I may be talking myself into building a new structure (extension of horse shed) from which to try free-ranging some chanteclers the coming year. I do expect "occasional" losses to hawks, as they'd be in a horse pasture.
So, am looking for input from those WITH SOME YEARS OF EXPERIENCE with free range chickens, do white birds really get taken a lot more, and if so, *so* much more that you'd steer me to partridge-color or something like that? Or would white birds, or a mix of white and other colors such as partridge, still be a reasonable bet?
Thanks,
Pat, contemplating the addition mainly as a structure to give horses shelter from SE storms but I figure I might as well put chickens in it, LOL
So, am looking for input from those WITH SOME YEARS OF EXPERIENCE with free range chickens, do white birds really get taken a lot more, and if so, *so* much more that you'd steer me to partridge-color or something like that? Or would white birds, or a mix of white and other colors such as partridge, still be a reasonable bet?
Thanks,
Pat, contemplating the addition mainly as a structure to give horses shelter from SE storms but I figure I might as well put chickens in it, LOL