well, i was planning to come back and say that, for now, we're just going to build a coop, close off the "chicken range", and eventually build a large enclosure as a run. then i went outside and found my japanese hen on top of her current "coop" (a cube of shipping pallets with a tarp thrown...
Okay, this is probably a really dumb question, but I'm really new to this, so please bare with me.
We have a large (for the suburbs) area that we are going to pasture our chickens in. We live on 1/3 acre, and about 1/4 of that is going to be just for the chickens, so I guess that's...