I am down to 7 middleaged hens in my suburban flock. My whole yard is fenced so I let them freerange a lot.
It's worked great except they love to come up onto the back deck and peek inside the house, pooping all over the deck. Beyond mechanical solutions such as gates at the stairs (the wife...
Informative. Got my GC pullets 2 years ago and after laying like crazy even in winter for 2 years, production and quality slowed. Since I'd read that GCs live 4-5 years (and these birds are pretty pampered and otherwise healthy) I figured there was some issue with feed, too much freerange time...
