excellent article
we have a great pyrenee, a komondor and 2 of their children (pyrkom? lol) who take care of our sheep and... everything else including the ducks and the chickens. they are amazing deterrents. We have not lost a bird in over 5 years, so a good dog is priceless, I agree
love our messy ducks, and our not so messy chickens. We built a "pond" for them from a big round stock tank. We added a drain so that we can clean it regularly and they love it! they lay eggs consistently over the winter which our hens don't.
We got started raising chickens by accident. We bought a farm and were raising ducks and sheep. My husband decided we were going to pass on chickens. I am a physician and one of my patients showed up one day to my clinic with a box of 6 black chicks from tractor supply. So here I was, at work at...