Trespassing chickens

in #permaculture5 years ago

So one of the hens of our neighbors hatched a dozen eggs in the late summer... Those little fluffy balls grew up and started exploring and found out they can fit through the holes in the fence!

As our yard is no till and everything is generally covered in grass, the chickens prefer to come visit us. They don't have much to forage in their own yard.

This may seem like a problem but actually it's great! We get all the benefits of having a flock without actually having one. As we don't yet live there, we cannot possibly have chicken, as least for now.

In the autumn there was not much left in the garden but still the chickens preferred to forage on the ground and did not peck any tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, melons, greens, etc. I guess they had so much other stuff to eat as we generally don't have time to weed and rarely mow the paths.

The chickens loved scratching around the compost pile as well, which is good as we never turn it 😊 Thank you chickens!

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Maybe they'll sneak into your yard, eat too much, and not be able to squeeze back through :)

Haha no chance of that, sneaky birds are those! But we'll definitely have to come up with another way of getting them I the garden in the spring when they will be too big for the fence holes. Now everything is covered with snow, we got fresh 15 cm today.

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Wow, that's a lot! I think the most we ever got was about that much, but it took two days to get it. Usually we're around 3-10cm of snow per year. Every time it happens, the entire state shuts down lol
Texans and snow don't mix.

Do you know the Knoppen climate scale? http://hanschen.org/koppen/

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I do not, but I'll take a look at it :)

Happy chooks, happy life.

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