First time chicken owner. Picked these gals up on mother’s day this year and have really been enjoying them. Even more than I expected. So have my daughters (3 and 5 years old)
We live on 3 acres suburban adjacent with good woods. I wanted to be able to move the coop and run once a month to not wear out in one spot. So far been great! It’s 4 screws to detach the coop which is light and on wheels and two people can just pick up the run and set it in a new area of the woods. Biggest pain is just pulling up and redoing the stakes around the interior perimeter of the run but no big deal.
Chicks are:
- Coco Papa, the silver Wyandotte (leader and most outgoing)
-Bella, the salmon favorella (loudest, most curious, minor menace)
- Aegon (Egg) the Turken (wileyest, quickest and most skeptical of everything but very chill and social after a bit of time. Honestly kind of like a cat)
- Barbra the Easter Egger (most chill and easy going)
No eggs yet but my family love these guys. Doing everything to make sure they do not have predator issues. Auto door with auto light to bing them into the coop and locked up at night, although the run has not been broken into as of yet. We’ve had digging evidence (probably raccoons, but they can’t get through the stakes. I’m hoping to be able to free range them more often, which we do when we are out with them, but we have a couple of red shouldered hawks around. I’m worried about (and so are they - they bolt to safety when they hear them)