By: Ruta M.

Ruta M. — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:03:04 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if the winter weather brings home your wandering hen. Presumably if she’s roosting up in the trees she’s not sitting on eggs anywhere. Before we built our hen run we used to get the occasional hen turn up with a batch of chicks from our neighbour’s barns. I always found chicks to be a nuisance, half will die , and half of the rest will be cockrels and if you have to rear any indoors because the hen has got fed up the smell is dreadful. If you want to stop your hens from flying out you can cut the flight feathers on one wing so that they can’t fly properly. But it does make the hen look rather odd.

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By: Ruta M.