We got 4 goats last year. And when people say they eat everything they mean everything! We thought we'd plant them shade trees. Nope. They ate $500 in trees last year. They also chewed on my barn...
The one thing nobody told me is that Billies stink. Pretty gnarly. I thought I wanted to...
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I honestly dont know.
We got them from the local farm store with the specific purpose of them being "guard geese" (aka Willis and Sly).
Although they are the sweetest birds we have so hopefully they live up to their names
We recently added geese to our flock, but I am curious if it's ok to send them outside yet? We really need to move our 3 ducklings into the larger border soon so I'm hoping we can, if not it's on to plan B (we maybe fell victim to the kids pleas on the birds this year, although we did try and...
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
Yes. We first got our chickens last year. We brought 9 home from the local feed store. Sadly we lost one that day, and one to a raccoon or skunk (My son's little Silkie:()
(2) How many chickens do you have right now?
Right now...
So...I may have figured something out.
This morning my husband was chased off by one of our ducks who was sitting on an egg. So unless I have a duck who has went broody I think we may have been mixing the duck and chicken eggs up.
I've never had a duck egg. But this might explain our huge...
Our chickens are 100% free range. We have 5 chickens, 4 ducks, and 4 dwarf goats that have about an acre they share. They have a stall in our barn (big enough for a horse) that the floor is hay and the bedding is the wood shaving bedding that we used when they were chicks.
The only plant...
Our chickens finally started laying and at first their eggs were NOT good. Once they started laying we made sure to not give them onions/peppers/garlic and we have now gotten to the point where their whites are really good, but their yolks taste bad (almost old and rotten). Since the yolks are...