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For years we used Great Pyrenees to protect our Meat Goat herd and the Chickens benefited too. Since we are semi-retired the only other livestock on our farm is Donkeys. Our Chickens run to the Donkeys when they frightened, especially when the predator has four legs. Our free-range Speckled...

Usually pick up 16/18 eggs. I pick them when I close the coop for the night.

I free-range 30 Speckled Sussex, 28 hens & 2 adult roosters. The chickens are always locked in their coop at night. The coop is the only place they can get their grain, it makes a good incentive for them to return to the coop. We have plenty of places our chickens can run to if they see...

Sounds good to me!

My husband said bring the dead birds to the neighbor. Tell them they can keep them since their dogs liked them so much. Luckily we live in a very rural area, more livestock than humans. Canine trespassers never leave, just like the song Hotel California.

Metal trash cans with tight lids. Bought them at TSC, even got a discount on one because it was dented. They are on the chicken coop covered porch and never had a rodent problem, just a donkey problem. When we were on vacation our grandson forgot to lock the chickens gate. Our donkeys just...

If you have an Extension Service, Ag collage or even your state Soil and Conservation might be able to help. Once we had several calves die suddenly and the Soil and Conservation people came down qnd checked our pasture for poisonous plants.

I've never had a free range chicken die from poisonous plants. I had 2 die from pecking at the ground where Antifreeze had dripped. We didn't realize that one of our tractors had a small radiator leak.

If you are using the water from your shallow well I would follow the 100' recommendation. Surface runoff water can bring contaminants into your well. Right now you state "all you are going to have is 4 or 5 chickens". One day, without you even realize it, "chicken math" will enter the picture...

My husband was using a 150hp tractor with a 20ft batwing BushWhacker attached. Wild Turkey hens will wait until the last second before they abandon their nest in the brush. When he found the dead Turkey hen, crushed nest and eggs he brought the 3 undamaged eggs home and reported the incident to...

Looks like you are going to be a Turkey Momma! When we had our farm in Upstate NY my husband hit a wild Turkey nest when he was bush-hogging. Three eggs were saved and we put them under our little bantam, Sadie. One hatched and grew into a beautiful bronze looking Tom Turkey. It was funny to...

If he's free-range and that mean to humans the rooster dangerous to have around. He could attack a visitor or heaven forbid a child. To give him the someone else you're giving them the problem. I think chicken stew would taste really great.

I do not pick up any of my birds or hand feed them. Once I had a rooster start to turn mean. I kept walking pass the chickens like I always did. One time he got up the nerve to try to attack as I walked by. I heard him coming I spun around, bent my knees, threw my arms out to the side like...

I voted for the ones that lay green eggs because they are different. Really though I wouldn't purchase either one of them. I prefer a non-hybrid, clean footed chicken that is a good egg producer, friendly, gentle and a great free-range forager.

Up to a few years ago we had a Great Pyrenees named Freddie. He protected out livestock from ground and air predators, where ever the livestock went he followed. Sometimes Freddie would be laying quietly and have chicks snuggle up in his heavy fur. I think the hens would park the chicks with...

I would put a small amount of Apple Cider Vinegar in their water instead of Safeguard. Why I say a small amount is because it can soften the egg shell.

When we had Meat Goats (250+ Spanish/Savanna cross) we used a Livestock Guardian dog. They were a Great Pyrenees/Anatolia cross. They protected the adult goats and 300+ kids from predators on the land or in the air. A LG might help you. The fishing line stretched over the chicken area that...

This is going to sound completely horrible and I'm sorry if I upset anyone. Many years ago we had a large cross breed Saint Bernard. One day he decided to play with one of my chickens . Since he was so big his playing caused the death of the poor chicken. I was furious, I tied Tippy to a...

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I would put up poultry fencing to keep them on their property and off the road. Then clip the flight feathers of the chickens on one wing only. The clipping of the flight feathers on one side throws the bird off balance and they won't be able to fly over the fencing. We did it to our Muscovy...