South of Raleigh, NC
We bought him with three hens 2 years ago. One died almost immediately for a reason we never determined. The other two have died over the course of time and now he is alone.
We'd dearly love some Fayoumi gals for him, but would settle for any white or white speckled ones...
Backyarder in farm country.
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We have a rooster and a hen, Egyptian Feroumis, that are on the endangered list and are rare that we'd like to breed. So far, they don't seem interested. Maybe next year.
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That's GREAT!!!
It has been proven that, if early mankind had not begun eating protein in the way of meat, our brains would never have developed to where we began to use tools and grew to where we are now. So apparently, there are benefits to eating meat. But kindly and with reverence...
Grew up on a farm where we processed all our chickens and pigs, and ate them all with great relish.
Don't know if I could do it nowadays, knowing what we now know about animal awareness, feelings, how they truly CARE for their young, etc.
"Well heres my tacky coop. Its a U-Haul. Yes a U-Haul truck with the most hideous looking field and pen. It looks very nice now but in these pictures looks like a tornadoe hit it."
With the run open like that, aren't you worried about flying predators (hawks, eagles, etc.) getting your...
How do you get them greens in the winter???
They love it, but we're cleaning the greens out of our own food to get it to them...or is that the way it's done. ;o)
Out there, the predator could even be coyotes. My nephew has shot several out near Northeast where you live.
There's bears too, but they'd turn a henhouse to rubble to get to the chickens, I'm thinking.
Nothing to do with chickens, but our family home is off of Hershey Road and 99 by McKean.
I live down in Angier, NC, but family still lives in the family home.
Howdee do.