Deebot
Songster
I always planned on free range chickens, since we've got an entire fenced-in acre. We've been here a few years now and they've been enjoying the yard! However we have 3 dogs and it's gotten to the point where the dogs just eat and roll in the chicken droppings as soon as we let them out. Not to mention the chickens pooping on the decks and stoops (and getting into the garden in summer! lol)
I want to fence off a portion of the yard they seem to enjoy already, that I can see from my office window. But I feel... guilty? Like I wanted more land to free range animals. So I hate to cage them after they've lived their life free for years! We plan to move to an even bigger property with many acres (but who knows when that will be), and then the chickens will get their own acre
Am I being foolish? Will they adapt no problem to being confined? Anyone else switch from free-range to a fenced area?
I want to fence off a portion of the yard they seem to enjoy already, that I can see from my office window. But I feel... guilty? Like I wanted more land to free range animals. So I hate to cage them after they've lived their life free for years! We plan to move to an even bigger property with many acres (but who knows when that will be), and then the chickens will get their own acre
Am I being foolish? Will they adapt no problem to being confined? Anyone else switch from free-range to a fenced area?