Hello, I'm from Quincy, a large suburb of Boston in MA. As a kid spending summers in my fathers country Croatia, I practically grew up on an island retirement villiage my parents own a shack on. There aren't many left, but when i was young there were several chicken coops, and a donkey on the...
I tried searching but didn't have much luck on this, I'm wondering, assuming that there are no local laws banning it and you have enough square feet coop and run, is it alright to keep geese in a suburban setting? Also, are there any geese that would stand a Mass winter?
I'm wondering mostly if...
I'm reminded of a story my dad always told me. In old times, ducks were considered bad mothers because they only sit on the eggs for half the time chickens do (in reality, most duck breeds sit half and half with their husbands) but because laying groups had several females to one male, the poor...
As far as I can tell, most of this section of the forum seems to be a place where people can ask for advice to heal their attacked chickens, and get comfort for the ones who didn't make it. But I'm having a hard time finding posts that say how to deter predators.
Someone told me that having a...
This is the basic idea. I'm still not sure if I'm going to get chickens this year, I may wait until next year once I've got the college thing down, but if I do get chickens, it'll be two or three hens, and I haven't decided between BOs, RIR or NHR. I'm in eastern Mass, so i don't want a chicken...