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    Virginia

    I am in west side of Fairfax County, near Loudoun. Let me know if there is a get together, please!
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    fox in the barn

    Yup, I think there must be kits. Last time the foxes did move on after the gentle attack of the garden tools, merely laid in the holes.. But now there is frenzied digging, more fresh today, and musky pee smell. I might just let it go for a month. We don't have barn animals yet, and I have other...
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    fox in the barn

    I think I trapped a fox in the barn night before last. there are at least two in the area, Steuben with the stubby tail, and Maybelline with the distinct face mask. One of them used to live in our barn, but we harassed them out, and used a bottle of miracle enzyme pet accident cleaner to get rid...
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    dogs and how to get there from here

    My current cavamalt sleeps with my kid's bunny on her lap. His big weapon, sad eyes, is not likely to threaten the chicks we ordered for late spring. Plus the Delawares will soon grow to be his size. But I am looking ahead to training a larger, more protective dog. One that could help with fox...
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    Delawares from kathyinmo

    I was hoping to have all Delawares; the cornish sound heart breaking. rangers might work, but in theory, i like delawares and want to start single breed. I meant to have an older batch of layers who will certainly roost, but then also make space for one or two batches of meat birds. I'm...
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    What does everyone think about a Carport coop?

    I'm thinking about it - but taller, and enclosed with hardware cloth, and less solid wall. And some sort of vine. Roses? grapes?
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    Harvesting Chickens Year Round

    I thought about this, and read about it a little bit, because food sufficiency is kind of antithetical to large electrical freezers. Here are my thoughts. You get some decline in meat quality as the birds hit puberty. Plus the boys start fighting. Whether you can tolerate that depends on your...
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    Delawares from kathyinmo

    Hi. I placed an order/reservation for 8 day old Delaware straight run chicks in early summer. I'm so excited! So question about housing, which depends on how the birds grow, and Delawares seem to have a special growth curve. The housing plan is enough for half a dozen layers plus two batches...
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    crabapple tree in run showing signs of distress

    Hmm. I've been thinking about this. I would like to have mulberry and crabapple in my run. Definitely check your soil, but also, the lifespan of a tree is not forever. It may just be getting too old to fight disease as its aging process. It seems odd (to a newbie) that chickens would compact...
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    Delawares from kathyinmo

    It's fascinating to hear your stories and wonder if I will end up there. Right now, we have a rough plan to build our first coop this spring and get a handful of into it, unless other projects "happen." (We had a pipe break in the barn yesterday, so not sure where that will lead us.) I'm trying...
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    Any small animal better than raising guinea pig for meat?

    Geese can be noisy with strangers, which is good and bad. Violent, I think there's one month a year when you have to leave them alone. But there is a newer breed, American Buff, that is supposed to be calmer. And there are mini-geese.
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    mice, a small dog and big chickens?

    Still planning my flock of Delawares. I feel like they may be big enough to deter hawks and crows, and even eat mice. Except a bald eagle showed up. It's hard to be upset about that, but I guess the run has to be covered. I was thinking about a big LGD anyway. Anyway, I was reading about...
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    Any small animal better than raising guinea pig for meat?

    Don't forget geese. They are vegetarian.
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    can they share a bedroom?

    Thanks, that was the basic question! I get wordy...
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    can they share a bedroom?

    Hi. I'm still planning ... I am thinking about "dog-proof" enclosing a large run maybe 30x40 that includes 10x 15 garden bed sections with smaller fences and a compost section, and then have a coop in one section with controlled gate access to the garden sections. And a larger horse/sheep...
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