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I have to respectfully disagree with this post. If I had to watch my flock every minute, they would rarely get to free range, and they wouldn't be as happy as they are now. I'm very pro free range, I guess.....
That's ok you can disagree. I live in an area full of fox, raccoon , skunk, possum, coyote,hawk, eagles, bear,mountain lion,bob cat, and wolf. So I guess it all depends on where you live if I free ranged I would not have chickens for long.
Ohio has a lot of trappers at large this may be the difference. I trap and dispatch predators here where I live ,I have very few bother my birds they are simply not here for a large part of the year I keep an eye on my girls when they are free ranging most folks change to this strategy after the first time of their flock being decimated by a pred . strasburg with the river running through the middle of it that river is a predators buffet as long as the river don,t dry up the preds will stay there and eat if what they are eating at the river goes away they will find another food source
