Chickens in the garden update
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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My chickens can fly up to and over a 5 foot gate. Yours will stay inside that fenced area?
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Tammy
— Tue Apr 9 02:50:06 2013
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Fences as subtle guidelines
Tammy --- It's all about keeping your chickens happy where they're at, in which case a three-foot-high fence is enough of a deterrent to keep them inside. There's also the flock mentality going on --- they all want to be together, and there's no way one chicken can talk all the others into flying over the fence, so unless everyone gets the idea at the same time, it usually doesn't happen. Our chickens can fly over a five foot high fence, but do they want to?
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anna
— Tue Apr 9 07:17:32 2013
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