Adjusting To Freedom

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

- Michelle Dunn

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.