Thanks for all the replies!! Being a new chicken owner (or new to being owned BY chickens) its a bit disconcerting.
The place we're at is in a nice rural setting and the yard has lots of features that we thought chickens would like to stick around for ... unfortunately, we're renting and...
We are new chicken owners (Yea!!). We have four hens in a new A-frame ark/tractor I recently built.
In our pre-chicken research, we had gotten the impression that free range hens wouldn't "range" too far from the coop.
Ours are in the middle of about an acre yard, bordered with a hedge row.
We...