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BlueJayFarm, from my experience the more you have the more effective they are but the more you have the more independent they become. Get them as hatchlings or hatching eggs for your best experience with keeping them.

I know this an old thread, but in my defense my story is old too :). I had silkies, frizzles and bantams to start out with years ago. I also had a flock of about 30 guineas and everyone was free ranged in the daytime, shut up at night. A red tailed hawk swooped down and hit my oldest bantam girl...

I live in Western Maryland too : ). I just hatched out 9 khaki campbell/ rouen cross ducklings (my oh my THEY GROW FAST!!) and I love them. The eggs must have come from a huge mixed flock because there's a pekin in there too : ). The older pekin is 12 y.o. and a coyote took her mate so I got her...

Oh, for me it's still learn as I go! I've had ducks, chickens, guineas and turkeys altogether in the same flock for roughly 17 years. I just lost my old turkey girl last fall at 12 years old (someone dropped a RIR Rooster here one morning before we got up and he was a mean bast(somebody). He ran...

Turkeys need a higher protein than ducks and chickens and should have their own food. That said, my ducklings, chicks and turkey poults are all on the same diet - free choice chick starter (non medicated), insects, grasses and lesser duckweed. Everyone tears up the duckweed including the older...

I'm just now losing my RIR X Silkie crosses at 11 years old. I'm down to two. These were some of my favorite chickens of all that I've ever had. They were large enough to lay a decent egg, had the silkie temperament and broodiness, were very good mothers, and the roo was as sweet as he could be...