Allotment Gardening Advice Help Chat
Poultry and Pets => Chicken Chat => Topic started by: retribution on January 08, 2011, 12:51
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Just been have a flick through the pictures on here, dust bath ? what should you put in it for them ??? also noticed some girls with a rabbit. we have a rabbit and wasnt too sure about them around each other. take it is a suck it and see and they all behave differently ?
cheers
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some chickens will peck at the eyes whereas others will ignore the rabbit. I would keep them in separate sleeping quarters though to avoid the rabbit getting poohed on from perching chickens.
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lol yeah we do have them in seprate cages. the wife did ask if the rabbit could share and i came up with the same poo theroy. was just wondering about them all in the garden, dont want any harm to the rabbit
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scary/vicious things them chicks
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We have four rabbits, two guinea pigs, 6 Quail and three chickens that live within our electric fence .
The guinea pigs obviously stay in a run, but the chickens sit on top of the run and the guinea pigs don't seem bothered by them at all.
Three of the rabbits run around free with the chickens (the fourth escapes under the electric fence so she has to spend her days with the G pigs)
We have two rabbit hutches and the chicken coop which we leave open whilst they're all out in the day, the rabbits go in the chicken coop and the chickens venture into the rabbit hutches to have a look. But none of them mind the others being around.
We've never had a problem with the chickens and rabbits being together they all just go where the feel like going during the day, but we do lock them all up separately at night.
One of the male rabbits does like to chase the chickens but they soon warn him off and he steers clear of them until they've calmed down. =)