Cant figure it out, but Bramble keeps getting over or under the net somehow, and I find her in the older girls side.
She's wanting to lay an egg, but the others have a go at her and she sits by the netting. Belle has got over there a few times, but Alice is just scared of the older hens, and she stays put. She is very intermittent in her egg laying so she's not too bothered.
The older girls are getting better about the little ones, and only give a peck if they pass them. Clarice doesn't seem to be going out of her way to attack, and the newbies keep well out of her way because she'll jump on them and bite pull their neck feathers, or grab any bit of passing chicken she can.
It will be nice when I can take the netting down, and let them all flock together.
hello from an experienced chicken keeper from north wales......
ReplyDeletemake sure you have a few nesting areas for the hens.. they are awful bullies and laying hens need at leat 2 hors in a dark nesting area to lay
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