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Hey guys, I've inquired about LGDs here in the past but it was a while ago. We're currently working on fencing off a 1-1.5 acre plot we've recently cleared, as well as a 3 acre plot that is not cleared but we intend to graze anyway. Currently we have a handful of chickens and 6 ducks. Soon...

Something got into our chicken coop last night and killed some of our hens and injured our rooster. It looks like a canine bite from a medium sized animal, probably a coyote. We still can't figure out how it got in OR out. Anyway the rooster has two puncture wounds, one isn't very serious...

...and killed three of our chickens. A couple got away unscathed. One was bitten on the rump but seems alright, I haven't inspected her yet. The rooster has a big bite--several teeth marks--along his rump and the feathers are missing. One dead hen looks entirely unharmed, maybe she got...

Hey, looking into growing my own chicken feed and was wondering how many bushes per chicken of grain to grow. I've got a wheat plot planned and will probably grow amaranth, millet, and/or quinoa, but I only have 1+/- acre to work with (the rest is garden, pasture, and house+yard). Chickens...

Hey, we're getting our little homestead farm set up next year for chickens, goats, sheep, and rabbits. I have a lengthy list of pasture plants that are safe for all of the above and should be able to feed all of these animals off the pasture alone. However, we want to do a crop rotation for...

Okay, so one of my turkeys has bumblefoot in both feet, the feet are swollen and she can barely even walk. Did a lot of research, watched as many videos as I could find, got all the supplies, and felt like I was ready to take care of this. The only vet in our area surprisingly enough doesn't...

Hey guys, we have a little chicken coop that looks like this one http://chickencoopshowtobuildfreeplans.chickencoopplansdesigns.net/images/chicken-coop-designs-plans-3.jpg My brother gave it to us, they were planning on raising ducks and it just never panned out and he had no more need for the...

Hey guys, looking for suggestions on hatcheries/breeders for some good, meaty dark cornish. We finally decided we're going to raise Freedom Rangers this summer but we also want to raise a flock of dark cornish and see how well we like them. Anybody able to suggest a reliable source for chicks...

Hey guys, just looking for some suggestions on a heritage turkey breed. We live in northern idaho on 5 acres of pine forest. We intend to free range our birds (chickens, ducks, turkeys) but we have some cold, long winters. We're looking for a nice, hardy bird with a good temperament as we...

We want to plant and grow our own food for chickens including lettuces, grains, BOSS, mealworms, and other things. I've been able to find charts on NUTRIENT ratios to feed chickens but I can't seem to find anything on, say, how much of the diet should be BOSS (seeds OR fodder), how much should...

Hey guys, the hubs and I have been talking about chicken breeds again. We're really considering Dorkings but thought I'd pop in and see if I can get some more breed suggestions before we take the plunge and buy a bunch. We live in North Idaho. Until last week we still had over a foot of snow...

The construction workers gutting the house on the property behind us told us they've seen cougar tracks all over the place. They're smallish, but way too big to be anything like a coyote. They're also shaped differently from our own dog and larger. We live on 5 acres in North Idaho. My...

We're going to do a deep litter system for our chickens when we build our new hen house and run, and it got me thinking. We want to raise meat rabbits, but I would rather raise them with room to run around and stretch their little bunny legs than to live in wire cages suspended over the chicken...

I was wondering if anybody has some suggestions for preserving forage from the pasture over the winter, whether I should feed it as "hay", rehydrate and make a mash, or invest in a pellet grinder. Our pasture will, hopefully, consist of orchardgrass, perennial ryegrass, timothy grass...

We want to start planting a perennial livestock pasture and wanted to free range our chickens on it as well. I was looking into orchardgrass, but another post on this site said that feeding this to your chickens can cause crop impactions. Do you think free range chickens will go too crazy on...

Hey, I'd been thinking about Bresse chickens since I first started reading about them here months ago, and when I looked into the price they were outrageously expensive. It seemed to me that Greenfire Farms was charging a couple hundred bucks per chick, or was that for a certain number of...

We're looking to buy some JGs and Dorkings. We're in the Pacific Northwest, anybody know if there are any breeders in our area? I looked on the ALBC and could not find a JG breeder/hatchery anywhere on there, think I found a few Dorkings and Buckeyes though, but they don't list all the...

I've been doing more and more research on how and what to feed our livestock through the winter. We don't have livestock yet, we want to be prepared, but we'll probably start that this coming year and next year. Anyway we looked into Silage, which we are definitely going to do. But I read...

Sorry for all the question spam today. :) We have our short list of meat breeds down to dorkings, buckeyes, and jersey giants. Our only problem with the JGs is that they grow so slowly and apparently don't often go broody. We want broody meat birds to hatch our own chicks every year. :)...

Anybody know how to incubate eggs without electricity? Likely we're just going to shove eggs under our broodiest hens to hatch every year, but we want an incubator on hand. However we plan on going off grid totally, and getting an electric incubator just feels counterproductive to that. We're...