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Time to start shutting the door?

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Steph101 All Knowing Superchicken

Steph101

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As the nights are starting to draw in now, do you think it would be a good idea to start shutting them in properly (the door to the eglu i mean, NOT the run)! :)

I've been leaving it open all night since spring, so they can stroll out first thing at their lesiure. But I've been reading recently that draughts are really bad news for hens, so maybe I've been doing the wrong thing? :anxious:

What do you think? :eh:

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cluckbok All Knowing Superchicken

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Nope you not doing the wrong thing. We been doing the same. We probably gonna leave it a bit longer til mid sept or when it gets pretty cold out there. We like laying in and it's handy not having to go down there to let them out. At least when the mornings are darker for longer it will be easier leaving them shut in.

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I'll prob start shutting the door and bringing in the Grub when the rats become active again. I'm more worried about them being hassled by rodents at night than by the cold!

 

Jo

 

When do your rats start showing themselves? i have been told people in my street have had rats in the past, im hoping they dont come to my garden :pray: What do they do to the chickens?? :?

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When do your rats start showing themselves?

 

I usually notice them most just after Christmas but will start shutting the Eglu door as we approach Halloween/Bonfire night, unless it gets cold much earlier than that.

 

On this forum there have been aprocryphal tales of rats biting hens' legs and although that's probably an urban legend it has stuck in my head!

 

Jo

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I don't know about drafts but

 

2 of mine like to sleep Al Fresco - on top of the broody cage I keep in my run. Actually Clara is in there at the moment so we had to put an Omlet cover over the top to stop them pooing on her!

 

My 2 new girls would also sleep on there if they had more bottle - they keep trying only to be chased off by the others.

 

So I don't think it's Eglu door closing time yet.

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I shut the eglu door every night even in summer, but it's mainly so that the girls don't make a nuisance of themselves if they get up early and make a noise, as I wouldn't want to upset the neighbours. (They're very close to the neighbours on the back road.....and a long way from our house so we wouldn't hear if they were making a noise or not, but I've always shut the door just to make sure.)

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I shut the eglu door every night even in summer, but it's mainly so that the girls don't make a nuisance of themselves if they get up early and make a noise, as I wouldn't want to upset the neighbours.

 

 

ditto to the above.

 

my lot get let out the same time every day and they are used to the routine, not a peep out of them in the mornings now. :D

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