week. During that time my wife found the mother hen on the wrong side of our fence a few times. We think she was chasing away a hawk. I don't remember how many times it happened, but we are now down to 7 chicks.
We started with 11. That's better than we did
last year (so far).
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| I count 8 chicks in this picture. One of them has disappeared since it was taken. |
The chicks now sleep in the coop with the mother hen. There were quite a few nights when they would just honker down under the coop by themselves. I had to go out several nights and chase them out from under there and manually move them. Eventually they figured it out. I find it odd that the mother hen didn't seem to care that they were outside and she was inside. Chickens!
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| Somehow they got up here. |
They're pretty quick to get out of the coop in the morning. They make a mad dash for the feeder before the big birds get there and push them out of the way.
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