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Hi Everyone,
Riddle Farm is happy to be here. We are young, permaculture family farm in Western NC with chickens (we started out with 50, now about 25
about 3 months old), goats (2 nannies, 1 kid), and pigs (1 berkshire, 1 large black hog) and about to get 15 baby chicks and 19 baby ducks (saxony, and cayuga). We are rather new to this business and interspecies free-range farming is very fun and interesting, but also sometimes dumbfounding. For instance...
Something got in the chicken pen, I'm thinking cayotes. Whatever it was, it took a lot. Needless to say, we improved the structure and fencing, plus added some brooding boxes. It's very well ventilated, because I heard that's what chickens needed. Well, we had a cold snap around that time, and the birds went into the goat pen to stay warm and found that they liked it better in there. Maybe they feel the goats will protect them, actually we've lost two to the goats rolling over on them. Plus it's smelling nasty in there and will be a hopeless scene in about a month when they start laying. How do I call chickens home to roost??!
Also, with this new order on the way, is it ok to raise baby chicks and ducks together in the same heated horse trough?
Thanks for your chicken wisdom,
Jessie
Riddle Farm is happy to be here. We are young, permaculture family farm in Western NC with chickens (we started out with 50, now about 25
about 3 months old), goats (2 nannies, 1 kid), and pigs (1 berkshire, 1 large black hog) and about to get 15 baby chicks and 19 baby ducks (saxony, and cayuga). We are rather new to this business and interspecies free-range farming is very fun and interesting, but also sometimes dumbfounding. For instance...Something got in the chicken pen, I'm thinking cayotes. Whatever it was, it took a lot. Needless to say, we improved the structure and fencing, plus added some brooding boxes. It's very well ventilated, because I heard that's what chickens needed. Well, we had a cold snap around that time, and the birds went into the goat pen to stay warm and found that they liked it better in there. Maybe they feel the goats will protect them, actually we've lost two to the goats rolling over on them. Plus it's smelling nasty in there and will be a hopeless scene in about a month when they start laying. How do I call chickens home to roost??!
Also, with this new order on the way, is it ok to raise baby chicks and ducks together in the same heated horse trough?
Thanks for your chicken wisdom,
Jessie
from Ohio. So glad you joined. 
