Run space requirements for HAPPY hens

[Hansonjd]

That's a nice run, no matter which way you look at it. I'm still trying to make it work sort of free ranging on just less than an acre that they roam in. 5ft. fence around perimeter that they stay in. Other than that they have a 10x6ft. run. It's a challenge keeping them safe from hawks though. I don't really worry about anything else.

 

[Duckfarmer1]

I have a 19x8 ft run, but every day at 6:00 AM, the door opens to their fenced area. The fence has the option to be electric, but we haven't had an escaping or predator problem yet, so why put the chickens through electrocution? Their fence goes around I'm gonna say... 60x40 feet? (I'm not very good at estimating length.) BUT... we let them free range almost every day. We have 10 acres but 4 of them are woods. The chickens use around 4 acres of plains most of the time.
We have 12-oh wait, 11 chickens.

We don’t let the adult chickens free range because they are super mean to the ducks..and ducks come first here...lol..but the young ones free range

 

[TwentyOneChickens]

We don’t let the adult chickens free range because they are super mean to the ducks..and ducks come first here...lol..but the young ones free range

Is that normal? I've been looking into getting ducks. Granted, the ducks will be at the bottom of the hill and the chickens at the top, but still.