Hi! 👋🏼 New member here. I’ve raised a flock in upstate New York previously that’s three times the size of my current flock.
Living In Midcoast Maine with about a dozen girls: RIRs, Buff Orpingtons and one Easter egger (since the rest were males).
I free ranged in the past but my girls are...
I grow pole beans or climbing flowers up one side of the chicken wire that faces south to provide them with more shade during the hottest months. I try to grow them out a bit (the run has hardware cloth that goes 8” deep and 24” wide outside of the coop to keep away burrowing predators) but once...
