Best Way to House Poultry?

[loverOFchickens]

Coop and free range (with my doggie protection I have not yet lost a bird to preditors!)

 

[LittleChickenRacingTeam]

 

[Egg_newton]

Hmmmm.... should have an all of the above. Most of them are in a tractor but I still let them free range when I'm home so they can stretch their wings better. Silkies are in a pen because half are still less than four months old and seem so tiny and the other three were traumatized by a flock of LF before they were given to me. I had a polish I had to give away because my LF were always picking on the little guy. I don't want them to abuse my silkies too. Hope to have them a tractor soon.

 

[Hoosiermomma]

We have a dog kennel that our chickens/peafowl roost in at night but during the day the free range. For our bantam cochins we have a rabbit hutch that we are converting into a coop/run.

 

[norcal]

Coop & Run here. Uh, would run be a pen. I wouldn't call my coop a cage, it's 8x8x12'.

 

[Chicky Tocks]

Coop with large run and free ranged in the late afternoon.

 

[Wifezilla]

Free range with a secure night pen. So far so good, but LittleChickenRacingTeam's set-up has its good points too

 

[Mojo Chick'n]

coop with runs - but they free range anyway (the runs are for if they have to be seperated for breeding - otherwise they go where they want.) They go into the coops at night for lock-up.

so I voted freerange.

predators aside, I think they are more healthy when they can get out of the coop and run and get some fresh grass and bugs.

meri

 

[Barred Rocker]

Coop and run but I let them out to free range every evening. They always put themselves to bed every night.