We built a coop with a fully enclosed run for them. So far, so good.
We wanted a lot of different colors and personality so we have a variety of birds.
From our local TSC we have
6 Golden Sex Links
3 RIR
2 Rhode Island Whites
3 Black Giants
From McMurray we have
1 Black Australorp
2...
My husband and I started raising chickens a little over a year ago and have absolutely fell in love! We tried to free range them last year but they kept flying over into the dog pens. We've learned quite a bit over the past year and now have a full coop with a run, a 5 gallon watering system...