Thanks so much for reading @lovenfreedom <3 Your hens sound like the are living in paradise with all of that grass and the leaves. Better to be safe than sorry with the predators! We have ours in the run in the summer to keep them out of our veggie gardens, luckily we don't have predators near our spot.
I can totally relate to the sourdough thing, I need to acquire another one myself after an incident ... hahahha!!
I used up all my starter since I went bake crazy before I went to labor. Then when I made another one, I killed it. Arggh.
This is my 3rd attempt at making a starter. But having some problems with my recipe so if you have any simple sourdough please throw them my way :)
I'm considering buying one online...they seem really difficult to make from scratch. The last one I had was gifted to me by a friend.