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    Free ranging chickens! Q and A ( my experience)

    Great idea! You are correct, our Ace hardware used to sell bagged chicken manure. In fact, there are lawn care companies whose organic fertilizer is chicken poop pellets. I use hemp in the coop, and when I need fertilizer or at clean out time, I put the hemp/poop bedding mixture in the garden...
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    Free ranging chickens! Q and A ( my experience)

    Great questions...they do poop, everywhere. But mostly in the yard and woods. We are on over an acre of wooded ravine very small grassy backyard. I hose it off the walkways and porch (that we don't use). Garden is fenced off so the chickens don't go in there. I try to plant stuff they...
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    Free ranging chickens! Q and A ( my experience)

    Great idea with benches! We have quite the canopy in our back yard, preventing g them from being see from above, at least from April to late October/early November.
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    Free ranging chickens! Q and A ( my experience)

    I am going to jump in here on the free ranging. We free range our chickens in central Indiana every day. The time of day they are let out varies from day to day. They return to their coop on their own at dusk (untrained, they do it for protection). We had not lost a chicken in a year, and...
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