My Mom had some geese and they would stand on the patio looking inside the windows all the time. Even after it got dark. At first, we thought they were trying to catch the bugs that went toward the light. But that wasn't the case. They were just nosey.
I don't remember the chickens around the front porch. I remember them scratching the piles looking for a little piece of corn. If the place we had was way too big to check the cattle each day, I would feed them the same time of the day, (they come up so I can check them) just enough to let each one get a bite and add about two quarts of corn just to make the chickens look for the corn. Then your fly problem would get a lot smaller. Seems like that surprise piece of corn is what they are looking for. I would do it now, but the cattle aren't up around the house for me to shut them up each night.
I remember when I was a kid and the lady down the road ordered a bunch of Rhode Island Red chickens. I drove her nuts going to her house each day to see them. When they got big enough to tell they were hens and roosters, she gave me one of each. When the hen started laying, she would kind of trot to the barn, I figured out. I finally found the nest, and she laid the biggest brown eggs. I remember running to the house with an extra large one to show Mom. Then when she broke it, I had to be there to see if it was a double yolker.
Odd, how times change. For me, I got tore up over the double yolked eggs, and now I see smaller kids with cell phones text messageing and checking to see how many bars they have everywhere.
Chuckie
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