Adjusting To Freedom
Your Chickens|December 2017

Chickens can take a while to think outside the box....

Michelle Dunn
Adjusting To Freedom

Years of observation of chicken behaviour have convinced me that chickens need space and lots of it. Time after time we have taken chickens raised in a shed or barn and introduced them to a free-range lifestyle and found they never looked back. The reverse is also true - if you take a free-range bird and curtail its freedom by keeping it in a shed it does not thrive. I was all the more surprised, then, at the behaviour of our three new pullets.

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