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I have been thinking about breeding rabbits as a hobby. But I am wondering, what do people want? Do pet rabbits or meat rabbits sell better? Should I do crosses or purebred? I'd like to do crosses, but I don't want to be stuck with a bunch of mutts no one is interested in. What are some nice...

We have 2 horse pastures, but the fencing is 3 rail horse fencing. So the goats could obviously get through. But I was wondering about putting in some invisible fencing for the goats. And just give each a collar. We are planning on just having 2 does. Does anyone think this would work? It gives...

Not sure if this will work, bit with our dog we put him on a leash. And made him lay down. Our chickens came up one my one to investigate, and we just pet our dog to calm him. One hen, a fiesty silkie came up and started nipping his tail, and he's a big dog. It took a while, but he eventually...

Do you breed your does with your own buck? Or use someone else's?

We are looking to get dairy goats. We are thinking about Nigerian dwarfs. What type do you have? Did you try other milks before?

We are looking to get 2 dairy goat does. The wire fencing can be pricy. But I was looking at the electric net goat fencing. The one I saw was 40 inches tall and 164 feet long. Would a goat jump out of that? Or might they learn its electric and they would be detered from jumping. Also we have...

We would like to eventually get two nigerian dwarf does to use for milk. First off, would a 4 by 11foot stall be okay shelter, that would be the max I would go, what would be an okay minimum size? And then a 45 by 10 foot pasture area that will be section off from our horses. How many goats...

I have some extra feeder mice babies. I heard that chickens will eat mice. Is it okay to feed the babies to the chickens as treats?

So I checked the egg for the second and last time and it seems to be growing well, i can see it kicking around inside the egg and it should hatch this week. I think we will buy starter feed today, since the chick will be staying with our broody should we feed the broody this as well? Also how...

So we finally got our broody hen an egg to hatch. We only gave her one, but today is day 7 and I candled and everything seems to be going good. Although the weather here has been very cold, staying with -3 to only 4° sometimes getting a little warmer but not much. The egg is scheduled to hatch...

I was wondering about this, because for an 8th grade science experiment I want to test the Pavlov's dog experiment on chickens. But I'm not sure if they even salivate over treats

I am in 8th grade this year, and for my experiment I was thinking of using the Pavlov's dog experiment on chickens. I'm not 100% sure how it could work. Because I'm not sure if chickens salivate, although I might use another variable. (If you know one please let me know.) I was thing of...

Yes, Yesterday i bought quiet a few mealworms and super worms. I thought i had just gotten mealworms but i accidentally bought super worms as well. I will try to breed the super worms although I've heard that they are tricky to breed. The mealworms however i believe should be fine, i will be...

Its winter time and not as many bugs about for my chickens to eat. I am wanting to start farming some bugs, not to feed all the time but just to scatter a few around for them to find. So what would be the best type of bugs or worms to give as small treats to them?

We have had our 3 hens for about 4 months. Two are laying, Hennifer our sussex mix, or silver penciled marans, Not sure what she is:) And Chickoletta our red sex link. However Ming-Ming our silkie has not layed any eggs. I have heard that it takes them a long time to start laying. Although I'm...

Our hen, Hennifer, has been broody for well over a month. I heard that they usually went broody for only 21 days. Is it normal for them to stay broody this long. Or is there some other problem I'm not seeing. She seems to be healthy, and she comes out about once a day to get food or water then...

The Silkie isn't in the photo, these are just my sussex's or at least that's what I think they are.

We let our 3 hens roam during the day in our yard. We have plenty of large bushes and evergreens. Two of our hens are very easy to catch they simple squat down and let us pick them up, but one hen goes baserk. She runs all around darting between trees. I want to be able to catch here like the...

I have 3 hens, 2 sussex and 1 silkie. I know that the silkie isnt laying but the sussex are. I know my black and white one has laid a few eggs because I was there when she laid one. But how can I tell if my red sussex is laying them too? So far we have 3 eggs, 2 of them are smaller with speckles...

I have 2 sussex and 1 silkie and I've only gotten 3 eggs in 6 days. Is this normal? Plus I think it might only be 1 hen laying the eggs. Maybe its because it is fall, or because my chickens are young (I don't know their actual age). But if there is anything I can do to help them lay more eggs I...