Re: Training free ranging chickens

Jacob Johnston wrote:
How did you get your birds trained to get back into the pen? Leave them in
the pen for a few weeks to get them to associate it with home? Only feed them in the pen at the time you'll be putting them in the pen for the day?

I leave mine in the pen for a couple of weeks, then let them out late in the afternoon the first few days. After that I let them out in the morning when I'm home, not at all if I'm going out or leaving before their bed time. My old hens would come running when I called but my new hens don't yet.


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Ginny - in West Australia

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