CHAPTER IV 
POULTRY YARDING AND FENCING 
fields and woods to make a subsistence. They 
thus exert themselves and secure much exer- 
cise, which helps to keep them healthy and hardy. 
In domestication, at least a portion and sometimes 
all of the fowls’ food is provided for them, but it 
still is very important that they take an abundance 
of exercise to keep the blood circulating and the 
bodily functions active. 
Freedom to rove at pleasure and in safety is 
the ideal condition for health and happiness among 
fowls, but of course this is possible 
only where the poultryman has access 
to a tract of land of considerable size. On farms 
it is a good plan to allow unrestricted range over 
tillage, meadows, pasture, and into woodland. 
Everybody agrees that an orchard makes an ideal 
place for the ranging of poultry, but not everybody 
is blessed with an orchard. 
While free range is very desirable, it is not at 
all necessary for success with poultry. However, 
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[: the wild state, fowls naturally roam in the 
Free Range 
