Okay, understood. I could just bring the fencing to the back yard and not so much in the woods. I have pasture but the horses are on that and it's a bit of a distance from the coop unless I move the coop. Ugh!
Thanks for the replies. My coop is just inside where my backyard meets the woods and we do have a lot of woods both in back and in front of the house. The coop has a small run attached so the birds can at least get out but I would like for them to have more. Their enclosure is chain link wrapped...
My family has recently taken on raising some chicks for eggs. They are just over 4 months now and although I did figure free ranging was just not going to work due to predators we gave it a try. It has been less than a month that we began free ranging and I lost a rooster two days ago. This...
