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We have about 15 laying hens and about 20 meat chickens just now getting big enough to butcher. They are completely free range, and have the run of our 5 acres, but all come back to the big horse barn to roost at night. They eat alot of bugs from the yard, and the woods along our creek. They combined the bean field yesterday, so that is thier new favorite place (alot of residual droppage).
If I lived in town, I would have an indoor/outdoor coop/run and then build myself a chicken tractor to be mobile around the yard on nice days. With the chicken tractor, you can move them every day and they will forage from different areas of your yard without tearing it down to bare dirt.
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