I have about many layers in a closed run but we are adding goats and guinea fowl this year. We are also planning on some free range meat chickens with the goats. I love the idea of adding geese but I’m afraid they will attack my small grandchildren. Any thoughts?
You, my friend, have acquired a pet rather than livestock with this one. Consider yourself blessed with good fortune and love the stuffing out of that little one.
I got my Barred Rocks, RIRs, Australorps, Easter Eggers, Dominiques, and Speckled Sussex from Cackle Hatchery here in Missouri. The have everything from standards to peacocks.
They are in Polk, OH. I imagine shipping is based on your location. I would call them and ask. I bought my birds from Cackle Hatchery here in Missouri so I just drove the three hours down and picked them up. Our post office is notorious for "losing" things and my birds are not something I...
I am doing neither sand nor deep litter. I have 26 hens and 2 roosters in my 10 x 16 raised coop. My roosts are above a one inch deep bed of Sweet PDZ (granular) which we scoop daily and put in the compost pile. In the nesting boxes we have straw. On the floor, I use Equine Pine Pellets from...