Oh God, I swear our local supermarket moves the fresh fish every three weeks. It’s always the fish and it just fills me with rage. I don’t want to do a meter by meter search for a chunk of salmon while my picky children are whining and chewing on my kneecaps.
Not defending this particular wool shop but often those sorts of specialty shops also have an online side. Weird that they would throw customers out though
Also if you spend time with chickens, you realize without a doubt that birds = dinosaurs. Especially if you raise them from chicks, their awkward teenage stage is like half bird, half lizard anyway.
I have a cuddle chicken, too. They are the best.
Thanks! It’s a young silver-laced Orpington rooster.
They would love to help you with about 90% of your kitchen waste. We don’t give ours fish or raw onions, and they apparently can’t eat avocado, chocolate or raw potatoes, and my husband is against cannibalism so they don’t get chicken meat. But everything else is received with joyous exclamations and squabbling over first dibs.
Mine like watermelon too, but they will do anything for cucumber.
Oh good, I’ve been missing this one, couldn’t subscribe fast enough.
Very Baba Yaga vibe, looks great!
Think about predators - everything: rats, cats, dogs, hawks, mink, snakes, raccoons, foxes, bears, alligators, human thieves etc - depending on where you are. They taste like chicken. Can you predatorize the coop or will you accept a certain rate of loss (be aware that once they know the chickens are there, they’ll be back). And what are you going to do with injured, not dead chickens?
Our run has hardware netting on all sides including the top and under the dirt, and we let them out in the garden to live their best lives when we’re at home. So far this has kept predation down although we have had some curious cats.
Also if you have kids think about whether your chickens are livestock or pets. Ours are pets that lay eggs.