If your old chickens haven't flown away, the new ones SHOULD do the same thing and stay around. You are right about if they did encounter a predator, they might want to be able to fly. Unless you start having troubles with them flying away, I would not clip their wings. It would just be easier...
That sounds like a great idea!!! One thing to keep in mind when you are making a run, I honestly don't know if you have mink, but if you do, they can fit through a square inch so watch out with your netting and the ground. Otherwise it sounds like a great idea and a good use of materials...
I have four embden geese and will be raising ducklings. I have three geese and one gander. I was wondering if I put them together would the geese protect the ducklings from hawks and still be nice to them AND Lay and hatch their own eggs? Thanks, any advice is appreciated!!!