I agree free ranging doesn't make anyone a bad person. I just prefer to do it in a fenced area. I know when my chickens leave the fenced property They rarely return. It may take a few months before it happens but other than my 10 yr old game rooster who still goes over the fence any of the females that have went with him have been lost to predators.
Ya I know there's nothing wrong with keeping it if you want
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. Now you need a gun too
.... Lol sorry. ..our 6lb dog use to chase coyotes. 
.. I was always worried he would get eaten. We have a woods to About 7acres. It's slowly going away. But it ties into an even bigger woods and field with coyotes in it. Wish I could have bought the bigger woods and field before the owner parceled it all off to 5to 13acre parcels. I wasn't in the area to buy at the time. ..
. Too much.
That's cool. I'm a farmer so I like to buy and restore land to what is use to be . Back when farming was common . Each farmer would commonly own 100 to 200 acres of land . They would clear the trees by hand then farm the land. And take what money they got by farming the land and pay off the land in a short amount of time. They would often leave tree lines where their property line was. So if you get on the auditors maps and look at the old farm houses you can make a pretty good estimate where the old property lines were of our forefathers.. Sometimes You can identify where their pastures were and everything.
That's sad that The cabin is rotting away I bet it was luxury at its time. it annoys me to watch The farmers land grow up and fill with trees . But to let The house rot away too its just a shame.... The yep families try to keep the houses. If you stop and think about it their great great grandfather built that house from scratch. From the lumber that was harvested and milled on property To the sand stone that was hand carved and used for a foundation.
