Montana wrote:Cyphercat
Awwww, thanks. That was very sweet of you to say.
Setanta
Got ya on the good feed being expensive and hard to find. There are more than a few farm supply places around here, so I'm going to start checking feed prices and such.
I would have a little house for the chickens with a good size fenced in area where they would be free to run around that area.
I'll probebly have to have it fenced in at the top as well, to protect them from the game birds.
Overhead fencing keeps out other predators, as well, who can climb "chicken wire." Also, hens will try to fly up higher and higher to roost, and could get out. I don't know how big an area you inted to fence in, but pecking and scratching and defecation will soon remove the grass.