Central FL. While I love these ladies, I have zero experience. They came with the house and this is what the former owner told me
" I feed them once a day. The food is in this bucket. We let them out when we get home and they out themselves in at night"
Well, I let them out all day but...to...
On advise of neighbors, I have done a couple of things:
Ordered 2 plastic owls in the belief that they will act as a deterrent
Ordered 19" hologram pinwheels
And netting, which I hope to not need but will have.
A coop with 2 chickens came with my new FL house. We are really enjoying them and how they follow us wherever we go.
However there was a third chicken that got taken by a hawk before we took ownership. There's a hawk doing fly-bys and the chickens, which have full access to the fenced...