Ducks, they like to bathe! A dog to protect the chickens, maybe a horse. The goal isn't to raise and sell animals, it's to raise animals to be able to cook and sell the cooked food. One cow for milk, but idk, cows terrify me, they're huge and scary. I can't imagine trying to help a cow give birth to a calf. I got close to an Alpaca once and was shaking in my shoes! They are scary big animals too. I was praying the whole time that it didn't bite me. We planned to start slow, see how it goes with a chicken first and move forward from there. So far, we really love the chickens! We're new to this whole farming thing. We tend to be more of indoor people. Any advice is great. I read all those replys about dirt. Looks like our Dyson's will be working overtime!
Quote: Hi, I hope my post didn't upset you...I tried to be funny, sometimes it doesn't work. I hope it works out for you. You can advertise that your food comes from the cleanest animals in New York..no joke!
You would think ducks are clean, I mean they are swimming in the water, grooming themselves all day, but if you could see the amount of wet stinky poop that comes out of them, Oh my....I am having my first experience with waterfowl, and the part of the name "fowl" should be spelled "foul". Talk about lotsa poop. I also have Sebastapol geese. Even bigger poops..I now understand why they say don't let your animals swim in streams & ponds. They pollute the water so fast. Also, a new wrinkle is that if you have a stream that runs through your property, onto others properties, they say you cannot let your animals in it because it will pollute your neighbors stream. Makes sense.
I'm glad I won't be tempted to let mine loose, although I don't have a stream "on" my property, my northern boundary is a stream that is quite large so I have to fence it off. Although wild ducks and cranes use it.
Hi, I hope my post didn't upset you...I tried to be funny, sometimes it doesn't work. I hope it works out for you. You can advertise that your food comes from the cleanest animals in New York..no joke!
You would think ducks are clean, I mean they are swimming in the water, grooming themselves all day, but if you could see the amount of wet stinky poop that comes out of them, Oh my....I am having my first experience with waterfowl, and the part of the name "fowl" should be spelled "foul". Talk about lotsa poop. I also have Sebastapol geese. Even bigger poops..I now understand why they say don't let your animals swim in streams & ponds. They pollute the water so fast. Also, a new wrinkle is that if you have a stream that runs through your property, onto others properties, they say you cannot let your animals in it because it will pollute your neighbors stream. Makes sense.
I'm glad I won't be tempted to let mine loose, although I don't have a stream "on" my property, my northern boundary is a stream that is quite large so I have to fence it off. Although wild ducks and cranes use it.
Ducks, they like to bathe! A dog to protect the chickens, maybe a horse. The goal isn't to raise and sell animals, it's to raise animals to be able to cook and sell the cooked food. One cow for milk, but idk, cows terrify me, they're huge and scary. I can't imagine trying to help a cow give birth to a calf. I got close to an Alpaca once and was shaking in my shoes! They are scary big animals too. I was praying the whole time that it didn't bite me. We planned to start slow, see how it goes with a chicken first and move forward from there. So far, we really love the chickens! We're new to this whole farming thing. We tend to be more of indoor people. Any advice is great. I read all those replys about dirt. Looks like our Dyson's will be working overtime!All the folks on this chicken forum have been wonderful! Fabulous people here!
Your post didn't offend me! I love the input/advice. I'm happy that you cleared up the stream regulations. We do not want to pollute! We do have a separate pond though, it's independent of the stream, but would check into this further because we don't want to make messy's for our neighbors!Hi, I hope my post didn't upset you...I tried to be funny, sometimes it doesn't work. I hope it works out for you. You can advertise that your food comes from the cleanest animals in New York..no joke!
You would think ducks are clean, I mean they are swimming in the water, grooming themselves all day, but if you could see the amount of wet stinky poop that comes out of them, Oh my....I am having my first experience with waterfowl, and the part of the name "fowl" should be spelled "foul". Talk about lotsa poop. I also have Sebastapol geese. Even bigger poops..I now understand why they say don't let your animals swim in streams & ponds. They pollute the water so fast. Also, a new wrinkle is that if you have a stream that runs through your property, onto others properties, they say you cannot let your animals in it because it will pollute your neighbors stream. Makes sense.
I'm glad I won't be tempted to let mine loose, although I don't have a stream "on" my property, my northern boundary is a stream that is quite large so I have to fence it off. Although wild ducks and cranes use it.
Your post didn't offend me! I love the input/advice. I'm happy that you cleared up the stream regulations. We do not want to pollute! We do have a separate pond though, it's independent of the stream, but would check into this further because we don't want to make messy's for our neighbors!
We aren't planning to have a lot of animals, enough chickens to make eggs to cook and make something sellable, maybe quiche? Growing some trees. It would be so nice to have flowers for sale, and plants too, maybe extra eggs. We are permitted to have a farm store. We were thinking that perhaps we could round up other folks with items for sale, canned goods, and have them available at the store. Just a thought.
