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Time to get a cat (if possible). Females are outstanding hunters; males, not so much.

If the roof/lid that you build for the tank isn't tight fitting, you can add some small goldfish to keep mosquito larvae at bay. (The goldfish can survive the winter even if the tank gets a layer of ice.)

All of the chemicals used in swimming pools are already present in tap water (treated city water). The only exception is the stabilizer, and that is still safe. Nothing has the ability to built to paranoia levels. All of the chemicals in the filter are diluted to exactly the levels in the pool...

The run definitely needs to be cleaned. When I'm out there, I'm not aware of an odor. The droppings are normal bird droppings, but I'll watch different chickens to make sure. My brother has done everything for all of the birds, but recently, I'm starting to take over. So I'm pretty green. I had...

The chickens don't stink but their poop does. After handling the chickens, I was covered in it.

I made a waterer with the red cups that have the yellow things. My chickens are too stupid to use them apparently. I've been looking around for how to train them. My chickens will drink out of the cups when I fill them but they will die of thirst if they empty.

I was handling the chickens to see if any roosters were ready for processing. (Unfortunately, they are still feathers and bones.) The real problem was the stink on my hands. It was dinner time and I couldn't wash it off. I washed three times with different soaps, and even vinegar followed by...

Our ducks got us in trouble. In our city, all birds are banned (recent exception is chickens). We started with 12 ducks last year, but between nesting and the incubators, we ended up with a huge flock of squawking ducks. The neighbors started to make comments about the numbers and noise at...

As kids, our dad did the dirty work. As adults, we still aren't over that hurdle. We used an ax, but that is now totally out of the question. Once we discovered cones, we won't go back to any other method. The bird is (mostly) calm through the whole procedure and just fades away.

With having the kids, you might want to put the fence on a timer. Typically most predators are nocturnal, so you can run the fence when the kids are in the house for the night. I wish my dad thought of that one. Ours was the type that would burn the growing weeds. And it took a few jolts to...

My twin brother and I have five ducks, some forbidden chickens, and a small flock of geese. We also have about 30 wild mallards that regularly come to visit our ducks. ...Or steal their food, I'm not sure which.