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I see your point, more than likely they would end up in the woods, if I had your setup I would probably set up extras runs as I could and eventually rotate areas since you have so much yard, and I might start planting trees or shrubs so your chickens can have some cover and shade.
 
oldhenlikesdogs said:
Are your chickens in the fenced area or it it the little raised area next to the shed.
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Looks like there is a small pen behind the SUV.

Op if you decide to free range or give them a much larger pen you could plant trees/bushes in it to give them some coverage from hawks, also to provide shade.

If you decide to fence a large area think about a separate pen off the coop. I chopped a second door along the backwall of my coop so I could pen off that area for broodies with chicks, or even birds that needed to be separated for whatever reason.
 
I'd really like to make a portable run but we've already put a lot of money into the birds I'm not sure my husband will do much more. I have some tables sort of like benches i can put in the yard but not much else :/
 
I would pick up some fence posts and some welded wire as I could afford it and put up some fencing around the coop so they can get out more, those type of coop situations are mentally unhealthy on chickens, and they end up pecking each other, chickens need way more room behaviorally than what is usually given as the proper space. Sorry, either that or free ranging, otherwise I think you will continue to have troubles.
 
You can make a portable chicken pen for "free ranging" using pvc pipes and some chicken or garden wire. As long as you're out there with them to fend off any random animals.
In a perfect world I think we would all have huge pens for our chickens that were more secure than Fort Knox but we don't and we have to make due with the stuff we already have or can afford. If you're not able to make a portable pen then as long as you're giving them the higher protein food and throwing them some into the run for them to forage, you probably will be fine. The key is to make sure they have something to kick around and scratch for in their enclosure.

Mine get a handful of their flock raiser feed with some cubed tomatoes or cucumber and oats thrown into their run and they have a field day. Or I'll put some little handfuls in various places in the run for them to 'discover'. They haven't had actual scratch grains since August because they're molting so it's more important for them to get the flock raiser.
 
My injured girl is looking good. Her skin is nice and pink and looks healed. However she is missing almost all of her butt feathers. I let her out for the morning since shes been cooped in that crate for days. No one is bothering her but the same buff orpington that was pecking her while i was dusting her last week. I think when i come home the injured girl will go back in the crate until my blukote comes and then the buffy giel is going in the crate for pecking. She just slowly follows her and pecks at her rear
 

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