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post #51 of 53

5/15/12 at 12:13pm

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My neighbor has a farm, and has 100 chickens, meat birds, cows, and pigs.... So he has taught me how to do it all..... I plan on building a butchering station for the chickens... We would get dairy cows... not meat...

Sounds good. Add one kind of animal at a time until you get used to caring for it. I can see you selling farm fresh eggs milk and meat. They will love you.

Hens: 16 Leghorns or California Whites, 5 Trader Joe's Leghorns, 14 Red Stars or Gold Stars, 10 Buff Orpingtons, 2 Rhodes Island Reds, 4 Silver Laced Wyandotes, 4 Ameraucana, 7 Barred Rock, 1 Silver Laced Wyandote X Barred Rock, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock. = 64 Hens - chicks 23 hatched on 3/15
Roosters: 1 Trader Joe's Leghorn Rooster, 1 Leghorn X Barred Rock Rooster
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5/15/12 at 12:31pm

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So sorry to hear about your Turkey. :( We have a lot of wild Turkeys where I live and I've almost run over 2 of them already. :( One was just standing in the middle of the road and the other one crossed just in front of me. :(

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5/15/12 at 1:31pm

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Sounds good. Add one kind of animal at a time until you get used to caring for it. I can see you selling farm fresh eggs milk and meat. They will love you.

meat birds is next on the list =] maybe bees then lol..... I dont remember if I said this but I am going to be selling all of it in NYC, mainly to my dads friends.... Willing to pay big $$ Im not complaining lol...

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EAT FRESH, LOCAL FOOD...

"Real heroes wear dog tags"