Keeping chickens out in such a free range setting will more likely than not require dogs to provide an exclusion zone for predators. It would work even better if coupled with a fence to serve as a marked boundary that will serve to slow predators’ approach and ideally keep dogs closer to where...
Parts of thread may be of value to you. I have dogs to keep most of bad guys you deal with away from nests.
Thread 'Elevated Nest to Make Viewing Easier From Window'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/elevated-nest-to-make-viewing-easier-from-window.1364258/
Her name is Shelly. Great-great-great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Sallie, a hen that was the subject of such a thread. I’m a mad scientist, not a trucker.
The pullet was hen-hatched and hen-reared through six weeks post-hatching. There was limited contact between she and I when out in the yard. Free-range reared to that point. My son complained that hens brood was small and flighty to I took pulley and kept her with me around the clock except when...
This 10-week-old pullet spends way too much time with me. Stays in truck all day and roosts on fan in bedroom. Immediately after work we came in and I passed out doing the sheets. Woke up to find this.
I having a Cooper’s Hawk spending a lot of time around my chickens. It is a female molting from subadult feathering into her first adult pelage. You can barely make her out in image below where she is perched on left corner of the roof. She allows me within 30 feet if I don’t look at her. When...
The process takes me 18 to 24 months to get a dog to point where it can be with chickens unsupervised. Not all dogs fully reliable in the end although most can be. Early on there is lots of supervision and limited direct access to chickens. I have all life stages of chickens in a variety of...
Just think about what you post. You attacked the reason behind doing it without even taking time to learn what was actually being done. Even an abandoned thread it not yours to commandeer. I see no clear indications you understand what I was doing.
I am not. I provided in four forms. First was as part of dust bathing mixture.
1) The chickens bathed in it and consumed some of the larger particulates. Consumption rate was not known.
2) I also mixed with into a crumbled feed mixture dry. Intake of biochar was less than proportional to...