What makes a chicken coop easy to live with?

[Banus]

After 5 weeks our girls are now quite tame to the point where our miss jumped up onto my crossed leg and used it as a perch! So picking them up (like you'd collect a rugby ball) is not a problem.

 

Now the question. From the position of holding them close to your chest, how's the best way to turn them up upside down to check for mites as I'm concerned I might damage a leg or cause more distress than necessary? In other words, what's the best technique?

 

Also on another topic (two save overposting) after selecting "View your posts" how do you delete the threads that are no longer of interest from YOUR list?

 

Thanks........

[witzend]

I just literally just turn mind upside down - still holding with 2 hands. They don't seem to mind so don't be scared

 

Re the other post - I've been thinking the same thing............I'd LOVE to delete some of the ones I don't need anymore!!

[Chortle Chook]

Me too (I mean about deleting the posts rather than about being turned upside down). Could one of the mods, perhaps, put a sticky on this in the 'How to use the forum' area? Please?

[Egluntyne]

There isn't a facility to delete posts from your 'view your posts' list. They will just drop out of sight and onto another page as you no longer contribute to that particular thread.

 

You can go into your user control panel and play with the display options, selecting the ones which take your fancy.

 

Go to Board Preferences then Edit Display Options then tweak to your hearts content.

[hammy72]

that's good to know that it takes a few weeks for the tameness to develop. I have only had mine a week and a half and they now come up to me when I have corn and I managed to stroke Snowflake tonight whilst feeding her corn.