MissPrissy wrote: Free range is allowing chickens to be housed with the option of leaving the house to go out into the outdoors.
When you choose to let the chickens out without any protection and limitations you have assumed the risk to give the free dinner to a predator.
A corollary to the...
walkswithdog wrote: If I had had the money for netting, gosh, that'd be nice.
Uncovered runs can be very well protected by this method: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=44145
Some of the larger species don't migrate (Red Tail was flew off with a Northern Flicker this...