Re: Chickens on the run!


"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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keith kent wrote:
I have kept chickens for one year now and let them roam the bottom of
the garden,where they have been happy and never strayed until today!!!

My garden is long and narrow fenced on both sides,gated from my main
garden and at the bottom open ish to farmland(soon will be houses) by
ish i mean there is a 4 ft high mound of soil,brambles etc and my two
compost bays.Today my wife phoned me to say the chickens had
vanished,but she spotted them in the middle of the farm land,she
managed to shout them back.End of problem, until i came home to find
they had got round onto my neighbours garden!I got them back,one of
them was hard work!!! Why have they decided to do one all of a sudden , i
thought they
didn`t go far from their hen house ?

Possibly because at this time of year there are relatively poor pickings
on range and they are prospecting for new goodies.
Birds can travel far and wide but always focused on the house - so the
chances are they will find their way home <g>

Otherwise is there any chance of them being disturbed at home?


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I don`t think they get disturbed, i think it is the lure of the farmland
that has be left to nature until they move in to build new houses!And the
green grass next door , i must admit the area they are in is a bit boring
,all soil .I was thinking of sowing a wildflower seed mix in spring but
would mean moving the hens ,which is problematic.
I have now put up a temporary mesh fence until the developers clear the back
and put a fence?


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