Challenges of living in the woods with chickens

[Florida Bullfrog]

My next experiment is to move the feeder to underneath a suitable roosting tree inside the enclosure far from the holly. I want to see if they choose to change their roosts to be closer to the feed.

Yesterday I moved their feeder to underneath an oak tree in the middle of the enclosure. The rooster and 1 hen roosted in the oak tree last night. The other three hens roosted in the holly tree outside the enclosure.

Tonight it appears all 5 birds roosted in the oak tree. I didn’t go inside the paddock to count heads, but I was able to shine the rooster’s eyes in the oak tree and it appeared no hens were in the holly tree.