free range chickens

  1. Kewpieteef

    Feather Heaven Flock & Friends

    Welcome to my wannabe homestead, also known as a backyard with chickens and a garden. I decided to show what it's like starting a garden & flock from scratch. Pullets are still growing, seeds are still being bought, and a lot of pre-planning is happening. My flock is on half an acre with an HOA...
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    • Forum: Pictures & Stories of My Chickens
  2. Herring eggs for the flock

    Herring eggs for the flock

    Herring finally spawned on our beach, so I'm harvesting a few buckets full to feed the flocks!
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    • Album: Our Island Chickens
  3. Aspen25

    Chicken-proofing vegetable garden from free-ranging chooks

    Our 20 or so chickens have a new and very large coop and run. This coop and run is within our even more large vegetable garden. They used to free range with a coop that was elsewhere but they were continually jumping fences and gates in order to rummage through our large vegetable garden that is...
  4. Group of young hooligans

    Group of young hooligans

    Youngsters hanging out beach side
    • Sic
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    • Album: Our Island Chickens
  5. Free range Chantecler eating kelp

    Free range Chantecler eating kelp

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    • Album: Our Island Chickens
  6. Chickens of the Sea

    Chickens of the Sea

    Low tide rock climbing
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    • Album: Our Island Chickens
  7. stvcoops

    Wild Bird Proofing Our Personal Coop

    We recently expanded our personal chicken coop by a lot, since we don't want the hens free ranging anymore, until the bird flu is under control. The last thing we'd want to have happen, is to euthanize our entire flock. Our poor hens are so restless, and agitated because they've all free...
  8. C

    Howdy Chicken Lovers!!! I have found myself reading this forum multiple times, and I decided to join the club😀 I currently have 10 Buff Orpington's.

    Hello Everyone, I have found myself reading on this site multiple times, and have read some really great threads. So, I finally decided to join the club. I previously owned 4 hens years and years ago. They were the absolute best, and I loved them very much! They were highly intelligent, and...
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    Deathlayer pullet
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    • Album: Our Island Chickens
  10. FNF

    Does anyone move chickens to tractors during day, back to coop at night?

    We have 8 chickens (egg layers not meat birds) currently, with a plan to get another 8 or so chicks this spring. Our chickens have a nice coop with a run, and a large fenced "free range" area around a pond. It's a lot of space and they're pretty safe. That aside, we also have acres of pasture...
  11. V

    Free Range & water

    So I live where it is HOT! I like to let my chickens free range as we have several areas of shelter/shade. However, I only keep water in their run. Should I put water in other frequented spots across the acreage? I'm just worried about forgetting to dump/replenish the other areas and...
  12. R

    Hello from one bird person to another

    Hi. I have a small acreage in the middle of nowhere Kansas. I have a mixed breed flock of about 30ish laying hens. I have mainly New Hampshire reds, and white rocks, with some barred rocks, an olive egger or 2, a couole of wyandottes, a few older faverolles, and a couple of mixes that I've...
  13. GuineaMania

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  14. mrslita2019

    What are your thoughts???

    Hi All, We picked up 10 hens of various types from my aunt last week. They have been raised free ranging and getting egg layer AM and PM. We live on 10 VERY OPEN acres. Built them a decent size coop to keep them safe from predators. I am feeding egg layer AM and PM with a few treats like...
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    • adult chickens free range chickens happy birds managing chickens predator advice
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  15. T

    Lost two of my girls in broad daylight yesterday. The other two do NOT want to be kept in an enclosure. What do I do?

    I'm posting this for advice but also just to lament the loss of my Prairie Bluebell and Production Red. I did not know how absolutely devastated I would be. The red especially (named Red aka the Colonel) was the sweetest bird. She would run up and greet my husband when he got home from work. She...
    • thewhimsicalflock
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    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  16. D

    Weeds in Chicken Run, safe for hens or pull?

    Hello! Me and my husband are new chicken owners and I was hoping for some advise. We live in the rural Midwest (Kansas) and thus have an abundance of weeds in our yard which despite our best efforts, come back year after year. Currently my chickens are in a totally enclosed run with an...
  17. Isabella's Coop

    Isabella's Coop

    Chicken tractors are fun. As long as you have the equipment or strength to move one, they can be a really great way to move your flock around to free range or just to fence them in with fresh grass. Ours has a section in the back for feed storage and we built it on a wagon base we purchased...
  18. Nicci0110

    Please help! Integrating Chickens 15 weeks and 6 weeks

    I have 15-week-old Rhode Islande Reds and Mixes (5 pullets and 1 Roo) and seven 6-week-old pullet chicks (Buff Orpington, White Leghorn, Barred Rock, Red Sex Link, and one Easter Egger) I have set up a makeshift cage next to my bigger chickens run. I started putting them next to them yesterday...
    • Nicci0110
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    • 12 pullets free range chickens integrating chicks/pullets one coop one rooster
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    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  19. Nicci0110

    Free Ranging

    I let my 13 week Olds free range today for 4 hours. I normally do an hour and stay with them. But today I had to force myself to leave them. I'm so proud of them! They watched for hawks and stayed near the tree line. I kept an eye on them through the window and checked on them often. I am amazed...
  20. ACluckAboveTheRest

    Show and Tell Time

    Hello BYC tribe! I wanted to share my ladies :) with you. My flock was first a flock of leghorns, that were rehomed to me from their original owners who were moving out of state. And then we just recently adopted some rehomed hens. A white Plymouth and her 2 polish sisters. I’m new to all this...
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