Florida Bullfrog
Crowing
Point taken. I DO raise some of those breeds, but not all of the breeds I have are those breeds. And even if ALL of the breeds I have were "predator-resistant," out-thriving and reproducing faster than the many predators that live where I live doesn't jive with my purpose for having chickens.
And that’s all my intent is, to make the point for reference purposes. There’s many reasons why free range isn’t practical beyond predators, and a person may not free range because they simply don’t want to, which is fine.
My war isn’t with people who choose to coop their chickens, I’m fighting the idea that cooping must be done. Somewhere along the way “I don’t want to” became “it can’t be done” in the conventional wisdom of poultry raising. .