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.

 

[Carontheroad]

Its called “Free-Range Survival Chickens.” I wrote it under my screen name “Florida Bullfrog,” which was also my Youtube handle for many years. I recently shut my Youtube channel down for reasons I discuss here:

Post in thread 'Developing My Own Breed Of Large Gamefowl For Free Range Survival (Junglefowl x Liege)'
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...ival-junglefowl-x-liege.1424023/post-28624110

I kept my presence here and a couple of other forums. There’s more documentation of my chicken projects here on BYC than there is anywhere else.

Found your book and I should get it in 2 days. One of the highest reviews I’ve seen on Amazon for anything. Looking forward to it!