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The answer is yes you can and no you can't. Read the thread. Chickens will eat baby lizards but I wonder if they'd impact the population more than native birds do. And they'd crap all over your drive and scratch up any mulched beds.

I said the walk system flourished across the south because of the culture, post-Civil War isolation, poverty, caste system, dominant terrain, and sharecropping system. Walking was the model, so there were pockets everywhere. But nothing rivaled from Kentucky southward and west through eastern...

They are still kept there! The walk system as a meaningful way to develop birds is just over. Its peak was probably in the 1920s. And I do consider Kentucky part of the south. Southern Ohio maybe too, having lived there and farmed there 13 years.

Where I grew up, and in reading, I have not heard walk defined quite this way. It is a loose term, so sure. But what it has always meant to me was a farm or area of a farm, such as a barn, where a game stag or cock was put out to develop. The hens were not necessarily games. Farmers were often...

We kept a big flock of very low management chickens and guineas for 10 years on our farm in Ohio. We did feed them but mostly they raised themselves. I was managing a sheep flock intensively so the fowl had to be rather extensive. Protection from predators at night was the key. We had a very...