Hey guys! We are finally buying our first home and I will have two acres (its the little things ;-) ) so i can finally get the little flock of hens ive been dying for sense i fell in love with chickens as kid. there is about a half acre (roughly, maybe more) field on the side of the house that i would like to fence off eventually for a pair of milk goats as well. I was thinking of potentially putting the hen house & run in the same field and letting them "free range" in the field once I get the fence up (maybe white picket with a wire "lining" of some sort). I was hoping they would stick around if we clipped their wings. any reason this would be a bad idea? If any of you have goats I would appreciate that perspective as well as i havent owned them sense I was a kid. I am hoping to feed them as affordably as possible and i would really love them to have the benifits of foraging. is this enough space for about 12 hens to forage? Also with this in mind, how big would i need to make the coup and run? We are in GA and have very mild winters so I think they would hardly ever get stuck in it during the day. although would need to live in the coup/run while i get the fence set up for the goats as we will be in a residential area. (& yes i checked and there are no HOA or restrictions as its kinda rural and not in a neighborhood) Hubby is a newbie to all this so I am having give him a shove into the rural life here and he wold prefer to keep it as small as possible this time around ;-) thanks in advance for all your helpful thoughts and sugesstions!
Christie
Christie
