Welcome aboard.
Lots of good folks here with experience, along with many varied and valid opinions. Just like any passionate lifestyle
You can have the fields in Sask. and other places (did that way to much), and all the BS that goes with it. Sooner or later we realize the sweet spot is between the fields & roost, and a lotta dead birds is not the goal. Then less is more.
"Art does not reproduce what is visible - but makes things visible." ~ Paul Klee, artist, 1920