My front yard is DE my back MD and we're a spit from PA neighbor- howdy neighbor. We've had the girls probably for 7 years and they've been in an outdoor run without any trouble all that time although our Polish girls spend a lot of time in the coop. We have a Sicilian Buttrcup which I read...
We had a fox get 3 of our four chickens, dug under the fence while my husband was out walking the dog- who wanders through our fenced in yard all the time so his smell was around just not him. This fox had been around for days and seemed to realize my husband walks the dog at the same time...
We have a couple of Polish girls that are cute, funny, very 'chatty' and friendly but their eggs are tiny and white so they wouldn't work well if you were looking for big colorful eggs