Aw, man, that's so sad to see chickens in those conditions. We also raise chickens. We have 19 right now. We used to have an even 20, but one fell prey to a great horned owl one night before we got everybody put away in the coop. Ours have free range of our whole 3-acre property. It looks like you have a lot of interesting blogs on here, so I'll definitely be following!