AKA The Downside of Free Range Chickens…
I’m just keeping it real. I love free range chickens. I love to watch their crazy antics all over the yard, I love that they provide excellent pest control. I like embracing the chicken-ness of the chicken as Joel Salatin would say.
There is a downside though. The like my deck. There are actually a lot of decks on our house. We joked when we moved in that we should name each one because it is too confusing to just say “it’s on the deck.” So far, we have the following decks:
The Covered Deck
The Red Deck
The Crappy Deck
And may I present to you, The Poop Deck…
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| Chicken Bombs Everywhere Don’t go to this deck barefoot! |
Eeeeeeewwwwww! See, I told you there was a downside to free-ranging. Do it at your own risk!
P.S. My oldest daughter is now on the payroll with her job being to keep the deck clean by spraying it with a hose.
If anyone has advise for keeping free-range chickens off the deck, I’m all ears!
My chickens loved my deck, too! Tim put a baby-gate at the base of the stairs and it worked for mine, especially since they only came to the deck at night to roost. The side of my deck that they LOVED just happened to be right outside my bedroom window. Deep in the night, I could hear my chickens “purr” and early in the morning, I was serenaded by some sort of crowing. I LOVED it. The man of the house? Not so much! 😀
Too funny…good luck 🙂
We had some peafowl for a while but then got rid of them for this very reason. Our balcony was the perfect place to be, in their opinion. We thought so, too, but for us ; not their droppings.