One dog, lab -retriever-Shepard mix, about 4 years old. First chickens this June, dumb luck with no real training the dog is amazing with the chickens. Chickens free range about 50% of the days and I deliberately leave the dog out to protect them. He has chased a few bears from the yard, not...
I am also in Red Lake. I got my chicks last spring frame Skene in Oxdrift, there is also another supplier in Dryden. There are a lot of chicken folk in town, can't imagine you could not get some eggs to hatch here in town. We hatched a bunch in one of the kindergarten classes last year, I got 5...
My girls don't seem to go nuts for fruits and veggies, but when I look at the end of the day it is all gone so I gues they do eat then eventually. They do go nuts for big bugs though! Whatever bugs the kids catch, whoever is the lucky one to get it first gets chased around the pen by all the...