Our birds free-ranging during the day and also have a large, secure pen.  When avian influenza housing orders are in force they live in a large, airy barn with lots of stimulation.  They love looking for worms on the muck-heap and having dust baths in the haybarn, not to mention scrounging corn off us.  All our hens are named and have very individual characters, from Lucy the white leghorn cross who will happily sit anywhere for corn, including on my head, to Sparkles the mottled leghorn who loves to steal food from the pigs, and Mara the legbar cross, the reformed bully, whose mission in life is to get into the conservatory.  Like our other animals they are fed British, soy-free food and locally sourced mixed corn.