Chicken is being very annoying
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summary: chicken is getting into a pen ive got off limits as if shes made of jello, any advice? i thought the gap is too small for her but no.
kinda vent/full story (weird place for it ik): ive been raising some chicks for a few weeks now in a pen beside my adult chickens pen (they go up in a crate at night and the adults are free roam so they wont try to attack the chicks, and theyve broken in before with chicks and didnt harm them and dont seem aggressive so i have no worries there). i have a very specific set up for the chicks that i do every night so in the morning i can just let them run free no work needed. how when my adult chickens need to stay in their pen, they ALWAYS get into the chick pen and completely trash the thing, they get dirt all in the chick water and feeder, mess up the dirt i cleaned up , and make divets in the ground. it is incredibly annoying but is made worse by the fact that right now one chick has/recently had (still on treatmen) coccidiosis and i do not want the adults to get it but if they keep going in there willy nilly they are at risk. it is incredibly frustrating and i just want them to stop! i think i have a way to stop it but im worried it wont work. ideas? they get in through a gap in the gate i cant fix, i thought it was too narrow for a fat adult chicken but nope. please help
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