Look up....Look Waaaaay Up!!

So as I mentioned earlier my chickens are weird. mean...and weird. They perch in the funniest places.
Just so you know, chickens like to feel safe. It comes from way back when they were free to roam the forests. They would fly up to the lowest braches on trees to sleep and not get eaten. Got it?

They will perch on branches or the floor. Whatever you provide them with really. They huddle together facing all directions. The first night they spent here four of the gals were shunned from the coop and forced to sleep outside. They huddled together in the corner of the fence in a big ball while the rooster was cozy with his harem inside. It was a pathetic site. poor things.

In the winter they should be perching on 2/4's. That way they sit down a little and thus stay warm but the poop still falls to the ground.

MY CHICKENS OF COURSE ARE DOING THEIR OWN THING...

Keep in mind they moved a little when I took the picture.

I peered in and found four of them huddled on top of the very narrow ridge of the nesting boxes.


Then I saw three more on the top perch created for them. Notice my little bare back. Oh, and the black stuff on the ground is feathers...not poop.


Then I counted...1,2,3,4...5,6,7!!!
o.k where on earth are the other three? Did they escape? Ummmm Adam we have lost 3 chickens!!
Also keep in mind it was dark and I was using a flashlight to find them.

Look up......Look waaaay up.


Ha! They found the old wire I forgot to cut down, and were up there!
I had no idea they flew so high!!

Notice the rooster and his nice hens took up the good spot and they left the others to be ravaged by unknown animals?

nice.