Is it reasonable to brood some cornish cross or dark cornish and grow them out in december-january in central illinois? Have a heated garage and brooder, and an unheated barn for their coop.
I have read that a single electric wire 5 inches of the ground is enough to the chickens in and the predators out (plamondon). I knew a farmer when i was a kid that used this method for his chickens ducks and pigs, all in the same yard. I have also been told that it is better to have three...