>>2641426>How do chickens who live in trees and who are not fenced in protect themselves from predators?They have wings and can fly. Whenever a chicken is attacked during roosting here it just flies to another tree. I've had zero adult fatalities in over a year now despite having ~100 that live outside
Flight is their main method of protecting themselves and it worked for the red junglefowl for millions of years. They only have a clutch survival rate of around 32% in the wild
>Can you describe your free range chicken infrastructure?Perimeter fence around my entire property. Egg drop boxes at convenient locations for egg dumping and brooding. I have a coop also but the door always stays open, and it's just a glorified egg dump location now
My fat chickens hang out next to the house all day waiting for scraps, but most athletic chickens explore the forest all day inside and outside of my fence
>How do you collect eggs that are in trees?They lay in the drop boxes or nests they make themselves on the ground
>If you're not feeding them yourself, how do you garner chicken loyalty?I still feed them a scoop in the morning and evening. One day I'll produce enough calories that this is unnecessary, but even now they get the majority of their calories from the land themselves
>>2641425When I started working on this land a couple of years ago I first shit into a hole on the ground. One day I looked into the hole and saw that the entire thing was filled with thousands of huge mealworms. A foot across and deep of 10,000 worms
This is high quality protein that people purchase in the store and when people just poop into septic tanks or holes it's a complete waste of resources and unsanitary
Western culture around waste is retarded. Anything we don't like is just buried in the earth so it can be a problem for future generations
>>2641263I'm mostly self taught I suppose. Growing plants doesn't seem particularly complicated to me
