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Re: Pasturing chickens



>   We have been totally free ranging our chickens on worn out pasture and
>   just confining them at night for their own safety.  They have been free to
>   wander from the pasture to a wet wooded area of alders and willows and
>   actually spend about half their time in the wooded area. 

Naturally, chickens origiinal habitat is woodland:
I think you can still find some wild chicken somewhere in India
Chicken seek height for sleeping,  into trees,
and they appreciate the canopy cover as a protection for prey birds